類比電路設計(3349) - 2004

Introduction to Analog Design

Ching-Yuan Yang

National Chung-Hsing University

Department of Electrical Engineering

Overview
z Textbook
Behzad Razavi, “Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits”, 2001.

z Reading
B. Razavi Chapter 1.

z 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 today’s complex mixed-signal systems.

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Why Analog ?
z Processing of natural signals

z Digital communication

Attenuation and distortion of data Use of multi-level signaling to reduce

through a lossy cable. the required bandwidth.

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z Disk drive electronics

z Wireless receivers

z Optical receiver

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z Sensors

z Microprocessors and memories

High-speed (digital) circuit design is in fact analog design.

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Why is analog design difficult?

z 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.
z 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.
z Second-order effects in devices influence the performance of analog
circuits much more heavily than that of digital circuits.
z The design of high-performance analog circuits can rarely be automated,
usually requiring that every device be “hand-crafted.”
z 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.
z 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.

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