ELEG 309: Electronic Circuit Analysis I

Spring 2020, University of Delaware

 

Course material is available to UD students on Canvas.

 

Instructor                   : Dr. Vishal Saxena (Website)

Email                          : vsaxena@udel.edu   

Class Schedule           : Tu & Thu 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

Class dates                 : Feb 11 – May 14, 2020

Final Exam                : May 20, 2020 (2 hours duration)

Location                     : Kirkbride Hall #204

Office Hours              : Tue & Thu, 2-3 PM or by appointment at DuPont 110B

Piazza Site                  : https://piazza.com/udel/spring2020/20S-ELEG309/home   

 

 

Prerequisites: ELEG205: Circuit analysis techniques (KVL and KCL, superposition, circuit transformation, Thévenin and Norton equivalents).  

 

Textbook:                   Fundamentals of Microelectronics – Behzad Razavi2nd Edition, Wiley, 2013.

 

Teaching Assistants:            

Name

Email Address

Office Hours

Location

Abhishek Iyer

jeetshek@udel.edu

Tue 3:30-4:30 PM

I-Suite

Russell Stump

rstump@udel.edu

Thu 5:30-6:30PM

Qi Cheng

qicheng@udel.edu

Wed 2:30-3:30 PM

 

 

Course Outline: This course focuses on design and analysis of microelectronic circuits.  At the end of the course, students will be able to design, analyze, and simulate analog microelectronic circuits comprised of a few transistors.

 

Course content (Syllabus):

·         Basics of Semiconductor Physics (Chapter 2)

·         Diode Models and Circuits (Chapter 3)

·         MOS Transistors (Chapter 6)

·         CMOS Amplifiers and Mirrors (Chapter 17)

·         Bipolar Junction Transistors (Chapter 4)

·         Bipolar Amplifiers and Mirrors (Chapter 5)

·         Operational Amplifiers (Chapter 8)

 

Grading Scheme: 

The overall course grade is derived as follows:

15% Homework/Participation

25% Laboratory Reports

40% Midterm Exams (2)

20% Final Exam

 

 

CAD software information

The course will use LTSpice for circuit simulation. It can be downloaded from here.

 

 

Policies

See Course Syllabus for detailed policies.

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