BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOY & SCIENCE PIANI

INSTRCTION DIVISION
FIRST SEMESTER 2015-16
(Course Handout (Part II)
06 January 2018

In addition to Part I (General Handout for all courses appended to the time table, this portion gives
further specific details of the course

Course No.: EEE F-244; INSTR F-244

Course Title: Microelectronic Circuits

Instructor-in-Charge: Dipankar Pal

Team of Instructor: Dipankar Pal and Chembiyan Thambidurai

1. Course Description

This is the first course that introduces the techniques of analysis and design of integrated analog circuit-
elements using MOS and bipolar devices to the FG-students. The course also introduces Cadence-design
tools for circuit design under unstructured aspect.

2. Scope and Objective

This course covers different analog building blocks like amplifiers, current mirrors, simple op-amps and
feed-back-stages used in integrated circuits; and presents the technique of designing them, and
analyzing them in time and frequency domain. The objective is to give a broad, preliminary overview of
circuit-blocks used to design a complete integrated circuit. After doing this course the students should
develop the ability to understand how integrated electronic circuits/ building blocks behave and how to
design a complete circuit for a specific purpose.

3. Book

Text Book

i. Adel S. Sedra, Kenneth C Smith, “Microelectronic Circuits”, Oxford University Press, Fifth Edition.
ii. Behzad Razavi, “Fundamentals of Microelectronics”, Wiley India Pvt. Ltd., 2009

Reference Books

i. Behzard Razavi, “Design of Analog Integrated Circuit”, Tata McGraw Hill, 2001

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 4. Course Plan

Lecture
Learning Objective
No.
To get overview of types
1-3 of amplifiers and
characteristics thereof
Understanding current-
4-9 voltage relation, gain
estimation, biasing
To know design and
10-18 analysis of basic gain
stages
To get overview of
19-23
passive and active mirrors
To know operation of
24-30
differential amplifiers
To understand high
31-34
frequency behavior
To introduce the concept
35-38
of feedback
To get an overview
39-40 Discrete and IC BJT Amplifier Design
analog bipolar circuits
Reference*
Topics to be Covered *Only for broad
guidelines
TB1: 1.4, 1.5 1.6
Introduction to Amplifiers
TB2: Chapter 4 and 5
TB1: Chapter 4.1 to 4.3,
Physics of MOS Transistors 4.5
TB2 Chapter 6
TB1: Chapter 4,6, 4.7, 4.
IC MOS Amplifier Design
TB2: Chapter 7
TB1: Chapter 6.3
IC Biasing, Basic Current mirrors
TB2: Chapter 9
TB1: Chapter 8.1, 8.2,
Differential Amplifiers 8.4
TB2: Chapter 10
Frequency response and stability of
RB: Chapter 10
amplifiers
Feedback theory, amplifier types of TB1: Chapter 7
feedback TB2: Chapter 12
TB1: Chapter 3.3, 3.6,
3.7
TB2: Chapter 5

5. Open-Book Component:

There shall be lab assignments of fixed number, which the students shall be required to complete
individually/ in a group-of-2, and there shall be 2×lab-tests based on the assignments that will account
for 10%. There shall marks on attendance that will account for another 10%. In the lab the students shall
be assisted by the instructors, HG-TAs and FG-TAs.

6. Evaluation Scheme:

Date, Time
Component Duration Weight Remarks
& Venue
As notified through Dates for evaluation to be
Unstructured Lab 20% Open book
Moodle (Photon) notified
28-02-2018 & 25-04-2018;
Quiz (1 & 2) 15 minutes each 20% Closed book
18:00 to 19:00; CC Zone 1 & 2
06-03-2018; 14:00 to 15:30;
Mid-Semester 2 90 minutes 20% Closed book
ID to notify Venue
04-05-2018; ID to notify Time
End-Sem Examination 180 minutes 40% Closed book
and Venue

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 7. Chamber Consultation Hour:

To be announced in class.

8. Notices:

Moodle/ email (in specific cases)

9. Make-up Policy:

As per the Institute-norms, only in genuine cases.

Dipankar Pal
Instructor-in-Charge
EEE F-313; INSTR F-313

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