Welcome
to Analog Electronics. Please feel free to offer suggestions for
improving the course and this course web site. If you find a link that might be
of interest to the class, email the URL to
me and I might include it on this page.
CLASS PROCEDURES
Syllabus doc html
TESTS
Test 1: Wed. Sept. 16, 2009. Study Guide: doc html solution
Test 2: Wed. Nov. 11, 2009. Sample test:
doc html pdf SOLUTION
HOMEWORK (5 @ 10 points each)
Homework Examples ex. 1 ex. 2 ex. 3
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Wed. 8/19 |
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Wed. 9/2 |
Fri. 9/11 |
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Special submission instructions on cover page. |
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HW 3 |
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Peer review of HW 2. Upload to Blackboard. |
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Wed. 10/7 |
Wed. 10/14 |
Common emitter amplifier – Ch. 13. Submit hardcopy in class and submit PSPICE files to Blackboard. See cover sheet for details. |
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IN-CLASS EXERCISES (10 @ 5 points each)
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Mon. 8/24 |
Find g22 solution |
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Op-amp non-inverting gain: algebraic solution |
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Exact and ideal non-inverting gains: numerical solution |
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I-4 |
W 9/23 |
CMRR calculations solution |
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I-5 |
F 9/25 |
Exer. p. 653 – Slew rate and full-power BW. Solution |
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F 10/2 |
Drawing DC and AC equivalent circuits. Solution |
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PROJECT (50 points)
The project is now ready (10/7/09). The due date is Mon. 12/7/09
Project assignment: doc pdf
Starter files: schematic project.sch library file project.lib
Notes on Widlar,
Wilson, and Cascode current sources Wed. Nov. 18, 2009
ADDITIONAL NOTES
Moore's Law article
Chapt. 10 Powerpoints
Corrected notes on Cascaded Amplifiers (Mon.
9/14/09)
TEXTBOOK SUPPORT (Microelectronics Circuit Design - 3rd Edition)
Authors' textbook website - includes Exercise solutions, Problem answers,
Errata and more... http://www.jaegerblalock.com/
Publisher's textbook website (select book, then Self Study tab).... http://www.mharis.com/
Selected answers
to problems
SOFTWARE SUPPORT
MATLAB: There is no free portable version of MATLAB. The full version is
installed on the COE workstations. The bookstore sells the student version for
about $100. There are help and tutorials on the ECE software support pages
here:
http://eng.auburn.edu/programs/ece/students/computing-tutorials.html
There is some very nice software called Octave which is an open-source mimic of Matlab. Many grad students and faculty use this because it is free, and there is a lot of user-provided support. You can get downloads for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The Octave main page is here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
and the Windows download is on this page (scroll down to the Windows Installer link):
http://octave.sourceforge.net/
If you accept all the defaults (install directory, components) you should have all you need.
There is a user manual here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/
Let me know your experience with this.
PSPICE: (UPDATED FALL 2009)
There is a version of PSPICE called LTSpice that is supposed to be good, free, and portable. Below is the testimonial from Dr. Wilamowski. I would be glad for your feedback on this.
// Last semester in Analog Circuit Design course, which is more SPICE demanding than any other undergraduate course students had an option to use full version of PSPICE 9.2 or LTspice. Most of them switched to LTspice even they were previously trained with PSPICE.
The LTspice has no limitation for the circuits size or number of transistors and what is more important uses the newest transistor models frequently updated. It has very friendly graphical user interface. Also, what is important during the recession that it is free so students can simulate large circuits at home.
Short tutorial prepared by one of my student is at: http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~wilambm/ac/handouts/LTSpice%20Intro.pdf
Similar introduction by LT is at: http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/LTspiceGettingStartedGuide.pdf
More advanced tutorial is on: http://pages.suddenlink.net/wa5bdu/ltguide.pdf
User guide is at: http://ltspice.linear.com/software/scad3.pdf
Collection of demo circuits are at: http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/demo_circuits.jsp
and the software can be downloaded from: http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/ltspice.jsp
In the conclusion the software is better designed and more current than PSPICE so I would suggest that we consider to use LTspice instead of PSPICE
Dan //