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Information
Office hours:
Sunday: 2:00-3:00pm Or by appointment (maboudina@gmail.com)
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Course Objective
Acquire a thorough understanding of the basic principles and challenges in data converter design
Focus on concepts, architectures and design challenges; Preparation for further study of state-of-the-art "finetuned realizations
Strategy
Acquire breadth via a complete system walkthrough and a survey of existing architectures and techniques Acquire depth through a midterm project that entails design and thorough characterization of a specific circuit example in modern technology
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Assignments
Simulation assignments (10%) Midterm Exam (20%) Midterm Project: (20%)
Design of one of the studied architectures. Transistor-level simulation will be performed. Project(s) will be handed around midterm. Project Report due 2 weeks after last final exam (Project will need around 4-6 part-time weeks of work)
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Instructor
Education:
B.Sc. 2000, Cairo University M.Sc. 2002, Cairo University Ph.D. 2008, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Experience:
Vidatronic Inc. (June11-present) Marvell Semiconductor Inc. (Jan09 June11). Newport Media Inc. (Dec05-Mar07). Mentor Graphics Egypt. (Dec00-Sept02). Teaching Assistant (UCLA and Cairo Univ.) .
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Instructor
Research Interest:
Data Converters (Nyquist-rate and Oversampling). Power Management (DC-DC, LDOs). Baseband Analog (Filters, VGAs, Transconductance Amplifiers, Transimpedance Amplifiers, Buffers, FDNR, etc) up to GHz ranges. Transceivers for Communication Systems. Biomedical Applications. Any possible new topic.
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Why Analog?
Naturally-occurring signals, e.g., RF received signal, voice and video, are analog. System and medium non-idealities often make it necessary to treat digital signals as analog (Disk Drive Retrieved Data).
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Data Converters
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Data Converters
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Degutchi, JSSC08
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Boulemnakher, ISSCC08
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Agah, VLSI07
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Course Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction to Data Converters.
Chapter 2
Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8
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Sampling Circuits.
Revision on Opamp Design, Noise Analysis, and Mismatches (2 lectures) Nyquist-Rate DACs. Flash ADCs Folding and Interpolating ADCs Two-step and Pipelined ADCs (2 lectures) Oversampling ADCs (2 lectures)
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Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Bit-at-a-time ADCs and Time Interleaved (optional) Layout Considerations Data Converter Testing (optional)
Chapter 11
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References
R. v. d. Plassche, CMOS Integrated Analog-to-Digital and Digital-toAnalog Converters, 2nd ed., Kluwer, 2003 B. Razavi, Data Conversion System Design, IEEE Press, 1995 F. Maloberti, Data Converters, Springer, 2007 R. Schreier and G. Temes, Understanding Delta-Sigma Data Converters, IEEE Press, 2005 IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and Systems IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems.
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