6.012 Microelectronic Devices and Circuits, Spring 2003
Schematic diagram of modern metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET): cross section (top), layout at the wafer surface (bottom). (Image by Jesús del Alamo.)
Highlights of this Course
This course has virtually all of its course materials online, including
lecture notes and
homework assignments. Students in this course use Professor del Alamo's MIT Microelectronics WebLab, which is described in more detail in the
tools section. This remote web-enabled microelectronics test station is used for the
project assignments. The textbook for this course is: Howe, R. T., and C. G. Sodini.
Microelectronics, An Integrated Approach. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997. ISBN: 0135885183.
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Course Description
6.012 is the header course for the department's "Devices, Circuits and Systems" concentration. The topics covered include: modeling of microelectronic devices, basic microelectronic circuit analysis and design, physical electronics of semiconductor junction and MOS devices, relation of electrical behavior to internal physical processes, development of circuit models, and understanding the uses and limitations of various models. The course uses incremental and large-signal techniques to analyze and design bipolar and field effect transistor circuits, with examples chosen from digital circuits, single-ended and differential linear amplifiers, and other integrated circuits. This course is worth 4 Engineering Design Points.