Introduction to EE618 CMOS Analog VLSI Design

A fully online PG course with 120+ students!

A new experience for all of us

Maryam Shojaei and TA team

Platform: Moodle + Google Classroom

11 August 2020
 Strong Recommendation

• 3rd year B. Tech and dual degree (B. Tech. + M. Tech.) are
requested to drop the course and credit it next year.
• If you are a 1st year M. Tech student and you don’t have interest
in CMOS Analog Circuits but you want to take this course because
it may help you in various aspects such as placement please drop
the course and credit it next year.
• If you have any internet connectivity problem contact IIT-Bombay
academic office. They provide financial support if that’s the
reason for the problem.
• Keep up with the course flow, if you lag behind, it’s not possible
to learn in the last moments.
 Some questions/points related to the online teaching

• Which device is recommended?

• Should you join the class at least 5 minutes in advance?
• Keeping track of your attendance
• Should you ask doubts in the class? Is it possible in a class of 120+
students?
• What’s the difference between a pre-recorded lecture and an
online live lecture?
• What’s the difference between interactive teaching and 1-way
teaching or limited 2-way teaching?
• How are teaching assistants’ roles changed?
Teaching assistant à Co-instructor (chosen by TA’s !)
 How will be the course conducted?
• Fully interactive (instructors, co-instructors, students)
• Resource lecture à interactive lecture by the instructor à interaction with co-
instructor

1. Students are given list of the key concepts that they are supposed to learn.
2. Students carefully watch the resource lecture in advance and try to grab the
concepts well.
3. Students share their doubts in a common document on the Google Classroom
classwork document in advance
4. Instructor will conduct the interactive lecture in the official time slots. The
lectures may be recorded if students prefer.
5. Groups of 10-12 students per co-instructor will complete the learning.
6. Check Moodle and Google Class 5 times per day. Don’t miss any
announcement.
 Resource Lectures

• Ali Hajimiri’s lectures (Analog Circuit Design)

CHIC YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyuAdfe6lknrM3V-j93dx9g/playlists

• Behzad Razavi lectures (Electronics)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyYrySVqmyVPzvVlPW-TTzHhNWg1J_0LU

• NPTEL, Nagendra Krishnapura and Aniruddha S. (Analog IC Design)

https://nptel.ac.in/courses/117/106/117106030/
https://nptel.ac.in/courses/108/106/108106105/
 Co-Instructor Groups
Co-Instructors
Week Co-Instructor 1 Co-Instructor 2
1 Surya Varchasvi Vidushi Gaur
2 Ritayan Mitra Sheetal Gupta
3 Mohammad Ali Aswathi E
4 Abhishek Kadam Rushank Suryavanshi
5 Venkatesh Vadde Hemant Kumar
6 Naveen Kumar Abhik
Repeating after week 6
1. The Co-Instructor defines the key learning objectives for the lecture content shared by
Professor.
2. Co-Instructor TAs aggregate the questions from students in a shared document and uses it
for the live interaction session.
3. Co-Instructor will also be responsible for moderating the live interaction sessions.
Co-instructor groups for students
10 students per group Group name
Mauryans
Mongols
Spartans
Egyptians
Romans
Greeks
Persians
Sumerians
Ottomans
Mughals
Babylonians
Assyrians
 Assignment and Quizzes
Quiz
• 10-15 minutes short quiz with objective questions on Moodle.
• Conducted once in every two weeks.
• 4-5 best out of 6-8 quizzes will be considered.
Assignment
• Assignment will be released once in two weeks with one week time
• The assignment can be written, scanned and submitted on the
Moodle/Classroom link provided at the beginning.
Project
• Not very different as compared to the in-campus class but with open source
tools (XCircuit, NGSPICE and MAGIC).
Exam
• It will depend on IIT-Bombay’s approach which will be formulated soon.
 Introduction to EE618 CMOS Analog VLSI Design

Example of Maryam’s group Analog/Mixed-Signal/RF ASIC designs,

fabricated, tested and prototyped

11 August 2020
A 500 nW to 1 mW Input Power Inductive Boost
Converter with MPPT for RF Energy Harvesting
System
G. Saini, Laxmeesha S. and M. Shojaei Baghini,
Accepted for publication in IEEE Journal of
Emerging and Selected Topics in Power
Electronics , 2020

UMC 180nm MM CMOS Received input RF power of -10 dBm (100 !W)
“ACompact Fully Passive Loop Filter Based Continuous Time delta-sigma
Modulator for Multi-channel Biomedical Applications”, Laxmeesha S and M.
Shojaei Baghini, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,
February 2020.
Automatically designed: ENOB of 9 bits and consumed energy of less
than 60 fJ/conv

SCL 180nm MM CMOS

272μ m × 250μ m
“0.43 nJ/bit OOK Transmitter for WID in 400 MHz MedRadio Band”, A.
Srivastava, D. M. Das, P. Mathur, D. K. Sharma and M. Shojaei Baghini, IEEE
Microwave and Wireless Components Letters (one of the popular papers),
March 2018. 55 µm
Resin coating VDD_TX
data
OOK

25 µm
Wire
Electrode M3 M4

SMD inductor Rs
OSC
LC

(radiating element) C
L
Off chip tank (b)
C

VH SMDL
M1 M2 (0603)

2.4 cm
0
L

element
Radiating
Off-chip

OOK data Itail Test

M6 M5 chip
On-chip
2.5 cm
(a) (c)
Measurement Results: The First Reported SMDL Radiated OOK Based Bio
Telemetry System
45

Path loss (dB)

35 -71 dBm Large span
Friis at 403 MHz of 100 MHz
25 SMDL
Monopole
15
0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3
Distance (m)
(a) (b)

-91.6 dBc/Hz Center Spectral

PN @ 1 MHz frequency mask
-88.6 dBc/HZ 403 MHz >20 dB
PN @ 300 kHz
300 kHz

(c) (d)
(a)Radiating element loss, (b) TX output spectrum over large span without
spurs, (c) phase noise at TX output and (d) TX output spectrum meeting
spectral mask requirement at 200 kb/s
 Demonstration: The First Reported SMDL Radiated OOK Based Bio
Telemetry System
0.43 nJ/bit energy efficiency at 200 kb/s with BER < 10−3
FPGA to A. Srivastava, et.al., “0.43 nJ/bit OOK Transmitter for
TX submerged in generate Minced
meat container RX Biosignal Communication in 400 MHz MedRadio
PRBS data pork meat Band,” IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components
Letters, 2018 (one of the popular papers)

~1 m
A. Srivastava and M. Shojaei Baghini, “Analysis
(i) and Design of Low Phase Noise LC Oscillator for
Transmitted PRBS Sub-mW PLL-Free Biomedical Receivers”, (Arun
Kumar Chowdhury Best Paper Award), Proc.
Amplitude (V)

0.65
of International Conference on VLSID , 2019,
0 India.
Received PRBS
3.3
0
0 60 120 180 240
(ii) Time(µs)
Donation by Qualcomm: Energy efficient CMOS RF modules for the IoT within
the 5G plans
Wideband
LNA

Fabricated in 40nm GF
I/Q Receiver CMOS RF Technology

Wideband Design by 2 Ph.D. scholars

Inductor-less
VCO and 4 M. Tech. Students

Divider
Testing was halted because
of COVID-19 lockdown.
PFD