Starting at the transistor level, this book covers basic system-level CMOS design concepts applicable to modern SoCs. The text uses practical design examples to illustrate circuit design so that readers can develop an intuitive rather than conventional analytic understanding. System-level knowledge is built upon understanding fundamental concepts of noise, jitter, and frequency and phase noise. This material addresses basic abstract concepts of transistor circuits, as well as advanced topics such as ADCs and PLLs, providing a proper perspective on this advanced SoC design. Other topics include DAC, phase locked loop, frequency synthesizer, clock recovery, and digital assisting.

Table of Contents

Amplifier Basics Driving-Point and Transfer Functions Frequency Response Stability Criteria Operational Amplifier (Opamp) in Negative Feedback Phase Margin Transient Response Feedback Amplifier Feedback Effect Left-Half or Right-Half Plane Zero Stability of Feedback Amplifiers Amplifier Design Abstract Low-Frequency Model of Transistors Driving-Point Resistances at Low Frequencies Resistance Reflection Rules Three Basic Amplifier Configurations Nine Amplifier Combinations Differential Pair Gain Boosting Biasing Voltage and Current Sources Operational Amplifier (Opamp) Small-Signal Model of the Operational Amplifier Opamp Frequency Compensation Phase Margin of Two-Stage Miller-Compensated Opamps Right-Half Plane Zero Cancellation in Two-Stage Opamps Transient Response of Opamp in Feedback Opamp Design Examples Common-Mode Feedback Offset Cancellation Opamp Input Capacitance Opamp Offset Opamp Noise Opamp Common-Mode Rejection Data Converter Basics Analog-to-Digital Converter Basics Sample and Hold Flash Analog-to-Digital Converter Comparator ADC Testing Averaging and Interpolation Techniques Low-Voltage Circuit Techniques Digital-to-Analog Converter Basics Nyquist-Rate Data Converters Analog-to-Digital Converter Architectures Slope-Type ADC Successive Approximation Register ADC Subranging and Multistep ADC Pipelined ADC Folding ADC Other ADCs Stand-Alone DACs Oversampling Data Converters Concept of Quantizer in Feedback I"IGBP Modulator High-Order Architectures Discrete-Time (DT) versus Continuous-Time (CT) Modulators Discrete-Time Modulator Design Band-Pass Modulator Design Continuous-Time Modulator Design Interpolative Oversampling DAC High-Resolution Data Converters Nonlinearity of the Analog-to-Digital Converter Evolution of High-Resolution ADC Design Digital Calibration of ADC Digital Background Calibration Digital Processing for Gain Nonlinearity Calibration by Zero-Forcing Least-Mean-Square Feedback Calibration of Time-Interleaving ADC Calibrated Continuous-Time (CT) I"IGBP Modulators Calibration of Current-Steering DAC Phase-Locked Loop Basics Phase Noise Phase-Locked Loop Operation Phase Noise Transfer Function Phase Detector Charge-Pumped Phase-Locked Loop PLL Bandwidth Constraints High-Q LC VCO Low-Q Ring-Oscillator VCO Prescaler Frequency Synthesis and Clock Recovery Phase-Locked Loop Applications Digital PLL Frequency Synthesis Spur-Canceled Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer Data Symbols Data Channel Equalization Clock and Data Recovery NRZ Phase Detector

About the Author

Bang-Sup Song is with the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, where he is endowed with the Charles Lee Powell Chair Professor in Wireless Communication.