High Frequency CMOS Circuit Design
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The official GTU curriculum for High Frequency CMOS Circuit Design (subject code 4716003) as prescribed for EACE · Semester 1 divides the course into 6 units, covering 29 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (4716003)Unit 1 Components of analog CMOS ICs, MOS transistors - Current-voltage relations
- of MOS transistors
- Determination of model parameters and related secondary effects
- Parasitics of MOS transistors
- Passive on-chip components
Unit 2 Basic MOS amplifiers
- DC and low-frequency behaviour
- Common source (grounded source) amplifier
- Active transistor loaded MOS amplifier
- Common- gate (grounded-gate) amplifier
- Common-drain amplifier (source follower)
- The “long-tailed pair”
Unit 3 High-frequency behaviour of basic amplifiers - High-frequency behaviour of a
- common-source amplifier
- The source follower amplifier at radio frequencies
- Wef-AY-2021-22 The common-gate amplifier at high frequencies
- The “cascode” amplifier
- The CMOS inverter as a transimpedance amplifier
- MOS transistor with source degeneration at high frequencies
- High-frequency behaviour of differential amplifiers
- Gain enhancement techniques for high-frequency amplifiers
Unit 4 Frequency-selective RF circuits - Resonance circuits, Tuned amplifiers,
- Cascaded tuned stages and the staggered tuning
- Amplifiers loaded with coupled resonance circuits
- The gyrator: a valuable tool to realize high-value on-chip inductances
- The low-noise amplifier (LNA)
Unit 5 L-C oscillators - The negative resistance approach to L-C oscillators, The
- feedback approach to L-C oscillators
- Frequency stability of L-C oscillators
Unit 6 Analog-digital interface and system-level design considerations - General
- Discrete-time sampling
- Influence of sampling clock jitter
- Quantization noise
- Converter specifications
- Additional observations on noise in high-frequency ICs