ECE 205 - Introduction to Electric and Electronic Circuits

Summer 2009 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2010 | Summer 2010
Section Type Times Days Location Instructor
A LEC 0800 - 0920 T R   151 Everitt Lab  Jianhua Zhang
F LEC 1100 - 1220 T R   269 Everitt Lab  Hyungsoo Choi

Web Page http://courses.ece.uiuc.edu/ece205/
Official Description Basic principles of circuit analysis, transient analysis, AC steady-state analysis, introduction to semiconductor devices and fabrication, digital logic circuits, op-amps, and A/D and D/A conversion. Credit is not given to Computer or Electrical Engineering majors. Prerequisite: PHYS 212.
Hours 3 hours.
Subject Area Core Curriculum
Course Prerequisites Credit in PHYS 212
Course Directors Jianhua Zhang
Description Basic principles of circuit analysis, transient analysis, AC steady-state analysis, introduction to semiconductor devices and fabrication, digital logic circuits, op-amps, and A/D and D/A conversion.
Notes ECE students may not receive credit for this course.
Credit 3 hours
Goals This course is designed to give non-majors in engineering an introduction to electric circuits, semiconductor devices, and microelectronic circuits.
Topics
  • Introduction: Charge, current, voltage, power, circuit elements, Ohm's law
  • Kirchhoff's current and voltage laws, voltage and current divisions
  • Node-voltage, mesh-current methods, superposition, and equivalence theorems
  • RC and RL circuits, first-order network, step response
  • Sinusoidal excitation and phasors
  • AC steady-state analysis and AC steady-state power
  • Frequency response, passive filters
  • Semiconductor physics
  • Diodes, diode circuit analysis
  • MOS cicuit analysis
  • MOS logic circuits: nMOS and CMOS
  • BJT circuit analysis
  • BJT logic circuits: RTL, DTL, TTL, and ECL
  • Propagation delay, rise and fall time, and noise margin
  • Op-amps, DAC and ADC
Computer Usage ECE 205 homework and quiz problems are computerized using Mallard, a WWW-based education system.
Course Prerequisites PHYS 212
Topical Prerequisities
  • Physics in electricity and magnetism
  • Differential and integral calculus
  • Linear, ordinary differential equations
Texts Irwin and Kerns, Introduction to Electrical Engineering, Prentice-Hall.
ABET Category Engineering Science: 100%