PHSX 322 
Xiaobing Zhou, Associate Professor of Geophysics

Lecture (PHSX 322 - 01): Tuesday/Thursday 11:00 - 11:50 am at ELC106
Lab (PHSX 322 - 11): Tuesday 3:00 pm-5:50 pm at ELC 327

Instructor: Dr Xiaobing Zhou, Email: xzhou@mtech.edu, Tel: 496-4350
Teaching Assistant: Echo Brown, Email: ecbrown@mtech.edu.

Office Hours: M/W/F 4:00pm -5:00pm, ELC 304

Textbook (required):
Electronic Principles, A. Malvino, and D. J. Bates, 7th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2007. (text resource: see http://www.malvino.com/ )

References (recommended):
Electrical Engineering, Principles and Applications, Hambley, A. R., 3rd edition, Pearson Education, Inc., 2005. Errata.
Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineering, G. Rizzoni, 5th edition, McGraw-Hill College, 2007.
Electronics Glossary 1; Glossary 2; Glossary 3.

Course Description:
This course will introduce you the basic concepts, physical principles of electronic elements and elementary circuits, and circuits design in electronics. Emphasis is on analog circuit analysis; semiconductors; diode theory, diodes, and diode circuits; transistor fundamentals, transistors, BJTs, FFETs, MOSFETs; amplifiers, op-amps; logic gates; and integrated circuits. The objectives are to understand how electronic elements and circuits work and to develop capability and skills in analyzing circuits and designing functional circuits from integrated circuit building blocks.

Objectives (complying with ABET):
1) To understand the theory and principles of basic elements, devices, and circuits in electronics: resistor, inductance, capacitance, op-amp, logic gate, flip-flop, diodes, transistors, amplifiers;
2) To be able to apply Ohm's law, KVL, KCL, Thevenin's and Norton's theorems and equivalent circuits in circuit analysis, design, and test;
3) To develop the skills and capability to design, build, and test elementary analog and digital circuits using the components list in 1).

Course outcomings (complying with ABET A-K)

After this course, you (the student) should have

Grade Policy:
Your final grade for the course will depend on your active participation in both lectures and labs, ability to understand and apply electronic theory and principles in circuit analysis, functional circuit design, presentation in the form of wring homework, lab check out, and lab reports. The final grade of the course will be determined approximately as follows:

Homework:                         20%
Lab check out and report:    15%
4-5 Tests:                             65%

Grading scale observes: A=(92,100], A-=[90, 92], B+=(87, 90), B=[83, 87], B-=[80, 83), C+=(77, 80), C=[73, 77], C-=[70, 73), D+=(67, 70), D=[63, 67], D-=[60, 63), F=[0, 60). [ or ] means inclusive, ( or ) means exclusive. Also: A= 4.0, A-=3.7, B+=3.3, B=3.0, B-=2.7, C+=2.3, C=2.0, C-=1.7, D+=1.3, D=1.0, D-=0.7, F=0.

Tentative Schedule:

• Electronic component DATA SHEET at Fairchildsemi.com, Fairchild MP
  
• Analog Devices, Inc.: Manufacturer of many types of integrated circuits including ADCs and DACs.
• Digi-key Corporation: Catalog of electronic components from many manufacturers. You can see many manufacturers from the links there.
• EEProductCenter.com: Online resource for product catalogory,  new product announcements, and reviews of the latest integrated circuits and electronics components. Very extensive index of ICs, semiconductors, components andEDA tools. 
• Harris Semiconductor: Manufactures discrete semiconductors and integrated circuits: automotive, industrial, PC computing, wireless networking, signal processing, telecommunications, PC multimedia, consumer electronics, defense and space.
• Intel Corporation: supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks that are the "ingredients" of computers, servers and networking and communications products.
• Microchip Technology Inc.: PIC microcontrollers for embedded control applications
• National Semiconductor: Manufactures analog devices and subsystems, power management circuits, display drivers, audio and operational amplifiers, communication interface products and data conversion solutions, wireless handsets, displays and a variety of broad electronics markets, including medical, automotive, industrial, and test and measurement applications.
• Texas Instrument Incorporated: Manufacturer of a wide variety of integrated circuits.
• The Electronics Manufacturing Guide: Guide to electronics manufacturers.