ECE 697B CMOS Photonic IC Design
Fall 2013, Boise State
University
Instructor : Vishal Saxena
Time : TBD
Course dates : TBD
Location : TBD
Holidays : TBD
Office : TBD
Office hours : TBD
E-mail : vishalsaxena AT boisestate DOT
edu
Lecture notes and
accompanying material are here.
Assignments and projects
can be found here.
MATLAB and
Lumerical examples are posted here.
Course content – This course aims to expose graduate students to
the emerging interdisciplinary area of CMOS Photonic IC design.
The course will cover design of CMOS photonic devices and electronic signal
condition circuits. Planned topics include:
·
Fundamentals
of silicon photonics and FDTD methods
·
Passive
components: SOI waveguides, couplers, grating couplers, MZI, microring resonators,
microdisk, edge couplers, Bragg gratings
·
Modulators
and detectors: device modeling and behavioral modeling, Thermal devices.
·
High-speed
design: CML logic and latches
· TIA circuits,
limiting amplifiers, buffers etc.
·
MZI
driver circuits, distributed drivers.
·
CDR/PLL,
Equalizers and other miscellaneous topics
·
Photonic
Systems: Optical serial links, photonic network-on-chips, etc.
·
CMOS
Photonic system level design and testing (Lab tours and demo).
Prerequisites –
Strong background in Analog IC Design (ECE 511) and Electromagnetic Theory.
Knowledge of circuit simulation in Spectre and Matlab scripting.
The course will be fast paced and prerequisite material in
circuits and electromagnetics will not be covered. High level of student
participation and effort is expected.
Textbook – No textbook. Lecture notes, handouts and
references. The complete reference list for CMOS Photonic IC design is
available here.
The course
will require the use of Lumerical
and Cadence design tools. The students will be required to sign NDAs for the
technology PDKs used.
Workload (Grading)
·
Homeworks
(25%): Weekly assignments incorporating Photonic and CMOS circuit design.
·
Mid-Term
Exam (25%)
·
Project
1 (25%): TBA
·
Project
2 (25%): TBA
Policies
Use of
laptop in the class is encouraged for simulations while internet surfing is
not.
Late work
will not be accepted.
While
collaboration in homeworks and projects is encouraged but blatantly copying
stuff (plagiarism) is not allowed.