| Web Page |
http://courses.ece.illinois.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
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| 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
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| Texts |
Irwin and Kerns, Introduction to Electrical Engineering, Prentice-Hall. |
| ABET Category |
Engineering Science: 100% |
