System-on-Chip and efficient electronic circuit integration techniques

1.1. Introduction and overview of SoCs

1.2. Scaling problems

1.3. State of the art SoC

1.4. Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) main features

2.1. Introduction to mixed-signal microelectronics

2.2. Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) devices

2.3. Features extraction

2.4. Transistor bandwidth (BW)

2.5. General tips for analog design

3.1. Current sinks/sources

3.2. Current mirrors

3.3. Examples of current mirrors

3.4. Switches and active resistors

3.5. Current and voltage references

4.1. Single-ended amplifiers

4.2. Miller effect

4.3. Cascode amplifiers

4.4. Examples of single-ended amplifiers

4.5. Differential amplifiers

5.1. Basic concepts

5.2. Compensation techniques

5.3. Two-stage architecture design

5.4. Cascode structures

5.5. Symmetric CMOS OTA

5.6. Output stages

5.7. Common-Mode Feedback (CMFB) circuits

5.8. Examples

6.1. Basic concepts

6.2. Open-loop comparators

6.3. Hysteresis

6.4. Regenerative or latched comparators

7.1. The CMOS inverter cell

7.2. The ring-oscillator

7.3. Buffers

7.4. Distributed drivers

7.5. Digital-Phase Locked Loops (DPLLs)

7.6. Delay Locked Loops (DLLs)

7.7. Voltage-Controlled-Oscillator Analog-to-Digital Converters (VCO-ADCs)

7.8. Time-to-Digital Converters (TDCs)

8.1. Process-Voltage-Temperature (PVT) variations

8.2. Voltage and frequency control in digital circuits

8.3. What is the effect on analog/mixed-signal circuits?