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Ching-Yuan Yang
National Chung-Hsing University
Department of Electrical Engineering
Introduction to Analog Design
(3349) - 2004
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Overview
Textbook
Behzad Razavi, Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, 2001.
Reading
B. Razavi Chapter 1.
Introduction
In the past two decades, CMOS technology has rapidly embraced the field
of the analog integrated circuits, providing low-cost, high-performance
solutions and rising to dominate the market. While silicon bipolar and III-V
device still find niche applications, only CMOS processes have emerged as
a viable choice for the integration of todays complex mixed-signal systems.
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Why Analog ?
Processing of natural signals
Digital communication
Attenuation and distortion of data
through a lossy cable.
Use of multi-level signaling to reduce
the required bandwidth.
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Disk drive electronics
Wireless receivers
Optical receiver
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Sensors
Microprocessors and memories
High-speed (digital) circuit design is in fact analog design.
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Why is analog design difficult?
Whereas digital circuits entail primarily one trade-off between speed and
power dissipation, analog design must deal with a multi-dimensional trade-
off consisting of speed, power dissipation, gain, precision, supply voltage,
etc.
With the speed and precision required in processing analog signals, analog
circuits are much more sensitive to noise, crosstalk, and other interferers
than are digital circuits.
Second-order effects in devices influence the performance of analog
circuits much more heavily than that of digital circuits.
The design of high-performance analog circuits can rarely be automated,
usually requiring that every device be hand-crafted.
Despite tremendous progress, modeling and simulation of many effects in
analog circuits continue to pose difficulties, forcing the designers to draw
upon experience and intuition when analyzing the results of a simulation.
Developed and characterized for digital applications, such technologies do
not easily lend themselves to analog design, requiring novel circuits and
architectures to achieve a high performance.