UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE

Fall 2014
EE 100A ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS I
Instructor: Dr. Ming Liu, 827-6317, ming@ece.ucr.edu
Instructor Office Hours: Wed, 5 am 6 am, WCH 321 (Tentative)
TAs: Zhongguang Xu (Lab: Mon 11:10 am ~ 2:00pm), zxu002@ucr.edu
Bo Li (Lab: Mon 2:10pm~ 5:00pm, and 6:10pm ~ 9:00pm), bo.li001@email.ucr.edu
TA Office Hours: Tu, 2:00 pm 3:00 pm, WCH 109 (TA room) (Tentative)
Lecture: Gordan Watkins Hall (WAT) 1101, TR, 3:40 pm 5:00 pm
Labs: Monday, 11:10 am 2 pm (Sec. 21); Monday, 2:10 pm 5 pm (Sec. 22);
Monday, 6:10 pm 9 pm (Sec. 23), WCH 128 (lab orientation on Oct 13th, first lab on Oct. 20th)
Midterm exam: Thursday, 11/13/2014, in class. Close book, close notes.
Final exam: Thursday, 12/18/2014, 7:00 P.M. - 10:00 P.M. Close book, close notes.
Objective: The objective of this course and the accompanying EE100B is to develop students
ability to analyze and design electronic circuits. The emphasis is on analog circuits.
Course webpage: http://ilearn.ucr.edu
Text: Microelectronic Circuits, 6th edition, A.S. Sedra and K.C. Smith, Oxford Univ. Press
Online reference for OrCAD PSpice: http://www.cadence.com/products/orcad/pages/default.aspx
Laboratory Experiments: There will be six experiments. A lab report is required for each
experiment. The lab report is due one week after the scheduled date for the experiment,
before the corresponding lab sections.
You will need to buy parts kit for the labs (one kit for two students, same parts for EE100B;
contact UC Riverside IEEE <ieee@ee.ucr.edu>).
Homework Assignments: There will normally be one homework assignment every week, due on
the same day of the following week, before class. Late assignment can be accepted, but 20%
deduction from the score will be applied for each day after the deadline. (-20% for 1st day,
-40% for 2nd day, and so on)
Exams: There will be one midterm and one final exam. The midterm exam will be set in the 6th
week of the quarter. Both exams are close book and close notes. Two pages of equation
sheets (letter size) are allowed.
Grades: 10% assignments, 25% laboratory, 25% midterm, and 40% final exam.
Course Contents:

Signals and amplifiers (chapter 1)

Diodes (chapter 4)
Bipolar Junction Transistors (chapter 6)
MOS Field-Effect Transistors (chapter 5)
Detailed outline for the course:

Week

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Lectures

L1. Review of EE1A. Linear and non-linear

elements.
L2. Amplifiers, Load-line analysis for non-linear
elements
L3. Introduction to semiconductors and diodes
L4. Practice methods to solve diodes (I), logic
circuits
L5. Practice methods to solve diodes (II),
iteration methods.

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L6. Applications of diode circuits-limiters,

rectifiers, filters. Voltage transfer functions.
L7. Introduction to BJT, Large signal models

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L8. Examples to solve DC models.

L9. Early effect. Small-signal models for BJT

Laboratories

No labs

Orientation

Lab 1. Basic Diode i-v

Characteristic and Load Line
Analysis
Lab 2. Diode Circuits
Lab 3. PSpice Electronic Circuits
Modeling

L10. Small-signal models for BJT

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Veterans Day

Lab 4. Characterization of Bipolar

Junction Transistors

Midterm
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L11.12. Single-Stage Amplifiers CE Amplifier

with emitter resistors
L13. Single-Stage Amplifiers CB and CC
L14. RF analysis
Thanksgiving

Lab 5-1. Design of CommonEmitter Amplifiers

(design)
Lab 5-2. Design of CommonEmitter Amplifiers
(implementation)

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L15. Introduction to MOSFET
L16. Large signal models for MOSFET

Lab 6. MOSFET Device

Characterization (Tentative)

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L17. Small signal models for MOSFET CE

L18. Small signal models for MOSFET CB, CC