Electronics and. RF Applications

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1 Electronics and RF Applications A comprehensive short-course series presented by the Analog and Mixed-Signal Center in the Texas Engineering Experiment Station The Texas A&M University System Analog and Digital Integrated Circuits: Basics and Applications January 13 17, 2003 MEMS: Fundamentals, Sensors and RF Applications January 20 22, and Bluetooth Operations and Circuit Implementation February 3 6, 2003 PCB Design,Testing and Troubleshooting February 17 20, 2003 A M S C Analog and Mixed-Signal Center Texas Engineering Experiment Station The Texas A&M University System Texas A&M University Department of Electrical Engineering

2 Analog and Digital Integrated Circuits: Basics and Applications Presenters: E. Sánchez-Sinencio and J. Silva-Martínez Course 1. January 13 17, 2003 Who should attend This course has been tailored for engineers who are not specialists in integrated circuit design.this course will allow engineers to learn the fundamentals of integrated analog and digital circuits. It will give novices and those interested in entering this field a solid foundation in the fundamentals of the technology and knowledge of basic analog and digital building blocks. At hands-on laboratory sessions, participants will practice IC simulation and layout techniques leading to a final IC design project. Required background Participants should have a basic knowledge of semiconductor devices, logic circuits and circuit analysis. Course description This course focuses on fundamentals beginning with MOS technology and transistor models. Basic analog and digital building blocks at the transistor level are introduced along with the use of IC simulators and how to do basic layouts. Analog and digital sub-circuits including one and two transistor inverters, NOR, NAND, single-stage amplifiers and current-mirrors are discussed, followed by flip-flops, shift registers, differential amplifiers, and operational amplifiers of one and two stages including frequency compensation. A basic analog-to-digital converter will be introduced. Discussion of memories, PLAs, microprocessors, PLDs and Op Amp applications concludes the course. Fee: $1, CEU December 13, 2002 Instructors Edgar Sánchez-Sinencio is director of the Analog and Mixed-Signal Center in the Texas Engineering Experiment Station. He is an internationally recognized expert in analog and mixed-signal circuit implementation. His recent research interests are in RF communications and CMOS implementation of broadband circuits. He has been a pioneer in the areas of switched-capacitor circuits, OTA-C filters and current-mode circuits. He has published about 100 journal papers and several conference papers and is the co-author of Switched Capacitor Circuits (1984) and Low-Voltage/Low-Power Integrated Circuits (1999). Dr. Sánchez-Sinencio is a professor of electrical engineering and holds the TI/Jack Kilby Chair in Analog Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University. Monday, January 13 Analog I: Process technology metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) Transistor CMOS modes, IC resistors and capacitors, small signal transistor model Digital I: Integrated circuit design, types of inverters and their properties Laboratory I: Introduction to IC simulators and layout software Tuesday, January 14 Analog II: Single transistor stage amplifiers Current-mirrors and transconductance amplifiers Digital II: MOSFET properties, speed limitations, pads handling, combinatorial logic, standard cells and gate arrays Laboratory II: Simulation and layout of simple analog and digital blocks (NOR, NAND and current-mirror) José Silva-Martínez received a Ph.D. from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in In 1993, he joined the electronics department at the National Institute for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (Mexico) and from 1995 to1998 was head of that department. In 1999, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University, where he is an associate professor. His current research is in the design and fabrication of integrated circuits for communication and biomedical applications. From Dr. Silva- Martínez was the IEEE-CAS vice-president of Region IX. He was a co-recipient of the 1990 European Solid-State Circuits Conference best paper award. He is the inaugural holder of the TI Professorship 1 in Analog Engineering at Texas A&M. Wednesday, January 15 Analog III: Differential stage, one-stage operational amplifier (Op Amp) Digital III: Sequential logic circuits: flip-flops, shift register, clock noise, logic functions, transmission gates, derived clocks, clocked CMOS logic Laboratory III: Simulation and layout of a flip-flop, preliminary considerations of final design project Thursday, January 16 Analog IV: Two-stage operational amplifier and its frequency compensation Digital IV: Adders (series, parallel), multipliers, arithmetic logic units and finite state machines Laboratory IV (Final): Simulation and layout of final project. Friday, January 17 Analog V: Operational transconductance amplifiers and Op Amp applications, i.e., first-order sigma delta converter. Digital V: Introduction to memories, PLAs, microprocessors and PLDs

3 MEMS: Fundamentals, Sensors and RF Applications Presenters: Mona Zaghloul and Sanjay Raman Course 2. January 20 22, 2003 Who should attend This course is designed for electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, civil engineers, chemists, material scientists and all physical sciences professionals interested in building sensors to sense the environment and to design RF micromachined active and passive components. Required background Bachelor s degree or equivalent in engineering or in physical sciences. Course description This is a basic introductory course to microelectromechanical systems that will allow engineers to learn basic MEMS design and fabrication. It will give an overview of MEMS design, fabrication and applications in basic commercial sensor products. Applications of MEMS to RF communication and RF MEMS devices will be included. Fee: $1, CEU December 13, 2002 Instructors Mona E. Zaghloul received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada. She is currently a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at George Washington University,Washington, D.C., where she also is director of the Institute of MEMS and VLSI Technologies. She has published more than 140 technical papers in the general areas of circuits and systems, microelectronics systems design, VLSI circuits design and microlectromechanical systems. Her main interests are in the areas of analog design of VLSI circuits,vlsi systems application, design, and implementation of MEMs and RF MEMS. Monday, January 20 MEMS fundamentals, design and fabrication Introduction, examples of commercial MEMS, MEMS classes, infrastructure needed Access to fabrication facility, what is needed in fabrication facility, procedure for design, comparison to standard VLSI, MEMS CAD tools Micromachining techniques, bulk micromachining, surface micromachining, examples of silicon sensors, brief description of varieties of silicon sensors Sanjay Raman received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in Since that time he has been an assistant professor with the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. His research interests include RF/microwave/mixed-signal integrated circuits, RF MEMS/NEMS and communications and sensor microsystem applications. Tuesday, January 21 Applications of MEMS and classification Examples of MEMS applications in transportation, medical, optical communication RF MEMS concepts, design in RF communications Wednesday, January 22 RF MEMS for highly integrated RF systems, micromachined passive (lumped) components, RF MEMS switches and MEMS/NEMs resonators for RF tank/filter applications Registration Form Electronics and RF Applications Short Courses Name (Last) (First/Middle) Title Company or University Mailing Address City State and/or Country ZIP/Postal Code Telephone Fax Registration Fees** Course 1: Analog and Digital Integrated Circuits 3.1 CEU Jan , 2003 One Person $1, (SS# ) On-Campus Parking Course 2: MEMS: Fundamentals, Sensors and RF Applications 2.1 CEU Jan , 2003 One Person $1, (SS# ) Course 3: and Bluetooth Operations and Circuit Implementation 2.8 CEU Feb. 3 6, 2003 One Person $1, (SS# ) On-Campus Parking Course 4: PCB Design,Testing and Troubleshooting 2.8 CEU Feb , 2003 One Person $1, (SS# ) Total Registration Payment (sum of all courses) $ **Discounts available for companies associated with the Analog and Mixed-Signal Center. Call for more information. Payment Company Check (U.S. Dollars) $ Credit Card* (circle one) MasterCard Visa AmEx Name as it appears on card Card # Exp. Date Signature *Bank surcharge added for credit card payments. Mail registration form with payment to: AMSC,Texas A&M University Attn: Ella Gallagher 3128 TAMU College Station TX USA Information: Tel: (979) Fax: (979) amscsc@tamu.edu Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available on request by marking the appropriate line on the registration form and submitting the fee for each course.

4 and Bluetooth Operations and Circuit Implementations Presenters: Bob Morrow and Edgar Sánchez-Sinencio January 6, 2003 Course 3. February 3 6, 2003 Fee: $1, CEU Who should attend Professionals who are developing or deploying a/b/g or Bluetooth systems will benefit from the emphasis on propagation and methods for determining maximum useful range. Each system s method of modulating data and real-world throughput figures will provide insight into its respective capabilities. Security and coexistence issues will be of great interest to designers, deployment engineers and users alike. Required background Attendees should have a basic understanding of digital communication methods. No prior familiarity with or Bluetooth operations is necessary. Course description This four-day course covers the fundamentals of and Bluetooth short-range wireless communications. Participants will study indoor propagation characteristics and will be able to estimate range limits easily.the methods used by and Bluetooth to modulate information are examined and compared. Next, the operation of b, a, g and Bluetooth networks is presented, followed by a detailed analysis of how security is implanted in each protocol. Countermeasures to various attack strategies are discussed. Coexistence between and Bluetooth is analyzed and interference solutions are presented. Finally, circuit architecture and implementation are discussed, followed by a Bluetooth receiver case study. Instructors Bob Morrow is president of Morrow Technical Services. Before becoming a wireless communications consultant, he was director of research at the U.S. Air Force Academy and deputy head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology. Noted for his ability to put theory into practice, he has designed several wireless networks and telemetry systems. He has more than two dozen publications in theoretical and applied research journals, holds a U.S. patent and is a licensed radio amateur. His book Bluetooth Operation and Use recently was published by McGraw-Hill. Monday, February 3 Introduction Wired vs. wireless communications Centralized network evaluation Peer-to-peer network evaluation History of and Bluetooth Usage models and Bluetooth market comparison Propagation and Range Limit Review of decibels Large-scale path loss and Bluetooth maximum range Multipath Diversity combining Comparison of RF and infrared propagation Data Communications OOK vs. FSK vs. PSK Increasing data transmission speed Spread spectrum techniques Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing Error control coding Frequency regulation and administration and Bluetooth modulation methods Tuesday, February Operations Wireless Ethernet architecture The radio Physical layer packet structure b (Wi-Fi) for increased data rates a and HIPERLAN comparisons g draft standard Medium access control Bluetooth Operations Protocol stack Radio and baseband Throughput analysis Profiles Hardware examples Qualification Wednesday, February 5 Security Types of security threats Operation of Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) WEP weaknesses Attack countermeasures Alternatives to WEP Bluetooth security entities Link keys and their function Authentication and encryption Bluetooth security weaknesses and countermeasures Coexistence Consequences of interference Wi-Fi on Bluetooth Bluetooth on Bluetooth Coexistence solutions Collocated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth nodes Microwave ovens Thursday, February 6 Architecture Implementation Considerations Bluetooth and Wi-Fi radio Specifications Radio architectures Super heterodyne Low IF architecture Direct conversion architecture Transmit architecture selection Bluetooth transceiver in the literature Building Block Implementations LNA and Mixer Channel select filtering Band-pass filtering Poly-phase filtering Frequency synthesizer and VCOs Modulators and demodulators ADCs and AGCs Receiver 0.35µm CMOS Bluetooth Receiver Measurement setup Experimental results See course 1 for E. Sánchez-Sinencio's background. Hardware examples Produced by TEES Communications /02 3M

5 PCB Design,Testing and Troubleshooting Presenters: TBA Course 4. February 17 20, 2003 Fee: $1, CEU January 17, 2003 Topics to be covered include: Fundamentals of PCB terms and layout Constraint-driven high-speed board design RF and microwave PCB design PCB testing considerations PCB troubleshooting Please visit for more details on this short course. For more information, check out our web site at Registration Deadlines 1. Analog and Digital Integrated Circuits: Basics and Applications December 13, MEMS: Fundamentals, Sensors and RF Applications December 13, and Bluetooth Operations and Circuit Implementations January 6, PCB Design,Testing and Troubleshooting January 17, 2003 Continuing Education Unit Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available on request by marking the appropriate line on the registration form and submitting the fee for each course. Cancellation Policy Registration for each course is guaranteed until the dates noted above. After the course deadline, registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis only. Registration fees will be refunded, less a cancellation fee of $200, if written cancellation request is received by or before one week (seven days) after the deadline.the Analog and Mixed-Signal Center reserves the right to cancel any course because of low registration up to one week (seven days) before the course is scheduled to begin and will provide full refund of paid registration fees. Travel, Hotel and Parking Information American Airlines and Continental Airlines serve College Station through Dallas and Houston. College Station is located 90 miles north of George Bush Intercontinental Airport (Houston) on Texas Highway 6 via Interstate Highway 45 and State Highway 105. A partial list of local hotels is provided below. Make reservations early. Hotels marked with an asterisk (*) may provide transportation to campus if requested at check-in. Parking fees on campus may be paid for in advance by mail with registration or on a daily basis at the parking garage on a first-come, first-serve basis. On-campus lodging may be obtained by calling the Memorial Student Center, (979) Off-Campus Lodging Best Western Inn at Chimney Hill, 901 University Dr. (979) Comfort Inn,* 104 Texas Ave. S. (979) Days Inn College Station, 2514 Texas Ave. S. (979) Fairfield Inn, 4613 S.Texas Ave. (979) Hampton Inn, 320 Texas Ave. S. (979) Hilton Hotel,* 801 University Dr. (979) Holiday Inn-College Station, 1503 Texas Ave. (979) La Quinta, 607 Texas Ave. S. (979) Ramada Inn, 1502 Texas Ave. S. (976) Super 8 Motel, 301 Texas Ave. (979)

6 A M S C Analog and Mixed-Signal Center Texas Engineering Experiment Station The Texas A&M University System Texas A&M University Department of Electrical Engineering The Analog and Mixed-Signal Center s mission is to contribute to the advancement of state-of-the-art technology for analog and mixed-signal circuits and systems. It was formally established as a center in the Texas Engineering Experiment Station in 1999, although an analog and digital VLSI group already had been doing research in the Texas A&M University electrical engineering department since 1976.Texas Instruments fabricated integrated circuits designed by this group from 1980 to Since then, the ICs have been fabricated by MOSIS, a government-supported foundry with smallvolume production services for VLSI circuit development. The Analog and Mixed-Signal Center has strong international research ties in Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Mexico. Research thrust areas include data converters, low-voltage/low-power circuits, built-in analog testing and RF IC communication circuits.the center plays a key role in the education and training of highly qualified engineers for design and manufacturability of analog and mixed-signal integrated systems. Its computing facilities combine the strengths of UNIX and Windows NT systems.the Unix systems include SUN SPARC and ULTRA workstations and a SUN Enterprise 450 Server.The IC design software includes all the tools required from system-level design to layout design, and from printed circuit board design to testing of the fabricated circuits. The Analog and Mixed-Signal Center is a research component of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, the engineering research agency of Texas. For more information, check out our web site at A M S C Analog and Mixed Signal Center Texas Engineering Experiment Station The Texas A&M University System Texas A&M University Department of Electrical Engineering 3128 TAMU College Station,TX Nonprofit Org. U.S. Postage PAID College Station Texas Permit No. 215