EE 312 Digital Electronics

Semester: Spring 2002

Instructor: Dr. Mehdi Fardmanesh

Office: Room # EA-130, Faculty of Engineering, Phone: x2336

Office Hours: Tuesday   15:40 - 17:40

Thursday 11:40 - 12:40, & 14:40 - 15:40

Assistants: Rizwan Akram, Abdulvahit Yilmaz

Course Schedule:  

Section 1:

Textbook: Jan M. Rabaey, Digital Integrated Circuits, Prentice Hall, 1996.

Suppl. Text.:

1. N. Weste & K. Eshraghian, Principles of CMOS VLSI Design, 1988

2. Richard C. Jeager, Microelectronic Circuit Design, MacGraw-Hill, 1996,

3. David A. Hodges & Horace G. Jackson, Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuits, MacGraw-Hill, 1988.

4. J. P. Uyemura, Fundamentals of MOS Digital Integrated circuits, Addison-Wesley, 1988.

5. K. G. Gopalan, Introduction to Digital Microelectronic Circuits, IRWIN, 1996.

Course Outlines:

1. Introduction to digital Circuits and Fabrication Technologies.

2. Principles of MOS transistors and the Characteristics.

3. Principles of MOS Digital Gates & Circuits.

4. CMOS Circuits and Logic (layout) Design.

5. CMOS Gate Circuits and the Analysis.

6. Junction Diodes, switching transient, and Diode Circuits.

7. BJT modes of Operation & Charge-control analysis.

8. BJT, Digital DTL & TTL Gate Circuits.

9. ECL & (Schottky) I²L Gates.

10. Very High Performance Digital Circuits (Bi-CMOS, Low Temperature, & Superconductive Circuits)

11. Regenerative Logic Circuits.

12. Sample and Hold Circuits and Data Converters.

13. Semiconductor Memories and the Circuit Analysis.

14. Gallium Arsenide Digital Integrated Circuits.

15. Introduction to LSI & VLSI circuit Design.

Grading:

HWs:                                6%

Quizzes (Tentative):           4%

Project:                           14%

Labs:                               16%

Midterm:                          25%

Final Exam:                      35%