EECS 312 Course Outline

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Click on the title of a section to find the relevant material for that section! This material includes:

Reading: The specific pages from each section that you are required to read.

Examples: A list of examples in your book (for each section) that I feel are particularly important and relevant. Make sure you read and understand each of them!

Exercises: These are not homework problems ! These are instead a list of the exercises provided throughout each section of your book that I feel are particularly important and relevant. The solutions for these exercises are on reserve in the library. You may treat these examples as additional problems to be solved, or simply treat them as additional examples and review the solutions. Working these exercises is not required, so you can ignore all or part of them (not recommended!).

Additional Problems: These are problems in the supplemental material “KC’s Problems and Solutions” that I feel are particularly important and relevant. As with “Exercises” described above, these problems are optional, and can be treated either as additional practice problems or as additional examples.

Handouts: Fascinating supplemental material written by your enlightened professor. Click on the image to see and print the pdf file. Reading this material is a requirement of this class!!

Chapter 3 – Diodes

Introduction – Analysis of Electronic Circuits

Section 3.1 – The Ideal Diode

Section 3.2 – Terminal Characteristics of Junction Diodes

Section 3.3 - Modeling the Diode Forward Characteristics

Section 3.4 – Operation in the Reverse Breakdown Region – Zener Diodes

Section 3.5 – Rectifier Circuits

Section 3.6 – Limiting and Clamping Circuits

Section 3.7 – Physical Operation of Diodes

Section 3.8 – Special Diode Types

Chapter 4 – MOS Field-Effect Transistors (MOSFETs)

Section 4.1 – Device Structure and Physical Operation

Section 4.2 – Current-Voltage Characteristics

Section 4.3 - MOSFET Circuits at DC

Section 4.4 – The MOSFET as an Amplifier and as a Switch

Section 4.6 – Small-Signal Operation and Models

Section 1.7 – Digital Logic Inverters

Section 4.10 – The CMOS Digital Logic Inverter

Section 4.11 – The Depletion Type MOSFET

Chapter 10 – Digital CMOS Logic Circuits

Section 10.3 – CMOS Logic-Gate Circuits

Section 10.4 – Pseudo NMOS Logic-Gate Circuits

Chapter 11 – Memory and Advanced Digital Circuits

Section 11.1 – Latches and Flip-Flops

Section 11.3 – Semiconductor Memories: Types and Architectures

Section 11.4 – Random-Access Memory Cells

Section 11.5 – Sense Amplifier and Address Decoders

Section 11.6 – Read-Only Memory

Chapter 5 – Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJTs)

Section 5.1 – Device Structure and Physical Operation

Section 5.2 – Current-Voltage Characteristics

Section 5.3 - The BJT as an Amplifier and as a Switch

Section 5.4 - BJT Circuits at DC

Section 10.1 – Digital Circuit Design: An Overview