1. EE105 Microelectronic Devices and Circuits
Prof. Sayeef Salahuddin
515 Sutardja Dai Hall

2. Teaching Staff Sayeef Salahuddin Professor@ Berkeley since Fall 2008
Courses: EE 230, EE105
Office Hours: 1-2P, Tuesday and 515 Sutardja Dai Hall
Other times through appointment
Research: quantum transport in nano scale devices

3. Teaching Assistants DISCUSSION TA: LAB TAs: Amit lakahni
Will Biederman
Wilson Ko
LAB TAs:

4. Schedule Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri 9.00 Discussion 6 Lab 8 10.00 11.00
12.00 23
1.00
SS Office Hours
2.00 22
3.00
Lecture
4.00 9
5.00

5. What is this class all about?
Semiconductor devices & basic integrated circuits
What will you learn?
How semiconductor devices work
Voltage amplifier circuits
analysis and design
applications
Digital CMOS circuit fundamentals
(Refer to course syllabus for detailed list of topics)

6. Relation to Other Courses
Prerequisite:
EE40:  KVL and KCL, Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits, impedance, frequency response (Bode plots), semiconductor basics, simple pn-junction diode and MOSFET theory and circuit applications, large-signal vs. small-signal response, analog vs. digital signals.
Relation to other courses: 
EE105 is a prerequisite for EE113 (Power Electronics) and EE140 (Linear Integrated Circuits).
EE105 is also helpful (but not required) for EE141 (Introduction to Digital Integrated Circuits).

7. Class Materials Textbook:
Fundamentals of Microelectronics (1st Edition)
by Behzad Razavi, Wiley Press, January 2008
Lecture notes will be posted on the bspace
Lab assignments (and tutorials) will be posted online at the bspace
Use bspace for all information: inst website may not be updated
This class is available through podcast

8. Discussion Sections
Students are encouraged to regularly attend a discussion section.
The TAs will review key concepts covered in the lectures, and work through sample problems.

9. Laboratory Sections Lab sections will begin Wednesday 9/6.
353 Cory (no food or drinks!)
Students must regularly attend a lab section.
Lab experiments will be done in pairs. Each person should turn in his/her individual assignments.
Each pre-lab assignment is due at the beginning of the corresponding lab session. Post-lab assignments are due at the beginning of the following lab session.
Pick up a computer account form today.
(You will need to use it for the Prelab 1 assignment!)

10. Grading Homework Laboratory assignments 2 midterm exams (in class)
due Tuesdays (beginning of class)
late homeworks not accepted
Laboratory assignments
due at beginning of lab session
2 midterm exams (in class)
closed book
Final exam*
Fri 12/16/2010 from 7-10pm
bring calculator
Letter grades will be assigned based approximately on the following scale:
A+: A:
A-:
B+: B: B-:
C+: C: C-:
D: F: <50
15%
15%
30%
40%

11. Top 5 Ways to Avoid an “A” Grade
Skip live lectures
Don’t put adequate effort into HW assignments
Do it at the last minute
Rely too much on collaboration
Don’t attend discussion sections
Don’t turn in the Lab reports
Don’t review HW solutions, old/sample exams and solutions

12. Miscellaneous Special accommodations: Academic (dis)honesty
Students may request accommodation of religious creed, disabilities, and other special circumstances. Please make an appointment to discuss your request, in advance.
Academic (dis)honesty
Departmental policy will be strictly followed
Cheating on an exam will result in an “F” course grade.
Collaboration (not cheating!) is encouraged
Homework should be done individually.
Classroom etiquette:
Arrive in class on time!
Bring your own copy of the lecture notes.

13. Schedule Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri 9.00 Discussion 6 Lab 8 10.00 11.00
12.00 23
1.00
SS Office Hours
2.00 22
3.00
Lecture
4.00 9
5.00

14. Introduction

15. Early History of IC Devices
ENIAC-The first digital computer
Lee De Forest, 1906
1940’s: Vacuum-tube era
Vacuum tubes were used for radios,
television, telephone equipment,
and computers
… but they were expensive, bulky,
fragile, and energy-hungry
 Invention of the point-contact transistor
▪ Walter Brattain, John Bardeen,
and William Shockley, Bell Labs, 1947
Nobel Prize in Physics 1956
reproducibility was an issue, however
 Invention of the bipolar junction transistor (BJT)
▪ William Shockley, Bell Labs, 1950
– more stable and reliable; easier and cheaper to make

16. Discrete Electronic Circuits
In 1954, Texas Instruments produced the first commercial silicon transistor.
Before the invention of the integrated circuit, electronic equipment was composed of discrete components such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors. These components, often simply called “discretes”, were manufactured separately and were wired or soldered together onto circuit boards. Discretes took up a lot of room and were expensive and cumbersome to assemble, so engineers began, in the mid- 1950s, to search for a simpler approach…
~$2.50 each

17. The Integrated Circuit (IC)
An IC consists of interconnected electronic components in a single piece (“chip”) of semiconductor material.
In 1958, Jack S. Kilby (Texas Instruments) showed that it was possible to fabricate a simple IC in germanium.
The first planar IC
(actual size: ~1.5mm diameter)
In 1959, Robert Noyce (Fairchild Semiconductor) demonstrated an IC made in silicon using SiO2 as the insulator and Al for the metallic interconnects.

18. From a Few, to Billions of Components
By connecting a large number of components, each performing simple operations, an IC that performs complex tasks can be built.
The degree of integration has increased at an exponential pace over the past ~40 years.
The number of devices on a chip doubles
every ~2 years, for the same price.
Intel Penryn® Processor
“Moore’s Law” still holds today.
300mm Si wafer

19. The Silicon Revolution
Steady progress in integrated-circuit technology over 40+ years has had dramatic impact on the way people live, work, and play.
The semiconductor industry is approaching $300B/yr in sales:
Military 2%
Communications
24%
Computers
42%
Industrial 8%
Transportation 8%
Consumer Electronics
16%

20. EECS 105 in the Grand Scheme
Example electronic system: cell phone