Academic year2016/17
CourseELECTRONIC ENGINEERING
Code316II
Credits9
PeriodSemester 1
LanguageItalian
| Modules | Area | Type | Hours | Teacher(s) |
| PROGETTAZIONE MIXED SIGNAL | ING-INF/01 | LEZIONI | 90 | |
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Knowledge
The student who successfully completes the course will have the ability to design advanced analog integrated circuits, taking into account the most frequent specifications, such as noise, offset, dynalic range and unity gain bandwidth. The student will learn how to model complex data acquisition systems in order to set-up the specifications for the main functional blocks involved, from the sensor to the digital-to-analog converters. The student will develop a combination of intuitive and rigorous capabilities, which is universally recognized as the necessary background for analyzing and designing complex and innovative mixed signal circuits. In terms of specific knowledge, the students will get aware of the main analog and mixed signal architectucters, gaining the comptence of choosing the optimal solution in most application scenarios.
Assessment criteria of knowledge
During the oral exam, the student must be able to demonstrate his/her capability of managing the design of an analog integrated circuit from a transistor level perspective. The student will need to be able to apply the techniques exposed in the course to simple analog block proposed by the teacher. The student must show to know the most important architectures and approaches that can be used to implement basic analog and data conversion functions in fully integrated systems.
Methods:
Teaching methods
Delivery: face to face
Learning activities:
- attending lectures
- Laboratory work
Attendance: Advised
Teaching methods:
Syllabus
The course is divided into three main parts.
Part. 1: Fundamentals and key parameters of data acquisition systems. Sensors and sensor interfaces. Analog - Mixed Signal Hardware description languages (VHDL-AMS).
Part. 2 Advanced transistor-level analog circuit design. Design of operational amplifiers with realistic specifications. Fully-differential operational amplifiers. Linear Operational Transconductance Amplifiers (OTAs), comparators.
Part. 3. Archirectures: Switched capacitor amplifiers and filters. Dynalic offset and flicker noise reduction techniques (Autozero, Correlated Double Sampling, chopper modulation). Time continuous Gm-C filters, DA and AD advanced converters.
Lectures includes demonstration of selected topics by means of electrical simulations (Spice) and experimental set-ups.
Bibliography
Recommended reading includes materials (maily in English) produced by the teacher and freely distributed through the teachers's webpage (http://docenti.ing.unipi.it/~a008309/mat_stud/CMA/)
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