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EE102 Introduction to Electrical Engineering
Freshman electrical engineering students learn various aspects of electrical engineering from the ground up. Using Cadence tools: Capture CIS and Layout, students design and simulate a atmospheric temperature sensor to be flown on a tethered balloon. Students produce appropriate manufacturing output that is then used to control a milling machine which creates their board. Below is an example of the artwork generated for one of their boards
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Schematic of temperature sensor
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Temperature sensor layout |
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EE203 Electrical Engineering Fundamentals I
EE204 Electrical Engineering Fundamentals II
EE333 Physical Electronics
As a final project in EE333 students are required to design and build a three stage amplifier to meet certain specifications. Students use their increasing skills at simulation in the Cadence environment to aide in their design.
EE334 Electronic Circuit Design
All of the core circuits courses offered at UAF make use of circuit
simulation tools supplied by Cadence. Each course builds on previous
experience with Cadence simulation tools by having the students generate
increasingly more complicated simulations. By EE334 students are
analyzing circuits, designing models of those circuits, and verifying
their models simulations. Shown below is an op-amp circuit and
its model representation along with the verifying simulations.
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Single pole inverting amplifier
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: Magnitude-frequency plot of single pole amplifier gain
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I-V curve at input to single pole amplifier circuit.
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I-V curve at output of the single pole amplifier circuit.
EE693 High Speed Digital Design
This class was offered for the first time during the Fall 2005
semester. The class is based on the book "High-Speed Digital Systems
Design" by Hall, Hall, and McCall. The class illustrated signal
integrity issues through the use of Cadence tools. One students project
involved creating the layout and analyzing the signal integrity of
critical nets for a radar controller board.
Student Rocket Program
Students are currently finalizing a sounding rocket payload for launch in January 2009. All electrical subsystems were designed with using Cadence tools.
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