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18-100 Course Schedule and Lecture Notes, Spring 2013
- Lecture
- TR 01:30PM 02:50PM DH 2315
- Recitatations
- M 11:30AM 12:20PM WEH 5310
- M 12:30PM 01:20PM WEH 5310
- M 02:30PM 03:20PM GHC 5222
- Labs
- T 06:30PM 09:20PM HH A101
- W 06:30PM 09:20PM HH A101
- R 06:30PM 09:20PM HH A101
- F 01:30PM 04:20PM HH A101
- Course Information
- 18-100 Introduction to ECE Course Description
| Week | Date | L# | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1/15 | L1 | Introduction, discussion of engineering systems and sub-systems, basic electricity |
| 1/17 | L2 | Voltage, current, resistance, power, circuit schematic symbols, ground | |
| 2 | 1/22 | L3 | Power dissipation, Ohm's law, Kirchoff's Voltage and Current Laws, basic circuits |
| 1/24 | L4 | Series and parallel resistances and combinations, solving circuits using equivalent resistances | |
| 3 | 1/29 | L5 | Superposition, Thevenin and Norton Equivalents, Source Transformation |
| 1/31 | L6 | Introduction to capacitors and inductors, impedance, begin 1st order systems | |
| 4 | 2/5 | L7 | Continue 1st order systems, RC and LR circuits, time and freq. domain |
| 2/7 | L8 | 2nd order systems, LRC circuits, frequency response | |
| 5 | 2/12 | L9 | Wrap up any remaining LRC circuit items. Review for Exam 1 |
| 2/14 | L10 | Introduction to Operational Amplifiers, open and closed loop gain, op-amp assumptions, inverting and non-inverting amplifier circuits | |
| 6 | 2/19 | Exam I | |
| 2/21 | L11 | Buffers, summing and difference circuits, active filters | |
| 7 | 2/26 | L12 | Introduction to diodes (signal, zener, and LED), basic diode operation, piecewise linear model (PWL) for diodes, rectifiers |
| 2/28 | L13 | Introduction to transistors, basic transistor operation, piecewise linear model for NPN transistors, common emitter circuits | |
| 8 | 3/5 | L14 | Common collector transistor circuit and circuits with emitter and collector resistors |
| 3/7 | L15 | Small signal analysis of transistor circuits, amplifiers | |
| Spring Break | |||
| 9 | 3/19 | L16 | Signals and modulation |
| 3/21 | L17 | Sampling, analog to digital conversion, quantization, base conversions, binary arithmetic | |
| 10 | 3/26 | L18 | Wrap up any remaining signal processing items. Review for Exam 2 |
| 3/28 | L19 | Introduction to Computer Systems, begin basic assembly language | |
| 11 | 4/2 | Exam II | |
| 4/5 | L20 | Basic assembly language (cont.) | |
| 12 | 4/9 | L21 | Logic gates, Boolean expressions, DeMorgan's theorems, begin combinational logic circuits |
| 4/11 | L22 | Combinational logic circuits (cont.), truth tables, digital circuit schematics, two-level circuit representation | |
| 13 | 4/16 | L23 | Karnaugh maps, adders, multiplexers, de-multiplexers |
| 4/18 | No class, Spring Carnival | ||
| 14 | 4/23 | L24 | Feedback in logic circuits, SR flip-flops, D flip-flops, master-slave edge-triggered flip-flops, sequential logic, state diagrams, state transition tables, begin finite state machine design |
| 4/25 | L25 | Continue finite state machine design, design of counters, output mapping, sequential logic circuits with external inputs | |
| 15 | 4/30 | L26 | Review for Exam III |
| 5/2 | Exam III | ||
| TBD | Final Exam |
