ECE 321 - Electronics I: Fall 2025
University of New Mexico

 

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    Announcements:

 
Sept. 23: In problems 3.1 and 3.2 of Homework 7, consider all transistors to be NMOS.
Sept. 9: It came to my attention that the solutions for homework 1 was for different questions. The updated solutions has now been posted.
Sept. 9: Due to the unexpeted outage of class website, the deadline for all homwork submissions have been extended by one week.
Aug. 28: There will be no office hours on Tuesday 9/2, due to my travel.
Aug. 21: For your information, here are the lab schedules: Thr 3:30-6:15PM (Section 1), Tues 3:30-6:15PM (Section 2), Wed 5:30-8:15PM (Section 3), and Mon 10:00AM-12:45PM (Section 4).
Aug. 19: The labs will start on the first week of September. Since Monday, Sept. 1, is the Labor Day holiday, the students who have lab session on Monday should attend one of the labs during the week (either on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday) for this first session only.
Aug. 19: The correct equation for problem 1-3-a in homework #1 is F=A(B_bar+D)+EC.
Aug. 18: First day of class.


    Course Info:
 
Class: MW 4:00-5:15PM, Room ME 218 (Mechanical Engineering), 4 credits
Course webpage:  www.unm.edu/~pzarkesh/ECE321
Lab Hours: There are 4 sessions for the lab. Please check with your registered session.
Lab webpage: https://www.unm.edu/~pzarkesh/ECE321/lab/ECE321_Lab.html


    Instructor:
 
Prof. Payman Zarkesh-Ha (pzarkesh@unm.edu)
Office hours: Tuesdays 2:00-3:00PM, or by appointments
Office location: ECE 230B
Webpage: www.unm.edu/~pzarkesh


    Teaching Assistant:
 
Class/Lab TAs: Faiyaz Ahmed, Samanta Zeesan Alam, Lutfullahil Majid, and Sadikshya Dulal (fahmed1@unm.edu, samanta@unm.edulmajid@unm.edu, sadidulal@unm.edu)
Office hours: Contact for appointment
Office location: TBD


   Course Description:
 
This course is intended to be an introduction to the digital electronics. The topics includes: Introduction to diodes, bipolar, and field-effect transistors, as well as analysis, and design of digital circuits, gates, flip-flops and memory circuits. The main objective of this course is to provide the students with the basics of digital electronics starting from analyzing the operation of a field effect transistor to the simulation, layout and fabrication of digital logic circuits for combinational and sequential logic applications.


    Textbooks:
 
Primary: Charles Hawkins, Jaume Segura, and Payman Zarkesh-Ha, "CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits: A First Course," SciTech Publishing, December 15, 2012, ISBN: 978-1613530023
Secondary: Neil Weste and David Harris, "CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective," 4th Edition, Addison Wesley, March 11, 2010, ISBN-13: 978-0321547743


    Grading Policy:
 
Homework:                 20%
Class Contributions:    5%
Design Project:           15%
Midterm exam:           30%
Final exam:                30%