ECE 321 - Electronics I: Fall 2015
University of New Mexico

 

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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:

project

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
Course webpage: ece-research.unm.edu/payman/classes/ECE321
Lab Hours: Mondays 10:00AM-12:45PM, Tuesdays 3:30PM-6:15PM, Wednesdays 5:30-8:15PM, or Thursdays 3:30PM-6:15PM
Lab webpage: http://ecelabs.pbworks.com/ECE-321L


    Instructor:
 
Prof. Payman Zarkesh-Ha (payman@ece.unm.edu)
Office hours: Tuesdays 2:00-3:00PM, or by appointments
Office location: ECE 230B
Webpage: ece-research.unm.edu/payman


    Teaching Assistant:
 
Tairen Chen (tairen@unm.edu)
Akshitha Peddi (apeddi@unm.edu)
Mohammad Feroz Khan (ferozmohd@unm.edu)
Office hours: Contact for appointement
Office location: ECE318 (VLSI Design Lab)


   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%