Structured Analog CMOS Design

1 Introduction. 1.1 The objectives of this work. 1.2 Structured analog design. 1.3 Transistor-level design based on the device inversion level. 1.4 CAD tools for analog design assistance. 1.5 Practical design example. 1.6 Book organization. 2 Transistor level design. 2.1 MOS transistor model. 2.2 Transistor design parameters. 2.3 Design approach. 2.4 Conclusion. Bibliography. 3 BSIM to EKV conversion. 3.1 Motivation and purpose. 3.2 Conversion concept. 3.3 BSIM versus EKV, the fundamental differences and the conversion algorithm guidelines. 3.4 Conversion algorithm. 3.5 Conversion results. 3.6 Conclusion. 3.7 Download. Bibliography. 4 Basic analog structures. 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 Basic analog structures’ library. 4.3 Structured design approach. 4.4 Transconductance structures. 4.5 Load structures. 4.6 Bias structures. 4.7 Conclusion. Bibliography. 5 Procedural design scenarios. 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 Procedural design scenario for a folded-cascode OTA. 5.3 Procedural design scenario for a fully-differential folded cascode OTA. 5.4 Procedural design scenario for a Miller operational amplifier. 5.5 Conclusion. Bibliography. 6 PAD tool. 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 PAD structure. 6.3 Basic analog structures’ library. 6.4 Procedural design scenarios. 6.5 BSIM and EKV model library file input. 6.6 Conclusion. 6.7 Download. Bibliography. 7 Topology variants. 7.1 Basic concept. 7.2 Gain enhancement - two stages. 7.3 Gain enhancement - gain boosting. 7.4 Input common-mode range enhancement - complementary differential pair. 7.5 Differential input range enhancement - linearized differential pair. 7.6 Rejection of the differential signal in a common-mode signal - cascoded current bias sources. 7.7 CMFB stability improvement - split bias sources. 7.8 Conclusion. Bibliography. 8 Practical example: the design of analog amplifiers in the Delta-Sigmamodulator system. 8.1 Delta-Sigma modulator system. 8.2 Derivation of the testbench. 8.3 Topology selection. 8.4 Design of the fully-differential high-gain amplifier. 8.5 Design of the fully-differential difference amplifier. 8.6 Design of the fully-differential two-stage amplifier. 8.7 Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.