ECE 22X: General Information for ECE 221 & ECE 222

Scientific Calculators

• Texas Instruments: Texas Instruments has a number of engineering-grade calculators and software to do many of the things discussed in the ECE 22X series. See the EE package for details.
• Hewlett Packard: Hewlett Packard's calculators. I recommend the HP 48 and 49 series, though they do not have packages to do Laplace transforms like the TI's.
• Calculators
  • Hewlett Packard
    • hpcalc.org: Source of software for and information about the HP49, HP48, and HP28 RPN programmable graphic calculators.
    • HP's Official Calculator Site
  • Texas Instruments
    • ticalc.org: Source of software for and information about the HP49, HP48, and HP28 RPN programmable graphic calculators.
    • TI's Official Calculator Site
  • Casio
  • Comparisons
    • TI-89/92 (Plus) vs. HP48/49G series
    • TI-89 VS HP 49G Comparison
    • Comparison Chart (French)
    • HP 49 vs. TI 89 Comparison by HP (pdf)

PSpice

PSpice is a circuit simulation tool that runs under Windows 9X/NT.

Overview of Mergers

Spice (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) is a computer program developed in the 1970s at the University of California at Berkeley for simulating electric circuits. PSpice was is an enhanced version and arguably the most popular version of Spice (it's biggest competitor is HSpice). It was originally developed by MicroSim in 1985. MicroSim and Orcad merged in January of 1998. Cadence purchased Orcad in July of 1999.

Links

• New Orcad PSpice Includes free student evalutation version.
• Old MicroSim PSpice
• Spice
• AIM Spice Another commerical version of Spice
• Other Spice Versions
• Spice User's Guide
• Spice Models
  • MODPEX
  • Links to Models
  • More Links to Models
• Onlines Spice Resources

MATLAB

• Mathworks Home Page

Books

PSpice

• Schematic Capture with MicroSim PSpice, 4th ed, Marc E. Herniter, 2000.

Circuit Analysis (ECE 221)

• Electric Circuits, 6th ed., James W. Nilsson and Susan A. Riedel, 2000, ISBN: 0-201-43653-1 (Web Site)
  This is a classic text that used to be the first choice of most instructors. The sixth edition was riddled with errors, which the publisher has since corrected (there may be a different ISBN for the corrected edition). This is a good text, but a common complaint from students is that the examples in the chapters are much easier than the homework problems. There are (were?) also a lot of errors in the solutions manual.
• Circuit Analysis Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Robbins and Miller, 2000, ISBN 0-7668-0626-X
  This is a good text that covers the fundamentals of electric circuits in great detail. Many pictures, example applications, and software screen shots. Does not cover operational amplifiers. (Web Site)
• Foundations of Electric Circuits, J. R. Cogdell, 1999.
• Schaum's Outline of Electric Circuits, 3rd ed., Joseph Edminister and Mahmood Nahvi, 1996.
  A very cheap reference with many worked out examples.
• The Analysis and Design of Linear Circuits, 3rd ed., Roland E. Thomas and Albert J. Rosa, 2001, ISBN 0-471-38679-0
• Fundamentals of Electric Circuit Analysis, Clayton Paul, 2001, ISBN 0-471-37195-5
• Introduction to Electric Circuits, 4th ed., Richard C. Dorf and James A. Svoboda, 1999, ISBN 0-471-19246-5
  This is used at University of Portland.
• Electrical Engineering Principles & Applications, Allan R. Hambley, 1999, ISBN 0-02-349331-3 (Web Site)
• Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis, 6th ed., J. David Irwin and Chwan-Hwa Wu, 1999, ISBN: 0-471-36574-2 (Web Site)
• Applied Introductory Circuit Analysis for Electrical and Computer Engineers, Michael Reed and Ron Rohrer, 1999, ISBN: 0-13-787631-9
• Introduction to Electrical Engineering, J. David Irwin and David V. Kerns, Jr., 1995, ISBN: 09-02-359930-8
• Circuits, A. Bruce Carlson, 2000, ISBN: 0-534-37097-7

Signals and Systems (ECE 222)

• Signals and Systems, 2nd ed., Alan V. Oppenheim, Alan S. Willsky, 1997.
• Schaum's Outline of Signals and Systems, Hwei P. Hsu, 1995.
• Transform Circuit Analysis for Engineering and Technology, 4th ed., William D. Stanley, 2000.
• Signals, Systems, and Transforms, 2nd ed., Charles L. Phillips, and John M. Parr, 1999.
• Signals & Systems, 4th ed., Rodger E. Ziemer, William H. Tranter, and D. Rondal Fannin,1998.

Signals & Systems, 2nd ed., Oppenheim, Willsky, & Nawab

• Prentice Hall's Web Site for Book
• Errata

Electric Circuits, 6th ed., Nilsson & Riedel

• Electric Circuits 6th ed. Official Web Site w/Errata
• Publisher's Web Site for Book
• Solutions Errata
• Errata for the 6th ed. (revised printing)
• Errata for the 6th ed. (2nd printing)
• Errata for the 5th ed.
• Susan A. Riedel (James Nilsson does not have a web page).
• Student Reviews