Date | Number | Topics covered | References |
24 Jul 2014 | Lecture 1 | Introduction to graph theory; tree; branches; chords;
cut-sets; loops; fundamental cut-sets and loops; the fundamental
theorem of graphs. | Chua, Desoer, Kuh: Chapter 1,
pages 1-27, Chapter 12, pages 700-707. |
28 Jul 2014 | Lecture 2 | Fundamental loop matrix and fundamental cut-set matrix
associated with a tree; relationship between the matrices;
Tellegen's theorem. | Chua, Desoer, Kuh: Chapter
12, pages 707-715. |
31 Jul 2014 | Lecture 3 | The mesh method and the node-voltage method; when to use
fundamental loops and fundamental cut-sets instead; writing out the
matrix equation to solve a network. | Hayt,
Kemmerly: Chapter 3, pages 53-72 and 91-99. |
04 Aug 2014 | Lecture 4 | Network theorems: superposition, Thevenin and Norton
theorems for one-port networks, source-transformation. Reciprocity
theorem for passive two-port networks. | Hayt,
Kemmerly: Chapter 3, pages 73-91; Chua, Desoer, Kuh: Chapter 1,
pages 42-43 (20, 21). |
07 Aug 2014 | Lecture 5 | Transient
circuits: Introduction to inductors, capacitors, mutual
inductances; solving first order transient circuits using
differential equations and unilateral Laplace transforms; solving
first order circuits by inspection from initial and final
conditions. | Kuo: Chapter 5, pages 100-109; Hayt,
Kemmerly: Chapter 4, pages 109-126; Chua, Desoer, Kuh: Chapter 6,
pages 320-333, 339. |
11 Aug 2014 | Lecture 6 | The state space approach to solving a circuit;
time-domain solution of state equations. | Online,
MIT course hand-out |
14 Aug 2014 | Lecture 7 | The exact
solution to the state space approach; the second order response;
the general second order transfer function; solution based on
initial conditions. | Kuo: Chapter 5, pages
114-121. |
21 Aug 2014 | Lecture 8 | Absolutely stable, unstable and marginally stable
systems; forced response in absolutely stable circuits; response of
a circuit to steady state sinusoidal sources. Two-port networks;
impedance and admittance matrices. | Hayt,
Kemmerly: Chapter 8 and 9, pages 234-268; Kuo: Chapter 9, pages
253-257. |
25 Aug 2014 | Lecture 9 | Recap of
material, reasoning of why the response of a circuit with clock
phases switching with a period of T will also be fundamentally
periodic with T (and not with nT). Two-port networks; hybrid and
inverse-hybrid parameters. | Kuo: Chapter 9, pages
259-261. |
01 Sep 2014 | Lecture 10 | Interconnections of two-port networks: series-series,
series-shunt, shunt-shunt, and shunt-series
interconnections. | Kuo: Chapter 9, pages
273-276. |
08 Sep 2014 | Lecture 11 | Computation of input impedance/admittance, output
impedance/admittance, transfer function of two-port networks; the
transmission matrix. | Kuo: Chapter 9, pages
262-271. |
11 Sep 2014 | Lecture 12 | Transmission lines; the telegrapher's equations; solving
the telegrapher's equations in the time domain. | Notes on transmission
lines |
15 Sep 2014 | Lecture 13 | Transmission of a pulse over a transmission line,
reflection coefficients; Introduction to the scattering
matrix. | Notes on the
scattering matrix |
18 Sep 2014 | Lecture 14 | The scattering matrix, computation of S
parameters. | Notes on
the scattering matrix |
22 Sep 2014 | Lecture 15 | The scattering matrix, implications of the S
parameters. | Notes on
the scattering matrix |
25 Sep 2014 | Lecture 16 | The scattering matrix, working with S-
parameters. | Notes on
the scattering matrix |
29 Sep 2014 | Lecture 17 | Introduction to synthesis | Kuo:
Chapter 10, pages 290-294. |
13 Oct 2014 | Lecture 18 | Positive real functions | Kuo: Chapter
10, pages 299-302. |
16 Oct 2014 | Lecture 19 | Properties of positive real functions; extraction of
poles and zeros at infinity and on the jw axis. | Kuo: Chapter 10, pages 302-310; Kuo: Appendix D, pages
490-492. |
27 Oct 2014 | Lecture 20 | The Cauchy-Riemann equations, functions of a complex
variable | Kuo: Appendix C, pages 481-489;
Kreyszig, Advanced Engineering Mathematics: sections 13.3, 13.4,
14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4. |
30 Oct 2014 | Lecture 21 | Properties of LC impedance functions; synthesis of LC
impedance functions | Kuo: Chapter 11, pages
315-325. |
03 Nov 2014 | Lecture 22 | Properties of RC and RL impedance functions; synthesis
of RC and RL impedance functions | Kuo: Chapter
11, pages 325-333. |
05 Nov 2014 | Lecture 23 | General RLC impedance synthesis; Brune synthesis | Kuo: Chapter 11, pages 333-336; Otto Brune's Ph.D/Sc.D
thesis: pages (PDF) 71-74. |
10 Nov 2014 | Lecture 24 | Brune synthesis continued; proof that the three
inductors extracted can always be designed with the help of a
mutual inductance; numerical examples. | Otto Brune's Ph.D/Sc.D
thesis: pages (PDF) 71-78. |
13 Nov 2014 | Lecture 25 | Transfer function synthesis; Butterworth approximation
of the low pass brick-wall filter; synthesis of the Butterworth
transfer function | Kuo: Chapter 13, pages
365-372; Kuo: Chapter 14, pages 431-435. |
17 Nov 2014 | Lecture 26 | The Chebyshev approximation to the low pass brick-wall
filter; frequency transformations | Kuo: Chapter
13, pages 373-379; Kuo: Chapter 14, pages 431-435; Kuo: Chapter 13,
pages 402-404. |
20 Nov 2014 | Lecture 27 | Frequency transformations; low pass to low pass, low
pass to high pass, low pass to band pass and low pass to band
stop. | Kuo: Chapter 13, pages 402-410. |