The course on advanced analog design teaches novice designers to choose a certain level of methodology to carry out a design to cope with trade-offs with the right compromises to meet the specifications.

The main learning outcome of this course is to replace the long-used overdrive voltage methodology based on strong inversion models and learn alternate analog design methodology using the powerful concept of inversion coefficient based on EKV MOSFET model. The second learning outcome is to understand how to cope with trade-offs within a particular analog design context which generate a constellation of multiple design paths that can be resolved by giving up certain benefits in exchange of others.

• Design for Manufacturability
• Noise, Gain and Bandwidth in analog design; Frequency, dynamic range and power trade-offs
• Design trade-offs in CMOS comparator
• Low noise amplifier design
• Design of multi-stage, rail-to-rail input/output and class AB driver amplifiers
• Band-gap reference design
• MOSFET design from weak to strong inversion
• MOSFET Performance versus Drain Current, Inversion Coefficient, and Channel Length
• Tradeoffs in MOS performance, and design of differential pairs and current mirrors
• Matching and layout

• Willy M.C. Sansen, "Analog Design Essentials," Springer
• Chris Toumazou, George Moschytz and Barrie Gilbert, "Trade-offs in Analog Circuit Design," Kluwer Academic Publishers
• David M. Binkley, "Tradeoffs and Optimization in Analog CMOS Design," John Willeys & Sons