Electrical Engineering
      and Computer Sciences

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

UC Berkeley

 


EE W247

Analog-Digital Interfaces in VLSI Technology
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Units 3
Estimated Work 12 hours/week
Prerequisites    MAS-IC Students Only
Weekly Format  3 hrs lecture
1 hr discussion
3 hrs laboratory

 

Architectural and circuit level design and analysis of integrated analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog interfaces in modern CMOS and BiCMOS VLSI technology. Analog-digital converters, digital-analog converters, sample/hold amplifiers, continuous and switched-capacitor filters. Low power mixed signal design techniques. Data communications systems including interface circuity. CAD tools for analog design for simulation and synthesis.

TEACHING TEAM
Alon

Elad Alon, Associate Professor

He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2001, 2002, and 2006, respectively. In Jan. 2007, he joined the University of California at Berkeley, where he is now an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciencesa as well as a co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC). He has held consulting or visiting positions at Xilinx, Sun Labs, Intel, AMD, Rambus, Hewlett Packard, and IBM Research, where he worked on digital, analog, and mixed-signal integrated circuits for computing, test and measurement, and high-speed communications.

Homepage: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/elad.html
Email:  Elad@eecs
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 3:30-4:40pm; Thursdays 2:30-3:30pm

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COURSE SCHEDULE

Fall 2013 - Rabaey

Spring 2013 - Rabaey