Heads Up:

As part of the midterm preparation: 

• Homework Mastery Quiz Friday, February 16, 10:10-10:30 in class.  It is a closed book quiz that covers Homework Assignments 1-4 and Solutions to Homework 4 will be circulated after the quiz. A good performance on this quiz will earn bonus points to raise the homework grade component above the standard check-off B- Mastery level.

Looking ahead we have:

• Holiday Monday, February 19th, 
• Review Session Wednesday, February 21, 6:30-8 PM by the TA's (room TBA).
• Midterm Examination on Friday, February 2# in class 

The Midterm Examination will cover material through small-signal models and gain in HS 5.31-5.33 and 8.3 but will not include capacitors in the small-signal models HS 4.5.4-4.5.5. For this reason we will cover the small-signal model material on Monday this week and it will be the main focus of the homework which has been reduced to 64% of normal (two large problems). 

Discussion Sections: 

Operating mode and drain current in NMOS and PMOS devices with various terminal voltages and in various circuits. Example of finding the quiescent point and applying small signal models to find gain.

Laboratories: 

Experiment #4 IC Resistors: This week you will learn how to use SPICE which is the single most important modern engineering tool for circuit design. You will need to read sections of the 'SPICE Book' and arrive with a SPICE deck for the the circuit in Experiment #4. Be sure to check the Prelab information on the lab news web page under updates.

Office Hour:

For this week only, Professor Neureuther's Office Hour on Tuesday February 13, will be moved to Tu 11 AM from Tu 2 PM due to a Qualifying Examination.

Homework:

The homework is being graded on a scale of 0-10 and you must achieve an 8 or better in the initial grading to have mastered the homework on schedule. Questions about grading should be emailed to kobe@uclink4.berkeley.edu.