Fall 97 EE 122 and EE 66 Information
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Week 1
Monday: Chapter 1: Introduction.
Wednesday: Start Chapter 2: MOS characteristics.
EE 66: Introduction.
Week 2
Monday: Labor Day.
Wednesday: Chapter 2: derive threshold voltage; start Id vs.
Vds;
H.W. 1: Chapter 2: 1, 3, 6, 7, 11; hand out lecture notes for
Chapter 2.
EE 66: Pulse/RC Fundamentals.
Week 3
Monday: Conclude Chapter 2; start Chapter 3.
Wednesday: Chapter 3: MOS Inverters Overview; handout H.W. 1
solutions.
EE 66: NMOS inverters (Old Experiment 6).
Week 4
Monday: NMOS AND CMOS Inverters, NAND, NOR gates;
- H.W. 2 (10 Extra Points): Chapter 3: 4, 7, 10, 11, 14; Due
Monday (9/29).
Wednesday: Review of MOS gates and inverters.
EE 66: NMOS Gates (Old Experiment 6) and D2.1.
Week 5
Monday: Review of NMOS and CMOS gates; Conclude Chapter 3.
Wednesday: More CMOS inverter/gate review; start Chapter 4 on
diodes.
- Make sure to read EE 20 lecture notes on diode
physics if you cannot
- follow the corresponding explanations in the
book.
EE 66: CMOS Inverters and Gates: D3.1 and D3.2.
Week 6
Monday: Diode characteristics; solve inverter problems.
Wednesday: Diode small signal capacitance and summary of SPICE parameters.
EE 66: Diode Swiching: D4.1, D4.2, D4.3.
Week 7
Monday: Finish Chapter 4; Start Chapter 5: BJT operation and
Ebers-Moll model.
Wednesday: More on Ebers-Moll Model.
EE 66: BJT Characteristics: D5.1,
Week 8
Tuesday (Designated Monday): Conclude Chapter 5-BJT characteristics.
Wednesday: Quiz 1
EE 66: No Tuesday Labs; Free time; Chance to catch-up!
Week 9
Monday: Start Chapter 6-BJT inverters.
Wednesday: BJT Inverter, voltage transfer curve, fan-out, etc.
EE 66: D5.2, D5.3.
Week 10
Monday: BJT inverter, switching characteristics, delay, Schottky
clamped inverter.
Wednesday: Solution of Ebers-Moll model; Newton method; conclude
Chapter 6.
EE 66: BJT Inverters: D6.1, D6.2Week 11
Monday: Start Chapter 7: RTL, DTL and TTL.
Wednesday: More on TTL.
EE 66: .
Week 12
Monday: TTL: Fan-out, input currents; CMOS-TTL compatibility
Wednesday: Start Chapter 8: Bistable circuit; CMOS monostable
and astable multivibrator
EE 66: Regenerative Logic Circuits: D8.1, D8.2.
Week 13
Monday: More on CMOS astable multivibrator; BJT Schmitt Trigger
Wednesday: BJT and CMOS Schmitt triggers; announce project
EE 66: Regenerative Logic Circuits: D8.3, D8.4.
Week 14
Wednesday: Thanksgiving holiday.
EE 66: Project time; reschedule Thursday lab.
Week 15
Monday: Summary of memory technologies: SRAM, DRAM, ROM
Wednesday: Review for Final
EE 66: Project.