Topic outline

  • General

    IMPORTANT: For this course, all the lectures/exercise sessions are done online via Zoom!!!

    (Zoom links are available in the lecture section)


    Basic information about content, assessment criteria et cetera:     
    Course in Sisu

    Lecturer:

    Prof. Kari Halonen

    Exercises (homework) assistants:

    Dipesh Monga

    Yehia Tawfik

    CAD Exercises assistant:

    Muhammad Tanweer

    Course books:

    • Johns-Martin: Analog Integrated Circuit Design, John Wiley&Sons Inc., 1997 and Gregorian-Temes: Analog MOS Integrated Circuits for Signal Processing, John Wiley&Sons Inc. 1986
    • Toumazou, Lidgey & Haigh: Analogue IC Design: The current-mode approach, Peter Peregrinus Ltd., 1990
    • Allen-Holberg: CMOS Analog Circuit Design, Holt, Rinehart and Winston Inc.; Razavi: Principles of Data Conversion System Design, IEEE Press, 1995.


  • Materials

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    The whole chapter if not mentioned otherwise. The chapters written in italics are supplementary.

    Chan Carusone, Johns, Martin: Analog Integrated Circuit Design 2nd Ed., John Wiley, 2013.
    First edition by Johns, Martin (1997) has different chapter numbers.
    Chapter 11.1-3: Sample and Holds, Voltage References, and Translinear Circuits, p. 444-456
    Chapter 13: Discrete-Time Signals
    Chapter 14: Switched-Capacitor Circuits
    Chapter 15: Data Converter Fundamentals
    Chapter 16: Nyquist-Rate D/A Converters
    Chapter 17: Nyquist-Rate A/D Converters
    Chapter 18: Oversampling Converters
    Chapter 12: Continuous-Time Filters (supplementary)
    Gregorian, Temes: Analog MOS Integrated Circuits for Signal Processing, John Wiley, 1986.
    Chapter 5: Switched-Capacitor Filters
    Chapter 7: Nonideal Effects in Switched-Capacitor Circuits
    Toumazou, Lidgey, Haigh: Analogue IC design: the current-mode approach, Peter Peregrinus Ltd., 1990.
    Chapter 9: Continuous-time OTA-C Filters
    Razavi: Principles of Data Conversion System Design, IEEE PRESS, 1995.
    Chapter 4: Basic principles of digital-to-analog conversion (supplementary)
    Chapter 5: Digital-to-analog converter architectures (supplementary)

    And topics from lectures and exercises.

    You can also use Allen-Holberg instead of Johns-Martin, although the presentation in Johns-Martin is somewhat more thorough and easier to follow.

    Allen, Holberg: CMOS Analog Circuit Design, 2nd Ed., Oxford University Press, 2002.
    Chapters 4.5, 4.6: Current and Voltage References, Bandgap Reference
    Chapter 9: Switched Capacitor Circuits
    Chapter 10: Digital-Analog and Analog-Digital Converters

  • Lectures and lecture examinations

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    Lecture Examination guide:

    • The question will be published by 14:00 on the day of the corresponding lecture, without further notifications (such as e-mail or News Forum post.) If the question is not published by 14:00, a News Forum item will be posted as soon as the question is published.
    • You have time to answer the questions until 23:55 on the day of the corresponding lecture.
    • A good lecture examination answer is precise, to the point, and covers the key aspects. Suggested length is about 5 sentences.
    • Please answer using your own words, not your partners, as these are individual assignments.
    • The lecture examinations will be graded 0-2.
    • Note that the submission interface is a bit misleading. *Finishing* an attempt only saves it. Remember to *submit* your "finished" attempt as well.


    Topics

    1. Introduction to sampled systems

    2. Switched-capacitor integrators

    3. Switched-capacitor biquads

    4. Switched-capacitor ladder filters

    5. Non-idealities in switched-capacitor circuits

    6. Continuous-time filters

    7. Current-mode filters

    8. Digital-to-analog converters

    9. Analog-to-digital converters

    10. Nyquist-rate analog-to-digital converters

    11. Oversampling analog-to-digital converters

  • Exercises

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    • You are a(n) Student
    • It is before 4 August 2023, 11:55 PM

    Guidelines:
    • Deadline for the submission of each paper exercise is 15 minutes before the beginning of the next exercise session, unless otherwise noted. See section Time Schedule.
    • You may collaborate in solving the exercises, but each student must write his/her answer and justifications in his/her own words. Copy-paste errors are a big minus.
    • Write your name and student number in the top of the first page of the submitted pdf.
    • The only accepted file format is pdf. Submit only one single file per exercise. The maximum allowed file size is 5 Mb.
    • Name your file like this: surname_firstname_exercise_X.pdf   (e.g. einstein_albert_exercise_3.pdf, X = ordinal of the exercise)
    • Matlab or any other code is not considered as derivation nor justification
    • Take care of the clarity of your submission. Any unreadable or otherwise unclear parts of the submission are interpreted as erroneous.


    Assistance:
    • Attend exercise sessions.
    • During exercise introduction sessions, an assistant introduces a paper exercise and gives tips for solving it.
    • During exercise solution sessions, an assistant presents the solution of the paper exercise.
    • During CAD sessions, assistants will be present to help you out with CAD problems.
    • Post your question in General discussion forum and consult the questions made by other students in that forum. Note that assistants answer your posted questions with a (significant) delay.
    • No exercise assistance is provided through email.


    Paper exercise grading:
    • Each paper exercise is graded gradually from 0.0 to 2.0 points.
    • 8 paper exercises -> maximum total score from paper exercises is 8 * 2.0 = 16.0 points.
    • 1.0 points will be deducted from each paper exercise that is submitted late (minimum is still 0.0). Deadline for late submission of paper exercises is the deadline of CAD-II submission (Wednesday, 8 June 2022, 12:00 AM).
    • Re-submissions before the deadline will not reduce your points.

    CAD exercise grading:
    • Each CAD exercise is graded gradually from 0.0 to 6.0 points.
    • 2 CAD exercises -> maximum total score from CAD exercises is 2 * 6.0 = 12.0 points.
    • 2.0 points will be deducted for late submission. Deadline for late submission of CAD exercises is a week after the the deadline of CAD-II submission which will be Wednesday, 15 June 2022, 12:00 AM.
    • Re-submissions before the deadline will not reduce your points.

    Important notice:

    • The weights of course lecture examination and exercise points are as follows: lecture examinations 30%, exercises 40%, and CAD-exercises 30%.


    Paper exercises:
    • Exercise 1: Switched-capacitor integrator
    • Exercise 2: Design of switched-capacitor biquad
    • Exercise 3: Bilinear transformation in SC-biquad
    • Exercise 4: Switched-capacitor ladder filter
    • Exercise 5: Transconductance-capacitor filter
    • Exercise 6: Digital-to-analog converter
    • Exercise 7: Pipeline analog-to-digital converter
    • Exercise 8: Oversampling analog-to-digital converters

     

    CAD exercises:
    • CAD 1: Switched-capacitor filter
    • CAD 2: Analog-to-digital converter


    NB! In order to run the necessary simulations in CAD exercises, you need to have a vspace account. Everyone who has taken ELEC-E3510 Basics of IC Design should have the accounts available. If you don't have the account, you should apply for it through the form in: https://bubba.ecdl.hut.fi/forms. The jobtitle is "Student" and application type "Apply for Computer user account".

  • Time schedule

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    • This is a preliminary schedule for the course.
    • Some items may switch dates and times. Such changes will be reported beforehand in the news section.
    • The course will be held remotely


    Wednesday 02.03.2022

    08.15-10.00
    		Lecture 1: Introduction to switched-capacitor circuits

    Wednesday 09.03.2022

    08.15-11.15
    		Lecture 2: Switched-capacitor integrators
    11.15-12.00
    		Exercise 1: Switched-capacitor integrator, introduction

    Wednesday 16.03.2022

    08.15-10.00
    		Lecture 3: Switched-capacitor biquads (1/2)
    10.15-12.00
    		Exercise 1: Switched-capacitor integrator, solution
    Exercise 2: Switched-capacitor biquad, introduction

    Wednesday 23.03.2022

    08.15-10.00
    		Lecture 3: Switched-capacitor biquads (2/2)
    Lecture 4: Switched-capacitor ladder filters (1/2)
    10.15-12.00
    		Exercise 2: Design of switched-capacitor biquad, solution
    Exercise 3: Bilinear transformation in SC-biquad, introduction


    Wednesday 30.03.2022

    08.15-10.00
    		Lecture 4: Switched-capacitor ladder filters (2/2)
    Lecture 5: Non-idealities in switched-capacitor circuits (1/2)
    10.15-11.00
    11.00-12.00
    		Exercise 3: Bilinear transformation in SC-biquad, solution
    Exercise 4: Switched-capacitor ladder filter, introduction

    Wednesday 06.04.2022

    08.15-10.00
    		Lecture 5: Non-idealities in switched-capacitor circuits (2/2)
    10.15-12.00
    		Exercise 4: Switched-capacitor ladder filter, solution

    Wednesday 13.04.2022

    08.15-10.00
    		Lecture 6: Continuous-time and current-mode filters
    Lecture 7: Switched-current filters
    10.15-12.00
    		CAD 1: Switched-capacitor ladder filter (assistance provided)

    Wednesday 20.04.2022

    08.15-12.00   CAD 1: Switched-capacitor ladder filter (assistance provided)

    Wednesday 27.04.2022

    08.15-10.00
    		Lecture 8: Digital-to-analog converters (1/2)
    10:00-10.30
    		Exercise 5: Transconductance-capacitor filter, introduction
    10.45-12.00
    		CAD 1: Switched-capacitor ladder filter (assistance provided)

    Wednesday 04.05.2022

    08.15-10.00
    		Lecture 8: Digital-to-analog converters (2/2)
    10.15-12.00
    		Exercise 5: Transconductance-capacitor filter, solution
    Exercise 6: Digital-to-analog converter, introduction

    Wednesday 11.05.2022

    08.15-10.00
    		Lecture 9: Analog-to-digital converters, Nyquist rate analog-to-digital converters
    10.15-12.00
    		Exercise 6: Digital-to-analog converter, solution
    Exercise 7: Pipeline analog-to-digital converter, introduction

    Wednesday 18.05.2022

    08.15-10.00
    		Lecture 10: Oversampling analog-to-digital converters
    10.15-12.00
    		Exercise 7: Pipeline analog-to-digital converter, solution
    Exercise 8: Oversampling analog-to-digital converters, introduction

    Wednesday 25.05.2022

    08.15-11:00
    		CAD 2: Delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter (assistance provided)
    11.15
    		Exercise 8: Oversampling analog-to-digital converters, solutions will be
    published (there will be no exercise session)

    Wednesday 01.06.2022

    08.15-12.00

    CAD 2: Delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter (assistance provided)