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Low Noise Low Power Analog IC Design Background Title Low Noise Low Power Analog IC Design The reduction of channel lengths leads to lower

Presenter Professor Willy Sansen Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Date and Venue 2-4 February 2009 iSLI, Livingston Cost £925 per person + VAT (Discounts available please enquire) Mentor Graphics Passbook = 3 Tokens Contact If you have any course queries, please contact Suzanne O’Hare on 01506 469303 or by emailing [email protected].

supply voltages, allowing considerable reduction of power consumption. Lower supply voltages lead to lower signal levels however. Moreover lower power leads to more noise, even more decreasing the signal-to-noise ratios. This course discusses the compromises of low power versus low noise towards increased signal-to-noise ratios. Both technologies, standard CMOS and BiCMOS are used in parallel. Course Aims In this three day course, all aspects of analog design are covered with emphasis on low power and low noise at the same time. Exercises with numerical results are embedded in the lectures. Analog designs are discussed ranging from full operational amplifiers to fully-differential ones. Considerable attention is paid to the noise matching for both resistive as capacitive source impedances. Also the design of oscillators is included and also of low-power Sigma-delta AD Converters. Finally coupling effects are discussed between the digital and analog subblocks.

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Who Should Attend This course is intended for various kinds of designers such as:

Presenter The course will be presented by Professor Willy Sansen of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. He has a PhD degree from the University of California, Berkeley and has been a visiting professor at the universities of Stanford, Lausanne, Philadelphia and Ulm. Professor Sansen has given courses for a large number of companies including Philips, National Semiconductors, Analog Devices, Alcatel and numerous universities.

 Analog designers who want to become experts in design of low power and noise circuitry  Digital designers who wish to design and include low power analog blocks on digital system chips  Designers with analog experience, looking to update their design knowledge and to tune Since 1984 he has been the head of ESAT-MICAS their experience to present-day design laboratory on analog design. He is cofounder of the procedures. workshops on Advances in Analog Circuit Design in Europe and was program chair of the ISSCC-2002 Course Method conference. Professor Sansen is now vice-president This course will consist of four 90 minute of the IEEE Solid-Circuits Society. presentations per day. All lectures are in PowerPoint format. Participants will receive a He has been involved in design automation and in complementary copy of Professor Sansen’s numerous analog integrated designs for telecom, recent textbook “Analog Design Essentials” by consumer electronics, medical applications and Springer. It includes all PowerPoint slides, in sensors. He has been supervisor of over 600 papers addition to the explanatory notes and a in international journals and conference proceedings, CD-ROM with the slides. The exercises are thirteen books, which include the text book “Analog taken from existing and future designs which Design Essentials” by Springer. allow participants to develop their own understanding and insight. Fees Fees cover tuition, course notes, lunches and light Course Content refreshments. Day 1: Topics  Comparison of MOST and bipolar-transistor Accommodation models. Information on local hotels is available from Amanda  Single-transistor amplifiers. Connelly [email protected].  Differential voltage and current amplifiers.  Noise matching. Cancellations A 10% administration fee is levied for cancellations Day 2: Topics made up to two weeks prior to the start of the  Stability of multi-stage operational course. Cancellations thereafter will be liable to the amplifiers. loss of the full fee. Substitutions may be made at  Low-power design of operational amplifiers. any time up until the start of the course.  Often used op-amp configurations.  Fully differential operational amplifiers. Mentor Graphics Customers Only: Cancellations made up to two weeks prior to the Day 3: Topics start of the course will result in a 1 token per booked  Offset and CMRR; random and systematic. place charge. Cancellations thereafter will be liable  Low-power Sigma-Delta converters. for full token fees. Substitutions may be made at  Design of low-power oscillators. any time up until the start of the course.  Coupling effects in low-power mixed-signal circuits. The Institute reserves the right to cancel an advertised course at short notice or to postpone or make such alterations to the content of a course as may be necessary. If a course is cancelled, fees will be refunded in full. iSLI, Alba Centre, Alba Campus, Livingston, Scotland, UK, EH54 7EG tel: +44 (0)1506 469300 fax: +44(0)1506 469301 email: [email protected] www.sli-institute.ac.uk