Lecture

1. Building blocks of integrated-circuit amplifiers.

Text Book: Sedra & Smith Ch 7; Razavi Ch 7; Razavi Ch 9. Lecture note ppt is here.

1.1 Current mirror, cascode current mirror.

1.2 Common-Source with active load, Common-Gate; Cascode amplifier.

1.3 Source Follower, CS stage with Source degeneration.

2. Differential pairs

Text Book: Sedra & Smith Ch 8; Razavi Ch. 10. Lecture notes is here.

3. Frequency response

Sedra & Smith Ch 9; Sedra & Smith Ch 10; Sedra & Smith Ch 11; Razavi Ch 11. Lecture is here.

help tutorial: Sedra & Smith, Appendix E, Appendix F

4. Operation Amplifier and applications

Text Book: Ch 2 (Sedra) or Ch 8 (Razavi). Lecture is here.

5. Feedback

Sedra & Smith Ch 10; Razavi Ch 12 . Lecture is here.