IN5180 – Analog Microelectronics Design

The main learning outcome is the ability to design an advanced integrated circuit / system based on a design specification. In particular you will be able to:

• Understand key circuits used as building blocks (Amplifiers, Comparators, Voltage References, Sample-and-Hold, Switched-Capacitor Circuits, Oscillators).
• Build transistor-level schematics based on a design specification.
• Implement circuits as full custom layouts in CMOS.
• Understand how production variation will impact design methodology and know how to make circuits robust to such variations.
• Calculate how noise and non-linearities impact performance and understand fundamental sources of such non-ideal behavior.
• Use hierarchical design methods and understand how to design circuit interfaces (Voltage Supplies, I/O)

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4 hours of lectures and 2 hours of lab work (Circuit design lab). Some of the teaching will be given as supervision in labs/exercise classes. Mandatory assignments must be approved prior to the exam.

Access to foundry Process Design Kits (PDKs) require students to sign an NDA.

The course grade is based on the following assessments:

• project assignment with presentation (40%)
• final exam (60%), oral/written.

Both parts of the exam must be passed and must be passed in the same semester.

This course has mandatory assignments that must be approved prior to the exam.

The final exam will be an oral or 4 hours written exam depending on the number of course attendees. The project assignment must be presented for the class and teaching staff.

It will also be counted as one of your three attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for one of the following courses: IN9180.