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Unit 1: Introduction and overview of System-On-Chips (SoCs)

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


Unit 2: Advanced CMOS device modeling:

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


Unit 3: Analog CMOS fundamental circuits

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


Unit 4. Single-ended and differential amplifiers

4.1. Single-ended amplifiers

4.2. Miller effect

4.3. Cascode amplifiers

4.4. Examples of single-ended amplifiers

4.5. Differential amplifiers


Unit 5. Operational amplifiers (opamps) and Operational Transconductance Amplifiers (OTAs)

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


Laboratory session I: Amplifiers


Unit 6. Comparators

6.1. Basic concepts

6.2. Open-loop comparators

6.3. Hysteresis

6.4. Regenerative or latched comparators


Laboratory session II: Sigma-Delta modulation


Unit 7. Inverter-based circuits

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)


Laboratory session III. VCO-ADC


Unit 8. Robust SoC design and circuit reliability

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?

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