EE105 - Fall 2007

Microelectronic Devices and Circuits

http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ee105

Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu

[email protected]
567 Cory Hall
 Teaching Assistants
Eudean Sun Jon Ellithorpe Kevin Wang
(Head TA) (Discussion TA) (Discussion TA)

Wilson Ko Chen Sun Alan Wu

(Lead Lab TA) (Lab TA) (Lab TA)

EE105 Fall 2007 Course Overview, Slide 2

 What is this class all about?
• Basic semiconductor device physics and
analog integrated circuits.
• What will you learn?
– Electrical behavior and applications of transistors
– Analog integrated circuit analysis and design

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 Schedule
• Lectures (106 Stanley): TuTh 3:40-5:00 PM
 
• Discussion Sections (beginning Wednesday 9/5):
– Section 101 (247 Cory): Mo 3-4 PM (Jon)
– Section 102 (289 Cory): We 9-10AM (Eudean)
– Section 103 (5 Evans): Fr 11AM-12PM (Kevin)

• Office Hours:
– Prof. Liu (212 Cory): MoTu 12-1PM
– Eudean Sun (382 Cory): Mo 2-3PM
– Jon Ellithorpe (382 Cory): Mo 4-5PM
– Kevin Wang (382 Cory): Fri 10-11AM

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 Lab Schedule
• Laboratory Sections (beginning Tuesday 9/4):
– Section 12 (353 Cory): We 9AM-12PM (Wilson)
– Section 13 (353 Cory): Tu 8-11AM (Alan)
– Section 14 (353 Cory): Mo 3-6PM (Kevin)
– Section 15 (353 Cory): We 3-6PM (Chen)

• Students must sign up for one lab section outside 353 Cory
by 5PM Friday 8/31, and regularly attend this lab section.
• All of the lab assignments (and tutorials) are posted online at
http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ee105/fa07/labs.cgi
• Each pre-lab assignment is due at the beginning of the
corresponding lab session. Post-lab assignments are due at
the beginning of the following lab section.
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 Relation to Other Courses
• Prerequisite:
– EECS40:  KVL and KCL, Thevenin and Norton equivalent
circuits, impedance, frequency response (Bode plots),
semiconductor basics, simple pn-junction diode and
MOSFET theory and circuit applications, analog vs. digital
signals.

• Relation to other courses: 

– EE105 is a prerequisite for EE113 (Power Electronics) and
EE140 (Linear Integrated Circuits).
– It is also helpful (but not required) for EE141 (Introduction
to Digital Integrated Circuits).

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 Class Materials
• Textbook:
Fundamentals of Microelectronics (Preliminary Edition)
by Behzad Razavi, Wiley Press, May 20

• Lecture Notes will be posted on the class website, but it is

important that you read the corresponding sections in the
textbook
• Lectures will be recorded and webcasted, however, this is
not intended to replace attendance

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 Grading
– Homework (posted online) Letter grades will be
• due Tu (beginning of class) 15% assigned based
• late homeworks not accepted approximately on the
following scale:
– Laboratory assignments
• due at beginning of lab session 15% A+: 98-100
A: 88-98
A-: 85-88
– 2 midterm exams B+: 83-85
• 80 minutes each B: 73-83
• closed book 30% B-: 70-73
(3 pages of notes allowed) C+: 68-70
– Final exam C: 58-68
• Th 12/20 from 12:30-3:30PM C-: 55-58
D: 45-55
• closed book 40% F: <45
(7 pages of notes allowed)
• bring calculator

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 Miscellany
• Special accommodations:
– Students may request accommodation of religious creed, disabilities,
and other special circumstances. Please make an appointment to
discuss your request, in advance.
• Academic (dis)honesty
– Departmental policy will be strictly followed
– Collaboration (not cheating!) is encouraged
• Classroom etiquette:
– Arrive in class on time!
– Bring your own copy of the lecture notes.
– Turn off cell phones, pagers, MP3 players, etc.
– No distracting conversations

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 Some Important Announcements
• Please don’t bring food/drinks to 353 Cory
• Lab experiments will be done in pairs. Each
person should turn in his/her individual
reports.
• Homework should be done individually.
• Cheating on an exam will result in an
automatic F course grade.

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 Getting Started
• Assignment 1:
– To be posted later today
– Due 9/4 (Tuesday) at 3:30PM
• NO discussion sessions, labs, or office hours
this week.

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 Course Overview
(refer to detailed syllabus)

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Introduction
 The Integrated Circuit (IC)
• An IC consists of interconnected electronic components in a
single piece (“chip”) of semiconductor material.
• In 1958, Jack S. Kilby • In 1959, Robert Noyce
(Texas Instruments) (Fairchild Semiconductor)
showed that it was demonstrated an IC made in
possible to fabricate a silicon using SiO2 as the
simple IC in germanium. insulator and Al for the
metallic interconnects.

The first planar IC

(actual size: 0.06 in. diameter)
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 From a Few, to Billions
• By connecting a large number of components, each
performing simple operations, an IC that performs very
complex tasks can be built.
• The degree of integration has increased at an exponential
pace over the past ~40 years.
» The number of devices on a chip doubles Intel Pentium®4 Processor

every ~18 months, for the same price.

“Moore’s Law” still holds today. 1 Gb
1,000,000,000
256M
64M
100,000,000
16M
10,000,000 4M Pentium III & IV
1M PentiumII
1,000,000 Pentium
256K 80486
64K 80386
100,000
16K 80286
10,000 8086
1K 4K

1,000 4044 8080

300mm Si wafer

Intel CPU DRAM

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 EECS 105 in the Grand Scheme
• Example electronic system: cell phone

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EECS 105: Emphasis on Analog IC’s
• Example: 14-bit analog-to-digital converter
– Y. Chiu, IEEE Int’l Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2004.

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 Digital or Analog Signal?

• X1(t) is operating at 100Mb/s and X2(t) is operating at 1Gb/s.

• A digital signal operating at very high frequency is very
“analog”.

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 Circuit Simulation using SPICE
• Read tutorial posted on EE105 lab website!
3
* Example netlist
Q1 1 2 0 npnmod
1
2
R1 1 3 1k
Vdd 3 0 3v
SPICE
.tran 1u 100u

0
stimulus netlist response

• SPICE = Simulation Program with IC Emphasis

• Invented at Berkeley (released in 1972)
• .DC: Find the DC operating point of a circuit
• .TRAN: Solve the transient response of a circuit (solve a system of generally
non-linear ordinary differential equations via adaptive time-step solver)
• .AC: Find steady-state response of circuit to a sinusoidal excitation

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