EE 290 G Intro to MEMS Spring 1997 Syllabus

Instructor 
 

Office Hours

Kristofer S.J. Pister 
pister@eecs <-- easiest method of contact 
512 Cory Hall 
M 11-12 in 471 Cory, Thu 3:30-5 in 512 Cory, and by appointment (ideally email)
TA 
 

Office Hours

Rob Conant 
rconant@eecs 
373 Cory Hall 
Tu 10-12, Th 3:30-5, and anytime by appointment / drop-in
Class Homepage: http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ee290g
Required Texts none (selected papers will be distributed)
Suggested references  
(in no particular order, and of questionable relevance)
Transducers 91 ($15 if you want one) 
Ristic, Sensor Technology and Devices 
Weste and Eshraghian, Principles of CMOS VLSI design
Jaeger, Introduction to Microelectonic Fabrication
Grading
Homework 30%
Midterm 15%
Project 30%
Final (exam group 5 25%
Thursday 12/11 12:30-3:30 p.m.)
Homework Will emphasize design, layout, and simulation of devices and systems 
Collaboration is encouraged!
Project Writeup is due the last week of class.  Four pages max, two column format, no exceptions! 
Collaboration is encouraged.

Homework #1: Due Thursday 8/28/97 by midnight!

1. Log onto the Class homepage (http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ee290g), click on Homework, then click on Homework #1. Fill out and submit the online class registration form.
2. From any Cory Hall instructional machine, log in and run matlab (type matlab at the command prompt). Run the benchmark program by typing bench at the prompt. How fast is this machine? Run the bench program on one of the new computers in 119 Cory and one of the slower machines in 199 Cory. How much faster are the new machines?

Note 1: if you do not have an account on the Cory instructional machines, follow the instructions on the green sheets outside of 199 Cory to get a new account.
Note 2: ee290g students should add the following line to their ~/.cshrc file:
source ~ee290g/adm/class.cshrc
This file will set the path and environmental variables for the software that we will use in ee290g.