Analog Electronic Circuits
Lectures held so far
| Date | Number | Topics covered | References |
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| 23 Jul 2015 | Lecture 1 | Importance of electronics; examples of analog circuits - transceivers, pixels arrays, read channel; analysis of a few equivalent circuits with Norton. | Razavi: Chapter 1 |
| 24 Jul 2015 | Lecture 2 | Noise, distortion and dynamic range; subtle difference between noise and interference; resistor noise; mean square noise voltage on a capacitor; cause of distortion. | Razavi: Chapter 1 |
| 28 Jul 2015 | Lecture 3 | Diodes: junction capacitance and the diode varactor, variety of diode circuits including the rectifier, peak detector; the concept of a load line and diode-resistor circuit; diodes in series and parallel. | Razavi: Chapter 2, 3 (till page 80) |
| 30 Jul 2015 | Lecture 4 | Transistor basics; BJT characteristics, MOS characteristics. | Razavi: Chapter 4, till page 138. |
| 31 Jul 2015 | Lecture 5 | Small signal analysis of BJT circuits, the hybrid π model. | Razavi: Chapter 4 |
| 4 Aug 2015 | Lecture 6 | Early effect and its impact on the small signal model; the pnp transistor, small signal model of the pnp transistor; biasing. | Razavi: Chapter 4 |
| 6 Aug 2015 | Lecture 7 | Small signal impedance looking into base, collector; voltage vs current sources. | Razavi: Chapter 5 |
| 7 Aug 2015 | Lecture 8 | Impedance looking into emitter; biasing strategies: simple bias, resistive divider bias, emitter degeneration, self bias. | Razavi: Chapter 5, pg 184-196. |
| 11 Aug 2015 | Lecture 9 | BJT operating point analysis and biasing. | Razavi: pg 184-196. |
| 13 Aug 2015 | Lecture 10 | The common emitter amplifier | Razavi: pg 201-207 |
| 14 Aug 2015 | Lecture 11 | Amplifier with emitter degeneration | Razavi: pg 207-228. |
| 18 Aug 2015 | Lecture 12 | Common collector stage | Razavi: pg 244-252. |
| 20 Aug 2015 | Lecture 13 | Common base amplifier | Razavi: pg 228-244. |
| 21 Aug 2015 | Lecture 14 | MOS devices | Razavi: Chapter 6 |
| 25 Aug 2015 | Lecture 15 | Biasing MOS devices | Razavi: pg 329-324. |
| 27 Aug 2015 | Lecture 16 | Common source amplifier; source degeneration; alternate biasing; feedback from drain to gate. | Razavi: pg 334-345. |
| 28 Aug 2015 | Lecture 17 | Bias insensitivity | |
| 3 Sep 2015 | Lecture 18 | Common drain, common gate stages; effect of body for nMOS common drain stages. | Razavi: pg 345-360. |
| 4 Sep 2015 | Lecture 19 | Opamps: Working with a load line; importance of DC feedback; analysis of familiar opamp circuits. | Razavi: pg 380-395. |
| 8 Sep 2015 | Lecture 20 | Opamps: Adder, precision rectifier; opamp nonidealities - output resistance, gain, offset, bandwidth; opamp model. | Razavi: pg 395-413. |
| 10 Sep 2015 | Lecture 21 | Current sources, current mirrors; cascode structure to improve resistance; initial thoughts for current mirrors. | Razavi: pg 419-426. |
| 11 Sep 2015 | Lecture 22 | Current mirrors; playing with current mirrors, using current mirrors to make amplifiers. | Razavi: pg 446-450. |
| 15 Sep 2015 | Lecture 23 | BJT current mirrors; Cascode current mirrors; the cascode amplifier. | Razavi: pg 432-440, 442-451. |
| 16 Sep 2015 | Lecture 24 | Differential amplifiers: Motivation; power supply and interference rejection; a first differential amplifier. | Razavi: pg 466-471 |
| 17 Sep 2015 | Lecture 25 | Differential amplifiers: common mode, differential mode half circuits; common-mode gain, differential mode gain. | Razavi: pg 471-477, 482-484, 498-500 |
| 22 Sep 2015 | Lecture 26 | Class was canceled. | |
| 24 Sep 2015 | Lecture 27 | Detailed discussion on Minor 1. | |
| 29 Sep 2015 | Lecture 28 | Coming to the complete circuit based on the half-circuit; the cascode and folded cascode differential amplifiers; differential amplifiers with unbalanced active load. | Razavi: pg 501-517 |
| 1 Oct 2015 | Lecture 29 | Frequency response; high frequency small signal models for BJTs and MOSFETs; frequency response of the common-gate amplifier. | Razavi: pg 537-544, 552-555, 566-568 |
| 6 Oct 2015 | Lecture 30 | Feedback; source degeneration, drain-gate feedback, opamp feedback circuits, modified Wilson current mirror. | |
| 13 Oct 2015 | Lecture 31 | Common source circuit, right half plane zero. | |
| 15 Oct 2015 | Lecture 32 | Different way of looking at op-amp design using Gm cells; compensation, nested Miller compensation. | |
| 16 Oct 2015 | Lecture 33 | Fun things with analog circuits; digital to analog conversion; analog to digital conversion. | |
| 27 Oct 2015 | Lecture 34 | The cascode circuit and its frequency response. | |
| 29 Oct 2015 | Lecture 35 | Two stage amplifier and its frequency response; short circuit current; output impedance (incorrectly done). | |
| 30 Oct 2015 | Lecture 36 | Miller's approximation; short cut for estimating poles of the two stage amplifier. | |
| 3 Nov 2015 | Lecture 37 | Correction to direct computation of the poles of a two stage amplifier; SC current; output impedance; how good is the short cut. | |
| 5 Nov 2015 | Lecture 38 | Compensating the two stage op-amp; phase margin calculations. | |
| 6 Nov 2015 | Lecture 39 | The right half plane zero and how to deal with it. Power amplifier basics. | |
| 9 Nov 2015 | Lecture 40 | Common emitter amplifier as a power amplifier; efficiency. | |
| 10 Nov 2015 | Lecture 41 | Common collector stage as power amplifier; push pull power amplifier with high efficiency; cross-over distortion. | |
| 17 Nov 2015 | Lecture 42 | Solving cross-over distortion; feedback. Voltage regulators and low drop-out regulators. |
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