VL4004 Power Management and Clock Distribution Circuits Syllabus:

VL4004 Power Management and Clock Distribution Circuits Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

 to design of reference circuits and low dropout regulators for desired specifications
 to understand oscillators choice and requirements for clock generation circuits
 to design clock generation and recovery in the context of high speed systems

UNIT I VOLTAGE AND CURRENT REFERENCES

Current mirrors, self biased current reference, startup circuits, VBE based current reference, VT based current reference, band gap reference , supply independent biasing, temperature independent biasing, PTAT current generation, constant Gm biasing.

UNIT II LOW DROP OUT REGULATORS

Analog building blocks, negative feedback, performance metrics, AC design, stability, internal and external compensation, PSRR – internal and external compensation circuits

UNIT III OSCILLATOR FUNDAMENTALS

General considerations, ring oscillators, LC oscillators, Colpitts oscillator, jitter and phase noise in ring oscillators, impulse sensitivity function for LC & ring oscillators, phase noise in differential LC oscillators.

UNIT IV CLOCK DISTRIBUTION CIRCUITS

PLL fundamental, PLL stability, noise performance, charge-pump PLL topology, CPPLL building blocks, jitter and phase noise performance, DLL fundamentals.

UNIT V CLOCK AND DATA RECOVERY CIRCUITS

CDR architectures, transimpedance amplifiers and limiters, CMOS interface, linear half rate CMOS CDR circuits, wide capture range CDR circuits.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

COURSE OUTCOMES:

At the end of this course, the students will be able to:
CO1:design band gap reference circuits and low drop out regulator for a given specification.
CO2: understand specification related to supply and clock generation circuits of IC
CO3: choose oscillator topology and design meeting the requirement of clock generation circuits.
CO4: design clock generation circuits in the context of high speed I/Os, high speed broad band communication circuits and data conversion circuits.
CO5: Design clock distribution circuits

REFERENCES

1. Gabriel.a. Rincon-Mora, “Voltage References from Diode to Precision Higher Order Band gap circuits”, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2002.
2. Gabriel.a. Rincon-Mora, “Analog IC Design with Low-Dropout Regulators”, Mcgraw-Hill Professional Pub, 2009.
3. Behzad Razavi, “Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits”, Tata Mcgraw Hill, 2001
4. Floyd M. Gardner ,”Phase Lock Techniques” John Wiley& Sons, Inc 2005.
5. Michiel Steyaert, Arthur H.M. Van Roermund, Herman Casier, “Analog Circuit Design: High Speed Clock and Data Recovery, High-Performance Amplifiers Power Management”, Springer, 2008.
6. Behzadrazavi, “Design of Integrated Circuits for Optical Communications”, McGraw Hill, 2003.