EECE 7242 — Integrated Circuits for Mixed Signals and Data Communication
4 semester hoursGraduateLecture
Covers analysis and design of ICs for high-speed communications and mixed-signal processing. Emphasizes performance of CMOS and BiCMOS implementations of building blocks for these systems. Covers passive R, L, C, and active devices for ICs; broadband amplifiers, TIAs, limiters, buffers/drivers, muxes, and demuxes; circuit noise modeling and analysis and methods for optimization of SNR and BER, with applications to optical communication; baseband and HF filters; design methods of L-C, OTA-C, MOSFET-C, and switched-C filters; data conversion and D-A and A-D characteristics, popular DAC architectures, serial and parallel ADCs, and high-resolution techniques; and clock generators and oscillators, L-C resonator-based designs, VCOs, PLLs and frequency synthesis, and CDR circuits. Requires verification review of a relevant publication. Students not meeting course prerequisites may seek permission of instructor.