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ECE-5404: Advanced Analog Integrated Circuit Design

Description: Complementary Metal–Oxide–Semiconductor (CMOS) technology; Analog and mixed-signal Integrated Circuits (ICs) design, and techniques to analyze and optimize performance metrics, such as: speed, area, power and signal integrity; Clocking, interconnect and scaling issues of ICs; Op Amp and Comparator, Voltage References, Integrated Filter, analog to digital converter (ADC), digital to analog converter (DAC), and phase-locked loop (PLL); Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools – schematic, layout, extraction and circuit simulation; Advanced topics including ICs’ high frequency performance issues, emerging nano-devices, advanced fabrication technologies, three dimension (3D) ICs, and neuromorphic computing. Pre: Graduate Standing.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: N/A

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 7

Average GPA: 3.77 (A)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 77.30%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

Yang Yi202478.3%10.0%10.0%0.0%1.6%0.0%3.582
Douglas K Lindner200992.8%4.5%2.8%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.864
Krishnan Ramu200580.0%20.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.761

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