ECE102, Fall 2012

Course Introduction
 Instructor
 Farrokh Najmabadi
 fnajmabadi@ucsd.edu
 Office: 457 EBUII
 Office Hours:
o Monday 11:00-12:30, Thursday: 10-11:30
o Or by appointment (send E-mail)
o Or drop-in (no guaranty!)

 PSpice Lab: 330A, 335, 336 and 337 EBUII (Open 24/7,
Code: 1025713)

 Lab: This Course has No Physical Labs

F. Najmabadi, ECE102, Fall 2012
 Class Web Site

 http://aries.ucsd.edu/NAJMABADI/CLASS/ECE102/12-F

 Or go to
o http://www.ece.ucsd.edu/classweb
Look for ECE102 row and click on my name (middle column)

 Check the Web site regularly:

o Class announcements, Lecture slides, homeworks, will be posted
on the Web site.

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 Text Books
 I post my lecture slides and most students find them to be a good
summary of the material.
Text books:
 "Microelectronic Circuits," by Sedra and Smith (6th edition)
o Text book has more examples and problems and is a very good
reference book to keep for the future.
Recommended Text books:
 "Fundamentals of Microelectronics," by Behzad Razavi .
This is a great book, highly recommended. (ISBN: 0471478466)
 “Art of Electronics," by Horowitz & Hayes and its companion
"Student manual for the Art of Electronics" by Hayes & Horowitz
o Focuses on practical considerations in designing circuits
o A great part is the exercise problems at the end of each chapter
including “good” and “bad” circuits.
o Drawback: It lacks necessary mathematical analysis.
F. Najmabadi, ECE102, Fall 2012
 Lab/Simulation

 This course has no physical Labs.

o Difficult to find “single” MOS transistor.
o We will use PSpice Simulations instead.
 PSpice Lab: 330A, 335, 336 and 337 EBUII (Open 24/7,
Code: 1025713)
 You can download a demo (free) version of OrCAD Pspice
from:
http://www.cadence.com/products/orcad/pages/downloads.aspx
 PSpice Lab has the “full” version.
 There is a “PSpice” Primer posted on the Web site that is
useful in starting on PSpice.

F. Najmabadi, ECE102, Fall 2012

 Syllabus

 We will develop many MOS amplifier circuits • Discussed in ECE65.

with an emphasis on ICs. • We will go through
material rapidly
o MOS Large Signal Model
• Some new concepts will
o MOS Biasing be introduced.
o MOS Small Signal Model • Review ECE65
o MOS Fundamental Amplifier Configurations notes/lecture slides
o Transistor-pair Amplifiers (Cascode and Difference
Amplifiers)
o Active Loads (Fundamental Forms, current mirror)
o Frequency Response of Amplifiers
o Multistage Amplifiers
o Feedback Amplifiers

F. Najmabadi, ECE102, Fall 2012

 Syllabus

 We will develop many MOS amplifier circuits

with an emphasis on ICs.
o MOS Large Signal Model
o MOS Biasing
o MOS Small Signal Model
o MOS Fundamental Amplifier Configurations • Configurations which
o Transistor-pair Amplifiers (Cascode and Difference improve amplifier
Amplifiers) performance.
o Active Loads (Fundamental Forms, current mirror)
o Frequency Response of Amplifiers
o Multistage Amplifiers
o Feedback Amplifiers

F. Najmabadi, ECE102, Fall 2012

 Syllabus

 We will develop many MOS amplifier circuits

with an emphasis on ICs.
o MOS Large Signal Model • We will use transistors
o MOS Biasing to replace resistors in
o MOS Small Signal Model the circuit.
• We will analyze biasing,
o MOS Fundamental Amplifier Configurations
fundamental
o Transistor-pair Amplifiers (Cascode and Difference configurations, and
Amplifiers) transistors pairs with
o Active Loads (Fundamental Forms, current mirror) active loads.
o Frequency Response of Amplifiers • Review 65 Introductory
notes on circuit theory.
o Multistage Amplifiers
o Feedback Amplifiers

F. Najmabadi, ECE102, Fall 2012

 Circuit elements are identified by there iv
characterisitics
 Circuit theory has “symbols” for ideal linear elements:
o five two-terminal elements: resistors, capacitors, inductors, independent
voltage and independent current sources
o Four four-terminal elements: controlled voltage and current sources.
 It is essential to remember that the above ideal element are NOT real
components. Rather they are representative of elements with a certain
iv characteristic equation.
 Since the rest of the circuit only sees the iv characteristics of an element,
different physical elements with similar iv characteristics are identical!

Is a symbol for

F. Najmabadi, ECE102, Fall 2012

 Syllabus

 We will develop many MOS amplifier circuits

with an emphasis on ICs.
o MOS Large Signal Model
o MOS Biasing • Low-frequency response
o MOS Small Signal Model and simple multi-stage
o MOS Fundamental Amplifier Configurations amplifiers were
discussed in 65.
o Transistor-pair Amplifiers (Cascode and Difference
• We will develop a high-
Amplifiers)
frequency model for
o Active Loads (Fundamental Forms, current mirror) MOS and find the
o Frequency Response of Amplifiers complete frequency
o Multistage Amplifiers response and gain of
multi-stage amplifiers
o Feedback Amplifiers

F. Najmabadi, ECE102, Fall 2012

 Syllabus

 We will develop many MOS amplifier circuits

with an emphasis on ICs.
o MOS Large Signal Model
o MOS Biasing
o MOS Small Signal Model
o MOS Fundamental Amplifier Configurations
o Transistor-pair Amplifiers (Cascode and Difference
Amplifiers)
• Feedback is discussed in
o Active Loads (Fundamental Forms, current mirror) depth in ECE100.
o Frequency Response of Amplifiers • We will review principles
o Multistage Amplifiers of feedback and develop
a multi-stage feedback
o Feedback Amplifiers
amplifier.

F. Najmabadi, ECE102, Fall 2012

 Misc items
Grading:
Homeworks/simulations: 25%
Quiz 1 (~5th week of classes): 10%
Quiz 2 (~8th week of classes): 10%
Final: 55%

Discussion Sections:
 I will conduct Monday discussion. TA will do Friday section.
o We will answer questions.
o We will solve some problems after Q/A part. (Problems will be
posted).
 No discussion Section on Monday Oct. 1

F. Najmabadi, ECE102, Fall 2012