ECE321: Electronics I

Dec. 17: Congratulations to all of you for your successful design project. The winners of bonus credit are listed below:

Dec. 5: Due to my travel, the class tomorrow, Wednesday Dec. 6, will be held via Zoom. I will be answering any questions you may have about the course. Please use the link at https://unm.zoom.us/j/98895736760 to attend. Please sign in using SSO authentication.
Dec. 5: Please turn in your bonus homework to Matt at ECE front desk by 4:00 PM on Wednesday Dec. 6. Also, please submit your project by email as instructed on the project website. As discussed in class, the final exam will be on Monday Dec. 11, from 5:30-7:30 PM in the classroom at ME 218, per UNM final exam guidelines. You are allowed to bring 1-page A4 size formula sheet and a calculator with you in the exam.
Nov. 30: There will be no class on Monday, Dec. 4. Instead, it is required to carefully watch the pre-recorded video of the last lecture on SRAM, DRAM, & Flash Memories. The video is about 25 minutes and it contains important material.
Nov. 9: The university of Arizona and Arizona stare university are co-hosting a winter school focused on educating junior and senior undergrads on career opportunities in materials science and engineering. The MateriAlZ Winter School will take place at the Biosphere 2, AZ, Jan 22-25, 2024. The workshop is partially funded by NSF (DMR and CMMI). The winter school will fully fund travel/lodging/dining for selected students. For more inofmration please see the flyer.
Oct. 10: I was infomred that there is a typo in the solutions for problem 1-33 of homework 3. The correct KVL equation is 26mV*Ln((Id/100pA+1) + 1K*Id - 2 = 0. Howvere, the answer of 0.163mA is correct.
Sept. 28: In problems 3.1 and 3.2 of Homework 7, consider all transistors to be NMOS.
Sept. 1: In problem 1-30 of homework #3, assume Rs=0 and solve the circuit using diode equation.
Aug. 24: The labs will start on the first week of September. Since Monday, Sept. 4, 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. 24: The correct equation for problem 1-3-a in homework #1 is F=A(B_bar+D)+EC.
Aug. 21: First day of class.

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.