ECEN4827/5827 Analog IC Design

Fall 2009 Announcements

(12/09) Office hours on Thursday, Dec. 10: 10-11:30am and 2-2:30pm.
(12/08) Final exam will be handed out on Friday, Dec.11 in class. For on-campus students, exam is due by 10am on Wednesday, December 16, in the instructor's office (OT346). Off-campus students should request the exam by email. The exam is then due in 5 days. All off-campus work must be received by the instructor by Monday, Dec.21.
(12/08) Handout slides on voltage comparators have been posted.
(12/02) Thursday office hours moved to 4-5pm because of the CoPEC annual meeting. CoPEC project demos are in the power lab (1B55) 11am-12pm and 1-3pm, you are welcome to attend.
(11/30) Additional handout slides on PWM controllers have been posted (for lectures 39 and 40)
(11/30) Homework 12 is due Friday, Dec. 4 in class. A simulation file in problem 2 has been corrected today.
(11/13) Homework 11 is due Friday, Nov.20 in class.
(11/07) Homework 10 and Problem 7 from HW9 are due Friday, Nov.13 in class.
(11/03) Office hours on Wednesday 11/4 10-11am are canceled.
(11/03) Handout slides for taking notes in the next two lectures have been posted.
(10/30) Homework 9 (problems 1-6) is due Friday, Nov. 6 in class. Problem 7 is due Firday, Nov. 13 in class.
(10/27) Solutions to Homework 8 have been posted.
(10/27) LTSpice schematics for the best-performing designs in design problem D1 have been posted on the HW6 solutions page.
(10/23) Midterme exam has been handed out in class. For on-campus students, the exam is due at the beginning of class on Friday, Oct.30. For off-campus students: please request a copy of the exam by email upon completion of HW8. The exam is due (postmarked, faxed or emailed as an attachment) by the end of the day one week after you receive a copy of the exam by email.
(10/16) Homework 8 is due Friday, October 23 in class.
(10/13) Office hours on Thursday, Oct. 15: 9-11am (instead of 10-12)
(10/12) Handout slides for taking notes related to device capacitances and introduction to frequency responses have been posted for use in the lectures on Wednesday and Friday this week.
(10/09) Homework 7 is due Friday, October 16 in class.
(10/08) Handout slides for taking notes have been posted for the next 3 lectures (lectures 20 (Friday), 21 (Monday) and 22 (Wednesday))
(10/04) Several small corections have been made in the desig problem D.1 of HW6. The problem has been updated 10pm on Sunday
(10/02) Homework 6 is due Friday, October 9 in class.
(9/30) Take-home midterm exam has been rescheduled to Oct.23-30
(9/26) Homework 5 is due Friday, October 2 in class.
(9/17) Homework 4 is due Friday, September 25 in class (either at 9am or at 11am).
(9/17) I will be away on a trip Monday, Sept 21 to Thursday, Sept 24. There will be no office hours during this time, although I will try to answer email questions. The lecture on Monday, Sept 21 will be taped on Firday, Sept 18 at 2:30pm while the lecture on Wed, Sept 23 will be done on Friday Sept 25.
(9/11) Homework 3 is due Friday, September 18 in class.
(9/04) Homework 2 is due Friday, September 11 in class.
(8/28) Homework 1 is due Friday, September 4 in class.
(8/26) Thursday 8/26 office hours will be 1-2:30pm. This is a one-time exception to the normal office hours (W 10-11, R 10-12)
(8/25) Before a lecture (usually a day before), handout slides suitable for taking notes will be posted on the calendar page. For example, see the handout slides posted for Lectures 2 and 3. You may find it useful to print the handout slides for taking notes during the lecture. After the lecture, the slides with the instructor's annotations will also be posted on the calendar page.
(8/23) Lecture 1: Introduction.
(8/20) Office hours: Wednesday 10-11, Thursday 10-12 (Mountain time)
(8/23) Welcome to ECEN 4827/5827. The class meets MWF 9-10am in ECCS1B14 (CAETE studio), starting Monday, August 24