Class syllabus

ECE 205/206

Introduction to electric and electronic circuits

Fall 2008

 

 

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Week 1

            Tuesday, Aug. 26:

                        introduction, charge, current, voltage, power

                        Read*: Kerns 1.1, 1.2 

            Thursday, Aug. 28:                                                                             

circuit elements, Ohm’s law, KCL and KVL, series and parallel resistors

                        read:    Kerns 2.1 - 2.6 (pp. 34 - 55)

           

*  Reading assignments should be read before class.

Kerns   Essentials of Electrical and Computer Engineering

SN       Supplemental Notes

Supplemental Notes are available in Room 243, Everitt Lab.

 

            No lab this week

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Week 2

            Tuesday, Sept. 2:

                        nodal analysis, mesh analysis

                        read:    Kerns 2.7, 2.8

Thursday, Sept. 4:

                        mesh analysis (cont.), superposition, diodes

                        read:    Kerns 2.9

                        homework due: HW#1

 

            No lab this week

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Week 3

            Tuesday, Sept. 9:                                                                                

                        Thevenin's and Norton's theorems, capacitors

                        read:    Kerns 2.10, 2.11, 3.1, 3.2

            Thursday, Sept. 11:

                        inductors, first-order networks

                        read:    Kerns 3.3

                        homework due: HW#2

 

            Lab orientation (ECE 206 lab sections only)

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Week 4

            Tuesday, Sept. 16:

                        step response, second-order circuits,

                        energy bands, charge carriers

                        read:    Kerns 3.4, 10.1, 10.2

            Thursday, Sept. 18:                                                                             

                        p- and n-type semiconductors, current conduction in semiconductors,
                        p-n junction, diodes

                        read:    Kerns 10.3 - 10.5; SN2

                        homework due: HW#3

 

            Experiment 1      Laboratory Introduction                   

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Week 5

            Tuesday, Sept. 23:

                        diode circuit analysis, Zener diode

                        read:    Kerns 10.5, 10.6, 10.8; SN2

            Thursday, Sept. 25:

                        JFET, MOSFET, MOS circuit analysis

                        read:    Kerns 11.1 - 11.5; SN7 (pp. 53 - 57)

                        homework due: HW#4

 

            Experiment 2      Network Solving and Equivalent Circuits    

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Week 6

            Tuesday, Sept. 30:

                        MOS circuit analysis (cont.), ideal logic gates, propagation delay, noise margin                     

                        read:    Kerns 13.1 - 13.4, 14.1 - 14.3

Thursday, Oct. 2:

                        MOS logic gates, nMOS inverter with resistor load, Review I             

                        read:    Kerns 14.5.1; SN7 (pp. 58 - 62)

                        homework due: HW#5                      

 

            Experiment 3      Transient Response                                      

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Week 7

            Monday, Oct. 6:

                        Hour Exam I  (7:15 - 8:15 p.m. Monday, 10/6/2008)

            Tuesday, Oct. 7:

                        No Class

            Thursday, Oct. 9:

                        nMOS inverter with resistor load (cont.),                    

                        nMOS inverter with depletion load, CMOS inverter

                        read:    SN7 (pp. 63 - 68), SN8, SN9; Kerns 14.5.3                

 

            Experiment 4      Rectifier and Power Supply Circuits

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Week 8

            Tuesday, Oct. 14:

                        MOS power, CMOS logic circuits, BJT

                        read:    SN7 (pp. 69 - 75), SN12; Kerns 11.7

            Thursday, Oct. 16:                                                                              

                        BJT (cont.), BJT circuit analysis, BJT power

                        read:    SN13

                        homework due: HW#6

 

            Experiment 5      MOSFET Inverter Circuits               

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Week 9

            Tuesday, Oct. 21:

                        latchup, RTL, DTL, simple TTL

                        read:    SN14, SN15 (pp. 113 - 119); Kerns 11.9

            Thursday, Oct. 23:

                        simple TTL (cont.), real TTL

                        read:    SN15 (pp. 120 - 122); Kerns 14.6.1

 

            Experiment 6      CMOS Logic Circuits                                               

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Week 10

            Tuesday, Oct. 28:

                        Schottky transistor, ECL

                        read:    SN16; Kerns 14.6.2, 14.6.3

            Thursday, Oct. 30:

                        op amps, DAC & ADC

                        read:    Kerns  9.1 - 9.8

                        homework due: HW#7

 

            Experiment 7      CMOS Transient Analysis                            

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Week 11

            Tuesday, Nov. 4:

                        DAC & ADC (cont.), sinusoidal signals, complex numbers

                        read:    Kerns 4.1, 4.2, Appendix A

            Thursday, Nov. 6:

                        phasors, impedance and admittance, Review II

                        read:    Kerns 4.3 - 4.5

                        homework due: HW#8

                       

            Experiment 8      BJT Circuits                                                 

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Week 12

            Monday, Nov. 10:

            Hour Exam II  (7:15 - 8:15 p.m. Monday, 11/10/2008)

            Tuesday, Nov. 11:

                        No Class         

            Thursday, Nov. 13:

                        Kirchhoff's laws, phasor circuits, nodal analysis

                        read:    Kerns 4.7, 4.8

 

            Experiment 9      Transistor-Transistor Logic (TTL)    

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Week 13

            Tuesday, Nov. 18:

                        mesh analysis, superposition, source transformation

                        read:    Kerns 4.9 - 4.11

            Thursday, Nov. 20:

                        Thevenin's and Norton's theorems, average power, rms values

                        read:    Kerns 4.12, 5.1 - 5.4

                        homework due: HW#9

 

            Experiment 10    Operational Amplifiers                                

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Week 14          Thanksgiving Vacation

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Week 15

            Tuesday, Dec. 2:

                        power factor, complex power, power factor correction

                        read:    Kerns 5.5 - 5.7

            Thursday, Dec. 4:

                        frequency response, passive filters

                        read:    Kerns 7.1 - 7.4

 

            Experiment 11    Nonlinear Op Amp Circuits                         

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Week 16

            Tuesday, Dec. 9:

                        Review

                        homework due: HW#10

 

            Experiment 12    Frequency Response

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Week 17          Final Exam: to be announced later.

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