Corso di laurea magistrale in Fisica

The aim of the course is to provide the students with solid basics on integrated circuits CMOS, with specific attention given to analog integrated circuits.
Specific attention is dedicated to circuital analysis techniques and to CAD simulation methodologies. The course gives the essential basics to enable the students to orient themselves in the area of modern microelectronics, both analog and digital, and to deal with a specialized thesis concerning that topic.

The student will become familiar with the main issues related to the design of analog and digital integrated circuits in advanced CMOS technologies.

Oral.

Part I

- Scaling in MOS devices

- Short channel effects

- MOS devices in weak and moderate inversion

- Design of analogue integrated circuits in weak and moderate inversion

- Noise in integrated circuits

- Mismatch: origin and consequences

 

Part II

Design of digital integrated circuits with Verilog

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In detail

- MOS transistors and modern CMOS processes

- MOS transistors for analog and digital circuits

- Scaling: deep submicron technologies and short-channel effects

- The MOS transistor in weak, moderate and strong inversion.

- Elementary CMOS amplifiers

- Differential CMOS cells.

- Offset and Mismatch

- Operational CMOS Amplifiers: stability and frequency compensation,

- Fully differential amplifiers: common mode feed-back.

- Noise in CMOS amplifiers

- Front-End Electronics for radiation detectors.

- CAD simulations techniques for analog circuits

- Overview of CMOS fabrication processes.

B. Razavi: Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits

P. Allen and D. Holberg: CMOS Analog Circuit Designs

G.Vasilescu : Electronic Noise and Interfering Signals Principles and Applications

No mandatory prerequisites needed. Attendance at this course is not mandatory, but strongly reccomeded.