ECE425 Course Syllabus

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF ANALOG INTGRTED CIRCUITS

ECE 311, Senior or Graduate Student Standing
Course Description: Analysis and design of analog integrated circuits in advanced MOS and
bipolar technologies. Device operation and compact modeling in support of circuit simulations
needed for design. Emphasis on quantitative evaluations of performance using hand calculations
and circuit simulations; intuitive approaches to design. Analytical and approximate treatments of
noise and distortion; analysis and design of feedback circuits. Design of archetypal analog blocks
for networking and communications such as broadband gain stages and transimpedance
amplifiers.
Lecturer: Prof. Yang Xu (yxu@ece.iit.edu)
Phone: 312-567-8813
Office: SH 134
Classroom: Stuart- 220
Class hour: 6:25-9:05pm Wednesday
Office hour: 1:30-4:30pm Wednedday
TA: Qiuyao Zhu (qzhu8@hawk.iit.edu )
TA Office hour: 10:00-11:30pm Monday/Wednesday
Textbook
REQUIRED
Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, 5th Edition, Gray, Hurst, Lewis and Meyer,
Wiley, 2009
RECOMMENDED
David Johns, Ken Martin. Analog Integrated Circuit Design. John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1997. ISBN:
0471144487.
Course Format
There will be two 1.5hours lectures per week. Design projects will be given out throughout the
semester, mid-term exam will be given after session 15, final exam will be given after session 30.
Grades
Grading table
ACTIVITIES
Quiz and Homework
Midterm Exam
Project
Final Exam

PERCENTAGES
20%
30%
20%
30%

Prerequisites
311 (introduction to electronics or equivalent)
Resources/Policies
Students are encouraged to discuss the assignments but should work independently on the writeups of homework.

Class Calendar
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Date
8/22
8/29
9/5
9/12
9/19
9/26
10/3
10/10
10/17
10/24
10/31
11/7
11/14
11/21
11/28
12/4

Topics
Introduction to Analog IC design
BJT Devices
MOS Devices

HW1 out

(In-class Quiz) Single stage amplifier

elementary transistor stages

HW2 out

Opamps

PRJ1 out

Electronic noise

In Class Mid-term Exam

Low-frequency distortion analysis
Two-port feedback circuit analysis

HW3 out

Frequency response of feedback circuits

Wideband gain stages
Biasing Circuits

No Class (Thanksgiving Break)

Advanced OpAmps

Final In-class Exam

PRJ2 out