Course detail

New Circuit Principles for Integrated System Design

FEKT-MPC-OPIAcad. year: 2025/2026

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

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. et Ing. Fabian Khateb, Ph.D. et Ph.D.

Department

Department of Microelectronics (UMEL)

Entry knowledge

- Basic to advanced knowledge of analog circuits is necessary (knowledge of small-signal MOS transistor model, basic structures and properties of current mirrors and voltage references, etc.).

- Knowledge of working with electronic circuit analysis software and Cadence. 

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Up to 30 points for the activity during the semester.
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

The aim of the subject consists in the deep study of the perspective trends of development in analogue techniques. The aim of the new circuit principles is to obtain better parameters of analogue circuits by a circuit solution in the given technology and dimensions which are mostly determined by the majority digital technology. This is the most pursued trend in current analogue integrated circuits.
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

Electronic texts and presentation.  

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

KHATEB, F.: New circuit principles for integrated system design. Prezentace projektu KISP. Brno 2015 (EN)
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

Tajalli, A.; Leblebici, Y.: Extreme Low-Power Mixed Signal IC Design: Subthreshold Source-Coupled Circuits, New York: Springer Science & Business Media, 2010, 274 s. ISBN 978-1-4419-6477-9 (EN)
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-NCP Master's 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme MPC-MEL Master's 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. et Ing. Fabian Khateb, Ph.D. et Ph.D.

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

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. et Ing. Fabian Khateb, Ph.D. et Ph.D.

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