Credits:
Semesters Offered
Learning Objectives
- Understand the basics of integrated semiconductor electronics
- Understand the basic function of active elements (MOS and bipolar transistors)
- Understand the basic functional elements of an integrated circuit (current sources, active loads)
- Develop an ability to design and to analyze single-stage analog amplifier circuits (common-emitter (source), followers, cascodes and differential pairs)
- Develop an ability to synthesize the single stage units into a multistage amplifier
- Develop an ability to perform basic time-domain and frequency-domain analysis of these circuits
- Develop an ability to design and build basic digital circuits: logic gates (NAND/NOR/Inverter, etc.)
- Understand the function and construction of basic memory circuits: DRAM, SRAM, non-volatiles
Topics Covered
- Introduction to semiconductor electronic
- How to make an integrated resistor, diode, capacitor
- How MOS and bipolar transistors work
- Basic single-stage amplifier design: (common-emitter (source), followers, cascodes and differential pairs)
- Multi-stage design
- Time and frequency domain analysis
- Digital gates: NAND/NOR/Inverter
- Memory circuits: DRAM/SRAM and non-volatiles
[1] Credit only granted for: ENEE302 or ENEE303.