UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

EEC110B

Electronic Circuits II

Course Information

Spring 2012
Homeworks and Solutions

NOTE: Final - Wed June 13 6-8pm [bring calculator, two 8.5"x11" pages of your notes (2 sides), and the Single Xtr Amplifier Models handout (3 pages).]
NOTE: Finals week office hours:
Nima: Tu 12:30 to 1:30 pm
Ali: Tu 5-6pm
Daniel: W 11-noon
(All TA hours in the lab)
P. Hurst, 1:30-3:30pm Tu and 3:40-4:40pm W in 2031 Kemper

Web Page:
http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~hurst/EEC110b/

Course Time and Location:
106 Olson
T, Th 12:10 pm - 1:30 pm

Instructor:
Professor Paul Hurst
Office: 2031 Kemper Hall
Office Hours: Tu 9:30-10:30am and Th 1:30-2:30pm
Please contact me in person (in office hours or after class) instead of by email.

Teaching Assistants:
NameLab SectionsOfficeOffice HoursEmail
Nima MostafaviTu Fri 2157/2161 Kemper Tu 1:30-2pm Th 3-4pm
nimostafavi@ucdavis.edu
Ali QureshiTu 2157/2161 Kemper Tu 5-6pm
maqureshi@ucdavis.edu
Daniel LamFri 2157/2161 Kemper Fri 11-noon
dnylam@ucdavis.edu

Required Text:
Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, P. R. Gray, P. J. Hurst, S. H. Lewis, and R. G. Meyer, Fifth Edition, Wiley, 2009.

Summary of errors in the text: Text Corrections

Prerequisites:
EEC110A







Objectives: This course is intended to develop the understanding of analog bipolar integrated-circuit design. Students who have successfully completed this course should:

  1. be able to explain the hybrid-pi model of the bipolar junction transistor,
  2. be able to analyze and design amplifier, current-mirror, and output-stage circuits,
  3. be able to analyze the operation of an operational amplifier at the transistor level,
  4. be able to use the Miller effect to find the bandwidth of a circuit
  5. be able to use time constants to obtain an estimate of the frequency response of a circuit
  6. be able to use the return ratio to analyze circuits with negative feedback
  7. be able to determine the gain and phase margins of a negative-feedback amplifier
  8. be able to design a simple compensation scheme to stabilize a negative-feedback amplifier
  9. know how to use SPICE to find the characteristics of amplifiers, current mirrors, and output stages, and
  10. be able to use laboratory equipment including signal generators and oscilloscopes.


Laboratory Assignments: The 110b lab consists of eight experiments and is held in 2157 and 2161 Kemper Hall. The lab instructions can be downloaded (see the PDF files below). The tentative lab schedule is shown below.

Sec. A01
Tu 2-5pm		 Sec. A02
Fr 12-3pm		 Exp. Topic
4/34/6 lab1.pdf Equipment Introduction
4/34/6 lab1 reading: Analog Circuit Lab Instrumentation & Measurement
4/34/6 lab1 reading (optional): XYZ's of Oscilloscopes
4/3-6/84/6-6/8 background+data_sheets.pdf Background and Data Sheets for Labs 2-8
4/104/13 lab2.pdf Bipolar Transistors
4/174/20 lab3.pdf Single Transistor Amplifiers
4/244/27 lab4.pdf Transistor Current Sources
5/15/4 lab5.pdf Differential Amplifiers
5/85/11 lab6.pdf The Operational Amplifier
5/155/18 lab8.pdf *** Compensation (do Prelab 1&2, build circuit and do at least 1-3 in lab)
5/225/25 lab8.pdf Compensation (do rest of Prelab if possible, continue lab)
5/296/1 lab8.pdf Compensation (finish prelab, finish lab)
6/5 6/8 -Open lab (time to finish lab 8, if necessary)

*** We may skip lab 7. The scores for weekly labs 1-7 will be weighted equally, and the score for the lab 8 will be weighted as equal to three weekly labs.


Reading Assignments:
All reading assignments refer to sections in: Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, Gray, Hurst, Lewis, and Meyer, 5th Edition, 2009.

TopicReading
Lect. 1: Models Sec. 1.0-1.4
Lect. 2&3: Single-transistor amplifiers Sec. 2.1-2.7, 3.1-3.4, (skip material on MOS transistors)
Lect. 4: Current sources Sec. 4.0-4.2.6.1 and 4.4.1 (skip material on MOS transistors)
Lect. 5: Diff. pairs Sec. 3.5 (skip material on MOS transistors)
Active loads Sec. 4.3 (skip material on MOS transistors)
Output Stages Skim Chapter 5 (skip material on MOS transistors)
Op Amps Sec. 6.1-6.2 and 6.8
Frequency Response Chapter 7 (skip sections 7.2.1.2, 7.2.3.2 and 7.2.4.2 on MOS circuits)
Feedback and Compensation Sec. 8.1-8.3 and 8.8. (Skim 8.4-8.6). Read Problem 8.33.


Grading:
There will be one in-class midterm exam, and a two-hour final exam. Date of the midterm exam is TBA. The final exam will be held at the time and date in the schedule of classes for our lecture time. The grading breakdown for this course:
Type Weight
Lab35%
Midterm Exam25%
Final Exam40%

  • Course Syllabus: o Course Syllabus

    Single-Transistor Amplifiers:

    Several Op Amps:

    HSPICE information:

  • Instructions for running HSPICE and cscope

    A past (example) final: