Welcome
to Digital 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.
No class Friday June 26, 2009 (Mini-Semester I finals)
No class Friday July 3, 2009 (Independence Day holiday)
CLASS PROCEDURES
Syllabus
Homework Preparation
Homework Examples ex. 1 ex. 2 ex. 3
LAB
TESTS
Test 1 is Wed. June 10. Study Guide
and reference card instructions. Solution
Test 2 is Wed. July 1 Study
Guide and reference card instructions
Solution
Test 3 is Fri. July 24 Study
Guide and reference card instructions
Solution
Final Exam is Tuesday, August 4, 8:00 a.m.
-10:30 a.m. Study guide and reference sheet
instructions.
HOMEWORK
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Cover sheet / |
Assigned |
Due |
Comments / Description |
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Fri.
5/29 |
Wed.
6/3 |
Chapt. 2 problems Thanks
to A.J. Duncan for most of the solution. |
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Mon.
6/15 |
Wed.
6/24 |
Chapt. 3 & 4 problems Thanks
to Brian Pappas for the solutions. |
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Mon.
6/6 |
Mon.
6/13 |
Chapt. 5 problems – BJT Thanks
to A.J. Duncan for the solutions Corrected
solution for Prob. 5.84 pnp |
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Wed.
7/15 |
Wed.
7/22 |
Chapt. 7 Prob.’s 11, 20, 26, 62, 65 – CMOS Solutions thanks to A.J. Duncan, Brian
Pappas, and John Lawrence |
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HW
5 |
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IN-CLASS EXERCISES
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Date |
Comments / Description /
Solutions |
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I-1 |
F
5/22 |
Movie
quiz – “Silicon Run.” Answers. |
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I-2 |
F
5/29 |
First
exercise on pg. 47 (ni in Ge). Answer. |
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I-3 |
F
6/5 |
Calculations
of junction potential, depletion layer width, and diode voltage from Chapt. 3. Answers. |
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I-4 |
M
6/8 |
Diode
Q-point from Sect. 3.10. Answers. |
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I-5 |
W
6/17 |
All
four exercises on p. 151 and 152. NMOS calc.’s for ID,
Kn. Solutions online
at authors’ textbook website. |
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I-6 |
F
6/19 |
All
three exercises on p. 159 and 160. MOSFET operating regions, body effect,
NMOS, PMOS. Solutions online at authors’ textbook website. |
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I-7 |
W
7/8 |
BJT
terminal currents. Answers. |
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I-8 |
W
7/15 |
CMOS
Ref. inverter – both exercises on p. 362 Answers. |
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I-9 |
W
7/22 |
ECL
current switch Answer |
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I-10 |
W
7/29 |
TTL
redesign Answer |
ADDITIONAL NOTES
Moore's Law article
Chapt. 2 - supplementary notes (temp. scales, units, conversions..)
Chapt.
3 - Operation of a pn
junction diode.
MOSFET Study Problems Solutions
Chapt. 4 guest lectures
for W. 6/17 and Fri. 6/19
BJT Study Problems Solutions
Comparison of ECL, TTL, and CMOS
Powerpoints for each chapter: Ch1 Ch2 Ch3
Ch4 Ch5 Ch6 Ch7 Ch9
Page 362 corrected
TTL inverter circuit diagrams and device states
Input HIGH Input LOW
TTL inverter PSPICE model files .sch .lib
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://aris.mhhe.com... choose SUBJECT:
Engineering, TEXTBOOK: Jaeger..
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
PSPICE: The full version of PSPICE (ver. 9.2) is installed on the COE workstations in BR 123. There is a free student version (ver. 9.1) for PC which you can get here: http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~troppel/pspice_links.html Unfortunately there is no version of PSPICE that runs on a Mac, as far as I am aware.
--click on "Download locally" . When you install the student version, be sure to choose SCHEMATICS as your interface, not CAPTURE. Download the file into a new empty folder, and run it to self-extract. There are some tutorials and examples linked on the same page. The student version 9.1 is fine for everything we need to do. However, you need to be aware that it cannot read SCHEMATICS files generated by the full version 9.2.
LINKS OF INTEREST
U. S. Army Internships (updated June 2009):
* CREST Program (read About and
Mission): http://www.usaeop.com/programs/CREST/index.htm
* Army Intern Program: http://dacp16.apgea.army.mil/index.html
LED Lighting overview from 2002: http://gaia.lbl.gov/btech/papers/49742.pdf
New transistors made from strontium titanate
deposited on silicon
article (April 2009)
LED Lighting article
from NY Times, May 29, 2009 .
Replacing wires with light on computer chips. July 8, 2009.
http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20090708.093824
