Catalog Description: Fundamental circuit concepts and analysis techniques in the context of digital electronic circuits. Transient analysis of CMOS logic gates; basic integrated-circuit technology and layout.
Units: 4.0
Prerequisites: Mathematics 1B.
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive one unit of credit for 40 taking 42 and no credit after taking 100.
Department Notes:
Course objectives: This course is intended to teach basic circuit theory and principles of electronic engineering as preparation for subsequent EE courses.
Topics covered:
- Introduction to circuits: currents, and voltages; power and energy; Kirchhoff's Current Law; Kirchhoff's Voltage Law; branches, loops and nodes
- Resistive circuits; Thévenin and Norton equivalent circuits; Node/Mesh/Superposition analysis
- Inductance and capacitance; L and C transients; 1st and 2nd order circuits
- Phasors; Frequency response; Bode plots; Resonance; Transfer function; Filters (1st and 2nd order filters)
- Operational Amplifiers: Ideal operational amplifiers; Inverting and non-inverting amplifiers; Design of simple amplifiers; Op-amp imperfections in the linear range of operation; Integrators and differentiators;
- Diode circuits: Basic concepts; Load-line analysis of diode circuits; Ideal-diode model; Piecewise-linear diode models; Rectifier circuits; voltage doubler
- Semiconductors; n and p doping; bandgap
- Diode physics: Gauss's Law and Poisson Equation; Depletion approximation; IV characteristics
- MOSFET physics: NMOS and PMOS transistors and simple fabrication concepts
- MOSFET circuits: Load-line analysis; Bias circuits; Small-signal equivalent circuits; Common-source amplifiers; Source followers
- Binary logic, truth tables: inversion, NAND and NOR
- Logic circuits: CMOS logic gates; flip-flops, registers, counters, adder
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