Microelectronics: Devices to Circuits

This course is intended for the core courses in Electronics Circuits taught to undergraduates in Electrical and Computer Engineering. The objective of this course is to develop the ability to analyse and design electronic circuits both analog and digital, discrete and integrated. The course starts with the basics of the device most seldom encountered in mixed designs and then go on to do circuit analysis in the later parts. INTENDED AUDIENCE: Any Interested Learners PREREQUISITES: First course on linear circuit analysis, A basic course on Semiconductor Devices and Digital Electronics. A course on Computer Organization will be also helpful (though not strictly required) INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Cadence; Synopsys; ST Microelectronics; NXP Semiconductors; Semiconductor Complex Limited, Chandigarh; Design House in general

Week 1:

• Bipolar Junction Transistor; Physical Structure and Modes of operation,
• Operation in Active Mode, circuit symbols and conventions,
• BJT as an Amplifier, small circuit model,
• BJT as a switch and Ebers Moll Model,
• Simple BJT inverter and Second Order Effects.

Week 2:

• MOS Transistor Basic,
• MOS Parasitic & SPICE Model;
• CMOS Inverter Basics-I

Week 3:

• CMOS Inverter Basics(contd)
• Power Analysis
• SPICE Simulation-I

Week 4:

• Biasing of MOS Amplifier and its behavior as an analog switch,
• CMOS CS/CG/SF Amplifier Configuration,
• Internal cap models and high frequency modelling,
• JFET, structure and operation.

Week 5:

• Multistage and Differential Amplifier,
• Small Signal Operation and Differential Amplifier,
• MOS Differential Amplier,
• BiCMOS Amplifier with Active Load,
• Multistage Amplifier with SPICE Simulation

Week 6:

• s-domain analysis, transfer function, poles and zeros,
• High Frequency Response of CS and CE Amplifier,
• Frequency Response of CC and SF Configuration,
• Frequency Response of the Differential Amplifier,
• Cascode Connection and its Operation

Week 7:

• General Feedback structure and properties of negative feedback,
• Basic Feedback Topologies,
• Design of Feedback Amplifier for all configuration,
• Stability and Amplifier poles,
• Bode Plots and Frequency Compensation

Week 8:

• Ideal Operational Amplifier and its terminals,
• Inverting and Non- Inverting Configuration,
• As an integrator and Differentiator,
• Introduction to Analog Computer,
• Large Signal Operation of Op-Amp and Second order offsets.

Week 9:

• Butterworth and Chebyshev Filters,
• First and Second Order Filter Functions,
• Switched Capacitor based filters,
• Single-Amplifier Biquadratic Filters,
• Second Order LCR Resonator.

Week 10: Combinational Logic Design Week 11: Sequential Logic Design Week 12: Clock Strategies for Sequential Design, Concept of Memory & its Designing-I