ECCE 721 Analog Mixed Signal Design Techniques
This course covers general architecture and circuit level design issues for A/D and D/A converters used in sensors and communication circuits. It introduces different architectures and system level design concepts for A/D and D/A converters followed by circuit level design techniques. System level issues and trade-offs needed for block/circuit level specifications are extensively discussed. The course starts from fundamental concepts like quantization noise, sampling, linearity and will evolve to complete architectures used in A/D and D/A conversion Students will gain a significant amount of experience in simulating A/D and D/A circuits at the transistor level using state of the art EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools such as Cadence and Synopsys