ECE 45500 - Integrated Circuit Engineering

Course Details

Lecture Hours: 3 Credits: 3

Counts as:

Normally Offered:

Each Fall

Requisites:

Prerequisites: ECE 202, ECE 255 Concurrent Prerequisites: ECE 305 or consent of instructor

Requisites by Topic:

Prerequisites: Basic understanding of transistors and diodes, including geometry, large signal models, and small signal models; Basic ability in transistor circuit analysis and design, including the ability to design an amplifier Concurrent Prerequisites: bipolar and MOS transistor device physics

Catalog Description:

Analysis, design and fabrication of silicon bipolar and MOSFET monolithic integrated circuits. Consideration of amplifier circuit design, and fabrication techniques with circuit simulation using Spice-2. Integrated operational amplifiers with difference amplifiers, current sources, active loads, and voltage references. Design of IC analog circuit building blocks.

Required Text(s):

  1. Analog Integrated Circuit Design , 2nd Edition , Tony Chan Carusone, David A. Johns & Ken Martin , John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2011 , ISBN No. 9780470770108

Recommended Text(s):

None.

Lecture Outline:

Weeks Topics
1-3 Introduction to IC processing for bipolar and MOS circuit fabrication
4-5 Models for IC BJT and MOSFET devices: Operating point (DC non-linear) and linear high frequency small signal
6-7 Multiple FET and BJT composite amplifiers
8-9 Differential Amplifier; common mode and differential mode gain, Rin and Rout, design to meet specifications
10-11 NPN and PNP current sources in Difference Amplifiers; output resistance of I-sources, MOSFET and BJT self-biased current sources and voltage references
12 Output Stages
13-14 The Operational Amplifier
15 Special Topics

Assessment Method:

none