Course detail
New Circuit Principles for Integrated System Design
FEKT-MPC-OPIAcad. year: 2024/2025
1- Trends in low-voltage low-power analog circuit design.
2- MOS-resistor based on master-slave principle.
3- Bulk-driven MOS transistor, advantages, disadvantages and applications.
4- Floating-gate MOS transistor, advantages, disadvantages and applications.
5- Quasi-floating-gate MOS transistor, advantages, disadvantages and applications.
6- Higher order devices, memristors, applications.
7- Differential difference amplifier DDA, principle and applications.
8- Digitally programmable transconductors, principle and applications.
9- Conveyors, principle and applications.
10- Diode-less rectifiers, principle of winner-take-all circuits, advantages and applications
11- Analog circuit design for biological signal processing.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Department
Entry knowledge
- Knowledge of work with the PSpice programme for analysis of electronic circuits.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Up to 70 points for exam.
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.
Aims
Learning outcomes of the course unit:
Student will gain knowledge about the latest perspective trends in integrated circuits technique which is in the foreground of interest in research and applications. New circuit principles give a possibility to obtain better parameters of ICs by a circuit solution in the given technology.
The student is able to:
- describe the basic steps in the design process of integrated circuit,
- describe the basic properties of bulk-driven MOSFET's and the way they affect the parameters of amplifiers,
- describe the basic properties of floating-gate MOSFET's and the way they affect the parameters of amplifiers,
- describe the basic properties of quasi-floating-gate MOSFET's and the way they affect the parameters of amplifiers,
- design and verify basic parameters of the structure of the OTA, OP-AMP and DDA,
- draw schematics of basic amplifiers employing operational amplifiers and to explain their operation,
- discuss advantages and drawbacks of modern active elements such as OTA, OP-AMP, DDA and CCII,
- define and explain digitally controlled analog circuits,
- explain the methods of diode-less rectifiers and the principle of winner-take-all circuits,
- describe the basic properties of analog circuit design for biological signal processing.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
MUSIL, V. a kol.: Nové obvodové principy pro návrh integrovaných systémů. Nanoelektronika. Prezentace projektu KISP. Brno 2015 (CS)
MUSIL, V. a kol.: Nové obvodové principy pro návrh integrovaných systémů. Obvody v proudovém módu - případová studie. Elektronický text projektu KISP. Brno 2014 (CS)
Recommended reading
Tan, N. N.; Li, D.; Wang. Z.: Ultra-Low Power Integrated Circuit Design: Circuits, Systems, and Applications, New York: Springer Science & Business Media, 2013, 232 s. ISBN 978-1-4419-9972-6 (EN)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme MPC-MEL Master's 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1- Trends in low-voltage low-power analog circuit design.
2- MOS-resistor based on master-slave principle.
3- Bulk-driven MOS transistor, advantages, disadvantages and applications.
4- Floating-gate MOS transistor, advantages, disadvantages and applications.
5- Quasi-floating-gate MOS transistor, advantages, disadvantages and applications.
6- Higher order devices, memristors, applications.
7- Differential difference amplifier DDA, principle and applications.
8- Digitally programmable transconductors, principle and applications.
9- Conveyors, principle and applications.
10- Diode-less rectifiers, principle of winner-take-all circuits, advantages and applications
11- Analog circuit design for biological signal processing.
Exercise in computer lab
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1- MOS-resistor based on master-slave principle.
2- Bulk-driven MOS transistor, advantages, disadvantages and applications.
3- Floating-gate MOS transistor, advantages, disadvantages and applications.
4- Quasi-floating-gate MOS transistor, advantages, disadvantages and applications.
5- Higher order devices, memristors, applications.
6- Differential difference amplifier DDA, principle and applications.
7- Digitally programmable transconductors, principle and applications.
8- Conveyors, principle and applications.
9- Diode-less rectifiers, principle of winner-take-all circuits, advantages and applications