Neveen Shlayan

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

Fall 2019 > Electronics II-ECE 342

Fall 2019

Course Information 

Monday, 3:00 PM - 4:50 PM, Room 505 

Thursday, 3:00 PM - 4:50 PM, Room 504 

Office Hours: Tuesday 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM, or by appointment. 

Course Description

MOS circuits: DC operation and analysis. Single stage MOS amplifiers, circuit design, DC and small signal analysis. Cascode amplifier. Current mirrors, active loads. BJT and MOS differential amplifiers. Monolithic operational amplifiers. Output stages. Frequency response. Introduction to feedback theory, amplifier topologies. 

Prerequisite(s): ECE 241 and ECE 211 Credit Hours: 4 

Text (required): Fundamentals of Microelectronics, Behzad Razavi, 2nd edition (older is okay). 

Suggested Texts 

Microelectronic Circuits, Sedra et. al. 

Microelectronic Devices and Circuits, Fonstad. 

Grade Distribution 

Test I                                   30% 

Simulations Project             30%

Final Exam                         40%

Homework

HW1: Chapter 4, Problems 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 38, 41, 42, 43, 49

          Chapter 5, Problems 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 34, 36, 37, 41, 42, 43, 54, 56, 57, 58, 65, 66, 67

HW2: Chapter 5, Problems 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23 

HW3: Chapter 6, Problems 1, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24 

HW4: Chapter 6, Problems 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 40, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51

          Chapter 7, Problems 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 16, 19, 24, 25, 37, 39, 40, 41, 45, 54

HW5: Chapter 9, Problems 1, 2, 10, 33, 36, 43, 40, 47, 50, 52.

          Reading: all examples. Derive equations 9.1-9.4

HW6: Chapter 10, Problem 1, 4-16, 23, 27, 43, 45, 67.

          Reading: all examples. Sections: 10.3.2, 10.4,  

HW7: Chapter 11, Problems 5, 9, 37, 49, 55  

          Chapter 12, Problems 46, 47 Read section 12.7.1 with examples

          12.8 Instability and Frequency Compensation