VSD Intern – Analog Comparator Design using Sky130
Learn the basics of analog comparator circuit design and layout, including integrating Sky130 foundry PDKs. Understand the importance of hysteresis in preventing spurious switching due to noise. This course covers design, layout, and specifications using ngspice, Xschem, and Magic. Ideal for beginners and physical design professionals interested in IP design.
What you’ll learn
- Basics of Analog comparator Circuit design and layout
- Integrate Sky130 foundry PDKs with comparator circuit design
- Basics of comparator hysteresis characteristics
A comparator is a device that compares two analog inputs and outputs a digital signal indicating which input is larger. So it has two analog input terminals and one binary digital output. When the difference between two analog input signals approach zero, noise on the inputs will cause spurious switching of digital output. This rapid change in output due to noise can be prevented by hysteresis. Hysteresis is switching the output high or low at different input signal levels. In place of one switching point, hysteresis introduces two: one for rising edge, and one for falling edge of voltage or current. The difference between the higher-level trip value (VH) and the lower-level trip value (VL) equals the hysteresis voltage (HYST).
A comparator can be divided into three distinctive pieces – a front-end differential amplifier, amplifier stage and output stage.
This comparator consists of
Front-end differential amplifier
Amplifier of the output from front-end differential sage
NAND gate to act as buffer as well as incorporate the enable pin
Inverter to act as final buffer before output. The NAND and Inverter improves the slew and provides a little gain.
Positive feedback differential set-up.
Various Comparator specifications are listed below:
Propagation Delay -The time difference between the input crossing the reference voltage and the output changing the logic state. Generally, comparators are fast
Input Offset -The difference between the input voltages at the instance where output voltage equals zero volts
Gain–Ideal Comparator has infinite gain and output jumps from low to high at a specific difference in input voltage. Ideal comparators will have a linear transfer curve.
There are multiple other parameters like output swing, Output type, input and output current and impedance but we will focus on above including hysteresis.
This webinar will discuss all design, layout and specification details using ngspice, Xschem and Magic
Who this course is for:
- Beginner who is curious to know about circuit design and layout
- Physical Design Professionals curious to know about IP design
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