ECE 531 Mixed-Signal VLSI Design
Fundamental circuit techniques and design issues for mixed-signal VLSI. Sample-and-hold circuits. Comparator circuits. Digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters. Over-sampling converters.
Credit Hours: 3 Lecture
Prerequisites:
ECE 423,
ECE 543
Course Coordinator:
Haibo Wang
Textbooks:
"Principles of Data Conversion System Design",
Behzad Razavi, John Wiley & Sons, 1994, ISBN: 0-7803-1093-4.
References:
B. Razavi, “Design of Analog Integrated Circuits,” McGraw-Hill, 2001. D. Johns and K. Martin, “Analog Integrated Circuit Design,” Wiley & Sons, 1997. -
P. Allen and D. Holberg, “CMOS Analog Circuit design,” Oxford Press, 2002.
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R. Jacob Baker, "CMOS Mixed-Signal Circuit Design," Wiley-Interscience, 2002.
Goals:
To provide graduate students with the ability to design and analyze basic mixed-signal VLSI circuits. Emphasis is placed on digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converter circuits.
Projects:
Design of data converter circuits, including converter implementation, circuit simulation, performance analysis, and design trade-offs.
Computer Tools: Cadence, Matlab
Last Review: Spring Semester 2004
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