Teaching Assistant:

• Xiangyu Bao (Email: xb2t@virginia.edu, Tel: 924-0504)
  Office Hours: Tuesday 12:00noon-2:00pm

Objectives:

• To design, assemble and evaluate practical electronic circuits;
• To learn advanced laboratory measurement techniques.

Topics:

• Differential Amplifiers
• Power Amplifiers
• Frequency Domain Analysis of Linear Amplifiers
• Feedback
• Multivibrators and Oscillators

Prerequisite Topics:

• Electrical Circuit Analysis
• Nonlinear device modeling including Diodes, BJT's and FET's
• Small Signal Analysis
• Rudimentary Single Stage RC Amplifier Design
• Rudimentary Power Supply Design

Tentative Lecture and Exam Schedule:

• Introduction and review: Sep. 4, 9, 11
• Chapter 6: Sep. 16, 18, 23, 25, 30
• Test 1: Oct. 2(Thu)
• Chapter 9: Oct. 7, 9, 14(Reading day), 16, 21
• Chapter 7: Oct. 23, 28, 30, Nov. 4, 6, 11, 13
• Test 2: Nov. 18(Tue)
• Chapter 8: Nov. 20, 25, 27(Thanksgiving day), Dec. 2, 4
• Chapter 12: Dec. 9, 11
• Final Exam: Dec. 18 (Thu, 9:00am-12:00noon)

Grading:

• Homework: 20% (after dropping one lowest score)
• 2 tests: 30% (15% each)
• Final exam: 15%
• Laboratory: 35%

Laboratory:

• The laboratory associated with EE 307, for which all students must register, has a three-hour meeting every week in Thornton E108.
• Lab sessions begin week of September 8, 1996. Laboratory experiments will be done in teams of no more than three members. Lab reports are due to your TA one week after the experiment was performed. Ten percent per day will be deducted from the grade of late reports, unless you have a permission from the instructor. The permission would only be granted for very special reasons.
• Unless you have explicit authorization from your TA, you must attend only the lab for which you are registered. If you must miss a lab for a valid reason, contact your TA in advance, and arrange a make-up date. If possible, this should occur during the same or succeeding week, preferably during another lab session conducted by the same TA. Feel free to consult with your lab. instructor or TA regarding any lab questions you may have.
• You must turn in a xerographic copy of your prelab to your TA before you begin your experiment. If you fail to do so, you will not be permitted to do the experiment. Your notebook must contain the original prelab, which you should use for conducting your experiment. The copy will be graded by the TA.
• Each student must turn in a separate prelab. A lab team may work together on the design of the experiment. However, any collaboration must be preceded by separate design and PSPICE simulation efforts. Copying of solutions and PSPICE programs will be considered as Honor Code violation. Collaboration will be allowed provided it is preceded by separate design and analysis required by the assignment. Copying of results is not permitted.
• During the course of conducting your experiments, when you have accomplished any stated objective, ask your lab. instructor or TA to examine the working circuit and the results. She will initial your lab notebook to acknowledge satisfactory achievement of the objective. Only initialed results/observations will be graded during the notebook check.
• You must bring your own multimeter to the lab.
• Switching partners and/or lab sections will not be allowed unless exceptional circumstances are proven to exist. The student must meet the instructor to request permission.
• Each unexcused absence from your assigned Lab = loss of 4 points from final course grade.
• Lab. Grading:
  • Prelab: 30% of Lab Grade
  • Lab Notebook: 30% of Lab Grade
  • Reports: 30% of Lab Grade
  • Lab Techniques: 10% of Lab Grade