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:

  1. Be able to use open- and short-circuit time constants to obtain estimates of the upper- and lower-cutoff frequencies of a circuit
  2. Understand the operation and modeling of negative-feedback amplifiers
  3. Be able to model a transistor amplifier with negative feedback at the two-port network level
  4. Be able to determine the gain and phase margins of a negative-feedback amplifier
  5. Be able to design a simple compensation scheme to stabilize a negative-feedback amplifier
  6. Be able to analyze an oscillator to determine the frequency of oscillation and whether or not it will oscillate
  7. 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:

TypeWeightComment
Homework 10%About seven assignments
Midterm Exam (Tues. 5/9)20%Closed book/notes and no calculators
Project20%Will use HSPICE
Final Exam (Fri. 6/9, 8-10am)50%Closed book/notes and no calculators