ECE6416 Low Noise Electronic Design (3)

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Dr. Leach's Noise Potpourri - For access, contact me at:

George Erdi, "Amplifier techniques for combining low noise, precision, and high-speed performance," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. sc-16, no. 6, Dec. 1981. This paper describes the design of the OP-27 low-noise operational amplifier.

An Inductorless Wideband Balun-LNA in 65nm CMOS with balanced output

Click here to read how to use superposition with controlled sources.

Formula Sheet

Guidelines for Submitting Homework

Linear Technology has a free verdion of SPICE that has no built-in limits. It can be used to run SPICE netlists (files with the extension .cir) or files created by a graphical interface. Click here to download it.


Fall 2010 Class Documents

Course Syllabus

Quiz Solutions

Quiz 1 (Corrected 10/ax/2010)

Homework Assignments

You may work in groups of two and turn in only one set of solutions. Please follow the homework guidelines above.

  1. Set 01
  2. Set 02
  3. Set 03
  4. Supplementary Problems 01
  5. HW Project 01
  6. Set 04 [Corrected answers for problems 1 and 4]

Lab Projects


Fall 2009 Class Documents

Homework Problems

Assignment 1, Assignment 2, Assignment 3, Assignment 4, Assignment 5

Quiz Solutions

Quiz 1, Quiz 2

Lab Experiments

BJT Noise, JFET Noise, Design Project


Fall 2008 Class Documents

Homework Problems

Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Assignment 3
Assignment 4
Assignment 5 - due Monday, December 1

Practice Problems

Set 1


Fall 2007 Class Documents

Homework Assignments

Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Assignment 3
Assignment 4
Assignment 5

Laboratory Experiments

Orientation Experiment, Text Noise Files: white pink
Experiment 01
Experiment 02
Experiment 03
Experiment 04
Experiment 05
Experiment 06
Revised Experiment 06


Fall 2006 Class Documents

Laboratory Experiments

Orientation Experiment
Experiment 1
Experiment 2
Experiment 3
Experiment 4
Experiment 5
Experiment 6
Design Project


Fall 2005 Documents


Fall 2004 Documents

Laboratory Design Project

Orientation Laboratory Experiment, White Noise File, Pink Noise File - The white and pink noise files are ascii files which you will load into the lab function generator. The resulting noise that will be generated is called pseudo-random noise because it is a periodic waveform that is random within each period.


Fall 2003 Documents

Laboratory Experiments


Fall 2002 Documents

Final Exam - Your exam is to derive the equations in the paper by Steyaert, Chang, and Sansen. You are expected to work independently on the exam. If you are stuck or have any questions, you can come to me. A cover sheet will be posted to the class web page which you are to attach to the exam when you submit it. It is due at the end of the scheduled exam period for the class which is 2:20 p.m. on Friday, December 13. You will find several pencil notes that I made when I read the paper. These may or may not be correct. Please let me know if you think any of them are incorrect. When you write up your solutions, write them single sided, double spaced. You should show all steps in your derivations.

Exam Cover Sheet


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