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6.012 Microelectronic Devices and Circuits

Spring 2010

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Intel's Core i7 processor contains 774 million transistors using 45nm technology.

Instructors: Charles G Sodini, Jing Kong, Judy L Hoyt

TAs: Shirin Farrahi, David Da He

Lecture: TR11 (32-155)
Recitation: WF1,2 (5-234)
Tutorials: M10,11,1,2,3 (24-322)
TA Office hours: W3-5 & R2-4 (24-313)
Prof. Hoyt Office hours / Prof. Kong Office hours: R1-2 / R4-5 (39-427A / 13-3065)

Information:

Microelectronic device modeling, and basic microelectronic circuit analysis and design. Physical electronics of semiconductor junction and MOS devices. Relating terminal behavior to internal physical processes, developing circuit models, and understanding the uses and limitations of different models. Use of incremental and large-signal techniques to analyze and design transistor circuits, with examples chosen from digital circuits, linear amplifiers, and other integrated circuits. Design project.

OCW archive available

Announcements

Important Final Announcements

A previous final exam has been posted on Stellar, and we will review the solutions for that exam at the final review session on Friday from 2-4PM in 24-115. For more practice finals with solutions, please look under the Open Courseware archives.

Please check your grades on Stellar by THIS FRIDAY and let us know if there are any errors.

Finally, a clarification on what is meant by "open book" for the final exam. You may bring three sheets of written notes + your textbook.

Good luck!

Announced on 12 May 2010 5:34 p.m. by Shirin Farrahi

Course review & final review

Please remember to bring your laptop to class next Tuesday as time will be given to you to fill out the HKN course review. If you cannot bring your computer, please complete the course evaluation at sixweb.mit.edu/user/welcome . The course evaluation is very important to the course staff as it gives valuable feedback, so please voice your comments.

The final review will take place on Friday May 14th at 2-4pm in room 24-115. We will go over past final exam questions (past finals will be posted on Stellar).

Announced on 06 May 2010 2:05 p.m. by David Da He

Office hours before Quiz 2

Office hours (location 24-313) before Quiz 2 are:

2-4pm Tuesday
3-5pm Wednesday

Note that there will be no recitation on Wednesday, and no office hours on Thursday.

Announced on 19 April 2010 5:05 p.m. by David Da He

Problem set 7 solutions posted

Under Materials --> Problem Sets.

Announced on 17 April 2010 11:49 a.m. by David Da He

Practice exams for Quiz 2 posted

There are now two practice exams for quiz 2 posted on Stellar (Materials > Past Tests). We will review the solutions for most of the problems in these exams on Monday at the quiz review (04/19. 3-5PM. 4-149). We won't be posting solutions for these exams.

Announced on 16 April 2010 12:07 p.m. by Shirin Farrahi

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