Instructor: Dr. George Yuan (eeyuan@ust.hk)
Course Description
Biology has been a long-stand fascination of the human
society. As semiconductor technologies advance, bio-medical
application-specific integrated circuits have become a major trend of the
industry. The course aims to systematically introduce both major issues of mixed-signal
circuit designs and biological mechanisms related to existing IC designs. The
course will cover state-of-art design examples of this multi-disciplinary
field.
This course is organized on a series of important
topics in the mixed-signal and bio-medical IC field. Every class is dedicated
to one topic. The class is a mixture of paper discussion and regular lectures. The
first half course is dedicated to mixed-signal IC design. The course starts
with 2 review classes on devices, packaging, OPAMP design, and filter design.
Then, the course covers topics on noise, pipelined ADC, Sigma-delta ADC, and
SAR ADC. The second half course is dedicated to sensory and bio-medical IC
design. The topics include bio-potential detection, implants, DNA detection,
CCD, CMOS imaging, and CT/SPECT.
The course has regular paper reading
assignments. The course has one design project as the final exam. After the
course, students are expected to understand the fundamental concepts of
mixed-signal IC designs, the current status and challenges in the design of bio-sensory
mixed-signal integrated circuits, with hands-on project experience
Prerequisite: ELEC304 or equivalent. Students are preferred to have taken ELEC504.
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