Graduate Student California State University, Sacramento Electrical and Electronics Engineering Dept. California, United States. Email ID: findsriharsha@gmail.com, sm2837@saclink.csus.edu

Course Work

Course Description

• Analog and Mixed Signal Integrated Circuit Design : This course covered core topics and circuits important for analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits. Topics include: device structures and models, single-stage and differential amplifiers, current mirrors and active loads, operational amplifier design, stability and compensation, fully-differential circuits and common-mode feedback. An introduction to sampled-data systems and switched-capacitor circuits is also included. Design projects are assigned using SPICE software.
• CMOS and VLSI Design: Introduction to CMOS gates and design of CMOS combinational and sequential functions at the gate level, including CMOS memory. The theory of MOS transistors is covered including: DC equations, threshold voltage, body effect, sub threshold region, channel length modulation, tunneling, punch through, basic CMOS inverter, and the CMOS transmission gate. A basic exposure to VLSI includes the following topics: CMOS processing technology, CMOS layout, CMOS circuit design and CMOS logic design. Basic VLSI layouts using LEDIT.
• Advanced Logic Design: VHDL and Verilog Hardware Description Languages were studied and used on the following advanced level logic design topics: synchronous state machines, asynchronous state machines, metastability, hazards, races, testability, boundary scan, scan chains, and built-in self-tests. Commercial Electronic Design Automation (EDA) toolsets like Xilinx IDE, Modelsim are used to synthesize lab projects containing a hierarchy of modules into Virtex Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).
• Key Mixed Signal Integrated Circuit Blocks Design: This class covered the key circuits most important to modern mixed-signal integrated circuits, such as comparators, Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs), Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs) and Phase-Locked Loops (PLLs). Multiple architectures are explored for each type of circuit, focusing on the advantages of each for different applications and the tradeoffs that designers typically have to make among competing effects.
• Microwave Devices and Circuits Design:Theory and application of electromagnetic radiation at microwave frequencies; study of microwave impedance and power measurement and characteristics of microwave circuit components, and electronic devices.
• Hierarchical Digital Design: Advanced logic modeling, simulation, and synthesis techniques. Modeling using Hardware Description Languages (HDL’s), Register Transfer Level (RTL) representation, high-level functional partitioning, functional verification and testing, computer-aided logic synthesis, logical verification and testing, timing and delay analysis, and automated place and route process. Design with Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) and programmable logic.