Design of Analog Integrated Circuits 2

Course developed by: Johannes Sturm, Engineering & IT, CUAS (Fachhochschule Kärnten) 
Contact: j.sturmnoSpam@fh-kaernten.at

Course Description

Analog Integrated Circuits 2 is a second semester 5 ECTS course of CUAS Master's programme in Integrated Systems and Circuits Design as continuation of course Analog-1 for teaching essential topics in analogue integrated circuits, like Opamp design with stability analysis and compensation methods.

The course is organised as synchronous on-site lectures with asynchronous online lecture stream. The on-site lecture streams are recorded and made available on Moodle for further study by registered students. The lecture includes a mixture of theory sessions, in-class problem sets and homework through design projects using CAD environment and 65nm CMOS technology.

Learning Objectives

After finishing the course, students

• understand the theory of feedback control systems in detail, how to apply this theory for stability compensation and how to model and simulate the stability of feedback systems.
• can analyse the frequency behaviour of basic electronic circuits on transistor level and know how to compensate stability of transistor circuits for a defined phase margin
• can explain the physical background and behaviour of noise in integrated circuits.
• are able to calculate and simulate the noise of basic transistor circuits
• are able to design and optimize operational amplifiers with respect to different performance parameters
• understand the concepts of different amplifier architectures like Opamp, OTA or TIA.