Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering

ESE319: Microelectronic Circuits
Fall 2009

Professor Kenneth R. Laker

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Description

The course addresses the analysis and design of active circuits involving semiconductor devices including diodes, bipolar and field effect transistors.  Single-stage, differential, multi-stage and operational amplifiers will be discussed, including their high frequency response.  Oscillators, wave shaping circuits, filters, feedback, stability and power amplifiers will be covered.  A weekly three-hour lab will illustrate the concepts and circuits discussed in class.  ESE 319 is 1.5 CU.

Course Outcomes

• Theory and Analysis

  • Apply principles of component-insensitive design of semiconductor systems. (a1*)

  • Apply principles of differential amplifier analysis. (a2)

  • Apply High frequency models of BJT circuits. (a3)

  • Apply concepts of feedback, including stability, instability and oscillators. (a4)

  • Apply basic analog filter concepts. (a5)

  • Apply principles of Class A, B, and AB power amplifiers. (a6)

  • Design an operational amplifier to specs and experimentally evaluate its performance. (a7)

• Design and Practice

  • Design, simulate, construct and test of semiconductor systems covered in class to relevant specs. (c1*)

  • Develop awareness of the causes of discrepancies between theoretical and practical circuit performance, and learn when these discrepancy causes are significant and when they are not. (c2)

• Use of Computer Tools

  • Apply circuit CAD tools used to each of the design tasks in Outcomes c1 & c2 above. (k1*)

  
  * Note: a, c and k refer to the Program Outcomes of the CTE Program and the EE Program.

General Information

Instructor

Kenneth R. Laker
Room 203D Moore
Phone: 215-898-5340
Email: laker@seas.upenn.edu

Teaching Assistants

TA: Ross Kessler
Room:
Phone:
Email: eros@seas.upenn.edu

TA: Anthony Mattei
Room:
Phone:
Email: mattei@seas.upenn.edu

TA: Vadim Svirskiy
Room:
Phone:
Email: svirskiy@seas.upenn.edu

Time and Location

CLASS: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 11:00 AM - 12:00 N, Room 315 Towne
LAB: Thursday 12:00 - 3:00 PM or Friday, 1:00 - 4:00 PM, RCA Lab

Office Hours

Prof. K. Laker: Monday and Wednesday 5:00 - 6:00PM;  Thursday 3:00 - 4:00 PM or by appointment.

TA Ross Kessler: TBD

TA Anthony Mattei: TBD

TA Vadim Svirskiy: TBD

Prerequisite

ESE 216.

Main texts

• Microelectronic Circuits, 5th Edition, By A. Sedra and K. Smith, Oxford Universit Press.

  • Please click the above text title to check out the website developed to support the text.

• NI Multisim is installed on all RCA Lab PCs (Student Edition is available).

Reference texts

• Microelectronic Circuit Design, 3rd Edition, By R. C. Jaeger and T. N. Blalock, McGraw Hill, 2008.

• Analysis and Design of Analog Intgrated Circuits, 4th Edition, P. R. Gray, P. J. Hurst, S. H. Lewis and R. G. Meyer, John Wiley And Sons, 2001.

• Fundamentals of Microelectronics, 1st Edition, B. Razavi, John Wiley and Sons, 2008.

• Nanometer CMOS ICs: From Basics to ASCICs, 1st Edition, H. Veendrick, Springer, 2008.

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2009 Syllabus

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2009 Exam Solutions

●Solutions to 16 Oct. 09 MT Exam 1

2008 Exam Solutions

• Solutions to 10 Oct. 08 MT Exam 1

• Solutions to 21 Nov. 08 MT Exam 2

• Solutions to 10 Dec. 08 Final Exam

Policies

Grading Policy

Homework:             10 %

2 Midterm Exams:    15 % each

Final Exam:                30 %

Lab:                           30 %

Homework Policy: Homework assignments will comprised of textbook problems and instructor designed exercises

• Homework assigned by Fridayof each week.

• Assignments due on Wednesday, the week after they are assigned.

• Up to 2 late turn-ins(by Friday the week after assigned) permitted with no penalty.

• All homework not turned in on-time, according to the above, will receive "0" grade.

• Graded homeworks returned by Monday or 5 daysafter they are turned in.

• Copying or plagiarism of homework is a violation of the Code of Academic Integrity and can result in a “0” grade for the course.

• Students are expected to manage their two allowed latenesses to allow for unforeseen situations that will result in homework to be turned in late.

Lab Policy

• Each lab session lasts 3 hours and starts promptly.

  • Lab sessions missed due to legitimate absences must be made up.

• Student Groups: The standard lab group is 2 students.

  • Pre-lab and Lab Notebook - individual.

  • Lab Report - group.

• Collaboration is OK, copying and plagiarism is NOT OK.

  •  Any violation of the Code of Academic Integrity may result in zero grade for the course.

    • Copying of pre-lab, data or report content from other lab groups.

    • Submitting contrived or altered data.

    • Copying material (other then schematics) from lab handouts or other sources into Lab Reports.

• Individual Pre-Lab Preparation is very important.

  • Read lab assignment in advance.

  • Read text sections relevant to the experiment.

  • Do all pre-lab work assigned prior to the lab.  Pre-Lab work will be spot checked in lab.

  • Pencil and paper circuit design.

  • Mutisim crcuit simulation(s).

• Individual  Lab Notebook for recording experimental data and observations is essential to preparing accurate Lab Reports.

  • Lab Notebooks will be kept as in ESE 206.

  • Lab Notebooks will be spot checked in lab and collected for instructor review at the end of the course.

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>Lab Report Guidelines

• GROUP LAB REPORT GUIDELINES(Reports due at start of next lab) UPDATED 16Sep08

• READABILITY

  • Lab reports are to be clearly written and typed up.

  • Schematics may be computer drawn or neatly hand-drawn or copied/printed and pasted from circuit simulator created graphics.

  • Tables and graphs of measured data may be copied/printed and pasted from spreadsheet or some other math software.

    • Please label your graphs concisely and appropriately. Labeling your graphs will REDUCE the amount of work you have to do explaining the graph and allow you to concentrate on the results.

• REQUIRED CONTENT

  • Heading: Date, Title of Experiment, Authors Names and Lab Section.

  • Introduction: very briefsummary description of experiment objectives. (5% of report grade or 1/20 points)

    • Example: In this lab, a high frequency amplifier was designed and then built on a proto-board. The experimental results from the amplifier were verified using  Multi-Sim. This lab report discusses the findings from these experiments.

  • Theory: ideal circuit behavior, pencil-and-paper design, all relevant equations. (15 % of report grade or 3/20 points)

    • This could include circuit equations for an op amp or Volterra series expansion for an oscillator (look it up).

  • Experimental Setup:descriptions/schematics of actual circuit(s) tested, instrumentation used and setups for each test.  This can include important component values. (15 % of report grade or 3/20 points)

    • This section can also include a picture (cell phone camera) of your experimental setup (with appropriate labls).

  • Experimental Data:present data results.  This includes experimental and simulation data.. (25 % of report grade or 5/20 points)

    • If you refer back to your experimental data in some depth, you will want to label the plots with tags around the important areas of interest to assist in your presentation of data results.

    • Note: Do not analyze data here, that is for the Discussion Section.

  • Discussion: Discuss results and explain the inconsistencies between design assumptions, experimental results and simulation results.  This is where you tie together all of what you have written in the above sections.  The Theory, Set-Up, and expecially the results sections are analyzed here in depth to show that you have come to understand the underlying issues associated with the lab experiments completed. (40 % of report grade or 8/20 points)

  • LAB REPORT GRADE: N points out of 20 points, where N less-than-or-equal to 20.

  • IMPORTANT NOTE:

    • Most discussion sections should begin with a table of values. This succinct table shows the exerimental, theoretical (calculted from equations) and simulated (Multisim) results for parameters/variables of interst in the lab. This is typically a good jumping off point for the results analysis.

  • SUGGESTED: Individual Lab Notebooks for recording experimental data and observatins are extremely helpful for preparing Lab Reports. Often as you take data, you will be unable to determine what will be the more important data for the lab Report. Keeping good notes will help this process greatly.

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• OVERVIEW

  • In order of importance the sections are

    • Discussion

    • Having a fun weekend :-)

    • All the other sections.

  • VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: The Discussion section is where everything comes together - so if your other sections are weak - your Discussion will be weak. Every section should be composed with the idea that it will be referred to in the Discussion. Even if the reference - the behavior being referenced is reported to be 'erratic and uncharacterizable' is unexplained.

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• LAB REPORT TURN-IN PROTOCOL

  • All Lab Reports are due the next lab session (1 week).

  • Thursdy Lab Section: All Lab Reports are to be turned in Electronically as PDF to Anthony Mattei <mattei@seas.upenn.edu>.

  • Friday Lab Section: All Lab Reports are to be printed and turned in as paper copies.

  • Up to 2 excused late Turn-Ins will be permitted without penalty.

  • Late Lab Reports are due 1 week after original deadline.

  • Lab Reports violating the above. will receive "0" grade.

  • Students are expected to manage their two allowed latenesses to allow for unforeseen situations that will result in homework to be turned in late.

Using or attempting to use unauthorized assistance, material, or  lab results or solutions  (in part or whole)  is a violation of the Code of Academic Integrity and will result in a zero grade for the course.
 
 

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2009 Homework Assignments

• Homework Assignment #1:   Problem Set 1 due Wednesday, Sep. 30: S & S Text Problems 5.1, 5.3, 5.7, 5.8 and 5.21

• Homework Assignment #2:   Problem Set 2 due Wednesday, Oct. 07: S & S Text Problems 5.69, 5.74, D5.75, 5.89 and D5.90 (for problems D5.75 and D5.90 use the RCA Lab Resistor List,rather then the values in the text Appendix G)

• Homework Assignment #3:   Problem Set 3 due Wednesday, Oct. 14: S & S Text Problems D5.106, 5.108, 5.110, D5.131, 5.143

• Homework Assignment #4:   Problem Set 4 due Wednesday, Oct. 21: S & S Text Problems 5.112, 5.128, 5.130, D5.133, 5.139

• Homework Assignment #5:   Problem Set 5 due Wednesday, Oct. 28: S & S Text Problems 5.151, 5.153, 5.159, 5.160, 5.161

• Homework Assignment #6:   Problem Set 6 due Wednesday, Nov. 04: S & S Text Problems 7.20, 7.21, D7.26, D7.32, 7.34

• Homework Assignment #7:  Problem Set 7 due Wednesday, Nov. 11: S & S Text Problems D7.35, 7.40, 7.51, 7.55, 7.57

• Homework Assignment #8:   Problem Set 8 due Wednesday, Nov. 18: S & S Text Problems

• Homework Assignment #9: Problem Set 9 due Wednesday, Dec. 09: S & S Text Problems

    2009 Homework Solutions (All HW solutions will be posted on the ESE 319 Blackboard site)

• BlackBoard Course Website Adendum  - ESE 319 student users of this site must login using their PennKey and password.  Students interested in further information about using BlackBoard are refered to the BlackBoard resource website.

• The posted HW solutions are located by

  • Click on the "Course Documents" Tab in left margin to locate the "Homework Solutions" folder.

  • Click on the link  "Homework Solutions" to locate the homeworks solutions download page.

  • Click on the desired homework sulutions set to view its Adobe PDF file.

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>Useful links

• MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITS text support website

• "Moore's Law" - from Intel Technology & Research

• International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors

  • ITRS 2005 Edition

  • ITRS 2006 Update

  • ITRS 2007 Edition

• Microelectronic Systems News

• "Eco-Smart Technology" - from Intel Technology

• Comparison of Bipolar vs. CMOS

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Created: August 13, 2007; Updated: November 07, 2009 (KRL)