| # | Date | Sections | Topic | Due | Lab |
| Linear and switching voltage regulators | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed Jan 19 | HH 6.0-6.4 | Course Introduction, 723 regulator | -- | |
| 2 | Fri Jan 21 | HH 6.0-6.4 | 723 regulator | -- | |
| 3 | Mon Jan 24 | HH 6.5-6.10, 6.16 | High current, circuit protection, fixed monolithic regulators | -- | Lab 1 Circuit simulation |
| 4 | Wed Jan 26 | HH 6.11-6.18 | Adjustable monolithic regulators, rest of DC supply circuit | -- | |
| 5 | Wed Jan 26 | HH 6.19 Handout 1 Handout 2 | Switching regulators | -- | |
| 6 | Mon Jan 31 | -- | Lab 2 Linear regulator | ||
| Oscillators, Comparators, and timers | |||||
| 7 | Wed Feb 2 | -- | |||
| 8 | Wed Feb 2 | ||||
| 9 | Fri Feb 4 | ||||
| 10 | Mon Feb7 | SS 8.1-8.2, 8.10 handout 3 | Feedback stability | HW 1 solution | Lab 3 Switching regulator |
| 11 | Wed Feb 9 | SS 13.1-13.2 | Sinusoidal oscillators | HW 2 solution | |
| 12 | Wed Feb 9 | HH 5.17, 5.19 | Wien bridge oscillator Crystal oscillators | ||
| 13 | Mon Feb 14 | SS 13.4-13.5 HH 229-232 SS 13.6-13.7 | Lab as usual I will arrange to be available via Skype, details to be announced Bistable, astable, and monostable multivibrators 555 timer | -- | Lab 4 Sine wave generators |
| 14 | Wed Feb 16 | HW 3: SS13.18 solution | |||
| 15 | Wed Feb 16 | ||||
| 16 | Mon Feb 21 | -- | Review of material from Feb 14-16 | -- | Lab 5 Comparators, waveform generators |
| 17 | Wed Feb 23 | -- | Exam 1 preparation | HW 4: SS13.24, SS13.26, SS13.27, SS13.30, SS13.34, SS13.39 solution | |
| 18 | Wed Feb 23 | -- | Review of material from Feb 14-16 | ||
| 19 | Fri Feb 25 | -- | Example exam problems solutions | -- | |
| 20 | Mon Feb 28 | HH 284-294 | Voltage-controlled oscillator | -- | Lab 6 555 timer |
| 21 | Wed Mar 2 | -- | Exam 1 Help sheet solution | -- | |
| Active filters | |||||
| 22 | Web Mar 2 | SS 12.0-12.3 | Active filters | -- | |
| 23 | Fri Mar 4 | -- | Discussion | HW 5: SS13.33, SS13.40 solution | |
| 24 | Mon Mar 7 | SS 12.4-12.5 | 1st and 2nd order filters | -- | Lab 7 Filter transfer functions with Matlab (class will take place in the DSP lab, Workman 187) |
| 25 | Wed Mar 9 | HH 5.00-5.07 | Filters based on VCVS | HW 6: SS 12.9, SS 12.17 solution | |
| 26 | Wed Mar 9 | -- | Discussion | ||
| -- | Mon Mar 14 | ||||
| -- | Wed Mar 16 | ||||
| -- | Wed Mar 16 | ||||
| 27 | Mon Mar 21 | SS 12.7-12.8 | Bi-quadratic filters | -- | Lab 8 VCVS active filters |
| 28 | Wed Mar 23 | -- | |||
| Phase-locked loops | |||||
| 29 | Wed Mar 23 | HH 9.27-9.31 | Phase-locked loops | -- | |
| -- | Fri Mar 25 | -- | NO CLASS | HW 7: SS 12.48, SS 12.49 solution | |
| Noise | |||||
| 30 | Mon Mar 28 | Wikipedia page | Phase-locked loops | -- | Lab 9 Phase-locked loops |
| 31 | Wed Mar 30 | RM 147-169 HH 428-438 HH 445-455 | Noise | -- | |
| 32 | Wed Mar 30 | -- | Exam 2 preparation | ||
| 33 | Mon Apr 4 | RM 123-145 | Current-feedback op-amp, compared to voltage feedback op-amps | -- | Lab 10 Noise |
| Current feedback op-amps | |||||
| 34 | Wed Apr 6 | -- | Exam 2 solution | HW 8: assignment solution | |
| 35 | Wed Apr 6 | SS 8.10-8.12 | Stability | ||
| 36 | Mon Apr 11 | RM 101-121 application note | Voltage feedback op-amp stability | -- | Lab 11 Current-feedback op-amps |
| Differential amplifiers and multi-stage amplifiers | |||||
| 37 | Wed Apr 13 | SS 7.3 | BJT differential pair | -- | |
| 38 | Wed Apr 13 | SS 7.7.2 | BJT two-stage amplifier | ||
| -- | Fri Apr 15 | -- | -- | HW 9: SS 8.73, 8.75, 8.76 (Due by 4 PM either in my EE mailbox or via e-mail) solution | |
| 39 | Mon Apr 18 | -- | Exam 3 preparation | -- | Lab 12 (part 1) Discrete component op-amp |
| 40 | Wed Apr 20 | -- | Exam 3 solution | HW 10: SS 7.24, 7.40 solution | |
| -- | Wed Apr 20 | -- | NO CLASS | ||
| 41 | Mon Apr 25 | SS 7.7.2 | Two-stage BJT op-amp | -- | Lab 13 (part 2) Discrete component op-amp |
| 42 | Wed Apr 27 | SS 7.1, 6.12 | MOS differential pair | HW 11: SS 7.98 solution | |
| -- | Wed Apr 27 | -- | NO CLASS | ||
| 43 | Mon May 2 | HH 7.22-7.25 | Interference, grounding, and guarding | -- | |
| 44 | Wed May 4 | -- | Exam 4 preparation | -- | |
| 45 | Tue May 10 1:30-2:30 PM Speare 113 | -- | Exam 4 solution | -- | |