Università Roma Tre

Introduction: basic on analog and digital design.
Input stages and signal amplifier: project examples: offset and bias current nulling in integrator amplifiers; current feedback amplifiers (CFA); antialiasing filter for A/D conversion and CD audio filter; switch capacitor filters; digital fiters with design elements.
Noise: noise properties, dinamics and sources. Op amp noise and S/N ratio. Photodiode amplifier application. Low noise integrated circuits.
Analog-digital conversion: ADC definition; oversamping and noise shaping; ΣΔ modulator, ΣΔ converters architecture; conditioning system for sensors; examples of OpAmp conditioning system; ADC practical application: ADC selection and temperature measurement, electronic scale and power measurement.
Output stages and power amplifiers: large signal amplifiers. A, B, AB and C classification. Armonic distortion and power devices. Safe operating Area (SOA) protections. Efficiency. Integrated power amplifiers and devices.
Design project examples in several microelectronic field (biomedical, radiofrequency and power).

M. Thompson, Intuitive Analog Circuit Design, Newnes-Elsevier, 2006.

Analog-Digital Conversion, W. Kester ed., Analog Devices, www.analog.com