Course detail

Microelectronics Circuits

FEKT-LMEOAcad. year: 2011/2012

Requirements posed on integrated circuit. Design methods, using technologies (bipolar, CMOS, BiCMOS, HBiCMOS) and their influence on IC performance. Basic functional blocks (current and voltage references, amplifiers and converters), design methods of the blocks for their usage in VLSI structures. Design software introduction (CADENCE, Mentor Graphics, L-Edit), layout and design rules, placement of anlogue and digital blocks on chip. Special compensation methods for the integrated circuits. IC design focused on RF and telecommunications circuits.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

6

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Daniel Bečvář, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Microelectronics (UMEL)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Circuit design of basic integrated digital blocks. Optimalisation of their performance, layout.Routing, placement of the functional blocks on the chip.

Prerequisites

The subject knowledge on the Bachelor´s degree level is requested.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Requirements for completion of a course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every.

Course curriculum

Distribution of IC, design process, design software tools.
Technologies (bipolar, CMOS, HBiCMOS) and their performance. Technological models. Design rules.
Basic structures of the pasive devices (resistors, capacitors), performance (temperature behaviour, electrical parameters, technology impact). Layout methodology.
MOS transistor structure and behaviour. MOS transistor layout .
Current mirrors, structure description and behaviour. Design process with reference to required performance (frequency and dynamical behaviour, output resistence). Common layout techniques.
Voltage and current references for integrated circuits. Circuit design, layout.
Basic one-stage amplifier structures (CS, CD, CG). Design, compensation. Active load. Layout techniques.
Differential stage, basic structures and behaviour. Circuit design, optimalization and layout.
Basic block structure of operational amplifier, types and behaviour. Performance of the integrated opamp structure.
Design of integrated opamps, compensation techniques on chip level, layout process.
Modern trends. Current- and mixed-mode circuits. Principle, performance and comparation against klassical techniques. SC and SI principle.
VLSI blocks of modern IC. Current and voltage conveyors, opamp with current feedback, impedance converters.
Modern trends in field of integrated circuits production.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Aim of this course is make students familiar with design of digital integrated circuit.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Baker, J.R.:"CMOS circuit design, layout and simulation", IEEE Press a Wiley Interscience, ISBN 0-471-70055-X, 2005
Rabaey, J.M.:Digital integrated circuits., Prentice Hall, 1996
Wolf, W.: Modern VLSI design, Prentice Hall, 1994

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme EEKR-ML Master's

    branch ML-TIT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective specialised

  • Programme EEKR-CZV lifelong learning

    branch EE-FLE , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective specialised

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Daniel Bečvář, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Classification of IC, design process, design software tools.
Technologies (CMOS, HBiCMOS) and their performance. Technological models. Design rules. MOS transistor structure, behaviour. Layout methodology.
Digital MOSFET model, delay- and transition times. DC characteristics. Series-connected MOSFETs, behaviour.
Inverter-basic digital cell. DC characteristics. Switching characteristics, ring oscillator. Used inverter structures. Layout of the invereter.
Static logic gates. DC characteristics. Switching characteristics. Design of logic gates on transistor level. Layout of the logic gates. Tri-state output, number of inputs.
CMOS transmission gate, flip-flops. Behaviour, compensation, layout. Serial-connected TG. Flip-flop structures on transistor level. Layout.
Dynamic logic gates. Performance, comparison with static logic. Nonoverlapping clock generators. Dynamic logic gates, complex structures (adders, multiplexers etc.). Simulation of dynamic logic structures. Layout.
BiCMOS logic gates. Performance. Bipolar structures in CMOS technology. Basic gates. CMOS and ECL conversion using BiCMOS.
Memory circuits. DRAM and SRAM cells on transistor level. Row/Collum decoders. Timing requirements for DRAMs. Modern DRAM circuits, architecture types and layout.
Special-purpose digital circuits. Schmitt triger. Design, switching characteristics, applications. Multivibratiors. Monostable and astable multivibrator, design, layout.
Digital Phase-locked loops. Phase detectors. Voltage-control oscillatros. Requirements, design and layout. Applications.
VHDL language.
New principles of IC design and manufacturing.

Exercise in computer lab

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Daniel Bečvář, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Introduction. Design software tools (CADENCE, Mentor Graphics)
Design rules. Technological models of the physical devices - types and structures.
Features of using technologies. Layout correction and compensation of technology process errors.
MOS transistor layout.
Inverter. Types, circuit design and layout.
Static logic gates. Types, circuit design and layout.
TG and flip-flops. Circuit design, layout.
Dynamic logic gates. Structures, circuit design and layout.
BiCMOS logic gates. Structures, circuit design and optimalisation, layout.
Memory circuits. Block structures. Design.
Schmitt trigger, multivibrators. Design and layout.
Digital phase-locked loops.
Summary.