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EE 343 Microelectronic Design Spring 2012 - 13 Instructor Room No. Office Hours Email Telephone TA TA Office Hours Course URL (if any) Course Basics Credit Hours Lecture(s) Lab (per week) Tutorial (per week) Course Distribution Core Elective Open for Student Category Close for Student Category COURSE DESCRIPTION This is a core course in the area of microelectronic circuits. It teaches essential techniques required to design, analyze and simulate modern analog and digital circuits for wide variety of applications. The topics covered include fundamental building blocks of circuits such as operational amplifiers, cascode stages and current mirrors, differential amplifiers, output stages, power amplifiers, and digital CMOS circuits. The concepts of frequency response, feedback and stability in circuits are covered. Data converters, oscillators, and phase locked loop circuits are explored. The use of SPICE tools in the design, simulation, synthesis and implementation is explored. Project based assignments are an integral part of this course. COURSE PREREQUISITE(S) Nauman Zafar Butt SSE 10-505 Mon/Wed 3:30 - 4:30 PM Nauman.butt@lums.edu.pk 8414 Amina Waqar, Saad Pervaiz, Amna Iqbal Tbd LMS page

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BS Electrical Engineering MS/BS in EE/CS/Physics Junior / Senior / MS Freshman / Sophomore

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EE340 Devices and Electronics Course

COURSE OBJECTIVES To teach fundamental elements and essential techniques to design and analyze microelectronic circuits for analog and digital applications.

Learning Outcomes Upon completion of the course, students should be able to: i. Understand important building blocks such as OPAMPs, cascode stages, current mirrors, differential amplifiers, power amplifiers, CMOS inverter, etc. ii. Design, analyze and debug microelectronic circuits using spice tools iii. Understand the concepts of feedback and stability in circuits iv. Learn specialized functional blocks such as data-converter circuits and phase locked loop v. Learn various types of oscillators and signal generator circuits vi. Understand the design of output stages and power amplifiers

Grading Breakup and Policy Assignments (about 6): 15% Quiz(s) (about 12): 15% Midterm Examination: 30% Final Examination:40%

Examination Detail Midterm Exam Yes/No: Yes Combine Separate: Combine Duration: 75 minutes Preferred Date: Exam Specifications: Calculators allowed

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Final Exam Yes/No: Yes Combine Separate: Combine Duration: 120 mins Exam Specifications: Comprehensive, Calculators allowed

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Course Topics Introduction to microelectronics, review of basic diode, BJT & MOSFET circuits Operational Amplifier (OPAMP) basics, Linear OPAMP circuits Non linear OPAMP circuits and OPAMP non idealities Cascode stage, Cascode as a current source Cacode as an amplifier Frequency response of Cascode stages

Readings Razavi, Ch. 1-7 Razavi, Ch. 8 Razavi, Ch. 8 Razavi, Ch. 9 Razavi, Ch. 9 Razavi, Ch. 11 Razavi, Ch. 10 Razavi, Ch. 10 Razavi, Ch. 10

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Differential pair general considerations Bipolar differential pairs

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MOS differential pair Cascode differential pair, common mode rejection, pair with active load Frequency response of differential pairs Feedback in circuits: General considerations

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Razavi, Ch. 11 Razavi, Ch. 12

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Mid Term Exam Feedback in circuits: Amplifier types and sense/return techniques Analysis of feedback circuits Stability and compensation in Feedback systems

Razavi, Ch. 12 Razavi, Ch. 12 Razavi, Ch. 12 Razavi, Ch. 13

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Output stages and power amplifiers: General considerations

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18 / Wk 9 Output stages: Large signal consideration and heat systems Razavi, Ch. 13 Razavi, Ch. 13 Sedra/Smith Sedra/Smith

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Power amplifiers: Efficiency and classes Data Converters: Analog to Digital Converters Data Converters: Digital to Analog Converters Linear Oscillators: OPAMP-RC oscillators, LC and crystal oscillators Non Linear Oscillators or function generators Phase locked loop Phase locked loop Digital CMOS design: Overview, power-speed trade-offs of CMOS inverter Ring Oscillators, Static and dynamics memory cells, sense amplifiers, decoders Review Final Exam Week 15

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Sedra/Smith Sedra/Smith Notes Notes Razavi, Ch. 15 Razavi, Ch. 15

Textbook(s)/Supplementary Readings Text book: 1. Razavi, Behzad. Fundamentals of Microelectronics. John Wiley & Sons. 2008 Low cost edition is available: http://www.bookshopofindia.com/search.asp? action1=default&bookid=9067099 Supplementary Reading: 1. Sedra/Smith. Microelectronic Circuits. Oxford University Press. 5 th Edition

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