ECEN
3250, Microelectronics, Spring 2018
Weekly
Updates, 1/23/2018:
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Reminder: homework is due at the
start of class on Friday (must be paper copy, no emails). No late work is
accepted, because solutions will be posted to canvas at noon.
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Please note a change in office
hours: they will now be Mondays 5-6pm and Thursdays 3:30-4:30 pm (no Tuesday
OH).
Weekly
Updates, 1/10/2018:
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Welcome to ECEN3250! The course
syllabus can be found here.
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All other documents, including
lecture notes and homeworks, will be available at the
course website on Canvas. To access Canvas, go to: https://canvas.colorado.edu.
Log in using your CU login name and IdentiKey
password. Once you log-in, click on ECEN 3250-001: Microelectronics to go into
our course.
o Homework
will be posted on Fridays, and are due at
the beginning of class on the following Friday (except for exam weeks).
o Lecture
notes will be posted in advance of each lecture.
Course
Information:
Instructor: Prof. Taylor Barton
(ECOT-253)
Lectures: MWF 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM,
ECCR 150
Office hours: Mondays 5:00-6:00pm, and Thursdays 3:30-4:30, in ECOT 253
Important
dates to remember:
Midterm I: February 28, in class
Midterm II: April 4, in class
Final: Tuesday May 8, details TBD
General Class Information:
Course
Goals:
• Understand how to approach analysis and
design of circuits with nonlinear elements, including diodes, BJTs and MOSFETs,
with an emphasis on design oriented analysis techniques.
• Understand the principles of operation for pn junctions, semiconductor diodes, MOSFETs and BJTs,
including intuition behind the physical meaning of device model parameters and
limitations of models.
• Understand how to analyze and design basic
amplifier gain stages, operational amplifiers, and digital logic gates using
MOSFETs and BJTs.
Prerequisites:
ECEN 2260, Circuits as Systems
Required textbook:
Microelectronic
Circuits, 7th edition
(2015), Sedra and Smith, Oxford University Press
Grading (preliminary)
Homework |
10% |
Quizzes |
20% |
Midterm I |
20% |
Midterm II |
20% |
Final Exam |
30% |
The lowest quiz grade and
lowest homework grade will be automatically dropped.
For more details and
course and instructor policies, see the syllabus.
Tentative Schedule
Dates are tentative and are subject to change. Please check regularly.
Monday |
Wednesday |
Friday |
Jan
15 Martin
Luther King Day |
Jan
17 Course
introduction & overview |
Jan 19 The ideal
diode & example circuits (Sect. 4.1) HW0 out |
Jan 22 Terminal
characteristics of diodes (Sect. 4.2) |
Jan 24 Diode
models and analysis techniques (Sect. 4.3) |
Jan 26 Small
signal modeling (Sect. 4.3) HW0 due,
HW1 out |
Jan 29 Reverse
breakdown & Zener diodes (Sect. 4.4) |
Jan 31 Rectifiers
(Sect. 4.5) Quiz 0 |
Feb 2 Rectifiers
(Sect. 4.5); Limiting and clamping circuits (Sect. 4.6) HW1 due,
HW2 out |
Feb 5 Physical
operation of diodes (Ch 3) |
Feb 7 Physical
operation of diodes (Ch 3) Quiz 1 |
Feb 9 Physical
operation of diodes (Ch 3) HW2 due,
HW3 out |
Feb 12 Physical
operation of diodes (Ch 3) |
Feb 14 Physical
operation of diodes (Ch 3) Quiz 2 |
Feb 16 Physical
operation of diodes (Ch 3) HW3 due,
HW4 out |
Feb 19 MOS
Field Effect Transistor (Sect. 5.1) |
Feb 21 NMOS
DC solutions (Sect. 5.2-5.3) Quiz 3 |
Feb 23 PMOS
devices, operating regions, DC solutions (Sect. 5.2-5.3) HW 4 due,
HW 5 out |
Feb 26 Review for
Midterm I |
Feb 28 Midterm I |
March 2 CMOS
DC solutions, NMOS amplifier, large signal analysis (Sect. 5.3 & 7.1) |
March 5 Body
effect (Sect. 5.4), Small signal analysis (Sect. 7.2.1) |
March 7 Basic
gain stages, CS, CD, CG (Sect. 7.2-7.5, only material on MOSFETS) |
March 9 Basic
gain stages and biasing examples (Sect. 7.3-7.5, only material on MOSFETS) HW5 due,
HW6 out |
March 12 Biasing
schemes (Sect. 7.4.1), current mirrors & current sources (Sect.
8.2.1-8.2.2) |
March 14 Active
load (Sect. 8.3) Quiz 4 |
March 16 Two-stage
amplifier, cascade amplifier (Sect. 8.5) HW6 due,
HW7 out |
March 19 Frequency
response, CS amplifier (Sect. 10.2-10.3, only material on MOSFETS) |
March 21 Continue
frequency response (Sect. 10.4) Quiz 5 |
March 23 Continue
frequency response (Sect. 10.5-10.6, only material on MOSFETS) HW7 due |
March 26 Spring
Break |
March
28 Spring
Break |
March 30 Spring
Break |
April 2 Review for Midterm II |
April 4 Midterm II |
April 6 BJT operating regions and characteristics (Sect. 6.1-6.2) HW8 out |
April 9 BJT DC
solutions (Sect. 6.3), BJT amplifier, large signal analysis (Sect. 7.1) |
April 11 BJT
amplifier, small signal modeling (Sect. 7.2.2) |
April 13 BJT
amplifier, small signal modeling (Sect. 7.2.2) HW8 due,
HW9 out |
April 16 BJT CE
amplifier with biasing, BJT emitter follower, BJT and MOS comparison (Sect.
7.3-7.4) |
April 18 BJT and BiCMOS transistor pairings, BJT and MOS comparison
(Appendix G [on website], Sect. 8.2.3, 8.7) Quiz 6 |
April 20 Differential
pair (Sect. 9.1)
HW9 due,
HW10 out |
April 23 Operational
amplifiers intro and review (Sect. 2.1-2.4, 2.6-2.7) |
April 25 Op amp
design (Sect. 13.1-13.2) Quiz 7 |
April 27 Op
amp design, LM741 (Sect. 13.3-13.4) HW10 due |
April
30 CMOS and
BJT logic gates (Sect. 14.1 - 14.4) |
May 2 Continue
CMOS and BJT logic gates (Sect. 14.1 - 14.4) , Transistor sizing (Sect. 14.5) Quiz 8 |
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Final:Tuesday. May 8, 7:30 – 10:00 pm, TBA