Systematic Design of Analog CMOS Circuits

Systematic Design of Analog CMOS Circuits
Author: Paul G. A. Jespers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2017-10-12
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1107192250

This hands-on guide contains a fresh approach to efficient and insight-driven integrated circuit design in nanoscale-CMOS. With downloadable MATLAB code and over forty detailed worked examples, this is essential reading for professional engineers, researchers, and graduate students in analog circuit design.

Systematic Design of Analog CMOS Circuits

Systematic Design of Analog CMOS Circuits
Author: Paul G. A. Jespers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2017-10-12
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1108135471

Discover a fresh approach to efficient and insight-driven analog integrated circuit design in nanoscale-CMOS with this hands-on guide. Expert authors present a sizing methodology that employs SPICE-generated lookup tables, enabling close agreement between hand analysis and simulation. This enables the exploration of analog circuit tradeoffs using the gm/ID ratio as a central variable in script-based design flows, and eliminates time-consuming iterations in a circuit simulator. Supported by downloadable MATLAB code, and including over forty detailed worked examples, this book will provide professional analog circuit designers, researchers, and graduate students with the theoretical know-how and practical tools needed to acquire a systematic and re-use oriented design style for analog integrated circuits in modern CMOS.

The gm/ID Methodology, a sizing tool for low-voltage analog CMOS Circuits

The gm/ID Methodology, a sizing tool for low-voltage analog CMOS Circuits
Author: Paul Jespers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2009-12-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0387471014

IC designers appraise currently MOS transistor geometries and currents to compromise objectives like gain-bandwidth, slew-rate, dynamic range, noise, non-linear distortion, etc. Making optimal choices is a difficult task. How to minimize for instance the power consumption of an operational amplifier without too much penalty regarding area while keeping the gain-bandwidth unaffected in the same time? Moderate inversion yields high gains, but the concomitant area increase adds parasitics that restrict bandwidth. Which methodology to use in order to come across the best compromise(s)? Is synthesis a mixture of design experience combined with cut and tries or is it a constrained multivariate optimization problem, or a mixture? Optimization algorithms are attractive from a system perspective of course, but what about low-voltage low-power circuits, requiring a more physical approach? The connections amid transistor physics and circuits are intricate and their interactions not always easy to describe in terms of existing software packages. The gm/ID synthesis methodology is adapted to CMOS analog circuits for the transconductance over drain current ratio combines most of the ingredients needed in order to determine transistors sizes and DC currents.

CMOS Analog Design Using All-Region MOSFET Modeling

CMOS Analog Design Using All-Region MOSFET Modeling
Author: Márcio Cherem Schneider
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2010-01-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 052111036X

The essentials of analog circuit design with a unique all-region MOSFET modeling approach.

Systematic Design of Sigma-Delta Analog-to-Digital Converters

Systematic Design of Sigma-Delta Analog-to-Digital Converters
Author: Ovidiu Bajdechi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2004-04-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781402079450

Systematic Design of Sigma-Delta Analog-to-Digital Converters describes the issues related to the sigma-delta analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) design in a systematic manner: from the top level of abstraction represented by the filters defining signal and noise transfer functions (STF, NTF), passing through the architecture level where topology-related performance is calculated and simulated, and finally down to parameters of circuit elements like resistors, capacitors, and amplifier transconductances used in individual integrators. The systematic approach allows the evaluation of different loop filters (order, aggressiveness, discrete-time or continuous-time implementation) with quantizers varying in resolution. Topologies explored range from simple single loops to multiple cascaded loops with complex structures including more feedbacks and feedforwards. For differential circuits, with switched-capacitor integrators for discrete-time (DT) loop filters and active-RC for continuous-time (CT) ones, the passive integrator components are calculated and the power consumption is estimated, based on top-level requirements like harmonic distortion and noise budget. This unified, systematic approach to choosing the best sigma-delta ADC implementation for a given design target yields an interesting solution for a high-resolution, broadband (DSL-like) ADC operated at low oversampling ratio, which is detailed down to transistor-level schematics. The target audience of Systematic Design of Sigma-Delta Analog-to-Digital Converters are engineers designing sigma-delta ADCs and/or switched-capacitor and continuous-time filters, both beginners and experienced. It is also intended for students/academics involved in sigma-delta and analog CAD research.

Nano-scale CMOS Analog Circuits

Nano-scale CMOS Analog Circuits
Author: Soumya Pandit
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2018-09-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1466564288

Reliability concerns and the limitations of process technology can sometimes restrict the innovation process involved in designing nano-scale analog circuits. The success of nano-scale analog circuit design requires repeat experimentation, correct analysis of the device physics, process technology, and adequate use of the knowledge database. Starting with the basics, Nano-Scale CMOS Analog Circuits: Models and CAD Techniques for High-Level Design introduces the essential fundamental concepts for designing analog circuits with optimal performances. This book explains the links between the physics and technology of scaled MOS transistors and the design and simulation of nano-scale analog circuits. It also explores the development of structured computer-aided design (CAD) techniques for architecture-level and circuit-level design of analog circuits. The book outlines the general trends of technology scaling with respect to device geometry, process parameters, and supply voltage. It describes models and optimization techniques, as well as the compact modeling of scaled MOS transistors for VLSI circuit simulation. • Includes two learning-based methods: the artificial neural network (ANN) and the least-squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) method • Provides case studies demonstrating the practical use of these two methods • Explores circuit sizing and specification translation tasks • Introduces the particle swarm optimization technique and provides examples of sizing analog circuits • Discusses the advanced effects of scaled MOS transistors like narrow width effects, and vertical and lateral channel engineering Nano-Scale CMOS Analog Circuits: Models and CAD Techniques for High-Level Design describes the models and CAD techniques, explores the physics of MOS transistors, and considers the design challenges involving statistical variations of process technology parameters and reliability constraints related to circuit design.

Analog/RF and Mixed-Signal Circuit Systematic Design

Analog/RF and Mixed-Signal Circuit Systematic Design
Author: Mourad Fakhfakh
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2013-02-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642363296

Despite the fact that in the digital domain, designers can take full benefits of IPs and design automation tools to synthesize and design very complex systems, the analog designers’ task is still considered as a ‘handcraft’, cumbersome and very time consuming process. Thus, tremendous efforts are being deployed to develop new design methodologies in the analog/RF and mixed-signal domains. This book collects 16 state-of-the-art contributions devoted to the topic of systematic design of analog, RF and mixed signal circuits. Divided in the two parts Methodologies and Techniques recent theories, synthesis techniques and design methodologies, as well as new sizing approaches in the field of robust analog and mixed signal design automation are presented for researchers and R/D engineers.

Analog Design Essentials

Analog Design Essentials
Author: Willy M Sansen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 770
Release: 2007-02-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0387257470

This unique book contains all topics of importance to the analog designer which are essential to obtain sufficient insights to do a thorough job. The book starts with elementary stages in building up operational amplifiers. The synthesis of opamps is covered in great detail. Many examples are included, operating at low supply voltages. Chapters on noise, distortion, filters, ADC/DACs and oscillators follow. These are all based on the extensive amount of teaching that the author has carried out world-wide.