EE 100B: Electronic Circuits

EE 100B: Electronic Circuits

Spring 2006

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Subject area: EE	Course number: 100B	Section number: 001
Course title: ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS		Units: 4
Call number: 13201		Instructor(s): Fonoberov V
Class type: LEC	Day: TR	Time: 5:10 - 6:30 p.m.	Location: SPR 1340
Final exam: Tue. 6/13/2006 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.		Max enrollment: 62 Seats Available: 17	Status: Open
Prerequisite(s): EE 100A
UCR General Catalog 2005-2006: EE 100B. Electronic Circuits 4 Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): EE 100A. Differential and multistage amplifiers, output stages and power amplifiers, frequency response, feedback, analog integrated circuits, filters, tuned amplifiers, and oscillators. Laboratory experiments are performed in the subject areas and SPICE simulation is used.

Basic Information

Lecture: TR 5:10 - 6:30 p.m., Sproul 1340
Instructor: Dr. Vladimir Fonoberov (vladimir.fonoberov@ucr.edu)
Office hours: Monday 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., ENGR2 222
Labs:
Section 021: T 11:10 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., ENGR2 128
Teaching Assistant: Xiaotao Zou (xzou@ee.ucr.edu)
Office hours: Tuesday 3:00 - 4:00 p.m., ENGR2 121

Section 022: F 8:10 - 11:00 a.m., ENGR2 128
Teaching Assistant: Weihua Zhu (wzhu@cert.ucr.edu)
Office hours: Friday 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., ENGR2 109
Text:
"Microelectronic Circuits" by A. S. Sedra and K. C. Smith, 5^th Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004 (ISBN 0-19-514251-9)
Course grading:
The course consists of 100 points:
- Lecture component (80 points)
  - 40 pts: Final
  - 30 pts: Midterm
  - 10 pts: Homework (5 @ 2 pts)
- Lab component (20 points)
  - 18 pts: Lab assignments (6 @ 3 pts)
  - 2 pts: Proper lab conduct
Grades will be assigned as follows: 100-90 A, 89.9-80 B, 79.9-70 C, 69.9-60 D, 59.9-0 F (+/- grades will be given).

Lecture Schedule

(subject to change as the quarter progresses)

Week 1: April 4, 6
- Differential and multistage amplifiers (7.1 - 7.3) lecture slides
- Differential and multistage amplifiers (7.5 - 7.7) lecture slides
Week 2: April 11, 13
- Chapter 7 problem solving
- HW #1: 7.5, 7.15 (due April 18)
- Single-stage integrated-circuit amplifiers (6.1 - 6.7) lecture slides
Week 3: April 18, 20
- Single-stage integrated-circuit amplifiers (6.8, 6.11, 6.12) lecture slides
- HW #2: 6.56, 6.80, 6.140 (due April 25)
- Chapter 6 problem solving
Week 4: April 25, 27
- Feedback (8.1 - 8.4) lecture slides
- Feedback (8.5 - 8.7) lecture slides
Week 5: May 2, 4
- Chapter 8 problem solving
- HW #3: 8.1, 8.21, 8.27, 8.37 (due May 9)
- Review
Week 6: May 9, 11
- MIDTERM
- Output stages and power amplifiers (14.1 - 14.3) lecture slides
Week 7: May 16, 18
- Output stages and power amplifiers (14.4 - 14.5) lecture slides
- Chapter 14 problem solving
- HW #4: derive average load and supply powers for the class B output stage (due May 23)
- Signal generators and waveform-shaping circuits (13.1 - 13.3) lecture slides
Week 8: May 23, 25
- Signal generators and waveform-shaping circuits (13.4 - 13.6) lecture slides
- HW #5: find the frequency and the amplitude of the oscillator in Fig. 13.5 (due May 30)
- Chapter 13 problem solving
Week 9: May 30, June 1
- Data-converter circuits (9.7 - 9.9) lecture slides
- Digital CMOS logic circuits (10.1 - 10.3) lecture slides
Week 10: June 6, 8
- Chapters 9-10 problem solving
- Review

Tuesday June 13 (7:00 - 10:00 p.m.): FINAL EXAM

Lab Schedule

(subject to change as the quarter progresses)

Read the lab overview and report format and parts list.

Lab 1 (Week 2): A MOSFET Differential Amplifier
Lab 2 (Week 3): The Design of a Multistage MOSFET Amplifier
Lab 3 (Week 4): Feedback Principles Using an Op-Amp Building Block
Lab 4 (Week 7): Basic Output-Stage Circuits
Lab 5 (Week 8): The Design of Waveform Generators
Lab 6 (Week 9): Waveform Generators

General Course Features and Policies

Material covered: You should read the textbook. Lecture only emphasizes key material, but does not cover all required material.
Communicating with the instructor and TA: You must use your UCR e-mail account. E-mails sent from other accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, MSN, AOL, GMail, etc.) will be treated as spam and deleted automatically.
Re-grade policy: Grade-database errors should be pointed out within one week of posting.
Final grades: Per university policy, changes to your final grade will be made only in the event of a clerical error.

Last modified: April 27, 2006; 08:58 PM