ECE
321 -
Electronics I: Fall 2025
University of New Mexico
Announcements:
Aug.
18: First day of class.
Course Info:
Class: MW
4:00-5:15PM, Room
ME 218 (Mechanical Engineering), 4 credits
Instructor:
Office hours: Tuesdays
2:00-3:00PM, or by appointments
Office location: ECE
230B
Teaching Assistant:
Class/Lab
TAs: TBD (tbd),
Office
hours: Contact for appointment
Office
location: TBD
Course Description:
This
course is intended to be an introduction to the digital electronics.
The topics includes: Introduction to diodes, bipolar, and field-effect
transistors, as well as analysis, and design of digital circuits,
gates, flip-flops and memory circuits. The main objective of this
course is
to provide the students with the basics of digital electronics starting
from analyzing the operation of a field effect transistor to the
simulation, layout and fabrication of digital logic circuits for
combinational and sequential logic applications.
Textbooks:
Primary:
Charles Hawkins, Jaume Segura, and Payman Zarkesh-Ha, "CMOS
Digital Integrated Circuits: A First Course," SciTech Publishing,
December 15, 2012, ISBN: 978-1613530023
Secondary:
Neil Weste and David Harris, "CMOS
VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective," 4th Edition,
Addison Wesley, March 11, 2010, ISBN-13: 978-0321547743
Grading Policy:
Homework:
20%
Class
Contributions: 5%
Design
Project: 15%
Midterm
exam: 30%
Final exam:
30%