ECE 321 -
Electronics I: Fall 2015
University of New Mexico
Announcements:
Dec. 13: For
those who are intereted in research, there is an REU opportunity at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY. For more infomration, please contact Mrs. Stefi
Weisburd at weisburd@unm.edu.
Dec. 13: Congratilations to all of you for your
successful project. The winners of bonus credit are listed below:
Dec.
7: The soluitons to the practice test 3 can
be found here.
Dec.
2: In problem 4 of Homework 11, assume
that VT is 0.7V.
Nov.
27: The
last homework was just posted. It is due on Friday Dec. 4, 2015.
Oct. 29: Here
is the lab instructions for Diode I-V, Rectifiers, and Clipping & Claming.
Oct.
26: You
can download a free student version of PSPICE from here.
To start the tool, a sample input circuit file is here.
A comprehensive user's guide for PSPICE can be found here.
To get started, read the first few sections. Then you can find all commands
and deives in sections 3 and 4. You don't need to memorize all commands
or devices, but you have to know how to use a command or a device in your
SPICE file if you need it.
Oct.
11: There is a typo in problem 3.30
of Homework 8. The transistor must be an NMOS.
Oct.
3: To prepare for the test, here is a sample questions with solutions.
You can also find more questions by checking the previous exams on this
website (go to Exams).
Sept. 28: In problem 3.1 of Homework 7,
consider all transistors to be NMOS.
Sept. 27: There was a missing parameter
in paroblem 3 of HW6, which has beed corrected. The missing parameter
is LS=LD=1.5um.
Sept. 25: There was a type in homework 6,
which has beed corrected. femto is 1E-15 and ato is 1E-18. and the unit in
the question is fF.
Aug. 18: The labs start on the week of
August 31.
Aug. 17: First day of class.
Course
Info:
Class: MW 4:00-5:15PM,
Room ME 218 (Mechanical Engineering), 4 credits
Instructor:
Office hours: Tuesdays
2:00-3:00PM, or by appointments
Office location: ECE
230B
Teaching
Assistant:
Course
Description:
This
course is intended to be an introduction to the digital electronics.
The topics includes: Introduction to diodes, bipolar, and field-effect
transistors, as well as analysis, and design of digital circuits, gates,
flip-flops and memory circuits. The main objective of this course is
to provide the students with the basics of digital electronics starting
from analyzing the operation of a field effect transistor to the simulation,
layout and fabrication of digital logic circuits for combinational and
sequential logic applications.
Textbooks:
Primary:
Charles Hawkins, Jaume Segura, and Payman Zarkesh-Ha, "CMOS Digital
Integrated Circuits: A First Course," SciTech Publishing, December
15, 2012, ISBN: 978-1613530023
Secondry:
Neil Weste and David Harris, "CMOS
VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective," 4th Edition,
Addison Wesley, March 11, 2010, ISBN-13: 978-0321547743
Grading
Policy:
Homework:
20%
Class Contributions: 5%
Design Problem: 15%
Midterm exam: 30%
Final exam: 30%