EECS 270B

Course Description:

This course covers topics ring and LC oscillators, voltage-controlled oscillators, phase-locked loops (PLLs), delay-locked loops (DLLs), introduction to switched capacitors circuits, Nyquist rate data-converters, digital-analog converters (DACs), and analog-to-digital converters (ADCs).

 

References:

Required material:

Behzad Razavi, Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, McGraw-Hill Higher Education; ISBN-10: 0072524936, ISBN-13: 978-0072524932, 2017 (2nd edition). (R)  

Papers:

  1. Pei-Yuan Chiang, Omeed Momeni, and Payam Heydari, “A 200 GHz Inductively Tuned VCO with -7dBm Output Power in 130nmSiGe BiCMOS,” IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 61, no. 10, pp. 3666-3673, Oct. 2013.
  2. Behrooz Javid and Payam Heydari, “Design and Implementation of a CMOS 4-bit 12GS/s Data Acquisition System-on-Chip,” IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, vol. 22, no. 10, pp. 2164-2175, Oct. 2014.
  3. Payam Heydari and RavindranMohanavelu,”Design of Ultra High-Speed Low-Voltage CMOS CML buffers and Latches,” IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 1081-1093, Oct. 2004. 
  4. ZhimingChen and Payam Heydari, “An 85-95.2 GHz Transformer-Based Injection-Locked Frequency Tripler in 65nm CMOS,”IEEE Int’l Microwave Symp. (IMS), May 2010.
  5. Razavi, “A Study of Phase Noise in CMOS Oscillators,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 31, pp. 331-343, March 1996.
  6. A. Hajimiri, T. H. Lee, “A General Theory of Phase Noise in Electrical Oscillators,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 33, No. 2, Feb. 1998.
  7. Payam Heydari,“Analysis of the PLL Jitter Due to Power/Ground and Substrate Noise,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 51, no. 12, pp. 2404-2416, Dec. 2004.
  8. Razieh Abedi, Rouzbeh Kananizadeh, Omeed Momeni, and Payam Heydari, “A CMOS V-Band PLL with a Harmonic Positive Feedback VCO Leveraging Operation in Triode Region for Phase-Noise Improvement, (Links to an external site.)“IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems – Part I, vol. 66, no. 3, 2019 [IEEE TCAS-I Special Issue of ISCAS 2018]

Supplemental:

  • Behzad Razavi, Design of CMOS Phase-Locked Loops, Cambridge University Press, 2020
  • Behzad Razavi, Principles of Data Conversion System Design, IEEE Press; ISBN: 0780310934, 1995. 
  • Paul R. Gray (Editor), Paul J. Hurst, Stephen H. Lewis, Robert Meyer, Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471321680, 5th edition, 2009. 
  • David Johns, Ken Martin, Analog Integrated Circuit Design, John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471144487, 1997.