EECS40 Lectures
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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: Resistors in series; voltage divider; resistors in parallel; current divider; measuring current and voltage
Lecture 5: Node-Voltage Circuit Analysis Method; Formal Circuit Analysis Methods
Lecture 6: Complete Mesh Analysis; Superposition; Thevenin and Norton Equivalent Circuits; Maximum Power Transfer
Lecture 7: Thevenin/Norton Eq. cont.; Max power transfer theorem; The operational amplifier ("op amp"); Feedback; Comparator circuits; Ideal op amp; Unity-gain voltage follower circuit
Lecture 8: Op-Amp ckts cont.; Inverting amplifier circuit; Summing amplifier circuit; Noninverting amplifier circuit; Differential amplifier circuit
Lecture 9: The Capacitor; The Inductor
Lecture 10: Mutual Inductance; First-order Circuits
Lecture 11: Transient Response of 1st-order Circuits; Application: Modeling of Digital Logic Gate
Lecture 12: RC, RL Review; Propagation Delay; Energy Consumption of Simple RC Circuit; Circuit Transient Response Examples; Midterm Questions
Lecture 13: Semiconductor Materials; Properties of Silicon; Doping
Lecture 14: Midterm #1 Stats; The pn Junction Diode
Lecture 15: Diode Analysis and applications continued; The MOSFET
Lecture 16: MOSFET ID vs. VGS characteristic; Circuit Models for the MOSFET
Lecture 17: MOSFET ID vs. VGS characteristic continued; Circuit Models for the MOSFET continued
Lecture 18: Small signal analysis continued; Logic functions; NMOS logic gates; The CMOS inverter
Lecture 19: The CMOS inverter (cont'd); CMOS Logic gates; The body effect
Lecture 20: Synthesis of logic circuits; Minimization of logic circuits
Lecture 21: Sequential logic circuits; Fan-out; Propagation delay; CMOS power consumption
Lecture 22: Timing diagrams; Delay Analysis
Lecture 23: Maximum clock frequency- three figures of merit; Continously-switched inverters; Ring oscillators; IC Fabrication Technology
Lecture 24: Modern IC Fabrication Technology
Lecture 25: Device isolation methods; Electrical contacts to Si; Mask layout conventions; Process flow examples; Circuit extraction from layout
Lecture 26: Interconnect modeling; Propagation delay with interconnect; Inter-wire capacitance; Pi model for capacitive coupling; Coupling capacitance effects: loading, crosstalk
Lecture 27: Transistor scaling; Silicon-on-Insulator technology; Interconnect scaling