EE 42 Syllabus -- Spring 2004

Week Date Topic Required (Grob) Text and Reader Chua Text Nilsson Text EE 43 Lab
1 January 20 Course Logistics No Lab
January 22 Voltage, Current, I/V Relationship 1-1 to 1-11 1-3, 2-1 1.3 to 1.6
2 January 27 Kirchhoff’s Laws, Series/Parallel, 3-1 to 3-10, 4-1 to 4-7, 5-1 to 5-6, 6-1 to 1-4, 2-2 2.1 to 2.4, 3.1 Introduction
Voltage/Current Divider 6-5, 7-1 to 7-5, 9-1 to 9-2 to 3.4
January 29 Practical Sources, Measurements 2-7, 3-12, 8-2 to 8-10, 12-11 to 12-14 3.5
3 February 3 Nodal Analysis 9-4 5-1 4.2, 4.4 Oscilloscopes
February 5 Problem/Application Day
4 February 10 Superposition & Thevenin Equivalents 10-1 to 10-3, 10-5 to 10-7 5-4 4.9, 4.10, 4.13 Circuit
February 12 Dependent Sources 2.5, 4.3, 4.11 Simulators
5 February 17 Operational Amplifiers 32-1 to 32-2 4-1, 4-2 5.1 to 5.6 Equivalent
February 19 Differential Amplifiers/Comparator 32-2 4-3 5.7 Circuits
6 February 24 Problem/Application Day No Lab
February 26 Midterm #1
7 March 2 Capacitance, Simple RC Circuit 17-1 to 17-11, 23-1, 23-4 to 23-11 6-1 to 6-3 6.2, 7.2 to 7.7 Op-Amps
March 4 RC Charging, Multiple R and C 23-4 to 23-11 6-3 6.3, 7.2 to 7.7
8 March 9 Digital Logic 31-1 to 31-2, 31-6 to 31-11 RC Circuits
March 11 Problem/Application Day
9 March 16 Semiconductors, P/N Junction 28-1 to 28-3, 3.3 Digital Logic
March 18 Diode I-V, Nonlinear Circuits 29-7, 3.1 to 3.2, 3.4 to 3.5 2-1, 2-3
March 23 Spring Break No Lab
March 25 Spring Break
10 March 30 NMOS and PMOS Transistors, I-V 28-5, 5.1 to 5.3 3-1 to 3-5 Diodes
April 1 NMOS and PMOS Circuits 5.4 3-5
11 April 6 Problem/Application Day MOSFETs
April 8 Inverter, Transfer Curve 5.8, 13.2 3-5
12 April 13 Midterm #2 CalBot
April 15 CMOS NAND/NOR, Gate Delay 13.3, 5.10
13 April 20 Problem/Application Day CalBot
April 22 Latch, Flip-Flops, Multivibrator 31-12, 13.7 to 13.8
14 April 27 More Digital Circuits 13.9 to 13.12, 10.9 to 10.11 CalBot
April 29 Problem/Application Day
15 May 4 Fabrication and Technology CalBot
May 6 Mathematical Aspects of Networks 1.5, 1.6

Note: Lectures entitled “Problem/Application Day” will introduce problem-solving techniques and additional applications of recent material.
 EE 42 Course Policies -- Spring 2004
Instructor: Sheila Ross Email: [email protected] Office: 477 Cory Hall

Textbook: Basic Electronics, by Grob and Schultz, 9th Edition, Glencoe. A very basic, practical, readable text that covers most of the essentials.

Alternate Textbooks: You may prefer learning from one of these texts, depending on your style. All are on reserve in the engineering library.
• Linear and Nonlinear Circuits, by Chua, Desoer, and Kuh, McGraw Hill. For those who prefer a more theoretical, mathematical standpoint.
• Electric Circuits, by Nilsson and Riedel, 6th Edition, Prentice Hall. More concise than Grob, with many practice problems. Weeks 1-7.
• Microelectronic Circuits by Sedra and Smith, 4th Edition, Oxford. More detail on electronic circuits (the course reader comes from this text).

Course Reader: To be used starting in Week 9. It will be available for purchase later in the semester, at Copy Central on Bancroft Avenue.

Class Notes: Notes will be handed out in lecture. The notes are designed to provide you with the main points and diagrams so that you can listen
and think in lecture, and concentrate less on note-taking. Space will be provided for you to embellish the notes. The class notes will form the core
material of the course, and homework/exam expectations will be based on what is covered in class.

Class Website: http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ee42 . Class notes, homework, solutions, etc.

Class Newsgroup: ucb.class.ee42 . Check the newsgroup often for announcements.

Homework: Homework will be posted to the website when assigned, due at the beginning of class on the specified due date (at least one week
later, usually Thursday). You may discuss the homework with other students, but each student must write up the solutions independently. Turn in
the EE 42 drop box in the student lounge on the 2nd floor of Cory Hall. Late homework is not accepted, and the lowest HW score will be dropped.

Grading: There will be 3 exams, each worth 30% of the final score. The homework average is 10% of the final score.

Grading Scale: The grading scale is fixed, so your grade is determined by your performance, and is unaffected by the performance of other
students. This is intended to eliminate competition between students—I encourage you to work together and help each other learn.
A+ 97-100 A 89-96 A- 85-88 B+ 81-84 B 74-80 B- 70-73 C+ 66-69 C 59-65 C- 55-58 F below 55

Makeup Exams: Makeup exams will be given only when there is a class conflict with the scheduled exam, a death of a close family member, or an
illness with a doctor’s excuse. The makeup exam may be oral or written, and might not have the same content or difficulty as the original exam.

Regrading Exams: Exams may be regraded in “Regrade Court”. A time period will be set aside after Exam 1 and Exam 2 to discuss regrades with
Prof. Ross. When you receive your exam in lab, if you have a problem with the grading, do not take it home—make a note and give it to the GSI.
Be aware that your exam score could go up or down if regraded. Due to the deadline the University places on final grade submission, there may
not be an opportunity to regrade Exam 3.

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