ECE 342: Electronic Circuits
Fall 2012

 

ECE Department

 

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Announcements

 

·       Mon 12/10: The formula sheet of final exam has been posted on the Exams page. This week, TA's will hold additional office hours to answer your questions before the final exam.

 Wed (Dec 12) 5 pm-6 pm : Lei (EL 330M)

 Thu (Dec 13) 10 am - 11 am : June (EL 330N)

 Thu (Dec 13) 2 pm - 3 pm : Vrashank (EL 330N)

 Thu (Dec 13) 4 pm - 5 pm : Nick (EL 330N)

 

·       Wed 12/5: Homework Solution 12 correction: Problem 4, Rout,max when beta=50 should be 294.118ohm instead of 246ohm.

 

·       Tue 11/27: This week and next week, Nick and Vrashank's Monday(4pm-5pm) and Friday(3pm-4pm) office hours will be held at the EWS lab in Grainger Library to help with the HPICE related questions.

 

·       Fri 11/16: HW12, Problem 1, let gm=1mA/V.

 

·       Tue 11/13: HSPICE assignment 2 is available for downloading.

 

·       Tue 11/6: A numerical error was found in Solution 9, Problem 5. Please check out the updated solution.

 

 

Course Info

 

Syllabus

Prerequisites

ECE 210

ECE 329 (concurrent registration is allowed)

Highly recommended: ECE 340 (concurrent registration is acceptable). A student who takes ECE 342 prior to ECE 340 may master the mechanics of circuit design but will not understand the "whys" or the non-idealities, almost all of which relate to the transistors used to design circuits.

 

Class Meetings:

MWF 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM, BURRILL HALL 124

 

Weekly Problem Solving Session (Optional):

F 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM, 260 EL

 

Textbook: A. Sedra and K. Smith, Microelectronic Circuits, 6th ed., Oxford University Press, 2010.

Web Page: http://courses.engr.illinois.edu/ece342.

  • Check the web page several times per week; this is where corrections to homework assignments and office hour changes will be posted.
  • A web-based forum has been set up at: http://my.ece.illinois.edu/webboard/board.asp. This is the primary means of staff-student communication outside of lecture and office hours. The staff will monitor the web board on a daily basis and answer questions in a timely manner. Email should be reserved for questions of a highly personal nature; otherwise, students are directed to use the web board.

 

 

 

Instructor

 

Professor Elyse Rosenbaum

Office Hours:

Monday 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM, 407 CSL

Friday 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM, 407 CSL

Email: elyse@illinois.edu

 

 

 

Teaching Assistants

 

Lei Jin

Office Hours:

Monday 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM, 330N EL

Tuesday 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM, 368 EL

Email: leijin3@illinois.edu

 

Thidarat (“June”) Chongvisal

Office Hours:

Monday 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM, 330N EL

Friday 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM, 368 EL

Email: chongvi1@illinois.edu

 

Vrashank Shukla

Office Hours:

Monday 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM, 330N EL

Tuesday 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM, 368 EL

Email: vshukla2@illinois.edu

 

Nicholas (“Nick”) Thomson

Office Hours:

Tuesday 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM, 368 EL

Friday 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM, 368 EL

Email: nthomso2@illinois.edu

 

 

Lecture Notes

 

Lecture Notes 11/30/2012

Lecture Notes 11/28/2012

Lecture Notes 11/26/2012

Lecture Notes 11/14/2012

Lecture Notes 11/12/2012

Lecture Notes 11/9/2012

Lecture Notes 11/5/2012

Lecture Notes 11/2/2012

Frequency Response Summary 11/2/2012

 

 

 

HSPICE Resources

         

  HSPICE technology model libraries:
(Note: do NOT edit these files, just right-click and save them to your Linux station work folder as per tutorial instructions)
 

- npn3904 

- npn3904.m 

- ece342n 

- ece342n.m 

- 1.5μm CMOS model library (Level 1) 

- 0.25μm CMOS model library (Level 49)

 
HSPICE Tutorial Resources:
 
inverter.sp (When you down load this file, it will save as 'inverter.txt' file. You can rename the file to 'inverter.sp')
amplifier.sp (When you down load this file, it will save as 'amplifier.txt' file. You can rename the file to 'amplifier.sp')
 

 

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