ECE 442 - Electronic Circuits

Summer 2009 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2010 | Summer 2010
Section Type Times Days Location Instructor
D LEC 1100 - 1150 M W F   165 Everitt Lab  Naresh Shanbhag

Web Page http://courses.ece.uiuc.edu/ece442/
Official Description Analysis and design of analog and digital electronic circuits using MOS field effect transistors and bipolar junction transistors, with an emphasis on the study of amplifiers in integrated circuits. Credit is not given toward graduate degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Credit is not given for both ECE 442 and PHYS 404. Prerequisite: ECE 210 and ECE 440.
Hours 3 hours.
Subject Area Signal Processing
Course Prerequisites Credit in ECE 210
Course Directors Elyse Rosenbaum
Description Analysis and design of analog and digital electronic circuits using MOS field-effect transistors and bipolar junction transistors with an emphasis on the study of amplifiers in integrated circuits.
Notes Credit is not given toward graduate degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Credit is not given for both ECE 442 or 443 and PHYS 404.
Credit 3 hours
Goals This course is intended to give juniors in Electrical and Computer Engineering an introduction to the design of analog and digital integrated circuits.
Topics
  • Basic circuit analysis
  • Diodes
  • Transistors
  • Logic circuits
  • Amplifier circuits
Computer Usage Introduction to SPICE
Course Prerequisites ECE 210 and ECE 440.
Topical Prerequisities
  • Linear circuit analysis
  • Physics of diodes, bipolar-junction and field-effect transistors
Texts Sedra and Smith, Microelectronic Circuits, 5th ed., Oxford University Press.
ABET Category Engineering Science: 2 credits
Engineering Design: 1 credit