Spring 2026
     Electronic Aids to Measurement

    Lectures in 2120 Chamberlin Tues. and Thurs.  1:00 pm - 2:15 pm

    Labs in 3119A Chamberlin on Wednesdays 2:25-5:25pm and 7:00-10:00pm

    Text: Horowitz & Hill The Art of Electronics, 3rd ed.
     updated index

    Supplementary text (recommended): Sprott Introduction to Modern Electronics       download pdf
                (pdfs of other useful texts are available below)                              (errata)

    Pre-Lab Worksheets:
       (complete before lab and turn in at the beginning of the lab session)
     Except as noted below, prelab questions are all in the Lab Directions

    Homework Assignments Here (click for directory)

• Transmission Lines
• Fourier Transform cheatsheet
• Negative Feedback
• P/N Junctions
• Bi-Polar Transistors
• Differential Equations Tutorial
• On-line introductory circuits textbook
  (pretty good, lots of diagrams):   "All About Circuits"
• Crummy pdf of AoE 2^nd Edition
  
• *Miscellaneous Electronic Tips*   Some useful articles for circuit design
  
• Digital Circuits Handouts:
• Combinational Logic
• Sequential Logic
• Finite State Machines
• Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs)
  
• Analog and Mixed-Signal Simulation with LT SPICE
  

   LABORATORY

   General Lab Handouts:

• Lab Instructions
• Breadboard Instructions
• Lab notebook comments
• Error estimaton for your lab notebook
• Suggestions for Tabulating and Plotting data
  

• MSO2014B oscilloscope tutorials
• MSO2014B oscilloscope manuals
• Other instrument manuals
  

    Software Documentation (PDF format):

• MultiSim
• Altera FPGA
  

    Lab Directions Here:

1. Oscilloscope
2. Transmission Line
3. Common Emmitter Amplifier
   
4. Operational Amplifiers
5. Johnson Noise
6. Phase Detector
7. Oscillators
8. Digital Circuits
9. Phase Locked Loop
10. Digital to Analog and Analog to Digital Conversion
11. Analog and Digital Circuit Simulation
12. FPGA I
13. FPGA II
    

    Data Sheets (PDF format):

     Get the ones you need for an experiment.
     You may be able to share with your lab partner.

• 2N1480 npn Transistor
• 2N3904 npn Transistor
• NTE 326 p Channel JFET
• 74HC164
• 74LS00
• 74LS04
• 74LS112
• 74LS193
• 74LS221
• 74LS283
• 74LS85
• DG419 analog-switch
• LF357 opamp
• LM311 comparator
• LM741 opamp-new
• LM741 opamp-old
• MC14046 phase locked loop
• MC1408 dac
• OP27 opamp
• TIL311 hexadecimal display Substitute

Week	Date (TR)	Lecture Topic	Lab (W)	Laboratory	Text Reference (H&H, except for intro)
1	Jan 20	Linear Circuit Theory			Sprott Ch.1
	Jan 22	More LCT			Sprott Ch.2
2	Jan 27	Time-dependent Circuits	Jan 28	Oscilloscope Intro*	Sprott Ch.3
	Jan 29	Phasors & Transmission Lines			Sprott 4.1-4.5
3	Feb 3	Bipolar Junction Transistors	Feb 4	Transmission Lines	Ch.2, Sprott 8.1-8.3
	Feb 5	Transistor Amplifiers			Ch.2, Sprott 8.4
4	Feb 10	Difference Amplifier, Feedback	Feb 11	Transistor Amplifier	Ch.2
	Feb 12	Op-amps I			Ch.4
5	Feb 17	MIDTERM EXAM	Feb 18	Op-amps I
	Feb 19	Op-amps II			Ch.4
6	Feb 24	Noise I	Feb 25	Op-amps II	Ch.8
	Feb 26	Noise II			Ch.8
7	Mar 3	Lock-in amplifiers	Mar 4	Johnson Noise	8.14
	Mar 5	Lock-in applications			8.14
8	Mar 10	Oscillators, Positive Feedback	Mar 11	Phase Detector	Ch.7
	Mar 12	Digital Logic			Ch.10
9	Mar 17	Digital Circuits	Mar 18	Oscillators	Ch. 10
	Mar 19	Integrated Circuits
10	Mar 24	MIDTERM EXAM	Mar 25	Digital Circuits
	Mar 26	Phase Locked Loops			13.13
Mar 28 � Apr 5		Spring Break
11	Apr 7	DACs and ADCs I	Apr 8	Phase Locked Loops	13.1-13.12
	Apr 9	DACs and ADCs II			13.1-13.12
12	Apr 14	Circuit Simulations	Apr 15	DAC & ACD
	Apr 16	FPGA I			Appendix J
13	Apr 21	FPGA II	Apr 22	Circuit Simulation	Ch. 11
	Apr 23	Modulation and Communication
14	Apr 28	Digital Computers	Apr 29	FPGA
	Apr 30	Review
Sunday, May 3, 10:05am-12:05pm		FINAL EXAM

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