EECE2412 --- Electronics --- Fall 2009

This course was taught in 2009. See the new page at
http://www.ece.neu.edu/courses/eece2412/2010fa/

Prof. DiMarzio | TA: Ms. Niksa Valim| Course Syllabus (.pdf) | Lab Syllabus (.pdf)
Office Hours:
Prof. DiMarzio: Thursdays 2pm to 4pm, 302 Stearns
TA Niksa Valim: nvalim@ ece. neu.edu Office Hours: Mon,Wed 9-10 AM, 325 Dana
Prof. Lehman Mon, Wed 10:30am-12:00
Lab TAs: Mr. S. Lin, slin @ ece. neu.edu (Office Mondays 5:00pm-600pm, 263 Egan)
Mr. A Jibril, jibril.a @ neu .edu (Office Thursdays 5:00pm-600pm, 232 Dana)
Tutoring is available from Eta Kappa Nu, the electrical engineering honor society.
Note: The information here applies only to Prof. DiMarzio's students. Prof. Lehman's students should refer to his blackboard site. However, his students are welcome to attend my office hours, and he has agreed that mine may also attend his.
.pdf files: | SPICE Project #1 | SPICE Project #2 | SPICE Project #3
.pdf files: | Lab 1 | Lab 2 | Lab 3 | Lab 4 | Lab 5

Lab Dates | Advice on Lab Reports |
.pdf files: | Homework 1 | Homework 2 | Homework 3 | Homework 4 | Homework 5 | Homework 6 |


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Supporting Material
Matlab code for the Op. Amp.lectures is at html/opamp.html . You can create html code like this from Matlab using mym;publish('mywebpage','html'), where you have written a script called myfile.m. and want to produce html code into mywebpage.html. Try "help publish" to learn more.

There is some Matlab code for the FET bias problem at html/fet1.html.

There is some Matlab code for the FET current source problem at html/fet2.html.

Other Resources
The textbook has a website with a variety of resources that you may find interesting. It is located at http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/hambley/chapter0/deluxe.html.

Pspice information (Thanks to Prof. McGruer) PSpice (Available on NU computers or download for free). We will extensively use PSpice. The student version of PSpice is available for free. You may use any version of PSpice that you wish, but you may find it helpful to be consistent in your versions. You cannot save in version 9.1 and use in version 8.0. In fact, sometimes there is difficulty in saving in version 8.0 and then using in version 9.1, but less so. Pspice is avaliable at http://www.electronics-lab.com/downloads/schematic/013/ . It is reported to be available at http://www.web-ee.com/Downloads/Simulator/simulation.htm , but that did not work for me.

Guidelines for writing a SPICE report are here . Some of my own pet peeves about students' reports are here

Tutoring is available by Eta Kappa Nu, Electrical Engineering Honor Society, http://www.hkn.neu.edu. Details will be announced in class and on the HKN website early in the semester.

You may find this summary of BJT amplifiers useful.

For help with Matlab, you may find this tutorial useful. http://people.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Software/matlabTutorial/html/index.html. Thanks to Tom Gaudette (NU ECE BS 1996, MS 1998), at Mathworks for passing this along.

You may want to look at the presentation files I used in a previous class, although I do not plan to use them this year. See the website for that class for more information. http://www.ece.neu.edu/courses/eceu402/2007fa-dimarzio/

ABOUT THE BACKGROUND: My favorite winter passtime is skiing. I put this background together from a detail of a photograph taken at Park City, in 2003. There are four copies in different orientations so that the tracks (and more importantly, the brightness levels) line up as the pattern repeats.