Meeting Time and Place:
Mon 8:30-10:30 EEF 5304
Tue 8:30-10:30 EEF 5302

Office Hours: only by e-mail to cilesiz[at]itu.edu.tr

Assistant: Yiğit Can Erçetin

 

EEF 262E Fundamentals Electronics (CRN: 20898)

Grading: Midterm Exams 2x 20%, Homework %20, Final Exam 40% 

SPRING BREAK 27-31 MARCH 2023 cancelled after earthquake

Midterm Exams:

18 April and 9 May 2023

Prerequisites for taking the final exam:

Both MT exams should be taken, with a minimum BEFORE-THE-FINAL-MIDTERM EXAM AVERAGE of 25/100...  (the sum of your grades from MT exams should be 50/200 or more; i.e.  {MT1+MT2} ≥ 50)

Final Exam:

TBA

I created a Ninova page for your section. You can access it using your ITU student account and password.

You may find solved midterm exam problems of similar courses offered in the past. These are
ELE/EHB 222E https://ninova.itu.edu.tr/Sinif/3769.89687/DersDosyalari


Course Description: 

 

Fundamentals of Electronics course covers structure and operating principles of electronic components. First part of the course focuses on Fundamentals of solid-state physics, properties of semiconductor materials, current carriers, drift and diffusion mechanisms. Second part of the course focuses on the diode. Structure of the pn-junction diode, diode models used in circuit analysis, diode circuits and different diode types are covered. Third part of the lecture focuses on transistors. Different transistor types, their behavior, secondary effects, and transistor circuits are covered. Amplification and the gain concept, amplifier types and circuit models, conceptual function of the transistor in amplification will be discussed. DC and thermal sensitivity analysis of transistor (BJT, MOSFET) circuits will be shown. Small signal equivalents of BJT and MOSFET as well as the AC analysis of BJT and MOSFET amplifiers will be conducted. Gain and input/output resistance of basic amplifier stages will be found and the analysis of cascade (direct/capacitively-coupled) amplifiers is done. The cascode structure, Darlington structure, the differential amplifiers, differential and common-mode gains, common mode rejection ratio will be explained. Current sources, active-loaded circuits, effect of non-idealities on the behavior will be discussed. Finally, the linear and nonlinear applications of ideal and non-ideal operational amplifiers will be considered.
 

Önemli Kurallar/Important Rules: 

Sınavlarda hesapladığınız akım ve gerilimlerin yönlerini çözüm kağıdı üzerinde belirtiniz. Kağıdınızı okuyan kişi sınav sırasında aklınızdan geçen herşeyi kestirebilecek güçte olmadığı için, anlayamadığı hesaplara not veremez.

Hesap yaparken birim uyumuna dikkat ediniz ve sonuçları yazarken birimleri unutmayınız.

Please indicate all current directions and voltage polarities on your solution sheets. No one can evaluate what went in your brain without any hint!
Thus you may not get any points for solutions with missing steps in calculations.

Be aware of all the UNITS and do not mix them.
Also always indicate the units in your solution. You will be penalized for missing units.

 

Yarıyıl içi ve yarıyıl sonu sınavlarında her öğrencinin A4 boyutlu bir "kopya kağıdı" kullanma hakkı vardır. Arkalı önlü olarak hazırlanabilecek olan bu kağıda öğrenci sınav için gerekli olduğuna inandığı herşeyi yazmakta serbesttir; ANCAK, "kopya kağıdı" bilgisayar çıktısı veya fotokopi yöntemi ile çoğaltılamaz, her öğrenci kendi "kopya kağıdı"nı kendi el yazısı ile hazırlar. Sınav sonunda kağıtlar toplanırken "kopya kağıt"ları da sınav kağıtları ile beraber toplanır. Yararlanıldığı halde "kopya kağıdı" olmayan sınav kağıdının puanı düşürülecektir.

Benzer biçimde, sınav sırasında ders notları, defter veya çözümlü problemler kullanılmaz; böyle bir girişimde bulunan öğrencinin sınav kağıdının puanı düşürülecektir.

Sınavlara gerçek hesap makinesi ile geliniz, her ne için olursa olsun cep telefonlarını kullanmanıza izin verilmeyecek, cep telefonları sınav sırasında kapalı kapalı tutulacak ve ASLA kullanılmayacaktır. Kullanma girişiminde bulunanlar cezalandırılacaktır.

 

During midterm and final exams each student may bring and use an A4 size "copy sheet". This double sided hand prepared copy sheet may contain all formulae the student thinks is important for solving exam problems. HOWEVER, the "copy sheet" MAY NOT be a printout or photocopy of someone else's. At the end of the exam period the copy sheet should be turned in along with problem solutions.

No class notes or problem solutions may be used during the exam; anyone attempting to use such material will be penalized.

You may only use a real calculator during the exam, cell phones are not allowed, and should be turned off. Anyone attempting to use his/her cellphone(s) will be strictly penalized.

 

Textbooks: 

"Microelectronic Circuits International edition," International ed. Adel S. Sedra and Kenneth C. Smith, 2010, ISBN: 978-0199738519.

"Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory," 11th ed, Robert L. Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky, 2012, ISBN: 978-0132622264.

Unfortunately, Semiconductor Electronics is not well covered in both of these books above. Thus

Elektronik Elemanları, Duran LEBLEBİCİ, VOLGA YAYINCILIK, 2016.

Elektronik Devre Elemanları, Avni MORGÜL, PapatyaBilim, 2016.

Çözümlü Elektronik Devreler, Mehmet Sait Türköz, BİRSEN YAYINEVİ.

are recommended.

Have a look at online library resources such as CRC ENGnetBASE.
 

Tentative Course Plan 

 

 

 

 

 

Simulation Tools:

 

SPICE can be downloaded from Linear Technology website.

ABACUS by nanoHUB.

 

Interesting Links:

 

A single-atom transistor (Nature Nanotechnology Jan 2012)

 

How We Found the Missing Memristor (IEEE Dec 2008)