Welcome to the ENEE 610, Electrical Network Theory, Fall 2017, home page of R. Newcomb

  • Course Description updated 07/01/17 (file: 610desF17.pdf) here

  • Course Time Schedule updated 10/04/17 (file: 610timF17.pdf) here

  • Course Paper Choices updated 11/28/17 (file: 610F2017_pprs.pdf) here

  • Paper Presentation Schedule updated 10/13/17 (file: 610F17present_schd.pdf) here

  • Homework problem solution assignments updated 00/24/17 (file: sols_assigns.pdf) here

  • Base Paper Report Grading Form (file: ee610rpt_grd.pdf) here

  • Final Exam study points, updated 12/10/17 (file: final_studyPoints.doc) here

  • Final Exam 12/13-19/17 (file: 610F17finalexm.pdf) here

  • Final Exam Solutions, fall 2017 (file: 610F17_final_sols.pdf) here

  • Homework problems


  • Homework set #1 new due date Th 09/14/17 (file: 610F17hmwrk1.pdf) here

  • Homework set #1 solutions of Usama Khalid (file: HW1_610F17_solutions.pdf ) here

  • Homework set #2 new due date Th 09/21/17 (file: 610F17hmwrk2.pdf) here

  • Homework set #2 solutions of Jing Geng & Yiming Qian (file: HW2_610F17_solutions.pdf ) here

  • Homework set #3 due date Th 09/28/17 (file: 610F17hmwrk3.pdf) here

  • Homework set #3 solutions to problem: via Andrew Goffin (file: HW3Problem1_ENEE610.pdf) here

  • Homework set #3 solutions to question 2: via Arindam Mandal (file: HW3No2_610F17_solutions.pdf) here

  • Homework set #4 due date Th 10/05/17 (file: 610F17hmwrk4.pdf) here

  • Homework set #4 - solutions via Guangyao Shi (file: HW4_solution-GuangyaoShi.pdf) here

  • Homework set #5 due Th 10/12/17 (file: 610F17hmwrk5.pdf) here

  • Homework set #5 - solutions of Akshitha Chanda (file: HW5_610F17_solutions.pdf) here

  • Homework set #6 new due date Tu 10/24/17 (file: 610F17hmwrk6.pdf) here

  • Homework set #6 - solutions of Carrillo, Estefany C. (file: HW6_S0lutions.pdf) here

  • Class lectures


  • Lecture #1 of Tu 08/29/17 {KVL,KCL,graph, cut & tie sets] (file: 610_082917.pdf) here

  • Lecture #2 of Th 08/31/17 ==> correction of 09/01/17 [setting up semistate, linear Av=Bi} (file: 610_083117.pdf) here

  • Lecture #3 of Tu 09/05/17 [circuit equations via Y, Av=Bi] (file: 610_090517.pdf) here

  • Lecture #4 of Th 09/07/17 (gyrator, non-planar, Indefinite Y) (file: 610_090717.pdf) here

  • Lecture #5 of Tu 09/12/17 (semi-state equations; norator/nullator) (file: 610_091217.pdf) here

  • Lecture #6 of Th 09/14/17 (Transformation of semistate, Constant Y realization, transformer) (file: 610_091417.pdf) here

  • Lecture #7 of Tu 09/19/17 ( passivity, S matrix)) (file: 610_092016.pdf) here

  • Lecture #8 of Th 09/21/17 ( S matrix passivity, Bounded Real) (file: 610_092117.pdf) here

  • Lecture #9 of Tu 09/26/17 (BR & PR toward lossless synthesis) (file: 610_092617.pdf) here

  • Lecture #10 of Th 09/28/17 (Lossles PR and Foster synthesis) (file: 610_092817.pdf) here

  • Lecture #11 of Tu 10/03/17 (Cauer synthesis, lossless comparisons) (file: 610_100317.pdf) here

  • Lecture #12 of Th 10/05/17 (Hurwitz Polynomials, Richards' function) (file: 610_100517.pdf) here

  • Lecture #13 of Tu 10/10/17 ( Richards' function, lossless & Bott-Duffin use) (file: 610_101017.pdf) here

  • Lecture #14 of Th 10/12/17 (Bott-Duffin) (file: 610_101217.pdf) here

  • Lecture #15 of Tu 10/17/17 (Bott-Duffin sensitivity) (file: 610_101717.pdf) here

  • Lecture #16 of Th 10/19/17 (sensitivity) (file: 610_101917.pdf) here

  • Lecture #17 of Tu 10/24/17 (Wohlers' active synthesis; Low-pass max-flat approximation) (file: 610_102417.pdf) here

  • Lecture #18 of Th 10/26/17 (state variable synthesis) (file: 610_102617.pdf) here

  • Lecture #19 of Tu 10/31/17 (state via Y synthesis; translinear loops) (file: 610_103117.pdf) here

  • Lecture #20, Tu 11/14/17 (hysteresis, Riccati equation for switched capacitor) (file: 610_111417.pdf) here

  • Items of interest:

  • complex Richards' extraction (file: complex_Richards.pdf) here

  • Location of Cadence S-Parameter PSpice application note of 12/2008 (file: www.cadence.com/rl/Resources/application_note/S-Parameter_Data_appnote.pdf) If this link does not work go to cadence.com and search application_note/S-Parameter_Data_appnote here

  • Path to bicmos12.lib file for PSpice in VCL: C:\Cadence\SPB_16.6\tools\capture\library\pspice\bicmos12.lib

  • The files cross listed below have various items of interest for the course.

  • The PSpice file for the part Gvalue is ABM, that for PARAM is SPECIAL, and that for the CA3600 (=same as CMOS 4007 full package) is ANL_MISC

    Microsystems Lab VLSI design page at http://www.ece.umd.edu/~newcomb/mslab-vlsi.html click here

    Contains Spice models, MAGIC Layout tutorial, VLSI examples with PSpice version 8.0 evaluation cd added 09/10/06

    URL address, this page: http://www.ece.umd.edu/~newcomb/courses/fall2017/610/ENEE610_fall2017.html