Low-Power Analog and Mixed-signal VLSI systems

Term:  Fall 2004.
Instructor:  Shantanu Chakrbartty.

Abstract and Course Summary
This is a project oriented course, that focuses on current state-of-art low power techniques used for designing
CMOS data converters, imagers and biomedical signal processing systems. Several practical aspect of
mixed-signal layout,simulation and testing will be covered in this course and used for implementing
a VLSI prototype. Emphasis will be laid on specific application like speech, vision or sensors
but will vary from year to year.

Course Syllabus

Announcements

• Start of class (09/02/2004)
  
• Assignment 1: Due (10/07/2004)
  

Lecture Notes and Handouts

• Lecture 1 :  MOSFET modeling and Mixed-signal layout.
• Lecture 2 :   Analog Building blocks.
• Lecture 3 :   Digital Building blocks.
• Lecture 4 :  Analog computational  blocks
• Lecture 5 :   Introduction of Dynamic Analog Techniques.
• Lecture 6 :  Analysis and Design of Dynamic Analog circuits.
  
• Lecture 7 :  Noise Analysis.
• Lecture 8 :  Power estimation and optimization.
• Lecture 9:  Data converters: I.
• Lecture 10:  Sigma-Delta Converters.
• Lecture 11:   Filters.

Technical Paper Review List

• Barrie Gilbert, Analog at Milepost 2000:  A Personal Perspective, Proceedings of IEEE, vol. 89, No:3, March 2001.
  
• Aziz P.M, Sorensen H.V and van der Spiegel J., An overview of sigma-delta converters, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 13, No:1, Jan 1996.
  
• Rambouts P., Wilde W. and Weyten L., 13.5-b 1.2-V Micropower Extended Counting A/D Converter, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 36, No:2, Feb 2001.
  

Class Projects

Useful Links

• MOSIS
• NCSU Cadence Toolkit
• Cadence Tutorial