The aim of the course is to design and analyze switch-capacitor (SC) discrete-time circuits which form an outline for designing more complex mixed-signal blocks such as integrated architectures of analog-to-digital converters (ADC) and digital-to-analog converters (DAC). The continuous-time analog filters have also been outlined as band-select, anti-aliasing and reconstruction filters are important part of today's data converters.

At the end of the course, the passing students must be able to,

• perform charge redistribution analysis of switch-capacitor (SC) circuits and understand non-idealities caused by SC parasitic , op-amp and switches at system/transfer function level
• On-chip realization of continuous-time filters such as leapfrog, elliptical as active-RC or Gm-C filters
• Understand theoretical basics of ADC and DAC such as sampling and quantization,
• Describe the most important static and dynamic performance metrics for data converters and ADC/DAC architectures along with their advantages/disadvantages
• Describe key circuits implementation, main limiting factors for data-converters and their solutions for improvement
• Design an ADC or DAC for a practical application and simulating it at component level with advanced CAD/EDA tools

• Charge redistribution analysis for SC sample-and-hold circuits, SC accumulators and SC integrators, Noise and parasitic analysis, impact of finite bandwidth, gain, slew rate, dc offset and noise of opamp and on-resistance, charge injection and clock feed-through of switches
• An overview of continuous time filters and their on-chip realization as active-RC, Gm-C or OTA-C filters
• Fundamental of concepts of sampling, quantization, static and dynamic operation of data converters
• Nyquist-rate resistor based-, capacitor based- and current steering DAC architectures
• Nyquist-rate full-flash, folding and interpolation, SAR and pipeline ADC architectures
• An overview of circuits for data-converters
• Static method for testing DNL, INL; Testing of dynamic performance such as settling time, glitch and distortion, histogram method and use of sine wave and FFT for extracting specifications
• Oversampling techniques such as first and second order sampled sigma-delta modulators and noise shaping

• Franco Maloberti, "Data Converters," Springer
• Richard Schreier, Gabor C. Temes "Understanding Delta-Sigma Data Converters,"
• Rolf Schaumann and Mac E. Van Valkenburg, "Design of Analog Filters,"