UMass ECE Department

ECE 211 Circuit Analysis I

Fall 2001

NTU Course BE 312A

 

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About the ECE 211 laboratory

Fall 2001

 
   

Lab instruction

Professors Carver and Kelly will supervise the ECE 211 lab, assisted by TAs who will be on hand for each lab section meeting. Questions about the CKTS Labs can be sent to the TAs Hui Zhu, Qu Zhang, or Hong Yu. Questions about the PC Labs can be sent to the TAs Sridhar Kadambala or Krishna Valluru.

Lab web page

You should routinely use the Lab Web Page. This will provide up-to-date details about the lab, experiments, etc. These lab experiments were developed in 2000 - 2001 by Professor Roger Conant.

Lab objectives

The objectives of the ECE 211 laboratory are to give students experience with

  • building and debugging circuits from basic electronic circuit elements (resistors, capacitors, inductors, transistors)
  • the use of electronic test equipment (oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, etc.)
  • simulation of electronic circuits using PSPICE software

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Lab experiments (for details about the labs, click here.)

CKTS 0
Soldering school; building your own ELENCO digital multimeter (DMM)
CKTS 1
Circuits lab equipment; measurement techniques; voltage and current dividers; signal diodes; LEDs
  PC 1 Building and testing circuits with Pspice and Probe; resistive circuits; circuits with nonlinear elements
CKTS 2
Light-emitting diodes; signal diodes; diode logic; superposition; Thevenin equivalent circuit; bridge networks
  PC 2 Network theorems; Thevenin/Norton equivalence; diode logic; diode-transistor logic; fanout of TTL logic gates
CKTS 3
 BJTs and MOSFETs as switches; logic gates using BJTs and MOSFETs; CMOS gates
  PC 3 BJTs and MOSFETs as swtiches; building logic gates with BJTs and MOSFETs; TTL logic gates; noise immunity in logic gates; flip-flops
CKTS 4
 Capacitors; RC circuits; 555 timer circuits, astable and monostable; Schmitt triggers; function generation; frequency meter
  PC 4 Capacitors; gate delays; 555 timer circuits; Schmitt triggers; function generation; voltage-controller oscillator
CKTS 5
 Second-order circuits; oscillators
PC 5 Response of second-order circuits; oscillators

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Lab grading policy

ECE 211 students must pass the lab in order to pass the course. In order to receive a passing grade in the lab, students must:

  • complete each of the 6 CKTS and 5 PC experiments
  • receive a passing total score on the lab assignments, i.e. 70% or greater.
  • attend each CKTS lab meeting (note: attendance at each CKTS lab is MANDATORY; a student who misses a lab meeting will result receive an automatic ZERO for that lab. The TA has the discretion of allowing a makeup lab. However this would require the TA (who is not required to attend extra lab sessions) to be present, so makeups will be rare.

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Lab reports

Each of the 10 lab reports (one report per team) should be completed during the lab. The lab reports will be collected by the TAs for grading.

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Lab organization

The laboratory is organized into two different kinds of experiments: (1) an Electronic Circuits Lab (CKTS) , which meets in Marston Hall Room 221, and (2) a PSPICE Computer Simulation Lab (PC) , which uses electronic circuit simulation software on ECS PC Lab workstations (Windows) located in Marston Rooms 34, 112, & 114 or ELAB Room 307. You will alternate weekly between the CKTS and PC labs, e.g. in Week 1 you will go to the CKTS Lab, Week 2 to the PC Lab, Week 3 CKTS Lab, etc. During the first week of class you will be assigned to one of two groups, A or B, for your Lab Section. This will determine the dates and place for you to report to lab.

You will be assigned to work in a lab team of two or three students. You will complete 5 CKTS Lab Experiments, and 5 PC Lab Experiments, one lab meeting for each experiment. Each experiment pair (e.g. CKTS 4 and PC 4) will be completed in two consecutive week lab meetings. For more information about this software, how to get it (for free!), how to use it, etc., click on the PSPICE Web Page link.

There are three laboratory sections:

Lab Section 1 - Monday, 2:30 - 5:30 p.m.

Lab Section 2 - Tuesday, 2:30 - 5:30 p.m.

Lab Section 3 - Thursday, 2:30 - 5:30 p.m.

Each of these sections is divided into Group A (Carver lecture section students) and Group B (Kelly lecture section students), as shown below:

Section 1-A - MON Section 1-B - MON Section 2-A - TUES Section 2-B - TUES Section 3-A - THURS Section 3-B - THURS
Sep. 10 - CKTS 0 Sep. 10 - CKTS 0 Sep. 11 - CKTS 0 Sep. 11 - CKTS 0 Sep. 13 - CKTS 0 Sep. 13 - CKTS 0
Sep. 17 - CKTS 0 Sep. 17 - CKTS 0 Sep. 18 - CKTS 0 Sep. 18 - CKTS 0 Sep. 20 - CKTS 0 Sep. 20 - CKTS 0
Sep 24- CKTS 1 Sep 24 - PC 1 Sep 25- CKTS 1 Sep 25- PC 1 Sep 27- CKTS 1 SEP 27 - PC 1
Oct 1- PC 1 Oct 1- CKTS 1 Oct 2- PC 1 Oct 2- CKTS 1 Oct 4- PC 1 Oct 4- CKTS 1
Oct 15- CKTS 2 Oct 15 - PC 2 Oct 16 - CKTS 2 Oct 16 - PC 2 Oct 18 - CKTS 2 Oct 18 - PC 2
Oct 22 - PC 2 Oct 22- CKTS 2 Oct 23- PC 2 Oct 23 - CKTS 2 Oct 25- PC 2 Oct 25 - CKTS 2
Oct 29- CKTS 3 Oct 29 - PC 3 Oct 30 - CKTS 3 Oct 30 - PC 3 Nov 1 - CKTS 3 Nov 1 - PC 3
Nov 5- PC 3 Nov 5 - CKTS 3 Nov 6 - PC 3 Nov 6 - CKTS 3 Nov 8 - PC 3 Nov 8 - CKTS 3
Nov 19- CKTS 4 Nov 19- PC 4 Nov 13 - CKTS 4 Nov 13 - PC 4 Nov 15- CKTS4 Nov 15 - PC 4
Nov 26 - PC 4 Nov 26- CKTS 4 Nov 27 -PC 4 Nov 27 - CKTS 4 Nov 29 -PC 4 Nov 29 - CKTS 4
Dec 3 - CKTS 5 Dec 3 - PC 5 Dec 4 - CKTS 5 Dec 4 - PC5 Dec 6 - CKTS 5 Dec 6 - PC 5
Dec 10 - PC 5 Dec 10 - CKTS 5 Dec 11 - PC 5 Dec 11 - CKTS 5 Dec 13 - PC 5 Dec 13 - CKTS 5

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Required lab purchase

Each student will be required to purchase a lab hardware box, comprised of an ELENCO Digital Multimeter kit, a breadboard, power supply, and miscellaneous tools and components. The kit comes in a sturdy plastic storage box that can be stored in the lab or taken home for further work on the CKTS experiments. The cost of the kit is $40.00. This kit will be used in both the ECE 211 and ECE 212 labs. Further details will be provided in the lab.

Careful soldering and patient construction = a working Digital Multimeter!

CKTS 0 Lab: Soldering School and ELENCO DMM Kit Construction. Each student will construct an ELENCO digital multimeter (DMM) from a kit. This is a good quality DMM, and can be used in several ECE lab courses. Some soldering skills are required to assemble the kit; these skills will be taught by the lab TAs with supervision by Mr. Fran Caron, the Lab Technician. This "Soldering School" will meet for Lab Section 1 on Monday September 10 and September 17 in Marston 221; Lab Section 2 on Tuesday September 11 and September 18, and Lab Section 3 on Thursday September 13 and September 20. "Group A" students in Lecture Section 1 (CARVER) will meet in the lab from 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. on those dates. "Group B" students in Lecture Section 2 (KELLY) will meet in the lab from 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

You will be expected to complete construction of your ELENCO Digital Multimeter no later than September 21.

Scenes from Soldering School, September 11, 2000, Marston 221

 

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