ANALOG DESIGN FOR CMOS VLSI SYSTEMS by Franco Maloberti

ANALOG DESIGN FOR CMOS VLSI SYSTEMS by Franco Maloberti

Contents:

Chapter 1 The MOS Transistor

Chapter 2 Resistors, Capacitors, Switches

Chapter 3 Basic Building Blocks 99

Chapter 4 Current and Voltage Sources

Chapter 5 CMOS Operational Amplifiers

Chapter 6 CMOS COMPARATORS

Preface:

The purpose of this book is to describe the design techniques of analogintegrated circuits and to teach the reader how to properly design CMOS operational amplifiers and comparators for mixed analog-digital integrated systems. Analog circuits have become an increasingly critical factor for the systems design. The huge amount of transistors made available by sub-micron technologies allows us to integrate entire systems on chip (SoC). Therefore, analog sections, digital parts, and possibly sensors must use the same technology, the same supply voltage, the same silicon substrate and so on. Moreover, the increased speed of operation and the augmented resolution of digital processors require performing analog functions: such as speed, dynamic range, power supply and noise rejection. Without a deep understanding of the operation and the limits of basic analog circuits, the designer can not properly design the analog processing functions required by modern systems. Thus, this book gives a fairly detailed study of CMOS circuit configurations, learning performances and limits. This book evolved from a set of lecture notes written in 1986 for an in house training short course presented in a semiconductor company. Later the material formed the basis of a graduate course on analog CMOS integrated circuit offered since 1998 at the Pavia University, Italy. The initial set of lecture notes progressed in time following the technology evolution. The reference technology migrated from a CMOS to the CMOS used in this book. The circuit techniques moved from design targets like 5 V and tens of MHz bandwidth to the present 1.8 V and hundreds of MHz bandwidth.