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):
- 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