Report on Analog IC Design Workshop

The IETE student branch of ETC Department of Don Bosco College of Engineering, Fatorda-Goa organized a two day workshop on Analog IC Design. Workshop was held on March 13-14, 2020 at Signal Processing Lab. The Workshop was open for Third year ETC students.

The resource person for the workshop was, Mr. Akhil U. Masurkar, Ass. Prof.- Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai.  He completed his M.E. in Electronics Engineering from Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engineering, Mumbai in 2012 and his degree in B.E. is in Electronics Engineering from Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai in 2009.

The first day of the workshop included topics: Basics of VLSI, Difference between Analog and Digital VLSI, Current mirrors, Cascode current mirrors and CS amplifiers.  On the second day of workshop topics covered were: CD and CG amplifier, Differential amplifier and Operational amplifier. After learning the theoretical concept of each design the students implemented the same on the software ‘LTspice’. The students got themselves familiarized with LTspice software and were also able to the plot characteristics of circuits of various inputs given to the design circuits.

During the workshop the expert cleared various doubts related to the topic. The expert encouraged students to keep exploring more in the domain and the projects that can be done in this domain.