UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

EEC 210

MOS Analog Circuit Design

Fall 2025

Preliminary Course Overview

This page last modified on August 2, 2025
Syllabus:
https://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~lewis/210/index.html

Course Time and Location: Tu, Th 10:30-11:50 am, 1062 Bainer.
Class will not meet on holidays (November 11 and November 27).

Instructor: Professor Stephen Lewis
Office Hours: TBA (On Zoom).
Please talk with me in office hours or after class instead of sending me email.

Recommended Text: Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, Gray, Hurst, Lewis, and Meyer, 6th Edition, Wiley, 2024.
The text is not required, and the course will be taught so that you do not need to buy it. If you do buy it, a used copy of either the 4th or the 5th edition is fine for this class.

Text Corrections: Errata

Reference Texts:
  1. CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation, Baker, 4th Edition, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2019.
  2. Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, Razavi, 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2016.
  3. Analog Integrated Circuit Design, Carusone, Johns, and Martin, 2nd Edition, Wiley, 2011.

Prerequisites: All of the following
    EEC 110B
    Any of the following: B or better in EEC 140A, B or better in EEC 140AV

Objectives: This course concentrates on analog circuits using CMOS technologies. After taking this course, a student should understand:
  1. Linear models for CMOS devices
  2. CMOS amplifier and reference circuits
  3. Compensation techniques for electronic linear amplifiers
  4. Simple noise-analysis techniques for CMOS amplifiers
  5. The use of the SPICE circuit-simulation program

Homework:
Assignments will be posted on the course website but will not be collected or graded this term. Homework solutions will be available on the course website about a week after the homework is posted.

Grading:
The grades will be based on three quizzes, an HSPICE-based design project, and a final exam. You will have 24 hours to work on each quiz. The quizzes will be due on canvas on October 15 at 1 pm, November 5 at 1 pm, and December 3 at 1 pm. The project will be assigned by early November and due on Tuesday November 18 at 10:30 am. The final exam time is scheduled for Monday December 8 from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm. (Click the following link Campus final exam schedule and then click "Final Exam Schedule-Fall 2025.")

The weighting used for the final course grade will be:


 Weighting
 Comment
Project 25%
 Using HSPICE will be required
Three Quizzes 5% each
 Open notes, open homeworks, and open homework solutions
Final Exam 60%
 Closed book and 1 sheet (both sides) of notes allowed (8.5 in. by 11 in.)

Reading suggestions:
The reading suggestions give an outline for the class and refer to the recommended text: Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, Gray, Hurst, Lewis, and Meyer, 6th Edition, Wiley, 2024.

TopicReading
MOS Transistors and Technology Sec. 1.1-1.2, 1.5-1.9
Basic MOS Amplifiers Sec. 3.1, 3.2, 3.3.2, 3.3.4, 3.3.5, 3.3.7, 3.3.9, 3.4.2.2, 3.4.3, 3.4.4
Differential Pairs Sec. 3.5.3, 3.5.4, 3.5.5, 3.5.6.1, 3.5.6.6-3.5.6.9
Current Sources and Active Loads Sec. 4.1, 4.2, 4.3.1, 4.3.2.2, 4.3.3.2, 4.3.4.2, 4.3.5.2, 4.3.6.2, 4.4.1-4.4.5, A4.1.2, A4.2.2
Reference Circuits Sec. 4.5
MOS Two-Stage Op Amp Sec. 6.1-6.4
Frequency Response Sec. 7.1-7.3.6 (skip material on bipolar transistors)
Stability and Compensation Sec. 9.1-9.4, 9.6 (skip material on bipolar transistors)
Introduction to Noise Sec. 11.1-11.5, 11.8 (skip material on bipolar transistors)