University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

 

ECG 720 Electronic Design with Integrated Circuits

Spring 2012

Instructor:                            Dr. Y. Jiang

                                                SEB 4218

                                                895-2533

                                                yingtao.jiang@unlv.edu

 

Office Hours:     

 

 

Mondays and Wednesdays 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

or by appointment

 

Lecture Times & Location:             Mondays and Wednesdays               5:30pm – 6:45pm @ CBC C148

 

 

Recommended Texts:

[1]  course handouts.

[2]  J. P. Uyemura, Introduction to VLSI Circuits and Systems. John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

[3] W. Wolf, FPGA-Based System Design. Prentice Hall, 2004.

[4] Kiat Seng Yeo, Manh Anh Do, and Chirn Chye Boon. Design of CMOS RF Integrated Circuits and Systems. World Scientic, 2010.

[5] Ashok K. Goel, High Speed VLSI Interconnections. 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2007.

 

Topics to be Covered:

(1) Introduction

(2) Analog circuits:

                Amplifiers: circuit biasing, single stage amplifiers, multiple stage amplifiers, OTA, RF power amplifiers.

                Analog filters: continuous-time filters, switched capacitor filters

                DAC and ADC: Nyquist rate ADC and DAC, Over-sampled ADC and DAC.

                Phase-locked loops (PLLs)

                Other topics

(3) VLSI IC technologies and modeling:

CMOS/BiCMOS, Bipolar, SOI, SiGe, SiC technologies, noise in VLSI technologies, packaging

(4) Digital circuits:

                FPGA-based digital designs

                Low power design techniques

                High speed digital design techniques

                Design automation

                Other topics

(5) System level design: software/hardware codesign, embedded systems, ESL

(6) PCB designs and signal integrity

(7) Design Verification

(8) Other selected topics

(9) Student presentations on selected topics

(10) Design project demonstration

 

On-line Course Information:

Course Web Page: http://ww.ee.unlv.edu/~yingtao/

Check this site for homework assignments, notes, laboratories and other information.

 

Homework:

Homework will be assigned approximately weekly (reports on the literature survey, simulations, and in-class presentations).

 

Grading Policy:

Homeworks and labs         30%

Class participation              10%

Design project                    30%

Literature study                   30%

 

 

Notes

Post Date

Introduction

01/16/2012

 Devices

01/20/2012

Operational Amplifiers (I)

01/22/2012

Operational Amplifiers (II)

01/26/2012

dB versus dBm: Which is correct?

by Wes Hayward

01/31/2012

Introduction to Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)

by Mr. Bill Jason P. Tomas

02/06/2012

Current Feedback OpAmp

02/06/2012

RF Low Noise Amplifier

02/06/2012

RF Power Amplifiers

02/09/2012

Log-Domain Processing

02/09/2012

PLL and Freq Synthesizer Fundamentals

by Mr. John-Paul Caputo

02/24/2012

Operational Transconductance Amplifiers

03/05/2012

Continuous Time Filters

03/05/2012

Switched Capacitor Filters

03/05/2012

Low Power Design of VLSI Circuits

by Mr. Bill Jason P. Tomas

03/29/2012

ADC and DAC

03/29/2012

Digital Logic Families (I)

04/14/2012

Digital Logic Families (II)

04/14/2012

Hardware/Software Codesign

04/14/2012

Signal Integrity Basics for High Speed/High Density Designs

04/14/2012

Sensors and Systems

By Mr. Yiyan Li

04/18/2012

 

 

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An example of academic misconduct is plagiarism: “Using the words or ideas of another, from the internet or any source, without proper citation of the sources.” See the “Student Academic Misconduct Policy” (approved December 9, 2005, located at <http://studentlife.unlv.edu/judicial/misconductPolicy.html>).

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