SPRING 1998: EE
20 and EE 65 Information
Recitations:
* All
quizzes (biweekly).
* Selected
homework problems and P-Spice sessions.
* Section
30: Wednesdays, 12-1PM, Rome 201.
* Section
31: Wednesdays, 1-1:50PM, Tomp 203.
* Section
32: Wednesdays, 2-2:50PM, Tomp 201.
EE
65 and Recitation GTA's:
* Alfredo
Piazza (alfredo@seas.gwu.edu).
* Umit
D. Demir (udogan@seas.gwu.edu).
* Zvi
Markowitz (amasher@seas.gwu.edu).
*
Tarek Sabry (tsabry@seas.gwu.edu).
Week 1:
Tuesday (Lecture): Course overview, introduction to electronics.
Wednesday (Recitation): No recitation during first week.
Thursday (Lecture): Ideal diode equation, load lines, ideal
diode.
EE 65: Introduction.
Week 2:
Tuesday (Lecture): Solved the following problems: 3.3d, 3.4a,
3.10b and 3.25.
- H.W. 1: Chapter 3: 3, 7, 16, 20, 27, 48, 50, 57, 65.
Wednesday (Recitation): Solve selected homework problems.
Thursday (Lecture): Half-wave, Bridge and Full-Wave rectifiers.
Week 3:
Tuesday (Lecture): Full-wave rectifiers, transformers, Faraday's
Law, Zener voltage regulator
Wednesday (Recitation): Quiz 1- Good Luck!
Thursday (Lecture): Quiz 1 solutions, summarize rectifiers,
voltage clipping and clamping circuits.
Week 4:
Tuesday (Lecture): Small signal diode model;
- H.W. #2: Chapter 3: 70, 73, 79, 91, 107, 111
Wednesday (Recitation): Solve diode related problems.
Thursday (Lecture): Return of Quiz #1; Physics of semiconductor
devices
Week 5:
Tuesday (Lecture): Start Chapter 4 on Bipolar Junction Transistors
(BJT).
Wednesday (Recitation): Quiz 2 - Rectifier
or Wave Shaping Circuit.
Thursday (Lecture): BJT current voltage characteristics; biasing
example.
| Monday |
Wednesday |
| Exp. # 3 |
Spice Tutorials |
Week 6:
Tuesday (Lecture): Biasing BJT circuits; load line; operating
(Q) points.
Wednesday (Recitation): H.W. #2 solutions; Quiz#2 results; BJT
biasing circuit.
Thursday (Lecture): BJT small-signal parameters
| Monday |
Wednesday |
| Holiday |
Midterm Design Project |
Week 7:
Tuesday (Lecture): BJT amplifier design; biasing; determination
of small-signal parameters.
Wednesday (Recitation):
Thursday (Lecture): BJT amplifier design.
| Monday |
Wednesday |
| Midterm Design Project |
Exp. # 4 |
Week 8:
Tuesday (Lecture): Return Quiz 3; BJT amplifier configurations;
analysis of CE and CB configurations.
Wednesday (Recitation): Solve BJT problems and hand-out solutions
to H.W. #4.
- H.W. #4: Chapter 4: 76, 78, 83, 90, 97, 99.
Thursday (Lecture): BJT
Week 9:
Tuesday (Lecture): BJT
Wednesday (Recitation):
Thursday (Lecture): BJT
| Monday |
Wednesday |
| Exp. # 5 |
Spice Tutorials |
Week 10:
Week 11:
Tuesday (Lecture): Start Chapter 5: Introduction to MOSFETs;
NMOS and PMOS; threshold voltage. etc.
Wednesday (Recitation): MOSFET problems.
Thursday (Lecture): MOSFETS.
Week 12:
Tuesday (Lecture): Return Quiz 4; review h-parameters; MOSFET
I-V equations; Spice parameters.
Wednesday (Recitation):
Thursday (Lecture): FETs as active loads, linear resistors,
biasing with current sources.
- H.W. #5: Chapter 5: 6, 8, 11, 15, 19, 30, 37, 42, 48, 57, 72, 83,
94, 96.
Week 13:
Tuesday (Lecture): Example circuit for EE 65 project
Wednesday (Recitation):
Thursday (Lecture): Depletion mode MOSFET's as active loads;
EE 65:
Week 14:
Tuesday (Lecture): Active loaded FET amplifiers; CMOS Inverters
Wednesday (Recitation): Quiz
6-MOSFET's
Thursday (Lecture): Review of Quiz 6; CMOS inverter, NAND and
NOR gates.
Week 15:
Tuesday (Lecture): More on CMOS circuits;
Wednesday (Recitation): GTA's help students with their final projects.
Thursday (Lecture): Review for the final Examination.
EE 65:
Week 16:
Tuesday (Lecture): Last day of EE
20 lecture.
EE 65:
| Monday |
Wednesday |
| Extra Time |
Extra Time |
FINAL EXAM: TUESDAY MAY 12, 4PM,
ROME 204 (OUR CLASSROOM)!!