ECE 546 - Schedule - Spring 2024

Lecture Day Date Topic Section Notes
1 W 1/17/24 Introduction 1.1-1.6 Introduction
2 F 1/19/24 Review of Electromagnetics 2.1-2.3 EM Review
3 M 1/22/24 Zoom: Review of Electromagnetics
4 W 1/24/24 Parallel-Plate Waveguides Waveguides
5 F 1/26/24 Parallel-Plate and Rectangular Waveguides
6 M 1/29/24 Circular and Coaxial Waveguides
7 W 1/31/24 Zoom: Resistance, Capacitance & Inductance 2.4-2.7 RLGC
8 F 2/2/24 Ideal transmission line 3.1, 3.3 Ideal TL
9 M 2/5/24 Coupled-line analysis 3.4-3.5 Coupled_TL
10 W 2/7/24 Multi-line analysis 4.1, 4.2 MTL
11 F 2/9/24 Losses in transmission lines 4.3-4.5 Lossy TL
12 M 2/12/24 Lossy TL Modeling
13 W 2/14/24 Nonideal Interconnects and Dielectrics Nonideal Interconnects
14 F 2/16/24 Dielectric Properties
15 M 2/19/24 MOS Transistors MOS MOS AMP
16 W 2/21/24 Integrated Circuits IC
17 F 2/23/24 Zoom: MOS Amplifiers
18 M 2/26/24 S-Parameter Analysis of Transmission Lines 9.1 - 9.3 S-Parameters
19 W 2/28/24 Blackbox Macromodeling Macromodeling
20 F 3/1/24 Macromodeling Techniques
21 M 3/4/24 Requirements for Physical Channels 8.1, 8.2
22 W 3/6/24 Circuit Synthesis from Macromodels Synthesis
23 F 3/8/24 I/O Circuits and Models 11.1-11.9
M 3/11/24 SPRING BREAK
24 M 3/18/24 MNA, SPICE MNA, SPICE
25 W 3/20/24 LIM LIM
26 F 3/22/24 IBIS Modeling IBIS
27 M 3/25/24 X-Parameters X Parameters
28 W 3/27/24 On-chip interconnect issues  
F 3/29/24 GOOD FRIDAY - NO CLASS  
29 M 4/1/24 Power supply network   PDNs
30 W 4/3/24 Power supply distribution 10.1-10.3  
31 F 4/5/24 ZOOM: Bypass & decoupling capacitors    
32 M 4/8/24 Scaling & Noise Noise
33 W 4/10/24 Timing & Signaling Signaling
34 F 4/12/24 Jitter Basics 13.1-13.6 Jitter Basics
M 4/15/24 ON TRAVEL - NO CLASS
35 W 4/17/24 Eye Diagrams
36 F 4/19/24 Q&A SESSION WITH TA
37 M 4/22/24 Jitter Analysis 13.1, 13.6 Jitter Analysis
38 W 4/24/24 Equalization Equalization
39 F 4/26/24 Advanced Jitter Advanced Jitter
40 M 4/29/24 High-Speed Links 12.1, 12.3 High-Speed Links
41 W 5/1/24 Advanced Packaging Advanced Packaging
  F 5/14/24 PROJECTS DUE    
 


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