ECE 6414: Analog Integrated Circuits and Systems

Course Overview

This course is based on five tightly-coupled units, each corresponding to a design project, and a final unit covering more systems aspects of Analog IC design leading upto the final project presentation :

Unit Name

Project Due Date

Lecture Days

Unit 1: Analog Signal Processing and Nonlinear Circuits February 11 (M) Jan 7- Jan 23

Unit 2: Gm-C filters February 25 (M) Jan 25 - Feb 15

Unit 3: Switch Capacitor Circuits March 12 (W) Feb 20 - March 10

Unit 4: Analog-to-Digital Converters, Digital-to-Analog Converters April 4 (F) March 14 - April 2

Unit 5: Analog IC systems topics
. (CMOS imagers, Read Channels, Baseband processing) link April 7 - April 25

Quiz dates:

Important Dates:
MLK day: Jan 21
Spring Break: 17-21
Final Project Presentations: Final Exam Period
Final's Week: April 28-May 2

This course emphasizes design and intuitive understanding of circuits, particularly those used on integrated circuits, and not plug and chug type approaches.

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Useful website for EKV related information: http://legwww.epfl.ch/ekv/model.html