EE5333 Analog Integrated Circuit Design

Fall 2019
Prof. Ramesh Harjani
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(This class is taught both on campus and via UNITE)

Course information

• Handouts
• Handout 1 (course description)
• Course book website (http://analogicdesign.com/)
• Class notes #1 (Intro to Analog IC Design)
• Class notes #2 (Chapter 1, part1, part 2, part 3, part 4)
• Class notes #3 (Chapter 2)
• Class notes #4 (Chapter 3)
• Class notes #5 (5T Pair OTA design)(scanned-notes, mathcad-document)
  You can download a free copy of Mathcad Express for students from here
• Class notes #6 (Chapter 4)
• Class notes #7 (Chapter 5)
• Class notes #8 (Chapter 6)
  Updated high-swing cascode class notes (Chap 6.4)
• High-swing cascode tutorial (notes + sims)
• Class note #9 (Chap 6 Current-Mirror-OTA)(Thanks Meghna)
• Class notes #10 (Common_mode_feedback)
  CMF (Schreier_notes)
• Class notes #11 (Noise Chapter 9)
• Class notes #12 (SC Circuits Chapter 14)
• Class notes #13 (testing fully differential amplifiers, ISU)
• Class notes #14 (fully differential amplifier design, ckt1, ckt2, ckt3, ckt4, ckt5, ckt6, ckt7, ckt8)
• Project
• Project handout (password protected pdf)
  Note: Project proposal due Sept 26^th.
• Example project proposal (password protected pdf) This one is longer than the one we require in class. The formatting could be better but the content is correct.
• Opamp design help
• 5T Pair design (simple OTA)(Prof. Sam Palermo class notes)
• Current mirror OTA design (Prof. Sam Palermo class notes)
• Opamp summary (Prof. Nagendra Krishnapura)
• Alternate set of SPICE model files for 50nm process level=53 N_50n and P_50n. These are from cmosedu.com
• Homework
• HW #1 Due Thursday Sept 5^th
  Install LTSPICE (Download here)
  Follow the instructions for LTSPICE below for text input
  Go to analogicdesign.com and simulate the problem in Example 1.6
  Note: copy the HSPICE netlist (comment out “.options post”
  Please, take a printout from LTSPICE, add your name and hand it in class.
• HW #2 Due Tuesday Sept 10^th
  Do problems 1.11, 1.13, 1.25, 1.27 (only for 180nm and 45nm), and 1.29
• Solutions to HW#2 problems (except 1.27 which is online)(download here)
• HW #3 Due Thursday Sept 11^th
  Do problems 2.9, 2.10 and 2.14
• Solutions to HW#3 problems (download here)
• HW #4 Due Thursday Sept 19^th
  Do problems 3.2, 3.3, 3.7
• Solutions to HW#4 problems (download here)
• HW #5 Due Tuesday Sept 24^th
  Do problems 3.12 (use figure P3.12), 3.19, 3.22, 3.25, 3.26, 3.29
• Solutions to HW#5 problems (download here)
• HW #6 Design a 5T Pair OTA with the following specifications (download here)
• Tests
• Example test Midterm 1 (password protected pdf)
• LTSPICE
• Tutorial for LTSPICE with schematic input (password protected pdf)(Thanks Bosi)
  Tutorial for LTSPICE with text input (password protected pdf)(Thanks Bosi)
• Example circuit file to extract lambda vs length (password protected .cir)
• Cadence
• Newer tutorial on using Cadence (LVS, Parasitic extraction, etc), (password protected pdf)
• New tutorial on using Cadence and generating layouts (password protected pdf)
• Follow the directions in this Cadence tutorial for EE5333
• Accessing the VLSI lab from your home (password protected pdf)(Thanks to Prof. Kim)
• There is another cadence tutorial on the ECE website that has been setup for Prof. Kim's class. If you run into problems please check this one out as well.
• Cadence introduction videos (outside resource)
• http://cmosedu.com/videos/cadence/cadence_videos.htm
• Cadence help files (outside resource)
• Switched-capacitor simulations in Cadence
• Reference papers
• How to model device mismatch in analog circuits
• “Device mismatch and tradeoffs in the design of analog circuits”, Peter Kinget, IEEE JSSC June 2005

Other good books & resources

• Basic MOS modeling
• Operation and Modeling of the MOS Transistor, Yannis Tsividis, Oxford University Press; 2nd edition, 2003
  (Absolutely, the best book on the subject)
• University of Berkeley Devices Group - The inventors of the BSIM Model
  (Not too much documentation. We use BSIM3V3.1)
• MOSFET Modeling With SPICE: Principles and Practice, Daniel P. Foty, Prentice Hall, 1996 (Much easier to read)
• Analog layout techniques
• The Art of Analog Layout, Alan Hastings, Prentice Hall; 2 edition, 2005
  (Chapter 18 of Razavi is also a good resource)
• Switched-capacitor circuits
• Analog MOS Integrated Circuits for signal processing, Roubik Gregorian and Gabor C. Temes, John Wiley & Sons, 1986
• Switched Capacitor Circuits, P.E. Allen and E. Sanchez-Sinencio, Van Nostrand Rienhold, 1984
• Basic analog CMOS/Bipolar integrated circuit design
• Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, P.R. Gray and R.G. Meyer, John Wiley & Sons, 1993
• Sigma delta converters
• Understanding delta-sigma data converters, Richard Schreier and Gabor C. Temes, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2004
• Delta-Sigma Data Converters: Theory, Design, and Simulation, Steven R. Norsworthy, Richard Schreier and Gabor C. Temes, Wiley-IEEE Press, 1996
• Introduction to sigma-delta converters
• Many industrial tutorials are quite good on explaining Sigma Delta Converters (PDF-example1)
• Wikipedia sigma-delta link
• A little more advanced topic by Dr. Qiuting Huang (PDF)

Software tools and other useful links

• List of software available on CSE computers and for download by CSE students (link)
• Link to downloadable software (link)
• Quick introduction to UNIX/Linux (there is a lot of helpful websites on the web).
  Here is one example (UNIX for Beginners)
• Circuit simulation (HSPICE: Available in IT Labs as well, Look at HSPICE FAQ)
  HSPICE is general purpose SPICE variant.
• HSPICE manual in PDF format (available in /soft/hspice98/doc on IT workstations)
• SPICE 2G6 manual (early version of Berkeley SPICE)
• Switched capacitor circuit simulator (SWITCAP)
  SWITCAP2 is a general purpose simulation program for linear switched-capacitor networks
  and mixed switched-capacitor/digital networks.
• This is a text in text out tool, i.e., can be used over a telnet session.
• Switcap manual in PDF format (710kB)
• Math tools 
• Matlab: numerical and signal processing simulation tool 
• Student version available (worth investing in )
• Simulink : block diagram based front-end to matlab. Extremely powerful. Worth using.
• Matlab primer available here
• Mathematica: Good symbolic and numerial math tool.
• Students are able to get it for free. (link)
• Getting started with Mathematica tutorial (link)
• Mathcad: everyday math tool. 
• Student version available. (worth investing in)
• Useful for overall circuit design and documentation. Also does limited symbolic manipulations. 
• Other simulations and layout tools (Also a good resource for all things VLSI)
• LASI is the free layout tool (cmosedu.com)
• Lots of other useful information about other free VLSI tools.
• MOSIS web site