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Advanced Analog Microelectronics

X409 (2 semester units in EE)

A requirement in the Professional Sequence in Integrated Circuit Design and Techniques

This course is intended for working professionals who have no experience on analog circuit design but are interested in getting a strong foundation in advanced analog microelectronics. Topics include: feedback, filters, oscillators, and multivibrators. Individual research projects will relate to techniques that are used in today’s world, including switched-capacitor circuits, continuous-time filters, and Voltage Controlled Oscillators (VCOs) for Phase Locked Loop (PLL) applications. Note: this course features an English language web presentation accompanied by both an English language or Mandarin language soundtrack. The student can choose either soundtrack option at any time during the course. Mandarin-speaking students with limited English language skills may successfully complete the course.

Course outline:

Feedback

General Considerations of Feedback
Type of Amplifiers and Feedback Topologies
Effect of Loading in Series-Shunt Feedback
Effect of Loading in Shunt-Series Feedback
Advanced Practice in Shunt-Series Feedback: Concept of an Outsider
Effect of Loading in Series-Series Feedback
Advanced Practice in Series-Series Feedback: Output Resistance
Effect of Loading in Shunt-Shunt Feedback
Comparison between Two Analysis Skills: Direct vs. Feedback
Transresistance Amplifier with an Active Feedback Network
Case Study: An Amplifier Identified as Two Feedback Topologies

Integrated Analog Filters

Theory and Applications of LRC Resonators
Second-Order Active-RC Filters Based on Inductor Replacement
Second-Order Notch Filters
Single Amplifier Biquadratic Active-RC Filters
Active-RC Filters Based on Two-Integrator-Loop Techniques

Oscillators

Basic Principles of Switched-Capacitor Filters
General Considerations of Sinusoidal Oscillators
Wien-Bridge Oscillator with the Nonlinear Amplitude Control Network
Colpitts and Hartley LC Oscillators
Practice of LC Oscillator Based on BJT Amplifiers
Theory and Application of Crystal Oscillators

Multivibrators and Function Generators

Key Concepts of Hysteresis in Bistable Multivibrators
Practices of Inverting and Non-Inverting Bistable Multivibrators
Generation of Square Waveforms Using Astable Multivibrators
Generation of Triangular Waveforms Using Astable Multivibrators
Generation of Pulse Waveforms Using Monostable Multivibrators
Generation of Square Waveforms Using Integrated-Circuit Timer
Generation of Square Waveforms Using CMOS Astable Multivibrators
Case Study: Advanced CMOS Astable Multivibrator
Case Study: Circuit Identity

Individual Research Project

Switched-Capacitor Circuit Techniques
Continuous-Time Filter Techniques
Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO) for PLL Applications

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