EE 222 Electronics I

1996-97 Catalog Data: 3 credits

Introduction to solid state devices. Prerequisite: EE 201. Corequisite: EE 214.

Additional Information

Textbooks:

Microelectronics, 3rd edition, Sedra and Smith, Holt, Reinhart and Winston, Inc., New York, 1991.

Reference:

Spice for Microelectronic Circuits, 3rd edition, Roberts and Sedra, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers, Orlando, 1992.

Coordinator:

Jaime Ramirez-Angulo, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Instructor(s):

Paul M. Furth

Goals:

Upon completion of this course the student should gain an understanding of the operation and basic circuits of the common semiconductor devices and of the characteristics and basic applications of operational amplifiers.

Prerequisites by Topic:
  1. Knowledge of atomic structure.
  2. Kirchoff and Ohm Laws.
  3. Circuit analysis techniques and useful theorems (superposition, voltage and current dividers, Thevenin and Norton equivalents).
Topics:
  1. Linear Circuits, models for amplifiers, network theorems (1 week).
  2. Ideal op amps, basic circuits, practical op amps, limitations (2 weeks).
  3. Diodes - terminal characteristics, models, applications, physical operation (2 weeks).
  4. BJT - physical operation, terminal characteristics, biasing circuits (3 weeks).
  5. BJT - small signal equivalent circuit, single stage amplifiers with BJTs (3 weeks).
  6. FET - JFETs and MOSFETs, physical operation, terminal characteristics, modes of operation, biasing (2 weeks).
  7. FET - models, single stage amplifiers with FETs (2 weeks).
Computer Usage:

Students are encouraged to use the popular circuit simulation program PSPICE (available on student accessible machines) during the solution of homework problems.

ABET Category Content:

Engineering science: 3 credits or 100%

First Prepared by:

A. K. Petersen
Date: February 14, 1994

Maintained by eeoffice@nmsu.edu Last update 12-12-96
  • BJT - small signal equivalent circuit, single stage amplifiers with BJTs (3 weeks).
  • FET - JFETs and MOSFETs, physical operation, terminal characteristics, modes of operation, biasing (2 weeks).
  • FET - models, single stage amplifiers with FETs (2 weeks).
  • Computer Usage:

     

    Students are encouraged to use the popular circuit simulation program PSPICE (available on student accessible machines) during the solution of homework problems.

     

    ABET Category Content:

     

    Engineering science: 3 credits or 100%

     

    First Prepared by:

     

    A. K. Petersen
    Date: February 14, 1994

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