• Students can analyze basic electronic circuits by using large-signal and small-signal model representation with hand-calculations and SPICE simulators (like Cadence Spectre).
• Students have a detailed understanding of the function and they are able to design basic transistor circuits like switches, current mirrors, single-transistor amplifiers and differential amplifiers.
• They can design and optimize amplifiers and comparators for a specified large-signal and small-signal circuit performance.
• They can formulate important non-idealities of analog integrated circuits like offset, common-mode rejection, power-supply rejection.
• Students know specific layout and technology related effects, like mismatch, cross-talk, ESD and how to improve them.

ILV "Methods in Systems and Circuits Theory"
ILV "Integrated Circuit Technology"

• SPICE modelling and simulation of integrated circuits
• Basic transistor circuits
  • The MOS transistor as switch
  • The MOS transistor as a resistor
  • MOS-diode
  • Current mirrors
  • Current references
• Single-stage amplifiers
  • Common-source amplifier
  • Common-gate amplifier
  • Common-drain amplifier
  • Cascode
• Differential amplifier
• Operational transconductance amplifiers (OTA's)
• Comparator circuits
  • Open-loop comparators
  • Latched comparators
  • Offset compensation methods
• Analog layout considerations
  • Failure mechanisms in IC's (ESD, antenna effect, latch-up)
  • Matching in integrated circuits (mismatch modelling, layout techniques)
  • Crosstalk in integrated circuits

Lecture material as provided in the course (required)
Recommended reading as follows:

• B. Razavi, Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, McGraw-Hill Inc., 2000.
• R. J. Baker, CMOS Circuit Design, Layout and Simulation, Wiley IEEE Press, 2019.
• D. A. Johns, K. Martin, Analog Integrated Circuit Design, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1997.
• P. E. Allen, D. R. Holberg, CMOS Analog Circuit Design, Oxford University Press Inc., 2002.
• A. Hastings, The Art of Analog Layout, Pearson Education Inc., 2006.

Teaching & discussion, problem assignments, practical design labs using CAD design tools, homework

Integrated module examination
Immanent examination character: Written/oral exam, including homework assignments, presentations and lecture contribution