Courses
offered in Circuits and Devices
ECE 335 - Electronic Devices
ECE 336 - Electronic Circuits
ECE 431 - Operational Amplifier Circuits
ECE 432 - Electronic Amplifiers
ECE491/599- Special Topics: Introduction to VLSI
ECE
531 - Advanced
Analog Electronics I
ECE 532 - Advanced Analog Electronics II
ECE 631 - Advanced Topics in Electronic Instrumentation I
ECE 632 - Advanced Topics in Electronic Instrumentation II
ECE 692 - Special Topics: Advanced Semiconductor Devices
ECE 692 - Special Topics: Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Materials and Devices
Course Descriptions
335 Electronic Devices (4) Semiconductor physics, theory of p-n junctions; diodes, field transistors, and bipolar transistors; modeling of diode and transistor devices; analysis and design of diode switching and rectifier circuits; basic transistor switching circuits and single stage amplifiers; electronic simulation using SPICE. Includes 1 credit laboratory work involving Level 1 design projects. Prereq: 300. Coreq: 315.
336 Electronic Circuits (3) Multistage transistor amplifier biasing; gain stages, and output stages; frequency and transient response of open loop linear amplifiers; fundamentals of integrated circuits, operational amplifier applications in basic feedback configurations; basic transistor switching circuits. Includes laboratory experiments and design projects. Prereq: 335.
431 Operational Amplifier Circuits (3) Linear and non-linear active circuits using commercial operational amplifiers. Operational, instrumentation, isolation, bridge, rms and logarithmic converters, multipliers and function generators, rectifiers, references, active filters, modulation and demodulation, sinusoidal generators. Noise fundamentals and calculations in op-amp circuits. Design for specified pole -zero functions. Applications: transducer interfacing. Level 1 design projects which require laboratory work. Prereq: Linear System Analysis, Electronic Circuits, Analog Communication Amplitude and Frequency Modulation.
432 Electronic Amplifiers (4) Feedback amplifier principles; wideband linear amplifier design; low-noise preamplifier design; audio power amplifier design; linear regulated power supply design and switching regulator principles. Radio frequency amplifier design; oscillator principles. Laboratory experiments and design projects. Level 2 design projects which require laboratory work. Prereq: 431.
491/ 599- Special Topics Introduction to VLSI (3) This course investigates the behavior of microelectronic devices in digital circuits and helps the students develop an understanding of the relationship between the device physics and the device static and dynamic characteristics. SPICE is used for circuit analysis and Cadence Design tools will be used for physical design of CMOS circuits
531 Advanced Analog Electronics I (3) Physical operation of modern electronic devices; semiconductor devices : diodes, bipolar transistors, J-FETs, and MOS-FETs. Small -signal equivalent circuits and noise models of active devices. Project laboratory. Prereq: 431, 432, or consent of instructor.
532 Advanced Analog Electronics II (3) Design and analysis of linear wide-band low -noise feedback amplifiers and radio-frequency amplifiers using discrete, monolithic and hybrid devices; voltage and current regulators, switching regulators. Use of specialized electronic systems in analog signal processors. Advanced topics from current literature. Project laboratory. Prereq: 531.
631 Advanced Topics in Electronic Instrumentation I (3) Based on particular interests of students. Fundamental physical processes in instrumentation transducers: thermoelectric, magnetoelectric, electromechanical and quantum-mechanical devices. Prereq: 531-32 and consent of instructor.
632 Advanced Topics in Electronic Instrumentation II (3) Physical operation of modern discrete, monolithic, and hybrid electronic structures and their application in signal processors. Resolution, sensitivity, response time, and noise considerations in signal processors used in modern electronic instrumentation. Prereq: 631.
692- Special Topics: Advanced Semiconductor Devices (3) This course provides students with an understanding of device physics and advanced semiconductor device concepts. The course material includes semiconductor physics, band structures, band structure modification by alloys, heterostructurs, and strain, phonons, mobility, transport in heterostructures, Advanced device concepts such as semiconductor lasers, heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBT), metal semiconductor field-effect transistors (MESFETs), Modulation doped field-effect transistors (MODFETs), resonant tunneling devices, quantum interference devices, single electron transistors, quantum dot computing are presented.
692- Special Topics: Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Materials and Devices (3) This introduces students to wide bandgap semiconductors such as SiC, GaN and related compound semiconductor materials and devices. Background and state-of-art of the wide bandgap materials are discussed. Physics of semiconductor devices at elevated temperature and design of wide bandgap semiconductor devices for high temperature and high power applications are discussed. GaN and related ternary and quaternary compound semiconductors and their applications in filed-effect transistors for microwave and millimeter wave applications are also discussed.