ECE 483: Analog IC Design (Spring-2024)

 

SP23 Course notes:

  Date Topic Reading Notes Homework
1 1/18/23 Introduction   HO1  
2 1/23/23 Resistors 2.10.1 HO2  
3 1/25/23 Capacitors 2.10.2 HO3 HW1
4 1/30/23 MOS operation 1.5 HO4  
5 2/01/23 MOS secondary effects 1.6, 1.7 HO4 HW2, MP1
6 2/06/23 Elementary amplifier stages (I) 3.3 HO5  
7 2/08/23 Elementary amplifier stages (II) 3.4 HO5 HW3
8 2/13/23 Differential amplifiers (I) 3.5 HO6  
9 2/15/23 Differential amplifiers (II) 3.6 HO7 MP2, HW4
10 2/20/23 Differential amplifiers (III) 3.6 HO7  
11 2/22/23 Current mirrors 4.2 HO8  
12 2/27/23 Review/catch-up      
  3/01/23 Midterm I     MP3
13 3/06/23 Amplifiers with active loads 4.3 HO9  
14 3/08/23 Single-ended OTA 4.3 HO9 HW5
  3/14/23 Break      
  3/16/23 Break      
15 3/20/23 OTA/OpAmp metrics 6.2 HO10  
16 3/22/23 Telescopic OTA 6.3, 6.5, 6.6 HO10 HW6
17 3/27/23 Folded cascode OTA/Amplifier frequency response 7.2, 7.3 HO11  
18 3/29/23 Two-Stage OTA/Amplifier frequency response 8.1-8.4   MP4
19 4/03/23 Amplifier frequency response 9.1-9.3    
20 4/05/23 Amplifier frequency response/Feedback 9.4 HO12  
21 4/10/23 Feedback amplifiers/Stability 9.4 HO13  
  4/11/23 Midterm II      
22 4/17/23 Frequency compensation   HO14 Project
23 4/19/23 LDO   HO15  
24 4/24/23 LDO II 11.1-11.3    
25 4/26/23 LDO III 3.5    
26 5/01/23 Offsets A.4.1, A.4.2    
27 5/03/23 Research project example (TCO)