EE317 Electronics
4 credits
Course Webpage: http://www.coe.montana.edu/ee/davidd/ee317/ee317.html
Class meetings: MWF
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Office
Hours: TBA
Teaching Assistant: Ningkonsin Rajkumar, 540 Cobleigh
Grader: Adel
Nehmeh, 638 Cobleigh
Text: Microelectronic Circuits, 5th Edition, by Sedra and Smith (
Other Resources: The Art of Electronics, 2nd Edition, Horowitz and Hill (
Prerequisites: EE207
Course Description:
ELECTRONICS: A branch of electrical engineering; the science and technology based on and concerned with the controlled flow of electrons (or holes).
This is an introductory course in
electronics. It introduces diodes, bipolar junction transistors, field effect
transistors and bipolar and MOS analog and digital circuits.
Course Organization and
Grading:
There will be three lecture periods each week, and one two-hour lab. There will be homework assignments, and you will turn in four formal lab reports.
Homework
and quizzes 15%
First Midterm Exam 20%
Second Midterm Exam 20%
Final Exam 20%
(The final exam is scheduled
for
Thursday, Dec. 17 from 8:00 –
9:50am)
Laboratory
Grade 25%
The
laboratory grade will be composed of several parts as follows:
Attendance £ 2 unexcused absences for
passing grade
Notebooks 25%
Prelabs 15%
Formal
reports 60%
Passing the
laboratory portion of the course requires a score of at least 50% for the
laboratory grade. You must pass the
laboratory portion of the class to pass EE317.
You will keep a laboratory notebook
documenting all of your experiments and calculations in the lab. This notebook should be bound, with numbered
pages. Notebooks will be handed in for
grading on the following dates:
September 16 (after the second lab period)
December 7
The notebook grade will be awarded based on
completeness of recorded data, including diagrams of circuits, complete
description of signal sources and measurement techniques, tabular data and
graphical data, along with enough narrative to describe the experiments. Neatness counts.
Prelabs are to be completed in your notebooks, preceding the day’s
experimental data. You must have the lab
instructor initialize the prelab at the beginning of the lab period. Prelabs without the instructor’s initials will
receive zero credit. Prelabs will be graded
at the same time that notebooks are graded.
You will be required to hand in four formal
lab reports. These will be due according
to the following schedule:
First report on or before September 28
Second report on or before October 19
Third report on or before November 23
Fourth report on or before December 7
The format for formal lab reports will be
provided in a separate document.
Course
Policies
Late work will not be accepted.
Do your own work.
Working together to solve homework problems
is encouraged. You should learn from one
another! However, the work you hand in
should be your own. The “committee”
approach to homework of divvying up the problems amongst your group and copying
the solutions from your friends is cheating and will not be tolerated. You learn by doing, so please do your own
work.
There will be guidelines handed out
separately for the lab sections.
What you
should expect from this class
After completing this class, you should be
familiar with the following topics:
§ operational amplifier device properties
§ operational amplifier circuits
§ pn junction diode forward and reverse I-V characteristics
§ zener diodes and applications
§ spice modeling of pn junction diodes
§ field effect transistor (FET)
§ FET dc biasing
§ FET modeled as a two-port device
§ FET ac analysis
§ spice modeling of FET circuits
§ integrated circuit MOSFET circuit design concepts
§ bipolar junction transistor (bjt)
§ bjt dc biasing
§ bjt modeled as a two-port device
§ bjt ac analysis
§ common emitter, common base and common collector configurations
§ spice modeling of bjt circuits
§ output stage amplifiers
§ CMOS and TTL logic building blocks
§ CMOS and TTL properties