Analysis and Design of VLSI Analog-Digital Interface Integrated Circuits

Analysis and Design of VLSI Analog-Digital Interface Integrated Circuits
Analog circuits are increasingly part of larger chips containing both analog and digital circuits. In this course, we look at the architecture of these chips, the representation of signals in the analog and digital domain, filtering, conversion with analog/digital and digital/analog converters. Constraints such as maximum signal handling capability, electronic noise, frequency limitations, and tradeoffs among these factors are discussed. Variety of communication systems utilizing analog-digital interface circuitry is covered. The key concepts discussed in the course are:

Areas of discussion:
- Filters
- Continuous time filters- biquads and ladder type filters
- Biquads & ladder
- Opamp-RC, Opamp-Mosfet-C, gm-C filters
- Automatic frequency tuning
- Switched capacitor (SC) filters
- Data Converters
- D/A converter architectures
- A/D converter
- Nyquist rate ADC- Flash, Pipeline ADCs,….
- Oversampled converters
- Self-calibration techniques
- Communication systems utilizing analog/digital interfaces
- Wireline communication systems- ISDN, XDSL…
- Wireless communication systems- Wireless LAN, Cellular telephone,…
- Disk drive electronics
- Fiber-optics systems