ELE 331 - Digital Circuits and Systems - Fall 2003

News: * Final Exam: HL102, 12-10-03, 05:00-07:00 PM -- Optional. Will use top 3 exam grades.
* Final Exam Q&A session: Tuesday 12/9, 1-3pm, NEW ROOM: 101 Link Hall.
* There is a review page for the Final exam.
* Exam #3 results and final grade estimates available at my office.
* Project #2 due midnight on the last day of exams, 12/16.
* PSPICE Notes available.
* Solutions to problems available at the end of this page.
Instructor: Can Isik, 335A Link Hall, email cisik@syr.edu, Ph. 443 1125  
   Office Hrs: MWF 10:30am - 12 noon, and by appointment
Text: R.C. Jaeger & T.N. Blalock, Microelectronic Circuit Design, 2nd Ed, McGraw-Hill, 2004.
Solutions in pdf format.
Website: http://syllabus.syr.edu/ELE/cisik/ELE331
T.A.: Ilteris Demirkiran, Room 0-124 Sci Tech Building, Office hrs T 2-3:30pm & Th 1-2:30pm. Email idemirki@ecs.syr.edu
Outline:
Week Subject Sections
8/25 Introduction, Solid state electronics 1.1-1.7, 2.1-2.11
9/3 Diodes, diode circuits 3.1-3.19
9/8 Field effect transistors 4.1-4.14
9/15 Bipolar junction transistors 5.1-5.14
9/22 Intro to digital electronics, DTL 6.1-6.5
9/29 Exam #1  
10/1 NMOS Logic intro 6.6-6.11
10/8 Complex NMOS logic & PMOS 6.11-16
10/13 CMOS inverters, simple gates 7.1-7.5
10/21 Complex CMOS gates & circuits 7.6-7.11
10/27 Exam #2  
10/29 MOS RAM, memory cells, addressing  8.1-8.5
11/3 ROM, PLS, flip-flops, buffers 8.6-8.7
11/10 Bipolar circuits: Wired-OR, diodes, TTL and applications 9.1-10.17
11/17 CAD Software, Magic, etc.  
11/24 Project discussions  
12/1 Review, catch-up  
12/5 Exam #3  
 
Grading: 
Exercise problems will be assigned regularly (not graded)  
Frequent 10-minute quizzes on lectures and exercise problems 20%
Computer-projects using PSPICE & CAD Tools 20%
3 Exams 60%

We expect that everything you hand in is your own work. Any sign of dishonesty will be treated very seriously, and may earn you a failing grade.

Solutions to problems

Click on the links below to view the chapter solutions in Adobe Acrobat pdf format.

Chapter 1 Solutions (83K)
Chapter 2 Solutions (73K)
Chapter 3 Solutions (255K)
Chapter 4 Solutions (261K)
Chapter 5 Solutions (221K)
Chapter 6 Solutions (282K)
Chapter 7 Solutions (254K)
Chapter 8 Solutions (99K)
Chapter 9 Solutions (347K)

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Last updated: 11/3/2003