Curriculum
The following chart shows the courses offered in circuits and microwaves


Solid lines indicate a link through prerequisite. The term "even" or "odd" refer to the year in which the quarter occurs, ie., autumn 98 is even, winter 99 is odd, even though they are in the same academic year.

Course Descriptions

323 Electronic Analysis, Design and Simulation U 3
Electronic instrumentation; diode and transistor models for amplifiers and switches; electronics of digital circuits; multiple
transistor circuit analysis.
Au, Wi, Sp Qtrs. 3 cl. Prere: 301 or 321; acceptance in Elec & Cptr Eng major or written permission of Elec Eng Dept. Not
open to students with credit for 322.
This class will first be offered Sp99. Note addition of course from Course Offerings Bulletin 98-99 effective Au98.

327 Electronic Devices and Circuits Laboratory I U 2
Transistor characteristics, large and small signal parameters, transistor bias and amplifier circuits, operational amplifiers, logic
circuits, waveform generation.
Au, Wi, Sp Qtrs. 1 cl, 1 3-hr lab. Prereq: 308; prereq or concur: 322. Not open to students with credit for 427.
Offered Su Qtr. subject to funding.

620 Introduction to RF Integrated Circuits U G 3 This course provides an introduction to the design of analog radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits (RFICs). Topics include transceiver architectures, short channel transistor model, passive component models, MOS and Bipolar, LNAs, Mixers, VCOs, frequency synthesizers, PLLs and baseband circuits.
Sp Qtr. 3cl. Pereq: 321 or equiv.
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624 Power Electronic Devices and Circuits U G 3
A study of general laws and constraints in power electronic circuits, switching characteristics, generic converter topologies and
their operation principles, desirable switching trajectory, snubber circuits.
Au Qtr. 3 cl. Prereq: 321 or equiv.

628 Electronic Devices and Circuits Laboratory II U G 2
A laboratory study of converter circuits, switching characteristics of power transistors and thyristors, and effects of circuit
elements on the behavior of power converters.
Au Qtr. 1 cl, 1 3-hr lab. Prereq: 327, and prereq or concur: 624.

682R Wireless Design
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A design course involving several teams of students in the design and testing of multi-channel wireless communication systems
including the RF/wireless circuits, antenna and supporting IF electronics. A microprocessor will be used to control the
communication system and perform any data processing. Roblin
Sp Qtr. Prereq: 582 (also see note below) and senior standing. Suggested prereq: 613, 567, 710 and 723.
Students planning to take this section of 682 Sp99 offered by Prof. Roblin should take 582R (Roblin) offered in Wi99.

710 Microwave Circuits U G 4
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Theory of microwave passive devices, transformers, couplers, filters, resonators, and circulators; computer-aided design of
microwave circuits; microstrip realization and testing with a network analyzer.
Au Qtr. 3 cl, 1 3-hr lab. Prereq: 312 or equiv or grad standing.

720 Low-Power Mixed-Signal VLSI Design U G 3
Low voltage low power analog design for mixed analog/digital VLSI systems in CMOS technologies, OpAmps and
comparators, sample and hold, switched capacitor filters, Nyquist and oversampling converters, decimation filters, applications
in baseband wireless communications, integrated sensors.
Wi Qtr. 3 cl. Prereq: 322 or permission of instructor.
Note change in title, description, and prerequisite from Course Offerings Bulletin 97-98 effective Au98.

721 Digital VLSI Design U G 3
Design and circuti analysis of basic VLSI structures such as adders and registers; custom macro-cell, bit slice, and re-use design
concepts; physical layout design, layout parasitics extraction, use of VLSI layout design tools.
Sp Qtr. 3 cl. Prereq: 322.
Note change in title and description from Course Offerings Bulletin 97-98 effective Sp98.

722 Introduction to Analog Integrated Circuits U G 3
Introduction to bipolar and MOS analog integrated circuit (IC) analysis and design. DC biasing for ICs, current sources, sinks
and active loads, bandgap references, input and output stages, OpAmp architectures, nonlinear analog ICs. Computer
simulation of Analog ICs.
Au Qtr. 3 cl. Prereq: 321.
Note change in title, description, and prerequisite from Course Offerings Bulletin 97-98 effective Au98.

723 Microwave Transistor Amplifiers and Oscillators and Laboratory U G 4
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Design principles of microwave transistor amplifiers and oscillators; low-noise, power, and broadband amplifiers; and
computer-aided design, microstrip realizations, and testing in the laboratory.
Wi Qtr. 3 cl, 1 3-hr lab. Prereq: 312 and 322, or grad standing.

724 Power Electronic Devices and Circuits II U G 3
General model, operational principles, and application of high-frequency switching power converters.
Wi Qtr. 3 cl. Prereq: 341 and 624 or permission of instructor.
This course will not be offered Wi99.

820 Analog VLSI Design G 3
Introduction to analog VLSI design with emphasis on the hardware implementation of analog signal processing VLSI circuits
and systems.
Sp Qtr. 3 cl. Prereq: 720 and 721, or permission of instructor.

832 * High-Speed Semiconductor Devices G 3
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Principles underlying the operation and application of high-speed solid-state active devices, electron transport in high fields,
Gunn effect, superlattices, heterostructures, and modulation doped devices.
Sp Qtr (even years). 3 cl. Prereq: 730 or equiv.