Georgia Institute of Technology

SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

ECE 3400: Analog Electronics – Fall 2015

Time: Mon, Wed 3:05 – 4:25 pm Class: Weber SST III
http://www.ece.gatech.edu/academic/courses/ece3400/F15

Instructor: Maysam Ghovanloo, Ph.D. (mgh@gatech.edu), Phone: (404) 385-7048

Office Hours: Fridays 2 – 4 pm, 419-TSRB, other times with prior appointment

Office hours are the primary mechanism to contact Professor Ghovanloo. Students are
strongly encouraged to make use of the office hours.

TA: Jean-Luc Albert (jean-luc.albert@gatech.edu)

Office Hours: MWF from 8:30 - 9:30 AM in Van Leer 448 (the communications writing lab)

Textbook: Microelectronic Circuit Design by Jaeger and Blalock, 4th

Edition (or 5th Ed.)

Other References:
1. Fundamentals of Microelectronics , B. Razavi, 2nd Ed.
2. Microelectronic Circuits , Sedra and Smith, 6th Ed.
3. Analysis of Bipolar and CMOS Amplifiers, A. Sodagar, CRC Press
4. Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits , Gray and Meyer, 5th Ed.
5. CMOS Analog Circuit Design , Allen and Holberg, 3rd Ed.
6. Analog Integrated Circuit Design, Chan Carusone, Johns, and Martin, 2nd Ed.
7. CMOS: Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation, R. Jacob Baker, 3rd Ed.

Prerequisites: ECE-3040 with min. C

Course Description:
You will learn the concepts of analysis and design of analog electronic circuits. Biasing, small-signal
analysis, frequency response, feedback, amplifiers, passive and active filters, basic op-amps, and
oscillators.

Attendance:
Class attendance is strongly encouraged. Each student is responsible for all assignments, announcements,
and material covered in each class. Lectures will start promptly at 12:05PM on Tue and Thu. Your
punctuality is expected and greatly appreciated.

Reading Assignments:
Reading assignments include sections of the textbook, supplementary notes, on-line material, etc.
Students are responsible for both lecture material and reading assignments in all the exams.

Homework assignments: Homework will be assign on Tuesdays in class and will be due in one or two
weeks (depending on the number of problems and their complexity) at the BEGINNING of the class on
Tuesday. No late homework will be accepted. Homework will not be returned. However, homework

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solutions will be posted after the due date. All collected homework for each student will be randomly
graded before each exam to indicate the homework grade for that student.

Midterm Exam: There will be a midterm exam in class: See the table at the end of this page.

Final Exam: The final exam will be held in class: See the table at the end of this page.

Final Project: There will be a circuit design project to be completed in groups of two students. Due date
for submission of the final project (in Power-Point slides) via email: See the table at the end of this page.

Missed Exam: If you miss a midterm exam without a certified medical document or prior instructor
approval, a zero will be averaged into your grade. Certified excuses and prior approval will be dealt with
individually. Generally, the missed exam will be held at a designated time near the end of the semester
and before the final exam. This means that there will be only one make-up test, independent of which
exam you miss. Thus, the make-up test will be comprehensive.
To request an excused absence: 1- write a formal letter to me, dated and signed, stating your specific
request and the reason you are asking for an excused absence; 2- provide documentation supporting your
request; 3- bring this letter and the documentation to me in person before the requested date (if an
absence is foreseeable) or within one week after the absence (if it is of unforeseeable nature), at which
time your request will be discussed. Special cases will be dealt with individually.

Responsibilities:
 Instructor to Students
 Students to Instructors
 Students to other students
 Students to themselves

Ethics:
Please turn off your phones during class, office hours, and exams.

Academic Integrity:
It is the responsibility of the instructor to encourage an environment where you can learn and your
accomplishments will be rewarded fairly. Any behavior which compromises the basic rules of academic
honesty as described in the General Catalog will not be tolerated. It is the instructor’s understanding that
the student’s signature on any test or assignment means that the student neither gave nor received
unauthorized aid. For more information please visit Academic Honor Code:
http://www.policylibrary.gatech.edu/student-affairs/academic-honor-code

Disabilities:
Reasonable accommodations will be made for students with verifiable disabilities. To qualify for these
accommodations, students must register with ADAPTS program. For more information:
http://disabilityservices.gatech.edu/

Grading Policy:
Participation in class 5% A: 90.0 – 100.0
Assignments 15% B: 80.0 – 89.9
Midterm Exam 20% C: 70.0 – 79.9
Final Project 20% D: 60.0 – 69.9
Final Exam 40% F: 0.0 – 59.9

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Course Topics and Tentative Schedule:
 W1-4, (Review) [Ch3, Ch4, Ch5]: Basic operation, small-signal and large-signal models of the
diode, MOSFET, and BJT.
 W5, Analog Systems [Ch10]: Transfer Function Analysis, First-order low-pass, high-pass, second-
order low-pass, band-pass, band-reject, and biquadratic functions. Bode plots. Passive single time-
constant circuits.
 W6, Ideal OpAmps [Ch10]: Active Filters, Butterworth and Chebyshev filter approximations.
Second-order Sallen-Key and infinite-gain multi-feedback low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, and band-
reject filter topologies. Third-order and higher-order filters.
 W7, Non-Ideal OpAmps [Ch11]: Gain, Input/output impedance, Common-mode rejection ratio,
frequency response and bandwidth of OpAmps
 W8, Feedback [Ch11]: Feedback Amplifiers, stability, Effects of feedback on gain, input resistance,
output resistance, noise, distortion, and band-width. Series-shunt, shunt-shunt, series-series
feedback topologies.
 W9-W10, OpAmp Applications [Ch12]: Wave shaping circuits, precision rectifiers, peak
detectors, Feedback Oscillators and Function Generator Circuits, Sinusoidal oscillators, mono-stable,
bi-stable, multi-vibrators, waveform generators, data converters.
 W11-W12, Small Signal Model and Single Stage Amplifiers [Ch13, Ch14]: Small signal
analysis, BJT and FET single-state amplifiers, biasing, voltage gain, input resistance, and output
resistance.
 W13-W14, Multi-Stage Amplifiers [Ch14]: Cascade, and cascode amplifiers, output stage,
biasing, voltage gain, input resistance, output resistance, and bandwidth.
 W15, OpAmp Design [Ch15]: Differential amplifiers, Current mirrors, Active loads, Combining
different OpAmp building blocks, OpAmp key characteristics
 W16, Frequency Response of Amplifiers [Ch17]: Method of short-circuit time constants for
low-frequency analysis of single-stage amplifiers. High-frequency small-signal device models. Method
of open-circuit time constants for the high-frequency analysis of single-stage amplifiers.

Exam Date Time

Midterm Wed 9/30/15 In class
Project Fri 12/4/15 via email at noon
Final Wed 12/9/15 2:30am - 5:30pm