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
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