EEE210: Electronic Devices and Circuits

1. Germain (Germ) Drolet
   Tel: (613) 541-6000, ext: 6192 (office: S4100)
   Email: drolet-g@rmc.ca

2. 3 lectures per week
   2 tutorials/labs per week

3. Marking scheme:
   

   Midterm #1:	10%
   Midterm #2:	10%
   Lab reports:	20%
   Final:	60%

4. Main references:
   1. Course notes available below.

   2. Adel S. Sedra, Kenneth C. Smith, Microelectronic Circuits, Oxford University Press; 6-th edition, 2009, ISBN-10: 0195323033, ISBN-13: 978-0195323030.

5. Calendar description:
   EEE210: Electronic Devices and Circuits
   This course introduces the electronic components that are used to implement the circuits found in most electrical systems. Students completing this course will be able to design and analyze wave shaping circuits, voltage rectifiers and regulators, low-power amplifiers, and digital logic gates. The course includes a significant laboratory component in which the students build diode and transistor circuits for a variety of low-power analog and digital applications. Topics include: the junction diode; field effect transistors; MOSFETs; diode circuits; the analysis and design of single stage low-power amplifiers; small signal models; and, the static and dynamic analysis of the CMOS inverter.
   
   Pre-requisite(s): GEE241
   Semester: Usually offered in the Winter
   Contact Hours: 3-2-5
   Credit: 1

6. Use of mathematical software is encouraged: MAPLE, C programming language, MATLAB, MATHEMATICA, ...

7. Reminder ...

   Academic misconduct, including plagiarism, cheating, and other violations of academic ethics, is a serious academic infraction for which penalties may range from a recorded caution to expulsion from the College. The RMCC Academic Regulations Section 23 defines plagiarism as: “Using the work of others and attempting to present it as original thought, prose or work. This includes failure to appropriately acknowledge a source, misrepresentation of cited work, and misuse of quotation marks or attribution.” It also includes “the failure to acknowledge that work has been submitted for credit elsewhere.” All students should consult the published statements on Academic Misconduct contained in the Royal Military College of Canada Undergraduate Calendar, Section 23.

8. Course evaluation (AY2018-2019)

Class Photo - AY 2019-2020:

Course Notes

Formula sheets

Comparisons MOSFET vs BJT equations

Extras:

• Solution of some problems in the course notes
• Review problems
• Review of Single Time Constant circuits (i.e. circuits with an exponential response)
• Example with non-linear dependent current source
• Summary of transistor formulas
• Circuits for Falstad's circuit simulator
  • Example 2.1.1
  • Example 2.1.1 with a triangular source input
  • Example 2.1.2
  • Asymmetrical Saw Tooth
  • Falling edge detector
  • Half-wave rectifier
  • Full-wave rectifier
  • AC-DC converter with voltage regulator
  • Voltage multiplier
  • Dynamic resistance of diode
  • Section 3.4 example
  • Section 3.5 example
  • Section 3.6 common-source amplifier example
  • Section 3.7 common-drain amplifier example
  • Section 3.9 common-source amplifier problem
  • Section 4.1 Biasing example
  • Example 4.3.1

Extra Problems:

1. Chapter 2: Diodes
   • Ideal diode with capacitor $\longrightarrow$ solution
   • Input-output characteristic with a Zener diode $\longrightarrow$ solution
   • Zener diode with capacitor $\longrightarrow$ answers

2. Chapter 3: MOSFETs
   • Q-point of N-channel MOSFETs (with answers)
   • DC bias of N-channel MOSFETn (with answers)
   • Small signal AC model of MOSFET amplifiers (with answers)
   • AC characteristics of MOSFET amplifiers (with some answers)

3. Chapter 4: BJTs
   • DC bias of NPN BJT (with answers)
   • AC characteristics of BJT amplifiers (with some answers)

Labs:

• Agilent Digital Multimeter - 34401A user manual
• Agilent Function Generator - 33210A user manual
• Tektronics oscilloscope - TDS2014 user manual
• Lab #0: Digilent's Analog Discovery Gizmo
• Lab #0.5: Diode simulation
  • Multisim file circuit of example 2.1.1
  • Multisim file circuit of example 2.1.2
• Lab #1: Transfer Characteristic of Circuits with Diodes
• Lab #2: Transfer Characteristic of Circuits with Diodes - Simulation
• Lab #3: Circuits with diodes and capacitors
• Lab #4: Simple power supply
  • SIMULATION (Multisim file)
  • REAL COMPONENTS
• Lab #5: mosfet static characteristic and biasing
  • spreadsheet template(libre office) (all currents are in mA)
  • spreadsheet template(excel) (all currents are in mA)
• Lab #6: Common source with unbypassed source resistor amplifier
• Lab #7: Biasing of a bipolar junction transistor
• Lab #8: Common emitter with unbypassed emitter resistor amplifier and the Multisim file.

Midterms:
First Midterm Thursday 6 February 2020 $\longrightarrow$ (solutions)

Midterm from academic year 2018 - 2019:
First Midterm Thursday 7 February 2019 $\longrightarrow$ (answers)
Second Midterm Friday 15 March 2019 $\longrightarrow$ (answers)

Midterm from academic year 2016 - 2017:
Midterm Tuesday 14 February 2017 $\longrightarrow$ (answers)

Quizzes from academic year 2015 - 2016:
1st Quiz Friday 29 January 2016 $\longrightarrow$ (answers)
2nd Quiz Wednesday 10 February 2016 $\longrightarrow$ (answers)
3rd Quiz Wednesday 9 March 2016 $\longrightarrow$ (answers)
4th Quiz Friday 8 April 2016 $\longrightarrow$ (answers)

Final Exam AY 2018 - 2019 $\longrightarrow$ (answers)
Final Exam AY 2016 - 2017 $\longrightarrow$ (answers)
Final Exam AY 2015 - 2016 $\longrightarrow$ (answers)

External links:
JAVA applet circuit simulator: http://www.falstad.com/circuit/

You tube video: How does a transistor work