Class Syllabus

EE3115 : Analog and Digital Electronics

Summer Semester, 2008

Course Description (4.0 credits) : Feedback amplifiers. Stability and compensation. Oscillators. Internal structure of operational amplifiers. Switching active devices. BJT and FET logic gates. Sequential circuits. Digital circuits .

Prerequisites: EE2001, EE 2011, Phys. 1302, Math 2243 or Math 2373 or Math 2573

Lecture: 10:10-12:00 AM M, Tu, W, F, ME212

Discussion: 10:10-12:00 Th., EE/CScị 1-262

Instructor : Nang Tran, 651-592-4369, 3-147A, binh_an_tran@hotmail.com

Teaching Assistant : Wei Zhang, 4-168, zhang758@umn.edu and/ or Pulkit Jainx , jainx104@umn.edu

Office Hour: by appointment

Textbooks & reading materials

Textbooks:

Adel S. Sedra and Kenneth C. Smith, Microelectronic Circuits , 5^th Ed. Oxford University Press.

Course Website : Class website and WebCT

Grading

Homework : 10%

Quizzes :25% (25% of the lowest grades will be discarded)

Exam 1 : 10% (50 minutes)

Exam 2 : 20% (50 minutes)

Exam 3 : 35% (3 hours)

For the homework, the students are encouraged to discuss with other students but copying others’ homework solutions is not allowed . Unless otherwise stated, homework is due on Monday. Late homework will not be accepted.

The quizzes will be 1 hour and be given once/week on Wednesday at the end of the class.

EE 3115 Summer 2008

Analog and Digital Electronics

Course Outline

4 lectures Differential amplifiers, MOS and BJT (chapters, 4, 5 and 7)

2 lectures Multi-stage amplifiers (chapter 7)

2 lectures Output stages and power supplies (chapter 14)

Exam 1 (June. 30, 2008, Monday)

4 lectures General feedback (chapter 8)

4 lectures Stability (chapter 8)

2 lectures Oscillators (chapter 13)

Exam 2 (July, 18, 2008, Friday)

2 lectures Active filters and tuned circuits (chapter 12)

2 lectures Data converters (chapter 13)

2 lectures Logic circuits (chapter 10)

4 lectures MOS digital circuits (chapter 11)