ECSE 304-335

Microelectronics Course Lectures

 

Lecture Breakdown:


0.   Course Outline

  1. 1.   Introduction

  2. 2.   Intro to SPICE

  3. 3.   Current and Voltage Reference Circuits

  4. 4.   Current Mirrors

  5. 5.   Basic Single-Stage IC Amplifiers

  6. 6.   LF AC Analysis of Amplifiers

  7. 7.   Improved IC Biasing Using Cascoding

  8. 8.   Amplifiers Biased Using Current Mirrors

  9. 9.   Differential Pair Amplifier

  10. 10. Resistor-Loaded MOS Diff. Amplifiers

  11. 11. Resistor-Loaded BJT Diff. Amplifiers

  12. 12. Nonideal Diff. Amp. Behavior

  13. 13. Diff. Amps with Active Loads

  14. 14. Multi-Stage Amplifiers

  15. 15. BJT Class A Output Stages

  16. 16. BJT Class AB Output Stages

  17. 17. Other Classes of Output Stages

  18. 18. CMOS Class AB Output Stages

  19. 19. Open-Circuit Time Constant Method

  20. 20. Estimating Poles and Zero Locations

  21. 21. HF Analysis of Single-Stage Amplifiers

  22. 22. Negative Feedback Principles

  23. 23. Feedback in Circuits

  24. 24. Input/Output System Theory

  25. 25. Stability of Feedback Systems

  26. 26. Frequency Compensation

27. Transistor at 75 Years (IEEE Spectrum)