Course Summary
This course focus on integrated circuit design concepts and assumes that you are familiar with discrete circuit design. System, signal, circuit and component considerations are incorporated. The course is designed to give you broad and applicable skills in designing integrated circuits for a wide range of applications such as chip design, medical implantable devices, integrated sensory systems, many applications that have extreme power consumption limitations and require long-term battery life (e.g. wireless sensors).
Topics include:
1. Semiconductors and Integrated-Circuit Devices, includes
- Semiconductors and pn-Junctions, MOS Transistors and Bipolar Devices, Device Model Summary, SPICE Modelling Parameters, Passive Devices, CMOS Processing, Layout and Rules, Variability and MismatchSemiconductors and pn-Junctions, MOS Transistors and Bipolar Devices, Device Model Summary, SPICE Modelling Parameters, Passive Devices, CMOS Processing, Layout and Rules, Variability and Mismatch
2. Basic Current Mirrors, Single-Stage Amplifiers, includes
- CMOS and BJT Current Mirrors and Gain Stages, Common-Source Amplifier, Source-Follower or Common-Drain Amplifier, Common-Gate Amplifier, Source-Degenerated Current Mirrors, Cascode Current Mirrors, Cascode Gain Stage, MOS Differential Pair and Gain Stage
3. Basic Operational Amplifier Design, Compensation and Feedback, includes
- Two-Stage CMOS Opamp, Opamp Compensation, Advanced Current Mirrors, Folded-Cascode Opamp, Current Mirror Opamp, Fully Differential Opamp, Comparators, Comparator Specifications, Feedback Amplifiers, Ideal Model of Negative Feedback, Dynamic Response of Feedback Amplifiers, Common Feedback Amplifiers
4. Fundamentals of Power Amplifiers, includes
- Class A, B and AB Power Amplifiers, Efficiency, Harmonics and Distortion
5. Biasing, References and Regulators, includes
- Analog Integrated Circuit Biasing, Establishing Constant Voltages and Currents, Voltage Regulation and Fundamentals of Linear Regulator
6. Frequency Response, includes
- Frequency Response of: Linear Systems, Elementary Transistor Circuits, Cascode Gain Stage, Source-Follower Amplifier, and Differential Pair
7. Noise and Linearity Analysis and Modelling
- Time-Domain Analysis, Frequency-Domain Analysis, Noise Models for Circuit Elements, Dynamic Range Performance
Please note that if you take this course for a bachelor honours program, your overall mark in this course will be one of the course marks that will be used to calculate the weighted average mark (WAM) that will determine your award level. (This applies to students who commence enrolment in a bachelor honours program from 1 January 2016 onward. See the
WAM information web page for more information.