Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, NIT Durgapur
Course
Code
Title of the course Program Core
(PCR) /
Electives (PEL)
Total Number of contact hours Credit
Lecture
(L)
Tutorial
(T)
Practical
(P)
Total
Hours
ECC405/
ECS453
Microelectronics/
Analog Circuits/
Lab
CORE (PCR) 3 1 0 4 4
Pre-requisites:
ECC-01 (Basic Electronics);
Network Analysis with Good
understanding of RC Circuits.
Course Assessment methods:
1) Continuous Assessment (CA:15%) &
2) Mid-term (25 %), 3) End-term (60%))
Course
Outcomes
(CO)
CO1: Understand and analyze MOS characteristics, Short-channel effects, Sub-
threshold behavior.
CO2: Analyze Large/Small Signal MOS Circuits
CO3: Define frequency response, stability and compensation of Amplifiers
CO4: Evaluate specifications from a given design of OTA/OpAmp/OTA
CO5: Design of single stage OpAmp/OTA.
CO6: Concept of gm/ID and its applications in CMOS design.
Topics to be
Introduced Module 1: MOS transistor Structure, and IV characteristics [Large-signal, Sub-
threshold], Small signal model, Transconductance(s)[gm, gds, gmb]; MOS
Capacitances, High frequency small signal model, fT (ωT)
[7 hrs.]
Module 2: Common/Grounded {Source, Gate, Drain} amplifier, frequency response,
Miller effect.
[6 hrs.]
Module 3: Introduction to negative feedback; Closed loop behavior of First, Second
and Third-order systems in a feedback loop; Gain and Phase margin
[7 hrs]
Module 4: Dominant pole compensation; Pole splitting with Miller capacitance
[3 hrs.]
Module 5: Controlled sources using MOS transistors and OpAmps; Swing limits of
amplifiers;
[5 hrs.]
Module 6: MOS Current mirrors, Active load; CMOS inverter; Differential pair
[7 hrs.]
Module 7: Single stage and Two stage OpAmps; Specification Sheet; Miller
compensation.
[7 hrs.]
Module 7: Review of BJT, BJT in CMOS process, Intro to FinFET
[3 hrs]
Text Books,
and/or
reference
materials
Text / Reference Books:
[1] Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, by Behzad Razavi, McGraw-Hill, 2014.
B. TECH.(UG) IN ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
