Spring 2004
ENSC 895: SPECIAL TOPICS: THEORY, ANALYSIS, AND SIMULATION OF NONLINEAR CIRCUITS
(3-0-0)
The first lecture will be held on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 .
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Course description:
The aim of the course is to provide insights and understanding of complex
static and dynamic behavior of circuits consisting or bipolar and
MOS transistors. Topics will include: global properties of electronic
components, properties of nonlinear circuit equations, existence and
uniqueness of dc operating points, stability of operating points and
the occurrence of bistability, methods for computing solutions to dc, ac,
and transient circuit equations, homotopy methods for finding such
solutions and their software implementations. Emphasizes will be given
to the relationship of circuit theory to circuit design and its usefulness
in practical applications. Course may be repeated for credit.
This is a research oriented graduate course. Students will be introduced to
various theoretical approaches and numerical methods for analyzing
nonlinear electronic circuits. Software tools such as SPICE and MATLAB
will be used for circuit simulations.
This course is cross listed with ENSC 460.
Pre-requisites:
An undergraduate course in circuit theory and a first course in linear algebra.
TOPICS:
Theory of equations describing nonlinear circuits and systems
Properties of device models
Properties of circuit equations
Stability of dc operating points
Numerical solution of circuit equations
Algorithms for solving nonlinear algebraic equations
Homotopy methods
Implementation in CAD tools
Chaos and bifurcation
ASSIGNMENTS:
Posted weekly by Thursday, and due by the following Thursday
(with some exceptions).
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EXAMS:
Two Quizzes:
1. Thursday, February 19.
2. Tuesday, March 16.
PROJECT REPORTS, PRESENTATIONS, AND DEMOS:
Web page
describing your project and five references are due on April 18, 2004 (midnight).
Final written report (electronic version, hard copy, and Web pages) are due on
April 18, 2004 (midnight: 11:59 PM + 1 minute).
(Please note that there is an after-hours drop-off box at the entrance
door of the ENSC main office.)
The final project grading policy
The final project grading form (details)
GRADING:
Class participation 10%, homework assignments 10%, class presentations 15%, final project 45%,
and quizzes 20%. (Note: no final exam.)
Click here to see
your attendance records,
your scores,
and the distribution charts.
TEXTBOOKS:
Recommended reading:
A. N. Willson, Jr., Editor, Nonlinear Networks.
New York: IEEE Press, 1975.
M. Hasler and J. Neirynck, Nonlinear Circuits.
Norwood, MA: Artech House, 1986.
L. O. Chua, C. A. Desoer and E. S. Kuh, Linear and Nonlinear Circuits,
McGraw-Hill, 1987.
N. Balabanian and T. A. Bickart, Electrical Network Theory.
Krieger, 1983.
I. Getreu, Modeling the Bipolar Transistor.
Beaverton, OR: Tektronix, 1976, pp. 9-23.
Other related sources:
A. N. Willson, Jr., ``Some aspects of the theory of nonlinear networks,''
Proc. IEEE, vol. 61, pp. 1092-1113, Aug. 1973.
Lj. Trajkovic and A. N. Willson, Jr.,
``Theory of dc operating points of transistor networks,''
Intern. Journ. Electronics and Comm.,
vol. 46, no. 6, pp. 228-241, July 1992.
Various journal and conference research papers related to
the area of nonlinear circuits and systems:
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (Part I and Part II)
- IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design
of Integrated Circuits and Systems
- IEEE ISCAS conference proceedings.
Bibliography  (bib.pdf file).
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SCHEDULE:
Lectures:
T/R 19:00 - 20:20 in AQ 5037.
Ljiljana Trajkovic ljilja@cs.sfu.ca
Projects:
ASB 9884 and ASB 10803 (open labs).
PROFESSOR:
TEACHING ASSISTANT:
COMPUTING HELP:
PROJECTS:
ENSC 895 Spring '04 projects
Instructions for in class presentations
of your final projects
Instructions for writing
ENSC 895 final project reports
SOFTWARE TOOLS:
ENSC and CMPT host names
Running tools remotely
WEB SITES OF INTEREST:
Nonlinear circuits and systems projects
WEEK IN REVIEW:
1. January 19
2. January 26
3. February 2
4. February 9
5. February 16
6. February 23
7. March 1
8. March 8
9. March 15
10. March 22
11. March 29
12. April 6
INFO:
ENSC 895 HANDOUTS:
List of lecture notes and reading material.
ENSC 895 URL:
http://www.ensc.sfu.ca/people/faculty/ljilja/ENSC895/
ENSC 895 MAILING LIST:
ensc895-g1@sfu.ca
ENSC 895 NEWSGROUPS:
sfu.class.ensc.ensc895
ENSC 895 CAUCUS:
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WEEK IN REVIEW
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Last modified: Tuesday February 24 18:33:14 PST 2004.