ECE 321 - Electronics I: Fall 2025
University of New Mexico

 

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    Announcements:

 
Aug. 18: First day of class.


    Course Info:
 
Class: MW 4:00-5:15PM, Room ME 218 (Mechanical Engineering), 4 credits
Course webpage:  www.unm.edu/~pzarkesh/ECE321
Lab Hours: There are 4 sessions for the lab. Please check with your registered session.
Lab webpage: https://www.unm.edu/~pzarkesh/ECE321/lab/ECE321_Lab.html


    Instructor:
 
Prof. Payman Zarkesh-Ha (pzarkesh@unm.edu)
Office hours: Tuesdays 2:00-3:00PM, or by appointments
Office location: ECE 230B
Webpage: www.unm.edu/~pzarkesh


    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%