Information here applies to my section only unless otherwise noted. Other students are, of course, welcome to use an material here that they find useful. The lab information applies to both sections.
For a complete list of tutoring options available in ECE for this and other courses, click here.
For Matlab help contact the Mathworks TA in
Snell Library Collab-D Monday and Wednesday 4:30pm to 8:00pm and
Thursday 5:00pm to 8:00pm, or see A
href=http://bit.ly/NEU-MATLAB>http://bit.ly/NEU-MATLAB , or send
email to MathWorksHelp@neu.edu.
(18 Nov 2024) I'd like to remind you of a new course for spring by Prof. Dahiya on Flexible and Printed Electronics. I mention this because your current course is a prerequisite for this one and it addresses an important current topic. You may see Prof. Dahiya's website here; https://best.sites.northeastern.edu/.
I'd also like to remind you of my Dialogues of Civilization program in Chile in Summer 1. https://ece.northeastern.edu/fac-ece/dimarzio/2share/chile/12545.html There will be an info session in 302 Stearns Wednesday night specifically for this program.
(20 Sep 2024) Our final exam will be Thursday, 12 December from 8:00 to 10:00 AM. Location is to be announced.
(19 Sep 2024) The cascade amplifier file is posted beside slides 4 above, and here.
(5 Sep 2024) There were some errors in homework 1. Some were just obvious formatting errors, but there were some numbers missing. I replace the document with the corrected one. The title should say Homework 1 Circuits Review Rev 2.
(4 Sep 2024) Our classroom has been changed to 228 Richards because of A/V issues in the previously assigned space.
(5 Jul 24) Welcome to my section of EECE2412, Electronics.
Please look here first for course information. I don't like all the
2FA and
pointing and clicking that's required to use Canvas, so I post
most information (except grades) here.
We will introduce
you to the basic components of modern electronics, namely diodes and
transistors, along with their use in a variety of circuits. There
will be lectures, homework assignments, computer-based design
assignments, and of course, exams. The laboratory, EECE2413, will be
closely coordinated with the class material. The
textbook, is Hambley,
Electronics , Second Edition. You may use the special edition
for Northeastern University or the regular one.
We will make use of Pspice and Matlab software in this course.
| matlab_tutorial.pdf | MATLAB Tutorial Students unfamiliar (or slightly familiar) with Matlab may find this useful. |
| ch4-op-amp.pdf | Op-AMP Chapter This chapter was provided by Prof. Grabel. |
| html/w1.html | AC Circuit This circuit blocks AC and passes DC. |
| html/lpf.html | Low-Pass Filter Op Amp Example |
| html/opamp.html | Matlab code for the Op. Amp. lectures. 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. |
| gbp-equations.pdf. | Equations for Gain--Bandwidth Product. |
| html/gbp.html | Matlab code for Cascaded Amps. |
| ac_amp.m | Matlab code for the AC Op. Amp. This is for the example problem in class on Wed. 16 Jan 2013. |
| spice/opamp1.sch | OpAmp SPICE Schematic. I use this DC op-amp circuit to demonstrate SPICE in class. We can do DC sweeps to generate the transfer characteristic, and we can find the "bias point" or "Q Point," although the latter doesn't mean much in this case. |
| spice/opamp2.sch | OpAmp SPICE Schematic. I added some capacitors to illustrate the AC sweep and transient behavior. |
| semiconductor.pdf | Semiconductor Pictures. Here are some slides I will use in class in discussion of semiconductors. |
| html/doping.html | Doping Results Matlab code for computing n and p from NA and ND. |
| acdc.pdf | DC and AC Models. This table tells you how to create DC and AC models for the components of a circuit. |
| BJT Amplifiers | BJT Amplifier Cheat Sheet. You may find this summary of BJT amplifiers useful. |
| html/fet1.html | FET Bias. There is some Matlab code for the FET bias problem here. |
| html/cs_amp_freq.html | Common Source Amplifier. This shows the frequency response for a common source amplifier (Spring 2016). |
| html/fet2.html | FET Current Source. There is some Matlab code for the FET current source problem here. |
| html/fet3.html | FET Amplifier and Logic There is some Matlab code for the FET amplifier and logic circuits here. |
| http://www.interfacebus.com/voltage_threshold.html | Logic Levels Here are some typical logic levels. |
| real-equipment.pdf | Real Equipment Glows in the Dark |
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. We recommend you use
version 9.1, and the TAs will be prepared to help you with that. We
cannot ask them to provide you with help on other circuit-design
software.
Pspice is avaliable at
http://www.electronics-lab.com/downloads/schematic/013/ .
You can find instructions here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hvUcWQXmDs.
If you want to review circuits or more problems to solve in electronics, you might find Schaum's Outlines for Electric Circuits or Electronic Devices and Circuits useful. I have not looked at these in a while but I found their earlier outlines quite useful when I was a student.
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.