ECEN 3250, Microelectronics, Spring 2018

Weekly Updates, 1/23/2018:

- 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.

- 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:

- Welcome to ECEN3250! The course syllabus can be found here.

- 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