UC DAVIS
Advanced Analog Circuit Design
Course Outline
EEC211 (CRN 43545)
Winter 2011
TTh 9:00-10:20 123 Wellman
Office hours: F 1:10-2:30 2041 Kemper Hall
Professor Spencer
2041 Kemper Hall
752-6885
email: spencer@ece
(please don’t email technical questions)
Required Texts: Thomas H. Lee, The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated
Circuits. 2nd Ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004 –
This text is on two-hour reserve at the physical sciences library
R.R. Spencer, Noise in Electronic Devices, Circuits, and Systems, Jan.
2003 (provided in class)
Suggested Reference Texts: (roughly in descending order of usefulness for this course – all
except Weiner & Spina are on 2-hour reserve at the physical sciences
library)
B. Razavi, RF Microelectronics, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998
D.D. Weiner and J.F. Spina, Sinusoidal Analysis and Modeling of
Weakly Nonlinear Circuits; Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1980 (this book is
out of print, but can still be found through used book sellers and is the
best book I have found on the Volterra series!)
D.M. Pozar, Microwave and RF Design of Wireless Systems, New York: John
Wiley & Sons, 2001
K.K. Clarke and D.T. Hess, Communication circuits: Analysis and
Design, Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company, 1994
Prerequisites:
EEC210 (or consent of the instructor) & a course in probability theory
Objectives:
After taking this course you should understand:
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The origin of noise in electronic systems
How to analyze transistor-level circuits with noise sources present
The definition and use of Noise Figure, Noise Factor, and Noise Temperature
How to design circuits to minimize equivalent input noise
How to find the Noise Figure of cascaded networks
How to analyze distortion in memoryless electronic circuits and systems
How to analyze distortion in circuits with memory using the Volterra series
How noise and distortion affect communication systems – intercept points,
spurious-free dynamic range, phase noise
9) The basic operating principles and tradeoffs involved in the design of mixers,
RF low-noise amplifiers and oscillators
10) The tradeoffs involved in choosing transmitter & receiver architectures
Homework: Assignments will be made as appropriate during the quarter and will be posted on
the course website. Solutions will be available on the website (when you click on
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a link to see a solution, you will be asked for a login name and password, the
login name is eec211 and the password is volterra, both are case sensitive).
Oral Report: Each student will present an oral report to the class on a topic chosen by the
student and approved by the Professor. The presentation format will be like a
short paper at an IEEE conference (12 minutes plus 3 minutes for questions) and
will be graded by the other students as well as the Professor. The paper is usually
based on a journal article relevant to the course, but other material may be used.
Grading:
There will be two open-book exams (a midterm and a final), and the oral report.
The weighting used for the final course grade will be: homework 20%, exams
25% each, report 30%.
EEC211 Class Schedule - Winter 2011
(this schedule is approximate – so you will need to adjust your reading
based on where we are in class)
Date
Jan.
4
6
11
13
18
20
25
Day Topic
Course introduction and motivation, brief review
of probability. Noise analysis: Noise as a random
process. Autocorrelation function.
T
Autocorrelation and power spectral density as a
Fourier transform pair. Noise in LTI systems.
Derivation of thermal noise voltage.
Noise bandwidth. Non-equilibrium noise sources:
Th
shot noise.
Non-equilibrium noise sources: 1/f noise, burst,
and avalanche noise. Equivalent number of
T
decades. Noise models for electronic devices.
Analysis examples.
Finish examples. Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).
Th Equivalent input noise generators. Noise in
differential amplifiers.
Noise in Opamps. Noise Factor (F), Noise figure
(NF). Available power & gain. Example
T
calculations of G and F. Noise Factor for cascaded
stages. Noise Temperature (Te).
Optimum source impedance for low-noise
amplifiers. Optimum bias for low noise. Effect of
Th feedback on noise. 2-port noise with correlation.
Optimum source impedance with correlated noise
sources. High-frequency MOSFET noise model.
RF Low-noise amplifier design in CMOS. Phase
T
noise.
2
Reading
Spencer - Chap. 1 &
2, Lee §11.1-11.2
Spencer – §3.1, Lee
§11.3
Spencer §3.2-3.7,
§4.1-4.2, Lee §11.411.5
Spencer §4.3, 4.4
Spencer §5.1-5.2,
Lee §11.6-11.9,
19.2.1
Spencer §4.3, §5.35.4, Lee §11.6.2,
§12.2, 14.4
Lee §12.1-12.3,
§18.1-18.5
27 Th
Feb.
1
T
3 Th
8
T
10 Th
15 T
17 Th
22
T
24 Th
March
1 T
3 Th
8 T
10 Th
17 Th
Distortion Analysis: Why study distortion?
Distortion vs. dispersion. Distortionless
transmission. Phase & group delay. Weakly
nonlinear systems. Approximating nonlinear
systems. Memoryless distortion. Small-distortion
approximation. Definition of harmonic distortion
products and THD. Intermodulation distortion.
Desensitization and blocking. Output-referred
distortion. Triple beat. Cross modulation.
Intercept points. Spurious-free dynamic range
(SFDR). Large distortion in BJT’s (Bessel
function). The effect of source resistance.
Feedback and distortion.
2nd-order interaction and driving-point
nonlinearities. Distortion in differential stages and
cascaded stages. DECT receiver example frontend calculations. Linearization techniques.
Midterm (covers all material up through lecture
on 2/3) This exam will be a 2-hour take-home
exam that you pick up from the department office
on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday so that you
can attend the ISSCC if you want to.
Translinear principle (TLP). Finish linearization
techniques. More sophisticated approach to power
series.
Start Volterra series analysis.
More Volterra series analysis with examples.
Alternate notation (operator notation). More
examples. Cascaded Volterra systems. Start
mixers.
Finish mixers. Power amplifiers. Power amplifier
linearization.
Phase-locked loops.
Transceiver architectures.
Final presentations.
Final presentations.
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Final Exam
3
Lee §12.6
Lee §12.6-12.7
Lee §19.2.2
Lee Chap. 13
Lee §15.1-8
Lee Chapter 16
Lee Chapter 19