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This 3 credit hour course covers advanced analog integrated circuit design topics at the graduate level, including rigorous treatment of noise, feedback, and distortion in analog circuits. The course will be taught on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30-6:45pm in room ECSW 2.325. Students will learn how to analyze and design common-mode feedback circuits, understand noise behavior, and analyze nonideal feedback circuits. The course involves weekly homework assignments, a midterm exam, and a final exam. Grading is based on homework, exams, and in-class participation.

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This 3 credit hour course covers advanced analog integrated circuit design topics at the graduate level, including rigorous treatment of noise, feedback, and distortion in analog circuits. The course will be taught on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30-6:45pm in room ECSW 2.325. Students will learn how to analyze and design common-mode feedback circuits, understand noise behavior, and analyze nonideal feedback circuits. The course involves weekly homework assignments, a midterm exam, and a final exam. Grading is based on homework, exams, and in-class participation.

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EE 7326 Course Syllabus

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Course Information
Course Prefix, Number, Section: EE 7326
Course Title: Advanced Analog IC Design
Credit hours: 3 semester hours
Term: Fall 2023
Class Time: 5:30 - 6:45pm, T & Th (8/22-12/7)
Class Venue: ECSW 2.325
Course Website: www.utdallas.edu/~chiu.yun/courses/7326
Note: we will use the course web, updated weekly, to distribute all information
about the class including homework assignments, readings, lecture notes, etc.
(More course info and detail including SPICE manual and tutorials are available on the
course website, which will be updated weekly.)
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Professor Contact Information
Instructor: Professor Yun Chiu
E-Mail: [email protected]
Office: ECSN 3.602
Office hours: Wed, 12pm-2pm, in ECSN 3.602
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Course Pre-requisites, Co-requisites, and/or Other Restrictions
EECT 6326 (Analog IC Design) or equivalent
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Course Description
This course covers important topics in analog IC design at graduate level not sufficiently
taught in a first introductory course, including a rigorous treatment of noise, feedback,
and distortion in analog circuits. Common-mode feedback in CT and DT differential
amplifiers, CMOS active-cascode gain stage, two-port and return-ratio feedback
analyses, noise analysis in sampled circuits, etc. will be covered in detail. Selected
topics from other advanced topics such as switched-capacitor circuit, continuous-time
filter, oscillator, or phase-locked loop (PLL) will be covered when time allows. Extensive
computer simulations are required in homework assignments.
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Student Learning Objectives/Outcomes
1. Ability to analyze and design of CMFB circuits in fully differential amplifiers
2. Ability to analyze noise behavior in analog circuits
3. Ability to analyze nonideal, practical feedback circuits using RR and LG methods
4. Ability to analyze large-signal distortions in analog circuits
5. Ability to understand and basic design of continuous-time filter, oscillator, and/or PLL
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Assignments & Academic Calendar

Date Topic (tentative) Week

08/22 08/24 Small-signal model of fully differential amp, CMFB concept 1

CT and DT CMFB circuits


08/29 08/31 2
(HW #1 posted, due @ 12pm on F, 9/15)

09/05 09/07 CT and DT CMFB circuits (cont’d) 3

High-swing cascode bias, active cascode gain stage


09/12 09/14 4
(HW #2 posted, due @ 12pm on F, 9/29.)

09/19 09/21 Noise in linear circuits, thermal and Flicker noises 5

Input-referred noise, noise calc in differential amp


09/26 09/28 6
(HW #3 posted, due @ 12pm on F, 10/13.)

10/03 10/05 Noise calc in cascode gain stage and two-stage amp 7

10/10 10/12 Recitation, Midterm exam (in class) 8

10/17 10/19 Sampled circuits noise calc and simulation 9

Unilateral vs. bilateral feedbacks, two-port models of feedback


10/24 10/26 circuit 10
(HW #4 posted, due @ 12pm on F, 11/10.)
Loop-gain vs. return-ratio analyses, SPICE simulation of FB
10/31 11/02 11
circuits
Asymptotic gain formula, Blackman’s impedance formula
11/07 11/09 12
(HW #5 posted, due @ 12pm on F, 12/1.)

11/14 11/16 Power series model of memoryless nonlinear amplifiers 13

11/22 11/24 Thanksgiving break 14

Harmonic distortion, intermodulation, THD, intercept points


11/28 11/30 15
etc.
Distortion in NFB circuits, series inversion, cascaded gain
12/05 12/07 16
stages

Univ. sch. Final exam (TBD) 17

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Required Textbooks and Materials
No textbook is required. Lecture notes, slides, and papers will be posted.
Suggested Course Materials
• Gray et al., Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, Wiley, 5th Ed.,
2009
• Razavi, Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, McGraw-Hill, 2001
• Pederson and Mayaram, Analog Integrated Circuits for Communication:
Principles, Simulation and Design, Kluwer, 1991
• Allen and Holberg, CMOS Analog Circuit Design, Oxford, 3rd Ed., 2011
• Johns and Martin, Analog Integrated Circuit Design, Wiley, 1996
Grading Policy
Homework (4-5 assignments): 25% (~biweekly)
Midterm Exam 30% (TBD)
Final Exam: 45% (TBD)

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Course & Instructor Policies
Assignments are to be completed individually. Reports and SPICE decks in each
assignment will be checked. No plagiarism will be tolerated in grading. No credit if
reports are turned in past due time.
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Off-campus Instruction and Course Activities
None
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Comet Creed
This creed was voted on by the UT Dallas student body in 2014. It is a standard that
Comets choose to live by and encourage others to do the same:
“As a Comet, I pledge honesty, integrity, and service in all that I do.”
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UT Dallas Syllabus Policies and Procedures

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Please go to http://go.utdallas.edu/syllabus-policies for these policies.

The descriptions and timelines contained in this syllabus are subject to change at the
discretion of the Professor.

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