CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

SPRING 2009

COURSE SYLLABUS

ECE 440 – ELECTRONICS II

 

Instructor

Ben Mallard

Office: JD3335

Office Hours: Mondays, 2pm-4pm; Thursdays, 1pm – 3pm

Email Addresses: bmallard@csun.edu or bfm7152@cs.com

Phone: (818) 677-5636 or x5636

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

 

 

Textbook and Materials

Fundamentals of Microelectronics, Behzad Rezavi, Preview Edition

Lecture Notes, Ben Mallard

PSPICE Computer Program

MATLAB Computer Program

 

 

Class Assignments

Homework

Quizzes

Midterm Examinations

Final Examination

 

 

Late Assignments

10 % Penalty each week assignment is late

 

 

Grading

Homework, 10%

Quizzes, 20%

Midterm Examinations, 30%

Final Examination, 40%

 


Course Outline

 

            Class Date                              Topics and Reading Assignments

 

            01/21                                       Single and Multi- Stage Amplifiers (Class Notes)

 

            01/26                                       Differential Amplifiers (Class Notes)

 

            01/28                                       Principles of Feedback (12.1 – 12.2)

 

            02/02                                       Two Port Networks

 

            02/04                                       Feedback Amplifiers (12.3 – 12.5)

 

            02/09                                       Feedback Structures (12.6 -12.7)

 

            02/11                                       Stability of Feedback Amplifiers (12.8)                    

 

            02/16                                       Compensation (12.8)

 

            02/18                                       Midterm Examination #1

 

            02/23                                       Theory of Oscillation (Class Notes)

 

            02/25                                       Wien Bridge and Phase Shift Oscillators (Class Notes)

 

            03/02                                       Ring Oscillators (Class Notes)

 

            03/04                                       Colpitts and Hartley Oscillators (Class Notes)

 

            03/09                                       Crystal Oscillators (Class Notes)

 

            03/11                                       Theory of Passive and Active Filters (14.1)

 

            03/16                                       First and Second Order Filters (14.2, 14.3)

 

            03/18                                       Notch and Bandstop Filters (Class Notes)

 

            03/23                                       Active Filters (14.4)


 

            03/25                                       Butterworth Filters I (14.5)

 

            03/30                                       Butterworth Filters II (14.5)

 

            04/01                                       Midterm Examination 2

 

            04/06                                       Spring Break – No Class

           

04/08                                       Spring Break – No Class

 

            04/13                                       Chebyshev Filters I (14.5)

           

04/15                                       Chebyshev Filters II (14.5)

 

            04/20                                       Switched Capacitor Filter Circuits (Class Notes)

 

            04/22                                       Theory of Tuned Amplifiers (Class Notes)

 

            04/27                                       Tuned Amplifiers Circuits

 

            04/29                                       Midterm Examination #3

 

            05/04                                       Power Amplifiers (13.1, 13.2-13.6)

 

            05/06                                       Heat Dissipation and Efficiency (13.7, 13.8)

 

            05/13                                       Final Examination, 12:45pm – 2:45pm

 

 


Quiz Schedule

 

            Class Date                                          Topics

 

            1/26                                                     Multi-stage Amplifiers

 

            02/11                                                   Feedback Structures

 

            03/04                                                   RC Oscillators

 

            03/18                                                   Second Order Filters

 

            04/22                                                   Active Filters