MANIPAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

(A constituent college of Manipal University, Manipal)

Manipal Karnataka 576 104

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION

COURSE PLAN

Department : Electronics and Communication Engg.

Subject : Analog VLSI Signal Processing (Elective-VI)
Subject code : ECE-628.2
Semester & branch : 2nd sem M.Tech(DEAC & Microelectronics)
Name of the faculty : D.V.Kamat
No of contact hours/week :3

Assignment portion
Assignment no. Topics
1 L1-L15
2 L16-L30
3 L31-L38
Test portion
Test no. Topics
1 L1-L16
2 L17-L34

Submitted by:

D.V.KAMAT
(Signature of the faculty)
Date: 25-01-2011

Approved by:

(Signature of HOD)
Date:

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Lecture No. Topics to be covered

L1 Introduction to Analog Signal Processing (ASP)
L2 Filter fundamentals-transfer functions, sensitivity, tunability , Q-enhancement etc
L3 Sampled data signal processing: Switched Capacitor(SC) filtering , Switched
Current(SI) filtering
L4 Continuous-time (CT) signal processing, merits and demerits.
L5 Continuous-time filter types-Active-RC,MOSFET-Active-RC
L6 Continuous-time filter types- OTA-C, Gm-Active-RC etc
L7 Filter structures-Single ended and Differential mode configurations
L8 Basic building blocks-Integrators, Non-ideal behavior, phase compensation
L9 signal conditioning, signal normalization, Anti-aliasing filter
L10 Current trends
L11 Current-mode signal processing (CMSP)
L12 Low-power/Low-voltage signal processing
L13 Nonlinear signal processing for audio and biomedical applications, log-domain
signal processing
L14 Introduction to Current-mode signal processing: Current-mode versus voltage-
mode
L15 Active elements for CMSP: Operational transconductance amplifier(OTA)
L16 Operational transconductance amplifier(OTA)
L17 Current conveyor(CC)
L18 Current feedback Op-amp(CFOA)
L19 Typical filter realizations and applications
L20 Current-mode circuits: current integrators, current amplifier, current normaliser,
current-mode Winner-Take-All(WTA) circuits, current correlator, current bump
circuits
L21 VLSI implementation of analog signal processing circuits
L22 Programmable transconductors-different types
L23 High-frequency CMOS transconductors
L24 Low-voltage low-freqency transconductors for biomedical applications.
L25 Active-RC, switched-capacitor (SC), and continuous-time (CT) integrated filters,
L26 Cascade design, Element substitution method
L27 Cascade design, Element substitution method
L28 LC ladders
L29 OTA-C filters based on Ladder Simulation

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 L30 Singly terminated ladder filters
L31 Doubly terminated ladder filters
L32 Design of singly terminated and doubly terminated ladder filters
L33 Operational Simulation method
L34 Operational Simulation method Signal-flow-graph(SFG) simulation
L35 Applications:
High-frequency analog signal processing circuits for GSM, Analog signal
processor for RF ID applications
L36 Continuous-time (CT) integrated filter for video frequency applications
L37 Analog VLSI implementation of artificial neural networks (ANN), auditory and
vision signal processing
L38 Current-mode transmitters, current-mode receivers for Data Communications.

References:

1. C.Toumazou,F.J.Lidgey &D.G.Haigh, “Analogue IC Design :the current-mode

approach”, Peter Peregrinus, London, 1990.
2. Mohammed Ismail ,”Analog VLSI : Signal and Information Processing”, McGraw-
Hill
companies ,1994.
3. R.Schaumann,M.S.Ghausi,Kenneth R Laker, “Design of Analog Filters Passive,
Active RC, and Switched Capacitor”, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey,
1995.
4. T Deliyanis, Y.Sun and J.K.Fidler , “Continuous-Time Active Filter Design”, CRC
Press, 1999.
5. P.V.Anand Mohan, Current-mode VLSI Analog Filters : Design and Applications,
Birkhauser ,2003.
6. Bram Nauta, Analog CMOS Filters for very high frequencies, Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1993.

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