EE8331 Advanced Analog Integrated Circuit Design

Spring 2000
Prof. Ramesh Harjani
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
(This class is taught both on campus and via UNITE)

Course Information

• Timing: 9:05 - 9:55 MWF, Mech E 102
• Office Hours: MWF 10:00-10:50 EE/CSi 4-165
• Course syllabus (PDF format download Adobe Acrobat to read)
• Test and Quizes
  • Midterm I (changed to Monday Feb 28th, in class)
  • Midterm II (Make sure you look at the notes below)(Due back Monday May 1st by 9am)
    Notes 1
    Notes 2 (taken from Prof. Sanchez's website)
• Class project
  • Handout
• Homeworks
  • HW 1 (due Friday Jan 28th)
  • HW2 (due Wed Feb 9th)
  • HW3 (due Mon Apr 17th)
  • HW4 (due Mon Apr 24th)
• Video lectures & Lecture notes
  

Books, Papers and References

• Books
  • Primary book: Analog Integrated Circuit Design,
    David Johns & Ken Martin , John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1997
    (also available at Amazon.com)
  • Reference book 1: Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits,
    Behzad Razavi, McGraw-Hill, 1999
  • Reference book 2: Low-Voltage/Low-Power Integrated Circuits and Systems
    Edited by Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio & Andreas G. Andreou
    IEEE Press, 1998
• Papers
  • Journal papers
• Web sites
  • EKV model
  • SMASH simulation tool
  • BSIM3
• Relevent papers and presentation
  • Dynamic amplifier (paper, slides)
  • Class AB amplifier (paper)

Approved CAD Tools

• Circuit simulation (HSPICE: Available in IT Labs, Look at HSPICE FAQ)
  HSPICE is general purpose SPICE variant.
  • HSPICE manual in PDF format (available in /soft/hspice98/doc on IT workstations)
  • SPICE 2G6 manual (early version of Berkeley SPICE)
• Layout (LEDIT,)
  • Running Ledit at the UofM
  • Online Ledit manual (Courtesy of U of Louisville)
  • Book with student version of Ledit
    Physical Design of CMOS Integrated Circuits Using L-EDIT
    by John P. Uyemura
    PWS Publishing Company, ISBN 0-534-94326-8
  • MOSIS scalable design rules
  • MOSIS Pads directory. Use stuffed pads
• Switched capacitor circuit simulator (SWITCAP)
  SWITCAP2 is a general purpose simulation program for linear switched-capacitor networks
  and mixed switched-capacitor/digital networks.
  • It is currently available on the IT Workstations (executable is called sw2)
  • This is a text in text out tool, i.e., can be used over a telnet session.
  • Switcap manual in PDF format (710kB)
• Numerical and signal processing simulation tool (Matlab)
  • Student version available (worth investing in )
  • Simulink : block diagram based front-end to matlab
    Extremely powerful. Worth using.
  • Matlab primer available here

Other useful links

• MOSIS web site
• FAQ from comp.lsi.cad
• Circuit Simulators
  • SMASH demos (uses the EKV model - good for weak inversion operation)
  • Design Works (for digital circuiuts)
  • Silvaco Smartspice
• Layout Tools
  • Magic : available on IT Lab machines
    (Note, this is no more a reccomended layout tool. It is not supported and has many bugs)
    • Both Magic and HSPICE require you to load the appropriate modules. Ask a lab assistant to help you to do this.
    • Magic manuals are available on the web at Magic Manual Pages on the Web
    • Magic tricks I (Combining layouts and pad fradmes and connecting to pads)
    • Magic tricks II (Layout checks before completion)
    • Extracting Capacitors
    • Get the pad frame for this directory ( Download 40pin_stuffed.mag or 40pin_stuffed.cif)
    • Magic output can be printed in black-and-white using the Flea tool. Flea is in /project/software/magic.old/bin/flea and use the library in /project/software/magic.old/lib. You can make the appropriate changes in the PATH variables in your .cshrc file.
  • Lassi (free software used in the reference book)
• Analog research groups of interest