COURSE SYLLABUS

ELEC 692
Fall 2010
Sep. 1, 2010
George Yuan
Mixed-Signal Integrated Bio-Sensory Circuit Design
COURSE SYLLABUS
Course Description
Biology has been a long-stand fascination of the human society. As semiconductor technologies
advance, bio-medical application-specific integrated circuits have become a major trend of the
industry. The course aims to systematically introduce both major issues of mixed-signal circuit
designs and biological mechanisms related to existing IC designs. The course will cover state-ofart design examples of this multi-disciplinary field.
This course is organized on a series of important topics in the mixed-signal and bio-medical IC
field. Every class is dedicated to one topic. The class is a mixture of paper discussion and regular
lectures. The first half course is dedicated to mixed-signal IC design. The course starts with 2
review classes on devices, packaging, OPAMP design, and filter design. Then, the course covers
topics on noise, pipelined ADC, Sigma-delta ADC, and SAR ADC. The second half course is
dedicated to sensory and bio-medical IC design. The topics include bio-potential detection,
implants, DNA detection, CCD, CMOS imaging, and CT/SPECT.
The course has regular paper reading assignments. The course has one design project as the final
exam. After the course, students are expected to understand the fundamental concepts of mixedsignal IC designs, the current status and challenges in the design of bio-sensory mixed-signal
integrated circuits, with hands-on project experience.
Course Prerequisite
Students must have taken Elec 304 or equivalent and must have basic skills in designing and
analyzing analog integrated circuits. Students are preferred to have taken Elec504. Although
extensive review will be done whenever possible, it will be assumed that students are familiar
with OPAMP design, feedback, stability, filter design, and noise. It is also expected that students
should have experience in Cadence. The project assignments are in Cadence.
Reference Books
1. D. Johns, and K. Martin, Analog Integrated Circuit Design, Wiley, 1997.
2. Allan Hastings, Art of Analog Layout, Prentice Hall, 2005
3. Van der Plassche, CMOS Integrated Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog Converters
, Springer, 2003
4. Walt Kester, The Data Conversion Handbook, Analog Devices, Inc., 2005
5. B. Lewin, Genes VIII, Prentice Hall, 2004
6. I. Levitan, and L. Kaczmarek, The Neuron, Oxford University Press, 2002
7. Mark Burns, Gordon Roberts, An Introduction to Mixed-signal IC Test and Measurement,
Oxford, 2001
Grading
The grade weighting for the class will be distributed as follows:
Class Participation
50 %
Final Project
50 %
Office Hours
Name
Dr. George Yuan
Duty
Lecturer
Email
eeyuan
Phone
8029
Office
2527
Office Hours
Tue. 4:00-5:00pm