CMOS Analog-to-Digital & Digital-to-Analog Data Converter IC Design
ECE-X408.63
Bridging the Analog and Digital Worlds Through CMOS Data Converter Design.
Data converters are at the heart of modern electronics, bridging the analog and digital worlds in applications ranging from communications and sensors to audio, imaging, and automotive systems.What you'll learn
This course provides a practical introduction to CMOS analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and digital-to-analog converter (DAC) design, covering everything from fundamental architectures to transistor-level circuit implementation. Explore essential building blocks, including sampling circuits, sample-and-hold circuits, operational amplifiers, and comparators, while learning how to evaluate converter architectures and optimize performance.
Discover how designers address real-world challenges such as offset, nonlinearity, component mismatch, and circuit imperfections using error correction, offset cancellation, and calibration techniques. Learn to navigate critical trade offs among power, speed, area, resolution, and accuracy.By the end of the course, participants will have the knowledge and practical foundation needed to analyze, design, simulate, and characterize CMOS analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converter ICs, from architecture and building blocks through transistor-level implementation
Course Highlights:
- Introduction to Data Conversion and Processing
- Basic Sampling Circuits
- Building Blocks of Data Converter Circuits - Amplifiers
- Building Blocks of Data Converter Circuits - Comparators
- Sample-and-Hold Circuits
- Basic Principles of Digital-to-Analog Conversion
- Digital-to-Analog Converter Architectures
- Analog-to-Digital Converter - Flash Architectures
- Analog-to-Digital Converter - Pipelined, Successive Register Approximation (SAR), and Interleaved Architectures
- Analog-to-Digital Converter - SAR ADC's Nonlinearity and Charge Distribution
- Basic Oversampling ADC & Offset Cancellation Techniques
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze CMOS analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converter architectures
- Analyze and implement data converter building blocks, including sampling circuits, sample-and-hold circuits, operational amplifiers, and comparators
- Design and implement transistor-level CMOS data converter circuits
- Evaluate and select ADC and DAC architectures based on performance requirements and design trade offs
- Analyze and differentiate sources of error, nonidealities, mismatch, and nonlinearities in data converters
- Analyze and characterize data converter performance using appropriate performance metrics
- Evaluate and optimize trade offs among speed, resolution, accuracy, power consumption, area, and linearity
- Integrate and apply architecture and circuit-design concepts to the design of a complete CMOS data converter
Course Information
Course Typically Offered: Online in Winter and Summer quarters
Prerequisite: Analog Circuits Design Skills, Basic Digital Circuits Design Skills, and SPICE circuit simulation software tool's Skills
Next Step: After completing this course, consider taking other courses in our Communications Engineering portfolio.
Contact: For more information about this course, please email unexengr@ucsd.edu.