BGR
Noise
FD Opamps
Opamp Design and Analysis
Diffamp
Frequency Response
Single‐ended Amplifiers
Mirrors & Biasing
Review
Study Topics
Review of MOSFETs and Circuit Analysis
Analog Models (gm, ro, gmb, fT)
Small Signal Analysis with Examples
Temperature dependent behavior, gain‐speed tradeoff
Current mirrors, Current mirror mismatch
Supply independent biasing, Beta multiplier reference (BMR),
Start‐up circuit
Short‐channel BMR
Cascode current mirrors, cascode output resistance
Regulated drain current mirror, Bias generation schemes
Common source (CS) amplifier: low‐frequency small and large
signal behavior.
Source follower: low‐frequency behavior, input range,
applications
Common gate (CG) amplifier, current buffer, Comparison of
gain stages.
Cascode amplifier, Lemma for estimating gain in amplifiers
(A v=‐G mR out).
Folded cascode amplifier
Miller effect, poles and zeros in a system
CS frequency response, RHP zero.
RHP zero intuition, pole‐splitting, Miller compensation.
Generic two‐stage amplifier model
Source follower frequency response
Common‐gate amplifier frequency response
Cascode amplifier frequency response.
Differential signaling, basic diff‐pair: input‐output
characteristics, Vin,CM independent biasing.
Diff‐amps – large signal behavior, half circuit analysis.
Diff‐amps – current mirror load, frequency response
Opamps: Gain and settling errors, non‐linear settling
(slewing), stability and frequency compensation.
Telescopic and Folded cascode opamps
Slewing in Opamps
Two‐stage Single‐ended Opamps
Opamp Stability: loop‐gain, closed‐loop stability, phase margin
Opamps: Cascode, Indirect and feedforward Compensation
Gain‐boosting Opamps
Fully‐differential Opamps
Common Mode feedback (CMFB)
Switched Capacitor CMFB
CM/DM Loop stability and Simulation
Noise Models, PSD, input‐referred noise
2‐port noise model, analysis for CS, CG, SF
Opamp noise analysis
Simulation
Bandgap references
Voltage Regulators
Sections in Razavi
Textbook
2.1‐2.3, 16.1‐16.2
2.4
5.1
11.2
5.2
Sections in Baker CMOS Reference Papers/
Book
Handouts
1.1‐1.3, 6.1‐6.5
9.1.1.‐9.1.2
9.1.2
9.1.3
20.1
20.1
20.1.4
20.2
20.3
3.1‐3.2
21.1,21.2.1
3.3
21.2.4
3.4
21.2.3
3.5
3.5
6.1
6.2
21.2.2
21.2.1
21.2.1
10.1‐10.4
10.5
6.3
6.4
6.5
21.2.1
21.2.1
21.2.4
21.2.3
21.2.2
4.1
4.2‐4.4
5.3, 6.6
22.1
22.2‐22.4
9.1
9.2
9.8, 10.5.1
9.3
24.1
24.3
24.2
9.3, 10.3‐10.5
24.1
O.1
10.6
9.4
9.6
9.6, Notes
Notes
21.2.1, 24.2
24.4
26.2
26.3
26.4
O.7‐O.8, O.6
7.1, 7.2
7.3, 7.4
7.5, 9.10
8.1, 8.2
8.2
Handout
11.1‐11.7
*Bold sections denote the primary reference used in the class notes.
8.2
23.1‐23.2
24.5
Handout