UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
EEC110B
Electronic Circuits II
Course Outline
Spring 2006
Web Page:
http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/courses/S06/EEC110B/
Course Time and Location:
204 Art
Lecture: T, Th 12:10 - 1:30 pm
Discussion: T, Th 1:30 - 2 pm
Instructor:
Professor Stephen Lewis
Office: 2035 Kemper Hall, Phone: 752-0458
Office Hours: Monday 11:00-11:50am and Friday 12:10-1:00pm
Please contact me in person (in office hours or after class) instead of by email.
Required Text:
Introduction to Electronic Circuit Design
, R. R. Spencer and M. S. Ghausi, Prentice Hall, First Edition, 2003.
References:
The SPICE Book
, A. Vladimirescu, Wiley, 1994.
The Art of Simulation Using PSPICE, Analog and Digital
, B. Al-Hashimi, CRC Press, 1995.
SPICE: A Guide to Circuit Simulation and Analysis Using PSpice
, P. W. Tuinenga, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall, 1995.
Prerequisite:
EEC110A
Homework:
Assignments, due dates, and solutions will be posted on the web.
Objectives:
Students who successfully complete this course should:
Be able to use open- and short-circuit time constants to obtain estimates of the upper- and lower-cutoff frequencies of a circuit
Understand the operation and modeling of negative-feedback amplifiers
Be able to model a transistor amplifier with negative feedback at the two-port network level
Be able to determine the gain and phase margins of a negative-feedback amplifier
Be able to design a simple compensation scheme to stabilize a negative-feedback amplifier
Be able to analyze an oscillator to determine the frequency of oscillation and whether or not it will oscillate
Understand the basic operation and specification of analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters
Grading:
The final course grade will be based on the following weighting:
Type
Weight
Comment
Homework
10%
About seven assignments
Midterm Exam (Tues. 5/9)
20%
Closed book/notes and no calculators
Project
20%
Will use HSPICE
Final Exam (Fri. 6/9, 8-10am)
50%
Closed book/notes and no calculators