Course Title Introduction to Electronics

Time Tuesday and Thursday 8:00 - 9:15

Room CB 102

Instructor Arthur V Radun

Office Anderson Hall 689

Phone 257-4289

Office hours Tues. 4:00-5:00, Weds. 1:00 - 2:00 and Fri. 11:00 - 12:00 or by appointment.

Teaching Assistant Venugopal V S Duvvuri

Office 551AH

Text Required - Microelectronic Circuits, Sedra & Smith, Oxford University Press, Fourth Edition, 1998. Not required - Microelectronic Circuits and Devices, Horenstein, Prentice Hall, Second Edition, 1996

GOALS: To provide students with the working knowledge required to analyze and design basic transistor and diode circuits. Transistor circuits include MOSFET (metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor), BJT (bipolar junction transistors), JFET (junction field effect transistors), and BiCMOS (bipolar CMOS) technologies. Large Signal, Small Signal, and Frequency responses are covered.

Exams Three exams and a final. Exams will be during scheduled class time in CB 102. Final will be during finals week in CB 102.

Exam 1 Thurs. Sept. 23

Material covered in class to 9-16-99

Exam 2 Thurs. Oct. 21

Material covered in class to 10-14-99

Exam 3 Tues. Nov. 18

Material covered in class to 11-11-99

Final Mon. Dec. 13, 1999 at 1:00

All Material

Homework Weekly homework.

Late homework will not be accepted. Hand in what you have completed. Do your own homework. You may ask your fellow students and myself questions to clarify how to do the homework but do it yourself. This is the only way to develop problem solving skills.

Grading Homework 10%

Exams 20% each, Final 30%.

Your grade will be determined by your relative standing in the class. For each component of your grade, homework, exam 1, exam 2, etc. a class standing grade will be generated by adding (85– the class average) to your actual grade for that component to generate a class average grade. Thus if your actual grade for that component is equal to the class average you will have a class standing grade of 89.9 for that component. A total class standing grade will be generated using the weighting above. A total class standing grade of 90 and above is an A, 80-89.9 is a B, 70-79.9 is a C, and below a 70 is an E. The scores of any students more than two standard deviations below the class average will not be included in the computation of the class average. Some deviation from the above procedure may occur under unusual circumstances.

Requests to have an exam grading error changed must be made in writing within 14 calendar days of the exam being returned to the class.

Upon completion of this course students should demonstrate the ability to:

1. Draw the characteristic curves for the diode, BJT, JFET, and MOSFET, to identify regions of operation, and to draw the linear circuit approximations for each region.
2. Complete a load line analysis.
3. Draw the circuit schematic of common rectifier circuits and draw the diode currents for the circuit with a resistive load.
4. Draw the circuit schematic of the common transistor amplifier configurations.
5. Know advantages and disadvantages of common the transistor amplifier configurations
6. Bias a BJT or MOSFET device to achieve a desired quiescent operating point.
7. Linearize non-linear (transistor) devices and make small signal models.
8. Design and analyze simple digital circuits using diodes, BJTs or MOSFETs.
9. Cascade basic amplifiers, combine their characteristics, and compute their frequency limitations.
10. Understand the VLSI fabrication process and the impact of standard (digital) processes on analog design.
11. Use commercial simulation tools (such as SPICE) to analyze circuits that include semiconductors.