Courses:

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
6.301 Solid-State Circuits
Spring Term 2003

Lectures

Two sessions / week
1 hour / session

Recitations

Reading Material

We recommend the following texts:

Lundberg, K. H. Become One with the Transistor, Unpublished, 2003.

Pease, R. A. Troubleshooting Analog Circuits. Boston, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann, Boston, 1991. ISBN: 0750694998.

Grebene, A. B. Bipolar and MOS Analog Integrated Circuit Design. New York, NY: Wiley, 1984. ISBN: 0471085294. Paperback.

Gray, P. R., P. J. Hurst, S. H. Lewis, and R. G. Meyer. Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits (fourth edition). New York, NY: Wiley, 2001. ISBN: 0471321680.

Gray, P. E., and C. L. Searle. Electronic Principles: Physics, Models, and Circuits. New York, NY: Wiley, 1969. ISBN: 0471323985. Out of print.

There is no required textbook. It is recommended that you purchase as many of the other reference books as you can afford.

Grading Policy

Lab 1 10%
Lab 2 20%
Design Problem 10%
Problem Sets 20%
Lecture Quiz 15%
Final Exam 25%

Laboratory

You will have two laboratory projects during the term. Laboratory work must be done individually. You will be expected to complete the assignment and then demonstrate your mastery of the material in an individual check off interview that will be scheduled with the teaching assistants. In order to complete the lab projects, you will need to check out a 6.301 green suitcase from the equipment desk.

WARNING: Lab 2 requires a significant effort. You are advised to start early.

Quizzes and Final Exam

There will be a quiz given in lecture. Please do not be late to class (in general, but especially so on quiz days). A three-hour comprehensive examination will be scheduled during the final exam period. The quiz and the final are likely to include questions about material from the lectures, recitations, problem sets, labs, and reading.

Problem Sets

Problem sets will be issued in recitation on Friday and will be due in recitation on the following Friday. Please start early on the problem sets. Solutions will be handed out in recitation.

Late Assignments and Incompletes

Assignments should be turned in at recitation, although they may be submitted to the TA. Late assignments may be turned in for half credit. Assignments more than three days late will not be accepted. However, you may receive one extension for a problem set during the semester. Quizzes (lecture and take-home) must be turned in on time.

Since late work will not be accepted after three days, incompletes (grades of I) for missing assignments will not be given. Your final letter grade will be based on the actual work completed during the term in accordance with the distribution shown above.

Academic Honesty

You are encouraged to collaborate with others on the solution of problem sets. We believe that there is much to be gained when learning is a shared experience, provided that everyone in the group participates. If you do collaborate on problem sets, the final work you hand in should be your own and you should acknowledge (by including their names) others with whom you have worked. If you use other sources (reference books), they should also be acknowledged. It is immature and dishonest to copy the work of others (like an old solution or a friend's solution) and submit it as if it were your own. Since problems serve to guide you to develop the skills needed in this subject and your future career, not to do the work yourself is foolish; you will fail the quizzes and exam. Of course, the laboratory projects, the design problem, the take-home quiz, the in-class quizzes, and the final are to be worked strictly on your own. Plagiarism or other forms of cheating are intellectually and personally dishonest. Such dishonesty is a severe breach of the Institute's communal standards, as well as those of the engineering profession. Infractions will be dealt with severely.