George Chien's NTU IC776ca Page

George Chien's NTU CalView IC776ca Page

My current research is on Monolithic CMOS Frequency Synthesizer for Cellular Applications. A short abstract can be found in the ILP 1997 Research Summary. My advisor is Prof. Paul R. Gray in the EECS department at the University of California at Berkeley.

Class Information Spring 1999

Syllabus, "Syllabus is here"(PDF)

MathCad 8.0 files for filter design (Prof. Boser),

"Reference Functions (defaults.mcd)"

"Biquad (biquad.mcd)"

"Biquad Noise (biquadnoise.mcd)"

"Cascades of Biquads (cascadeesofbiquads.mcd)"

"Filter Approximations (filterapproximation.mcd)"

"Intergrator Phase (integratorphase.mcd)"

"LC Ladder (lcladder.mcd)"

"Sallen-Key LPF (sallenkeylpf.mcd)"

"Switched Capacitor Bandpass (scbpbilinear.mcd)"

Homework #1 Solution,

"Problem 1 matlab code"

"Problem 2 matlab code"

"Problem 2 Spice deck"

Homework #2 Solution,

"Problem 2b Spice deck"

"Problem 2 Spice deck"

Project Description,

"Nihal Godambe"

"Vikas Choudhary"

Project Report,

"Vikas Choudhary"

"Nihal Godambe"

Class Information

Homework HSpice model, "EECS290Y 0.6um CMOS Level28 Model"(text)

Syllabus, "Syllabus is here"(text)

Decimation Filter for Midas, "Decimation Filter for the project in Midas"(text)

Problem Set #2 (updated Feb 17, 1997), "Problem Set #2 in Postscript"(postscript)

Nonlinearity in Unit Element DAC (updated March 7, 1997), "Nonlinearity in Unit Element DAC"(postscript)

Lecture Notes by Tape #

Tape One, "EECS290Y A/D Interfaces in VLSI Technology" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Two, "Basic Filter Concepts" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Three, "Continuous-Time Filters" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Four, "MOSFET-C Filters" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Five, "MOSFET-C and Gm/C Filters" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Six, "S.C. Filters/Integrators I" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Seven, "Guest Speaker: Analog Filters for R-W Channels for Disk Drives" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Eight, "S.C. Filters/Integrators II" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Nine, "Z-Domain models for integrators: BiQuads" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Ten, "Dynamic Range Limits in SCF" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Eleven, "Speed, Accuracy, Power limits in SCF" (PDF)

Tape Twelve, "A/D Overview" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Thirteen, "MOS S/H con't" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Fourteen, "MOS S/H con't" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Fifteen, "MOS S/H con't" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Sixteen, "Voltage Comparators" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Seventeen, "D/A Converters" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Eighteen, "Linearity in DAC's" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Nineteen, "A more analytical look at mismatching in DAC" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Twenty, "Finish DAC's" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Twenty One, "A/D System View" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Twenty Two, "Flash ADC" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Twenty Three, "Pipeline ADC; Midterm Review" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Twenty Four, "Pipeline cont'd" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Twenty Five, "Oversampling ADC's" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Twenty Six, "Sigma Delta Modulator" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Twenty Seven, "Midas" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Twenty Eight, "Sigma Delta Modulator con't" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Twenty Nine, "Practical Issues in Sigma Delta" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Thirty, "Practical Issues, con't" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Thirty One, "High Order Coders; cascade" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Thirty Two, "Guest Speaker, Prof. Bosco Leung" (PS only)

Tape Thirty Three, "Intro to RF design" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Thirty Four, "RF con't" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Thirty Five, "Low Power RF Design" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Thirty Six, "RF con't" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Thirty Seven, "Synthesizers" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Thirty Eight, "Synthesizers con't" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Tape Thirty Nine, "Final Review" (GIF/MIF/PS)

Please e-mail me if you have any questions/correction regarding these notes. Email: gchien@eecs.berkeley.edu

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George Chien

University of California
211-34 Cory Hall #1772
Berkeley, CA 94720-1772

Email: gchien@eecs.berkeley.edu
Office: (510) 643-6147
FAX: (510) 642-2739

Last modified: (Wed) Jan 17 1996