CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

ELECTRONICS I LABORATORY

ECE340L – FALL 2003

 

I. Instructor

            - Ben Mallard

            - Office: Room EA1335, (818) 677-5636 (x5636)

            - Office Hours:  Wednesdays, 9-11 am; Thursdays, 7-8 pm

-         Email Address bmallard@csun.edu OR BFM7152@cs.com

-         Website: http://www.ecs.csun.edu/~bmallard

 

II. Textbook

            - Electronics I Lab Manual

 

III. Laboratory Materials

-         EE340 Laboratory Kit

-         Breadboard

-         Punch Card

            - Laboratory Notebook (For personal use)

 

IV. Grading

            - All grading is based upon the laboratory report (explained below)

            - Each report is due no later than one week after the accompanying experiment is

               performed

 

V. Laboratory Report

            - Each experiment shall be described by a laboratory report

            - Each laboratory report shall be hand written or typed

            - No portion of the laboratory report shall be done in pencil

                        (including graphs, circuit schematics, charts, etc.)

            - Each laboratory report shall consist of the following sections

                        A. Introduction

                        B. Methods and/or Procedures

                        C. Results, Observations, and/or Data Collection

                        D. Discussion and/or Conclusion

 

 

 

VI. Laboratory Experiments

 

The following is a schedule of laboratory experiments that will take place in this section of EE340L.  Keep in mind that lab reports are due one week after the completion of each lab exercise. All experiments can be found in the laboratory manual except for the CMOS Amplifier Design.

 

WEEK                                                            EXPERIMENT

 

08/29                                                   Introduction

 

09/05                                                   Operational Amplifier - Experiment #1

 

09/12                                                   Operational Amplifier - Experiment #1

                                                           

09/19                                                   Diode Circuits - Experiment #2

 

09/26                                                   Rectifier and Zener Diode Circuits - Experiment #3

 

10/03                                                   Bipolar Junction Transistor Characteristics - Exp #6

 

10/10                                                   Common Base Amplifier - Experiment #7

 

10/17                                                   Common Collector Amplifier - Experiment #8

 

10/24                                                   Common Emitter Amplifier - Experiment #9

 

10/31                                                   Common Emitter Amplifier Design, Single Stage

- Experiment #10

 

11/07                                                   Common Emitter Amplifier Design, Multi-Stage                                                                - Experiment #11

 

11/14                                                   CMOS Amplifier Design (Computer Simulation)

 

11/21                                                   Junction Field Effect Transistor - Experiment #4

 

11/28                                                   Thanksgiving Holiday – No Laboratory

 

12/05                                                   The Difference Amplifier - Experiment #12