ECE341 - Lecture and Lab Materials



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Lecture and Lab Schedule


Week Date Lecture Topics Lab Work Supplemental Reading/Viewing
1 1/10 About This Class
About Design
The P-N Junction
Diode Models
Lab 0
Keeping a Lab notebook
Tools you need for lab
Linux Survival Commands
Editing with vim
A good, sane .vimrc file
Videos:
  -Getting in and out of Vim
  -Moving around in Vim
  -Adding and deleting in Vim
  -Dot, make, split, shell commands
2 1/17 Snowed out
3 1/24 Diode Applications
Linux, ngspice (in-class work)
Amplifier Parameters
BJT structure
BJT Regions of Operation
Lab 1 - Diodes
How to use a DMM
Spice Netlist Format
Another Spice Netlist Example
4 1/31 How the BJT Works
Reading Datasheets
Small-Signal Analysis
Prototyping
Lab 2 - Analysis of BJT Q-point
Deadbug Prototyping-Lab 2
5 2/7 Capacitors
Biasing the BJT
Lab 3 - Designing Bias for Amplifier
6 2/14 Fixing the Gain
BJT Biasing Guidelines
In-class Oscilloscope demo
Lab 3b - AC amplifier with Gain Fix
Videos:
  - Intro to Using the Oscilloscope
  - Care and Feeding of Oscilloscope Probes
  - Setting up one channel to view
  - Triggering
  - Horiz. timebase, cursors, measurements
7 2/21 Current Mirrors
Lab 4 - Current Mirror Lab
8 2/28 Differential Amplifiers
Inside a LM741 OPAMP
Lab 5 - Diff-Amp Application
9 3/6 Op amps
Feedback and Op amps
Lab 6 - Op amps
Skip steps 9 and 10, but you can do them if you wish.
Interesting audio op amp projects
Scroll to "Simple Post Index"
10 3/13 Op amp Oscillators
Sine wave OPAMP oscillators - TI Appnote
Lab 7 - OPAMP Phase Shift Oscillator