Monday, 8/21

• Gradings for everything is posted. The second tag in the excel file indicates which HW is dropped.
• (EE 105 Version) Final Optional Small Signal Practice Problems and Solutions are posted. If you are interested in preparing for EE 105 with the final small signal practice problems, here are the original questions and solutions with the EE 105 model.

Sunday, 8/20

• Gradings for everything except HW 7 is posted. Please check your grades. If you find errors in the entries, please let the staff know. The grade for the projects is calculated by  percentage/100*45 + extra = your grade (out of 45 points)

Thursday, 8/17

• Solution to Final Optional Small Signal Practice Problems is posted. Notice for part f and part g, the gates for M2 and M3 are not connected to the small signal ground.
  Note: The instructor told the class during the Wednesday lecture that he took out a difficult small signal question from the final (but there can still be a small signal question for the final). Also after class on Wednesday, the instructor told the reader that there won't be a "particular" question about PMOS. However, the reader has not seen the final, and the reader is not responsible for your bad grade.

Wednesday, 8/16

• HW 7 Solutions are posted.
• Extra Lecture Note - about small signal, power, and logic - is posted
• HW 6 Errata is posted

Tuesday, 8/15

• HW 7 Numerical Solution is posted.
• Small Signal Model Notes
  Final Optional Small Signal Practice Problems
  These are just extra (optional) problems and notes to help you with Small Signal Model if you still have troubles. If you don't have any troubles, then just relax until the final. Notice, the reader does not make questions for the final exam, so please don't consider these notes and problems as final exam hints. The solutions for the practice problems will be posted tomorrow night (Wednesday) Thursday 1am.

Friday, 8/11

• HW#7 due Wednesday at 5pm. Only 6 out of 7 homework will count
• Final:
  -Friday August 18th, 12-3pm in Dwinelle 145
  -Covers everything up until slide 15 of lecture 16
  -Allowed 3 cheat sheets
  -No programmable calculators
  -Extended Office Hours on Wednesday from 10am-5pm
•  Final Review: Wednesday August 16th in Cory 277 from 5-8pm
•  If the time of the final conflicts with your schedule, please e-mail me and show proof of your conflict and you can take the final on Thursday from 12-3pm.
• If you did poorly in the previous midterms, please learn from your mistakes and if you can prove to me that you understand the concepts on the final, I'll disregard the midterms. I care that you learn the material.

Thursday, 8/10

• Midterm 2 Solution is posted.

Wednesday, 8/9

• HW 7 is posted due 8/15 (Tuesday) at 6pm.
  HW7 will cover material up until the end of lecture on Friday. This will also be the end of the material covered for the Final.
  You do not have all the information to solve all the extra problems but begin the problems that you can solve as soon as you can and do not leave it to the last minute. If you need help with any of the problems, please come to office hours and discussions.
  There will be discussion tomorrow (Thursday) from 12-2 pm in Cory 293 for people that want help on some problems.

Monday, 8/7

• HW 6 Solution is posted

Sunday, 8/6

• In HW 6 Additional Problem 1, R1 = 30k and R2 = 20k. And the numerical solutions are:
  VGSQ = 1.8V
  VDSQ = 4V
  IDSQ = 0.2 mA
  M1 is in saturation
  Vo = 4.2V
• Extra Notes for Lec 13, Lec 14, and Midterm Review is posted.

Saturday, 8/5

• Bode Plots by Hand and by MatLab is posted. Notice you need to know how to draw Bode Plot for the Midterm, but you don't need to know the MatLab part for the midterm or for the class. The MatLab part is solely for your own benefit.
  (If you run out of time doing HW6, you might or might not want to take a look at this file.)

Friday, 8/4

• HW 5 Solution Corrections are posted.

Thursday, 8/3

• HW 6 Numerical Solution is posted at 9:45am.
• HW 5 Solutions are posted

Wednesday, 8/2

• HW6 is posted, due August 7th at 6pm.
• The new version of HW 6 is uploaded at 7:01pm. There were minor errors for the previous version of HW6 (old version pdf and word), especially on problem 1 and the graphs.
• HW4 Solution Errata and HW4 Grading Notes are posted.

Monday, 7/31

• HW 5 Numerical Solution are posted.
• HW 5 is now due August 2nd (Wednesday) at 12pm.

Wednesday,
7/30

• Midterm 2 info is updated.

Wednesday, 7/26

• HW 5 posted today due August 1st (Tuesday) at 6pm.

Tuesday, 7/25

• HW4 Numerical Solutions are posted.

Monday, 7/24

• Midterm 1 Solution is posted.
• Extra Notes for Lecture 9 is posted.

Wednesday, 7/19

• HW 4 posted today due July 25th (Tuesday) at 6pm.

Tuesday, 7/18

• Tuesday Discussion this week has been moved to Thursday.

Monday, 7/17

• HW3 Solution is posted

• Corrections for HW2 Solution is posted.

Friday, 7/14

• Extended Office Hours:
  Monday 10am-5pm in Cory 382
  Tuesday 10am-12pm in Cory 382

• Extra Exam Problems:
  -Look on the website for old exam problems
  -Look at the Summer 05 website for more problems with solutions

Thursday, 7/13

• Solutions to problems and derivations in notes is posted.

Wednesday, 7/12

• Midterm Review Checklist is posted.

• HW 2 solution is posted, and you will be able to get back HW 2 next Monday (7/17) before the midterm.

• HW 1 will be returned to you during lecture and discussion. For a re-grade, write the request on a paper and drop the HW and the request to the HW drop box.

• HW 3 solution will be posted next Monday (7/17) around 6pm, so don't turn in HW 3 late.

Tuesday, 7/11

• Midterm Review Session this Thursday (7/13) in Cory 277 from 5pm-8pm.

• Midterm #1 Next Tuesday (7/18) in Dwinelle 145 from 12pm-1:30pm
     You are allowed on 8 1/2 by 11 cheat sheet (front and back) but must be hand written
     You are not permitted the use of a graphing calculator

• First lab slot is cancelled next week (Week 4). Only attend your second lab slot. For those of you that have your second lab slot on Tuesday (7/18), the prelab is not due at the beginning of the lab but at the end.

Monday, 7/10

• Anonymous Feedback form is here. We need your comments for improving the class.

• Many changes have been made to the Lecture 7 slides, the new version of Lecture 7 slides is uploaded today.

• HW 3 posted today due July 17th (Monday) at 6pm.

Tuesday, 7/4

• Midterm 1 Tuesday June18th 12:00-1:30pm. Location TBD.

• HW 2 posted today due July 11th (Tuesday) at 6pm.

• HW 1 solution will be posted tomorrow.

• Lecture 3 updated on web. Slide 29 reversed dependent and independent sources.

Monday, 7/3

• No class on July 4th.

• TA Mike is not having an office hour today

• Mike had OH Friday, but Mike will also have some Thursday
  12-2 to help the people who miss out on section Tuesday for July 4.

• In the future Mike should be available for Monday meetings.

• HW1 and all subsequent HW will be due on Tuesday at 6pm

• Books on reserve in Bechtel: Hambley 2^nd and 3^rd, Sodini and Howe, Rabaey.

• The calendar is updated for HW due dates and Midterm dates.

Monday, 6/26

• Welcome to EE40!

• Lectures are MWF 12-2P in 160 Kroeber. Look at 'Weekly Schedule' for discussion and lab times and days.

• Do attend your first discussion section!

• Do not attend your first lab section. Labs will begin with the second lab for this week.

• The first homework assignment has been posted and will be due Monday, 7/03 at 6PM in the 2nd floor lounge dropbox.

• The following sections have been cancelled:

  • Lab 14: ThF 2-5P

  • Disc. 102: Th 12-2