I Year II Semester
17VL002 MIXED SIGNAL DESIGN
Hours Per Week : Total Hours :
L T P C L T P WA/RA SSH/HSH CS SA S BS
3 - 3 5 45 - 45 15 30 - 5 5 -
Course Objectives:
To understand the types of filters.
To understand the different techniques of ADC and DAC.
Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course student should be able to:
The ability to use DAC and ADC techniques for data conversions.
The ability to program, Mixed Signal VLSI Circuits.
SKILLS:
Understand What SoC is and what the differences between SoC and Embedded
System.
Learn to employ specialized knowledge of subsystems like processor cores and
other SoC components to design.
Improve student’s capabilities of using the technical knowledge of processor
architecture, peripherals, programming, and CAD tools.
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UNIT – I
PLL & Switched Capacitors : Characterization of a comparator, Basic CMOS comparator design, ACTIVITIES:
analog multiplier, PLL – simple PLL, charge-pump PLL, applications of PLL, Switched Capacitor
o Students can
circuits – basic principles, switched capacitor sensitive integrator and insensitive integrator, switched
conceptualize
capacitor filter, switched capacitor amplifier.
multi resolution
UNIT – II techniques
using CAD.
Sampling Circuits : Basic sampling circuits for analog signal sampling, performance metrics of
sampling circuits, different types of sampling switches. o Ability of extract
the MOS
Sample-and-Hold Architectures: Open-loop & closed-loop architectures, open-loop architecture
amplification
with miller capacitance, multiplexed-input architectures, recycling architecture. parameters.
UNIT – III
o Design
Digital - to Analog Conversion : Input/output characteristics of an ideal D/A converter, performance improved
metrics of D/A converter, Resistor string 3 bit DAC , Binary scale DACs, Cyclic DAC. CMOS
D/A Converter architectures: Resistor-Ladder architectures, current-steering, Pipeline DAC amplifiers and
Operational
UNIT – IV Amplifiers.
Analog-To-Digital Conversion Input/output characteristics and quantization error of an A/D converter,
performance metrics of A/D converter.
A/D converter architectures: Flash architectures, interpolate and folding architectures, pipelined
architectures, Integrating (Dual slope) ADC Successive approximation architectures.
UNIT – V
Analog CMOS Filters : Low Pass filters, active–RC fully differential integrator, Two transistor MOSFET–
C integrator, g m-C Integrator, Active RC integrators
Mixed Signal Design Lab
List of Experiments:
1. Design of Common mode feed-back circuits
2. Design of switched capacitor circuits
3. Design of High Speed Comparator
4. Design of High Gain comparator
5. Design of first order filters
6. Design of full wave rectifier
7. Design of sinusoidal oscillator
8. Design of Ring oscillator
9. Design of PLL
10. Design of ADC
11. Design of DACs
12. Mini project.
Note : All the experiments are to be carried out independently by each student with different
specifications.
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TEXT BOOKS:
1. Razavi, “Design of analog CMOS integrated circuits”, McGraw Hill, 2001.
2. Razavi, “Principles of data conversion system design”, S.Chand and company ltd, 2000.
3. Jacob Baker et. all, “CMOS Mixed-Signal circuit design”, IEEE Press, 2002
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Gregorian, Temes, “Analog MOS Integrated Circuit for signal processing”, John Wiley & Sons.
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