Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencesCollege of EngineeringUniversity of California , BerkeleyEECS 42 Introduction to Electronics for ComputerScientistsSpring 2001 William Oldham T, Th 11-12 Room 2040 VLSBBrief Overview This 3-unit, lower-division EECS core course covers essential hardwaretopics at the device and circuit level. Topics include: (1) Essential quantities for circuitanalysis, (2) Circuit laws and DC circuit analysis, (3) Transients and step response of RCcircuits, (4) Digital logic and gates, (5) Essential analog elements for digital circuits, (6)CMOS integrated circuits and static logic gates (7) Switch models and performance ofCMOS logic gates, (8) Speed, power and scaling of CMOSTextbook "Electrical Engineering, An Introduction", Schwarz and Oldham, published byOxford. It should be available in the bookstore, but a better way to obtain it is to buy itused from survivors of EECS. Post a notice or try to get it used at Neds or ASUC.Alternate references available in the Library on one-day reserve:Rissoni, Principals and Applications of Electrical EngineeringCogdell, Foundations of Electric CircuitsIrwin and Kerns, Introduction to Electrical EngineeringHorowitz & Hill, The Art of ElectronicsThe first three cover circuit theory and some basic electronics. Horowitz and Hill is amarvelous reference text for electronic gadgeteering and is the only book of all of theabove worth buying and keeping. (Be sure to sell your text immediately after the course incase someone changes the course text in the future).WEB Information All of this information and more can be found on our WEB page atwww-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ee42. Look there for complete list of Faculty/TA officehours, emails, access to our NEWSGROUP, etc. All handouts and problem sets as wellas sample midterms and finals are posted.Homework Homework will generally be handed out on Tue and is due promptly at 11 PMthe following Tuesday. It will not be accepted late. The homework is deposited into theboxes labeled EECS 42 Homework near room 275 Cory (in the hallway). You are free towork with fellow students on home problems, but the work submitted must be your own,NOT copies of someone else's work (see policy on cheating, below).Examinations There will be two midterms (Feb 22 and April 5) and a Final (May 16). Donot register for this course unless you can meet these examination times because therewill be no exceptions to taking the exam at the scheduled time. The examinations arebased on the lecture material; so regular lecture attendance is advised. Previous examsare available on the Web. All exams are closed book, but we supply a list of formulas inthe exam, some of which may possibly be relevant.Examination Questions: We discourage the asking of questions during exams. Theexams are pre-tested and should be free from errors and bugs. If you think there is anerror on an exam question, please do point it out. If you feel that something is ambiguousor unclear, just interpret it as best you can and make clear on the exam paper how you areinterpreting it. Remember this is an engineering course and we make manyapproximations. The same approximations we make in the home problems will beinherent in the exam. To ask a question like “should I assume that the wires have zeroresistance” will NOT get you anything but a frown.Examination Regrades: We do sometimes make errors grading exams, and you havethe right to have a problem or the entire exam regraded. The procedure for requesting aregrade is to carefully and neatly write a polite note explaining our stupidity, attach it to theexam, and pass the exam back in (you can do this in class). You also will have theopportunity to examine the Final, and again point out grading errors. In the case of thefinal, we regrade all problems of any exam resubmitted; so be careful; the score can godown if we have overlooked some errors elsewhere on the exam. In our experience abouthalf the requests are for “more points” on some problem on which the student got thewrong answer. These requests are of course denied if the grading was consistent with theuniform grading scheme used on that problem. Note that some problems are graded withno partial credit for incorrect answers.Laboratory: Although no laboratory is required, we encourage students to take EECS 43,a P/NP lab which reinforces most of the basic concepts taught in this course. If you havenever worked with meters and oscilloscopes you will be at a significant disadvantage inEECS 42 unless you take the lab simultaneously. (For your information EECS 43 is a fun2-hour per week lab where students are encouraged to explore circuits and devices.There are no lab reports or quizzes. Its OK to burn up transistors, though we want you tobe kind to the expensive equipment. The last 5 weeks of the lab is spent building a simplelego-based robot. Hey, where else can you get credit and learn something buildinglegos?)Grading The course grade is made up as follows:Homework: 5% ; Midterm I: 23% ; Midterm 2: 23% ; Final Exam: 49% .The grading is not "curved" or normalized but is based on overall performance.Tentatively we anticipate the ranges to be A: >85 ; B: 70 to 85 ; C: 55 to 70. There will be+ and - grades (e.g. approximately in the range of 80-85 and 65-70). We reserve the rightto adjust grades higher in the event we create a "killer" exam with very low averages, butwe guarantee that these scores will be the minimum (if you get an overall score of 85 outof a possible 100 you cannot receive less than an A).EECS DEPARTMENT POLICY ON ACADEMIC DISHONESTYCopying all or part of another person's work, or using reference material not specificallyallowed, are forms of cheating and will not be tolerated. A student involved in an incident ofcheating will be notified by the instructor and the following policy will apply:1. The instructor may take actions such as:(a) require repetition of the subject work,(b) assign an F grade or a 'zero' grade to the subject work,(c) for serious offenses, assign an F grade for the course.2. The recommended action for cheating on examinations or term papers is 1(c).3. The instructor must inform the student and the Department Chair in writing of theincident, the action taken, if any, and the student's right to appeal to the Chair of theDepartment Grievance Committee or to the Director of the Office of Student Conduct.4. The instructor must retain
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