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Spring 2021
Lecture 1
Course Outline
Amplifier Design Issues
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Instructor:
Randy Geiger
2133 Coover
rlgeiger@iastate.edu
www.randygeiger.org
294-7745
Teaching Assistant:
Doug Zuercher dougz@iastate.edu
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Course Information:
Analog VLSI Circuit Design
Lecture: MWF 9:55 Online
Basic analog integrated circuit and system design including design space
exploration, performance enhancement strategies, operational amplifiers,
references, integrated filters, and data converters.
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Instructor Access:
• Virtual Office Hours
– MWF 11:00-12:00 (send email and will
set up a zoom link)
• Email
– rlgeiger@iastate.edu
– Include EE 435 in subject
Course Information:
Required Text:
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Course Information:
Reference Texts:
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Course Information:
Reference Texts:
Analog Circuit Design – Vol 1 (20111), Vol 2 (2013) and Vol 3 (2014)
by B. Dobkin and Jim Williams, Newnes
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Course Information:
Reference Texts:
Analog Circuits
by Robert Pease, Newnes, 2008
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Course Information:
Reference Texts:
Data Converters
by Franco Maloberti,Springer, 2007
Voltage References
by Gabriel Rincon-Mora, Wiley, 2002
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Course Information:
Reference Texts:
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Reference Texts:
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Course Information:
Reference Materials:
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Course Information:
Grading: Points will be allocated for several different parts of the course. A
letter grade will be assigned based upon the total points accumulated. The
points allocated for different parts of the course are as listed below:
The exams (from during the semester or during finals week) will be equally
weighted.
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Course Information:
Design Project:
The final design project will be the design of an 8-bit to 10-bit digital to
analog converter (DAC) or an analog to digital converter (ADC) – specifications
to be determined. Additional details about the design project will be given after
relevant material is covered in class. The option will exist to have this project
fabricated through the MOSIS program. The design should be ready for
fabrication and post-layout simulations are to be included as a part of the
project.
There will also be an operational design project that will be graded as a part
of the laboratory component of the course
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Course Information:
E-MAIL: rlgeiger@iastate.edu
Honor System:
Since this class will be online, exams will be of take-home format. Students will
be expected to not consult with anyone besides the instructor in any way from
the time the exam is available until the exam is due nor disclose any information
about the exam to anyone else. If violation of this occurs, participating students
will be assigned a grade of F for the course and will be reported to the university
for disciplinary action. 18
Course Information:
Course Wiki http:/wikis.ece.iastate.edu/vlsi
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Topical Coverage
• Op Amp and Comparator Design
– Design strategies
– Design space exploration *
– Usage and performance requirements
– Building Blocks
• Current Mirrors
• Common Source, Common Drain and Common
Gate Amplifiers
– Simulation Strategies
– Compensation
– Amplifier Architectures
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Topical Coverage (cont)
• Data converters : A/D and D/A
– Nyquist-rate
– Oversampled (if time permits)
• Voltage References
– Bandgap References
– VT References
• Integrated Filter Design
– Switched Capacitor
– Continuous-Time
• Phase-locked Loops (if time permits)
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The MWSCAS Challenge
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The MWSCAS Challenge
• One letter grade increase in grade will be made retroactive if a paper relating
to AMS circuit design is accepted and presented at the MWSCAS
• Several different topics will come up through the course that can be
developed into a good conference paper
• Cost of attending the conference will be the responsibility of the student but
the department and university often help cover costs if requests are made in a
timely manner !
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The MWSCAS Challenge
Suggested Topics:
• Dynamic comparator
VDD Two-stage
VDD VDD Op Amps VDD
VDD
M3 M4 M5 VB1
VX4 VX5 M7 M3 M4 M5
VX4 VX5
VOUT M3 M4 M5
VOUT VOUT
VIN CC ZC ZC
VIN M1 M2 CL
VIN VIN
VOUT
VOUT CL VIN M1 M2 VIN CL
VIN CC VIN VIN
Appear
IT VIN M1 M2 VOUT
CL
VB2 VB3 M6 IT
M9
CC VB3 M6 VB3 M6
VX3 IT VB2 M9
VB3 M6 CC
VSS VB2 M9 VX3
VSS
VSS
Analyze
Understand
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Simulate and Verify
Will Attempt in the Course to Follow, as
Much as Possible, the Following Approach
Understand
VDD
VDD
VDD
M3 VDD
M4 M5 VX4 VX5
Synthesize VIN
VB2
M1
M9
IT
M2
VIN CC
VB3 M6
CL
VIN VIN
VOUT VIN M1 M2
VIN CC
CL
VOUT VIN VIN
VOUT
VOUT
Op Amps
M7 M3
VDD
VB1
M4 M5
VOUT
IT CC ZC ZC
CC VX3
VX3 VIN M1 M2
VSS VB2 VB3 M6 CL VIN CL
M9
IT
VSS VB3 M6 VB2 VB3 M6
M9
VSS
VDD Two-stage
Op Amps VDD
VDD
M3 M4 M5 VB1
M7 M3 M4 M5
VOUT M3 M4 M5
VOUT VOUT
VIN CC ZC ZC
VIN M1 M2 CL VOUT
CL VIN M1 M2 VIN CL
VDD VIN CC VDD
Appear
IT VIN M1 M2 CL
VB2 VB3 M6 IT
M9 VX4 VX5
IT VX4 VX5 VB3 M6 VB2 VB3 M6
M9
VB2 VB3 M6
VSS M9
VIN VSS
VIN
VOUT
VIN VIN
VSS VOUT
CC
VX3
CC
VX3
Understand
VDD
VDD
VX4 VX5
VX4 VX5
Two-stage
Synthesize VIN
VX3
VIN
CC
VOUT
VIN VIN
VOUT
Op Amps
M7 M3
VDD
VB1
M4 M5
VOUT VOUT
VDD VDD CC ZC ZC
VX3
CL VIN M1 M2 VIN CL
M3 M4 M5 M3 M4 M5 IT
VB3 M6 VB2 VB3 M6
VOUT M9
VOUT
VIN CC
VIN M1 M2 CL VIN CC
VIN M1 M2 CL VSS
IT
VB3 M6 IT
VB2 M9
VB2 VB3 M6
M9
VSS
VSS
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Topical Coverage
• Op Amp and Comparator Design
– Design strategies
– Design space exploration *
– Usage and performance requirements
– Building Blocks
• Current Mirrors
• Common Source, Common Drain and Common
Gate Amplifiers
– Simulation Strategies
– Compensation
– Amplifier Architectures
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What is an operational amplifier ?
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Fundamental Amplifier Design Issues
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How does an amplifier differ from
an operational amplifier?
• When operated linearly, an operational amplifier is
a high gain amplifier that is intended to be used in
a feedback application
– Feedback is widely used to improve linearity and gain
accuracy and the improvement is typically dramatic
• The more general amplifier is generally used
open-loop
• Conventional wisdom : an open-loop amplifier is
much simpler to design and use than an op amp,
will have better high-frequency performance, will
be less linear than feedback circuit with op amp
and will be less accurate than feedback circuit with
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op amp
What is an Operational Amplifier?
APCCAS 2010
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From earlier edition
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From seventh edition
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What is an Operational Amplifier?
Textbook Definition:
• Voltage Amplifier with Very Large Gain
−Very High Input Impedance
−Very Low Output Impedance
Sedra/Smith View of
Op Amp (8 editions)
2030
1920
1940
1960
1980
2000
2010
2020
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Consider some history leading up to the present concept of the
operational amplifier
Black did not use the term operational amplifier but rather focused on basic
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concepts of feedback involving the use of high-gain amplifiers
Why are Operational
Amplifiers Used?
Harold Stephen Black (April 14, 1898 – December 11, 1983)
was an American electrical engineer, who revolutionized the field
of applied electronics by inventing the negative feedback amplifier
in 1927. To some, his invention is considered the most important
breakthrough of the twentieth century in the field of electronics,
since it has a wide area of application. This is because all
electronic devices (vacuum tubes, bipolar transistors and MOS
transistors) invented by mankind are basically nonlinear devices.
It is the invention of negative feedback which makes highly linear
amplifiers possible. Negative feedback basically works by
sacrificing gain for higher linearity (or in other words, smaller
distortion or smaller intermodulation). By sacrificing gain, it also
has an additional effect of increasing the bandwidth of the
amplifier. However, a negative feedback amplifier can be unstable
such that it may oscillate. Once the stability problem is solved, the
negative feedback amplifier is extremely useful in the field of
electronics. Black published a famous paper, Stabilized feedback
amplifiers, in 1934. 52
Why are Operational Amplifiers Used?
H. Black, “Stabilized Feed-Back Amplifiers”, Electrical
Engineering, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 114–120, Jan. 1934
By Millman
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Millman view of an operational amplifier in 1967
This book was published several years after the first integrated op amps
were introduced by industry
Seminal source introduced a fundamentally different definition than what is used today
2030
2020
Sedra/Smith
same
View of Op Amp
2000
New Millman View
Do we have it right now?
of Op Amp 1980
Millman and Ragazzini
View of Op Amp 1960
Ragazzini introduces
Operational Amplifier Notation
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Black Publishes first Results
on Feedback Amplifiers
Black Introduces
Feedback Concept
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Why are Operational
Amplifiers Used?
XOUT
XIN A
Xout A A 1
AF
Xin 1 Aβ β
Op Amp is Enabling Element Used to Build Feedback Networks !
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What type of operational
amplifier is needed?
Example: Standard Textbook Analysis of Finite Gain Voltage Amplifier
R1 R2
V1 = VOUT + VIN R2
1 2
R +R 1 2
R +R R1
V1
VOUT = -A V V1 VIN
VOUT
AV
R
- 2 AV R
VOUT R1
A VF = = - 2
VIN R 1 R1
1+ 1+ 2
R 1 V
A
Implicit Assumption: Op Amp is a high gain voltage amplifier with
infinite input impedance and zero output impedance
Does this imply that operational amplifiers (at least for this
application) should be good voltage amplifiers?
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One of the Most Basic Op Amp
Applications
Model of Op Amp/Amplifier including AV, RIN, RO and RL
R2
VOUT G1 AV GO G2
VIN G2 GO GL G1 G2 GIN AVGOG2
VOUT G1 AV GO G1 R
If AV is large 2
VIN AV GOG2 G2 R1
This result is not dependent upon RIN, R0 or RL
So why was it necessary to assume RIN is large and RO is small and why was
RL ignored? 62
The Four Basic Types of Amplifiers:
Voltage Transconductance
Transresistance Current
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The Four Basic Types of Amplifiers:
Two-Port Models of Ideal Amplifiers
I1
V1 AVV1 RTI1
OTA I1
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What type of operational amplifier is
needed?
R2
R1
V1
VIN VOUT
AV
R2
R2
R1 R1
V1
VIN VOUT VIN
VOUT
GM AI
R
- 2 GM R
VOUT R1
A VF = = - 2
VIN R 1 R1
1+ 1+ 2
R1 GMR2 -1
R2
- AI
V R1 R2
A VF = OUT
VIN
=
1 -
R1
1+
AI
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What type of operational amplifier is needed?
R2
R1
V1
VIN VOUT
AV
All four types of amplifiers will give the same closed loop gain
provided the corresponding open loop gain is sufficiently large !
Voltage Transconductance
Transresistance Current
V R
OUT 2
VIN
R 1
R2
R2
R1
R1
V1 VIN
VIN IOUT VOUT VOUT
I1
GM RT
All have same closed-loop gain and all are independent of RIN, ROUT and RL if gain is large 70
Amplifier Types
XOUT
XIN A
XOUT A A 1
AF = =
β XIN 1+Aβ β
Textbook Definition:
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Are differential input and single-
ended outputs needed?
Consider Basic Amplifiers
R2
VOUT A V A V 1
R1 A VF = =
V1 VIN 1+A Vβ β
VOUT
Noninverting Amplifier
VIN AV β=
R1
R1 R 2
AV R1 R2 Inverting Amplifier
β= β1=
R1 R 2 R1 R 2
R2
R1
VOUT
VIN
AV
Inverting Amplifier with Single-Ended Op Amp
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Concept well known
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Hex Inverters in 74C04 much less costly than 6 op amps at the time! APCCAS 2010
Fully Differential Amplifier
R2
R1
VIN VOUT
R1
R2
Textbook Definition:
– Voltage Amplifier
– Very Large Gain
‒ Differential Input and Single-Ended Outputs
‒ Very High Input Impedance
‒ Very Low Output Impedance
This represents the Conventional Wisdom !
Do we have it right now?
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Why are Operational
Amplifiers Used?
XOUT
XIN A
β
Input and Output Variables intentionally designated as “X” instead of “V”
Xout A A 1
AF
Xin 1 Aβ β
May still be feedback but block diagram may differ from that above (e.g.)
(Could also have single-ended input and differential output though less common) 82
What Characteristics do Many Customers and
Designers Assume are Needed for Op Amps?
11. …
10. Reasonable Linearity
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What Characteristics are
Really Needed for Op Amps?
• For Catalog Components
Those that are needed for the data sheet
• For Integrated Op Amp
– Only those that are needed for the specific
application
– Often only one or two characteristics are of
concern in a specific application
Avoid over-design to meet performance
specifications that are not needed!
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What is an Operational Amplifier?
Textbook Definition:
– Voltage Amplifier
– Very Large Gain
‒ Differential Input and Single-Ended Outputs
‒ Very High Input Impedance
‒ Very Low Output Impedance
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Operational Amplifier Evolution in Time Perspective
2030
2020
Sedra/Smith
same
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