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Analog and Mixed-Mode VLSI Design involves creating integrated circuits (ICs) that handle both continuous (analog) and discrete (digital) signals, focusing on CMOS technology, building blocks like amplifiers, ADCs/DACs, switched-capacitor circuits, and crucial layout/testing aspects for real-world performance, bridging the gap between digital processing and physical world interfaces like audio and sensors. This field blends traditional analog circuit design with digital system principles, requiring deep understanding of semiconductor physics, layout challenges, and device modeling .
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Understand the operation of MOS transistors as switches, diodes, resistors, current sources, and the functioning of basic, Cascode, and Wilson current mirror circuits.
Develop single-stage MOS amplifiers including common-source amplifiers with various loads and source follower configurations using their performance characteristics
Design CMOS amplifier circuits such as active-load inverters, differential amplifiers, Cascode amplifiers, current amplifiers, and output amplifiers to meet given specifications.
Apply the principles, architecture, and applications of operational amplifiers, oscillators, phase-locked loops, and data converters (ADC and DAC).
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