Transcript Lecture1x - Virginia Tech

ECE 2074
Kathleen Meehan
Justin Cartwright
Karl Pereira
PSpice Examples
• http://filebox.vt.edu/users/kameehan/pspice
– Please
• Download the PSpice Examples.zip file
• Extract the folders and files
• When you launch your version of Pspice,
– Open a project when using 9.1 Capture, 10.2 Capture CIS, or
16.2 Capture CIS
– Open a file when using 9.1 Schematics
» Select Example1 from the appropriate folder
» Use Version 9.1 Capture if you are using Version 10.2
Capture CIS
Course requirements
• Lab kit
– Also known as Lab-in-a-Box (Liab)
• Lab Manual
– Lab-in-a-Box: Introductory Experiments in Electric Circuits, 3rd Edition by R.W.
Hendricks and K. Meehan
• MatLab 7.0
– Available in Freshman Engineering software bundle
(http://www.ita.vt.edu/studentsoftware/website/products/stuproductinfo.18
3.html)
– Contact SW.A.T. Team if you have problems
• Pspice
– From CD included in J.G. Tront’s book
– Either version 9.1 (www.ece.vt.edu/ece3274) or version 16.2
(computing.ece.vt.edu/wiki/Main_Page)
• Zeitnitz PC Oscilloscope
– Available free for educational purposes http://www.ece.vt.edu/cel/SiteMap.html#2074_3074)
ECE IT Support
• John Harris
– 348 Whittemore Hall, [email protected]
• Branden McKagen
– 346 Whittemore Hall, [email protected]
Lab Experiments
Due Date
Validation
Report
9/8/2009
9/10/2009
9/15/2009
9/17/2009
9/22/2009
9/24/2009
10/6/2009
10/8/2009
10/13/2009
10/15/2009
10/20/2009
10/22/2009
10/27/2009
10/29/2009
11/3/2009
11/5/2009
11/10/2009
11/12/2009
11/17/2009
11/19/2009
12/3/2009
12/3/2009
Lab
Experiment
in Lab
Manual
1
2
1&3
4
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
6
8&9
13 & 15
10
12
Title
Breadboard Basics and Ohm’s Laws
Kirchhoff’s Laws / Equivalent
Resistance
Voltage and Current Dividers
Design Lab – To Be Announced
Superposition
Oscilloscope and RC Circuits
An Inverting Amplifier Circuit
A Differentiator Circuit
To Be Announced
Design Lab – To Be Announced
Extra Credit Lab
Weight
5%
5%
10%
15%
10%
10%
10%
10%
10%
15%
5%
Validation Procedure
• Each student must come to the Computer Engineering
Laboratory (CEL) in Durham Hall during TA office hours and
validate their experiment before the deadline.
• The student will print off a validation sheet available on
Blackboard and bring it with them to the CEL.
• During the validation, the TA will ask the student to
perform a validation procedure.
• After the validation procedure is complete, the student
should hand their validation sheet to an ECE 2074 TA within
one week of the deadline.
• If the validation is not complete by the deadline, the
student will loss 30% for the first day late, and 10% for each
additional day
Extra Credit Policy
• Students may do one extra lab, selected from one of the
labs in the manual that was not assigned during the
semester, and it will count for a maximum of an additional
5% to their lab grade.
• Students will also be able to do an extra credit design
project for a maximum of an additional 10%. The design
project will require a proposal submitted at least 2 weeks
before the deadline and the proposal must be approved for
the work to be used towards the student’s grade. Students
may choose their design project but it must be significant,
implement something interesting, and build upon the
concepts learned in the course. All extra credit lab reports
and validations must be completed by 12/3/2009.
Grading
Labs
Validation
Report
Lecture Quizzes
Total
50%
40%
10%
100%
Honor Code
• All submitted work (both written work submitted via
Blackboard and experiments built on the ANDY board and
presented for validation) is presumed to be the original
work of the student and the Virginia Tech Honor code
applies.
• The validating GTA and the grading GTA will make clear
notations on the validation report and/or the laboratory
notebook respectively if there is any suspicion of copied
reports and/or “dry-lab” experiments.
• In such a case, the suspected work will be sent directly to
the instructor. Evidence of cheating, either by submission of
a copied (“dry-labbed”) notebook, or false submission of a
validation checksheet will be submitted to the Honor Court
for appropriate action.