Learning outcomes

• Latest Analog IC Design techniques

Who is the course for?

Schedule

2 x 1.5 hour lectures per day on Thursdays and Fridays for 3 weeks:

A) Analog Building Blocks (MOSFET models, gm/Id, single-transistor stages, current mirrors, differential pairs, differential amplifiers) = 2 slots
B) Frequency compensation of multi-stage amplifiers (Miller, Ahuja, feedforward etc)
C) Noise in on-chip components (resistors, MOSFETs, BJTs)
D) Sources of offset/drift, trimming methods
E) Chopping and auto-zeroing (non-idealities, case studies)
F) Design of low-offset amps (ping-pong, stabilization, hybrid techniques)
G) Instrumentation amps (CFIA, CCIA)
H) Dynamic element matching (non-idealities, case studies)
I) On-chip references (Voltage, current, frequency)
J) SAR and Sigma-Delta ADC basics
K) Efficient (Noise-shaping) SAR ADCs
L) Efficient Sigma-Delta ADCs (0-N MASH, zoom ADC, FIR-DAC, negative-R technique)

Trainer Profile

Prof. Kofi Makinwa holds degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (B.Sc., M.Sc.), Philips International Institute, Eindhoven (M.E.E.), and Delft University of Technology, Delft (Ph.D.). Since 1999 Prof. Makinwa is an Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Engineering and Head of the Microelectronics Department at Delft University of Technology. His research interests include the design of mixed-signal circuits, sensor interfaces and smart sensors. This has led to 20+ books, 300+ technical papers, and 30+ patents.
Prof. Makinwa has extensive experience lecturing at TU Delft and giving post-graduate training courses via the MEAD Education service on Analog Design topics in his areas of expertise: precision analog circuits, low-offset amplifiers, ADCs, voltage and frequency references, sensor interface circuits and smart sensors.
Prof. Makinwa was the Analog Subcom chair of ISSCC, and has served on the program committees of several other IEEE conferences. He was a distinguished lecturer of the Solid-State Circuits Society and an elected member of its Adcom. He is currently on the program committees of the Advances in Analog Circuit Design (AACD) workshop and the IEEE Sensor Interfaces Meeting (SIM). Dr. Makinwa is the co-recipient of 18 best paper awards, from the JSSC, ISSCC and VLSI symposium, among others. At the 70th anniversary of ISSCC, he was recognized for being its top contributor. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

This course is an updated and extended refresh of previous courses given by Prof. Makinwa in Sept 2023 and in 2020, which were each delivered as 8 x 1.5 hour classes.