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Tutorial Papers on Analog Circuits

This collection was compiled from the term papers of graduate students in my ECE1352 and ECE1371 graduate courses. They are intended as a literature survey to specific topics in analog circuits. The highlighted papers are recommended reading. I hope you will find them useful.

*NOTE:  For 2003, the students produced presentation slides instead of complete tutorial papers.

 

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RF Wireless Circuits

bullet Dennis Ma                            RF Receiver Systems and Circuits
bulletStephen Yue                          RF mixer circuit Linearization Techniques
bullet Mohammed El Kawokgy,     Low-Power RF mixer circuits
bulletHossein Alizadeh         Active and Passive CMOS mixers
bullet Alan Poon,             RF Power Amplifiers 
bullet Nora Yan,                 On-chip image rejection techniques for RF receivers
bullet Jeff Chow                     RF Image-Reject Receivers
bulletRaymond Koo,                     RF Transmitter circuits 
bulletHongFeng Dong,                 IQ phase generation circuits
bulletPaul Westergaard              CMOS LNA's
bullet Su Tarn Lim,                         Distortion analysis of a LNA
bulletTheodoros Chalvatzis         *60GHz Radio Circuit Blocks
bulletChihou Lee                         *Ultra wideband RF circuit Blocks
bulletTerry Yao                            *RF transmitter Circuits

Oscillators

bullet Aichin Chung                      LC oscillators: Theory and Design
bullet Marcus van Ierssel             Oscillator phase noise and jitter
bullet Boris Krnic                      Phase noise of VCOs
bullet Imran Ahmed                 Wide Range Tuning in CMOS LC-VCOs
bullet Jeff Wilkin,                           VCO circuits 
bulletFang Fang,         Phase noise of oscillators
bulletFahad Qureshi*Travelling Wave Oscillators
bulletAdesh Garg                *VCO's Using Integrated Transformers

Timing Recovery Circuits

bullet Kostas Pagiamtzis              Phase Interpolating Circuits
bullet Robert Przyslupski              Frequency regenerative dividers
bullet Eric Hu                         Low-Voltage Phase-locked Loop Design Techniques
bullet Faisal Musa                 Noise Analysis of PLL and System Trade-offs
bullet Jonathan Cheung             Low-jitter phase locked loops
bulletSelvarkkumaran Selvaranam*Fully Digital Phase Locked Loops
bulletRicky Lau                             *Phase Detector Circuits

Operational Amplifiers

bullet Eliyahu Zamir                 Low voltage opamp design Techniques
bullet Tony Pialis                             Low voltage, low power op amp design
bullet Ricky Yuen                     Low-Voltage Switched-Op amp Circuits
bulletAhmed Gharbiya         Op Amps Rail to Rail Input Stages Using Complementary Differential Pairs
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Analog Building Blocks

bullet Isaac Martinez G.,              AGC circuits: Theory and design 
bulletJoyce Wong,                     Sample and Hold Circuits 
bulletShahriar Shahramian        *High Speed Track and Hold Amplifier
bullet Raymond Tam             CMOS Variable Gain Amplifiers
bullet Stephen Liu                 Universal Active Elements
bullet Samira Naraghi,                 Low-Power comparators 
bulletDuy Nguyen                        *High-Speed Current-based Comparators
bullet Altan Hazneci                      Current feedback Amps
bullet Donny Mota                          Fully-Differential Op Amps and Common Mode Feedback Circuit Design
bullet Igor Arsovski,                     Low Power sense amplifiers
bullet Louie Pylarinos,                     Charge Pump Circuits
bullet Yiqian Ying,                         Chopper-Stabilized Amplifiers

Reference Circuits

bulletTim Lo,                             Low Power/Low Voltage CMOS Bandgap references
bullet Afshin Haftbaradaran,         Basic and advanced current references

Optical Interface Circuits

bullet Ricardo Aroca,             Laser Drivers Circuits  
bullet Natalie Wong,         CMOS Integrated Photodiodes and Transimpedance Amplifiers
bullet Raymond Tang,             Fiber Optic Preamplifiers

Data Converters

bullet Jorge Varona,             Power DACs using Sigma-Delta and PW modulation
bullet Trevor Caldwell             Clock Jitter and Excess Loop Delay in Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma Modulators
bullet Richard Fung                 Improving Accuracy of A/D Converters
bullet David Halupka             IAnalysis of Sample-Hold Circuits for A/D Converters
bullet Navid Yaghini                 Mismatch Shaping for Multi-bit Delta-Sigma ADCs
bulletSotoudeh Hamedi-Hagh,     Power reduction techniques in pipelined A/D converters
bullet Farshid Rezaei,         Mismatch effects on Bandpass delta-sigma modulators
bulletDaniel Chung            *Improving Accuracy of Pipelined A/D converters
bulletRaf Karakiewicz         *Dynamic Element Matching for Oversampled DACs

Analog Signal Processing

bulletVincent Law,             Programmable Analog Circuits
bulletAnthony Chan         *Field Programmable Analog Arrays (FPAA)
bullet Robert Wang                 Performance Limitations of Switched-Capacitor Filters due to Finite Gain
bullet Jonathan Sewter         Decision Feedback Equalizers for Magnetic Recording
bulletJenkin Wong                 *High Speed Equalizer Circuits
bulletMike Bichan                    *Switched-current Circuits
bulletAshkan Olyaei                *Active Pixel Sensor Circuits

Analog Techniques

bulletMichael Gordon          *Bulk Driven Op Amp Circuits

Analog Circuit Applications

bullet Wahidul Islam                 Survey of Implanted Devices for Neuroprosthesis

 

Power Microelectronics

bullet Olivier Trescases             Integrated "Smart Power" IGBT Drivers
bulletTsz Shuen Chan          * Integrated "Smart Power" IGBT Drivers

 

Analog Circuit Design Methods

bullet Navid Azizi,             Automated Analog Circuit Design Using Genetic Algorithms
bullet Dennis Wu                     Computer Automated Design of Analog Circuits

Technology Trends

bullet Shahla Honarkhah,     Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits using Porous Silicon
bulletVivian Ma,         SOI vs CMOS analog circuits
bullet Kevin Ng,         CMOS vs. charge-coupled device Imagers 

Circuit Theory

bullet Mohamed Abdulla             Distortion analysis in Analog circuits
bulletEuhan Chong, The Volterra Series and Distortion Analysis

Device Modeling

bulletSean Nicolson                 Advanced Compact MOSFET Model and its Application to Inversion Coefficient Based Circuit Design 
bulletAgnes Tam,             Modeling and practical considerations for integrated capacitors
bulletVincent Mui,             Modeling of Substrate Noise Coupling 
bullet Behnam Mohammadi          Modeling of Silicon-compatible On-chip Inductors
bullet Chetan Mistry                        Polymer Circuits
bullet Truong Long Giang     MOSFET Device Modelling for Analog Circuit Design
bulletKenneth Yau                *MOSFET modeling for RF Circuit Design
bulletAlain Mangan                *Device Noise Modeling and Simulation 

 

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Last updated March 15, 2004