COURSE INFORMATION FOR

EE3311 – Electronic Circuits

 

Prerequisite: EE3310 AND EE3302. 

 

Instructor: Dr. Jin Liu, ECN 4.506, phone: (972) 883-4393, email: jinliu@utdallas.edu, web page: www.utdallas.edu/~jinliu.

 

Lecture: Mondays and Wednesdays, 5:30pm – 6:45pm, ECN 2.110

 

Office Hours: Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 4:30pm – 5:30pm

 

Textbook: Microelectronic Circuit Design, Richard Jaeger, McGraw Hill, 1996.  ISBN 0-07-032482-4 

 

Objective: To introduce the principles of electronic circuits design.  Circuits containing nonlinear elements will be analyzed and designed.  Content of this class includes op-amp circuits, diodes, field effect and bipolar transistors, large signal and small signal models of FET and BJT transistors, single transistor amplifiers, differential amplifiers, current mirrors, frequency responses, feedback and stabilities, and a case study of a simple CMOS integrated circuit op-amp. 

 

Course Grading Policy: Your grade will be determined using the following scheme: Homework (10%), Midterm Exams (30% each), and Final Exam (30%).

 

Exams: The midterm exams will be open book and open notes.  The final exam is closed book and closed notes; you can bring in a summary notes on both sides of an 11”x8.5” paper.  Calculators are allowed. 

 

Exams Schedule:

            First Exam: Feb. 10, Monday in class

            Second Exam: Mar. 24, Monday in class

            Final Exam: Apr. 30, Wednesday, 5pm

 

Attendance: You are responsible for all course materials, announcements, and notes, etc. made during our regular class meeting time.  Prompt arrival to class is appreciated. 

 

Academic Honesty and Classroom Behavior: It is the responsibility of the instructor to encourage an environment where you can learn and your accomplishments will be rewarded fairly.  Any behavior that compromises the University’s rules of academic honesty will not be tolerated.  Smoking is prohibited in the classroom by the University rules.

 

Topical Outline: 

Large signal model of Diodes and Circuits containing Diodes

Large signal and small signal models of BJT, JFET, and MOSFET

BJT and FET Single Stage Amplifiers: Biasing, voltage gain, input and output resistances

Differential, cascade, and cascode amplifiers: Biasing, voltage gain, input and output resistances

Transfer Function Analysis

Frequency Response of Amplifiers

Active Filters

Feedback Amplifiers

Non-linear Applications of Op-Amps: Wave shaping circuits, precision rectifiers, peak detectors.

Feedback Oscillators and Function Generator Circuits: Sinusoidal oscillators, bistable multivibrators, waveform generators.

 

Prerequisite Topics:

Basic Semiconductor Physics

     Bonding Mechanisms

     Charge Carriers

     Generation/Recombination

     Doping

     Carrier Transport

     Optical Absorption

PN Junctions

     Equilibrium Analysis

     Carrier Transport Under Applied Bias

     Transient Properties

     Diode Circuit Models

     Diode Applications (LEDs, Detectors)

     Diode Circuits (Limiting, Clamping, Rectifying Circuits)

     SPICE Analysis

Bipolar Junction Transistor

     Structure

     Circuit Symbol and Terminal Characteristics

     BJT Physics:  Equilibrium and Under Applied Bias

     Ebers-Moll Model

     Small Signal Model

     SPICE Analysis

MOS Field Effect Transistors

     MOS Capacitor 

     MOS Electrostatics

     MOSFET Structure, Symbol and Terminal Characteristics 

     MOSFET Device Physics

     Circuit Models

     SPICE Analysis

Single Stage Amplifiers

     General Concepts

     Common Emitter/Source

     Common Base/Gate

     Common Collector/Drain

     Differential Amplifiers

     SPICE Analysis

Operational Amplifiers

     Inverting/Non-inverting Configurations

     First Order Circuits

     Frequency Response

     Non-ideal Performance

Digital Circuits

     Inverter Characteristics and Circuits

     Gates (AND/NAND, OR/NOR)

     CMOS Inverters and Gates

     CMOS and BiCMOS Logic