MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

EECS Spring 1997 Catalogue Supplement

6.971 Graduate Analog Laboratory (H)

First meeting: 4 pm registration day, 38-466
Prof. James Roberge, 38-494, x5994
3-9-0

Following a brief classroom discussion of relevant principles, each student completes the design and construction of an advanced analog circuit, demonstrating the common concerns and tradeoffs involved in the construction of modern building blocks. This class builds directly on the principles and concepts studied in 6.301 Solid State Circuits and 6.302 Feedback Systems, thus these subjects must be firm prerequisites. The level of the material in the class is intended to be below the complexity and difficulty of the material and assignments introduced in 6.331 Advanced Circuit Techniques, however the choice of topics covered in this class are such that this class and 6.331 may be taken in either order.

The class will meet for two ninety-minute sessions each week to discuss the appropriate material for the laboratory projects. Problem sets concentrating on modeling, feedback, and circuit techniques that provide background for creative design efforts will be occasionally assigned. However, as the main thrust of this class is laboratory work, students are expected to spend a considerable amount of time in the laboratory.

Each topic discussed in the classroom will have a laboratory component to it. The topics covered will include transimpedance amps, advanced translinear circuits, oscillator and VCO topologies, phase lock loops, power converters, and some RF communications stuff.