Introduction
Lecture
1: Course overview and introduction; analog vs. digital signals
Circuit Analysis
Lecture
2: Overview of circuit analysis, electrical quantities, ideal basic
circuit element, sign conventions
Lecture
3: Power calculations; circuit elements (voltage and current sources,
resistor); Kirchhoff's laws
Lecture
4: Circuit element I-V characteristics; construction of a circuit
model; Kirchhoff's laws -- a closer look
Lecture
5: Resistors in series; voltage divider; resistors in parallel; current
divider; measuring current and voltage
Lecture
6: Wheatstone bridge circuit; delta-to-wye equivalent circuits; node-voltage
analysis method
Lecture
7: Node-voltage analysis of circuit with dependent sources; source
transformations; mesh-current analysis method
Lecture
8: Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits; maximum power transfer;
superposition
The Operational Amplifier
Lecture
9: Op amp terminals and voltages; feedback; comparator circuits; ideal
op amp; unity-gain voltage follower circuit
Lecture
10: Inverting-amplifier circuit; summing-amplifer circuit; non-inverting
amplifier circuit; difference-amplifier circuit
Lecture
11: Op amp circuit analysis; the capacitor
First-Order Circuits
Lecture
12: Capacitors in series and in parallel; the inductor; inductors in
series and in parallel
Lecture
13: Mutual inductance; natural response of an RL circuit
Lecture
14: Natural response of RC circuit
Lecture
15: General transient response of RL and RC circuits; application to
digital logic gate
Lecture
16: Propagation delay; energy consumption of simple RC circuit
Semiconductor Devices and Technology
Lecture
17: Semiconductor materials; properties of Si; doping
Lecture
18: Generation and recombination; charge-carrier transport; resistivity
Lecture
19: IC resistors; the p-n junction diode (depletion region, built-in
voltage, I-V characteristic, capacitance)
Lecture
20: Reverse breakdown; load-line analysis method; diode models; diode
applications
Lecture
21: More diode applications; introduction to the MOSFET
Lecture
22: The MOSFET as a controlled resistor; current saturation; channel-length
modulation; velocity saturation
Lecture
23: MOSFET ID-VGS characteristic;
MOSFET circuit models
Transistor Amplifier Circuits
Lecture
24: The common-source amplifier
Lecture
25: General transconductance amplifier; summary of MOSFET
Digital Integrated Circuits
Lecture
26: Logic functions; NMOS logic gates; noise margin; the CMOS inverter
Lecture
27: Current flow in CMOS inverter during switching; CMOS logic gates;
the body effect
Lecture
28: Review (various examples relevant for Midterm #2)
Lecture
29: Logic circuit synthesis; minimization of logic circuits
Lecture
30: Sequential logic circuits
Lecture
31: Fan-out; propagation delay; CMOS power consumption; timing diagrams
Lecture
32: Computing the output capacitance; history of IC devices and technology
Lecture
33: Basic IC fabrication technology
Lecture
34: Modern IC fabrication technology
Lecture
35: Device isolation methods; electrical contacts to Si; mask layout
conventions; process flow examples
Lecture
36: CMOS process flow and layout; circuit extraction from layout
Lecture
37: Interconnect parameters; interconnect modeling
Lecture
38: Propagation delay with interconnect; inter-wire capacitance; pi
model for capacitive coupling; capacitive coupling effects
Lecture
39: Transistor scaling; interconnect scaling
Lecture
40: Microelectronics technology in the 21st century
Lecture
41: Example problems for the final exam