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Fall 2026
Electronic Circuits II
ECE 342 covers advanced modeling and design of semiconductor devices, analog amplifiers, and CMOS digital circuits.
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Zheng Liu
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Historical reviews of Christopher Demarco, Giri Venkataramanan: Reviews describe high effort and difficult exams. Some note that success requires significant independent textbook reading, particularly under instructors like Christopher Demarco.
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Prerequisites
Course mapE C E 340 or member of Engineering Guest Students
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- Any of
- ECE 340
- member of Engineering Guest Students
Professors
Fall 2026Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews for Thomas Jahns and Giri Venkataramanan describe organized lectures and fair exams, though Venkataramanan is criticized for disorganization and low-quality videos. Christopher Demarco's teaching is polarizing; some praise his thoroughness and patience, while others find his dry, textbook-dependent lectures ineffective and his support lacking.
CHRISTOPHER DEMARCO is recorded teaching in Spring 2008, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Fall 2015, Fall 2017, Spring 2022. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
THOMAS JAHNS is recorded teaching in Spring 2007, Fall 2008. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Calendar & sections
Fall 2026Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 21 / 60 | 0 |
| LEC 002 | Classroom Instruction | 48 / 60 | 0 |
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Student experience
the class
Historical reviews for ECE 342 are polarized. Some praise organized lectures and fair exams, while others criticize dry teaching, disorganization, and low-quality materials.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.60 GPA, 79.1% A/AB (n=91 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.88 GPA, 92.5% A/AB (n=93 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.39 GPA, 73.5% A/AB (n=117 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Christopher Demarco, Giri Venkataramanan: Reviews describe high effort and difficult exams. Some note that success requires significant independent textbook reading, particularly under instructors like Christopher Demarco.
Historical reviews of Christopher Demarco, Giri Venkataramanan: Experiences range from helpful review sessions and patient instruction to frustration with late grading, subjective TA evaluations, banned technology, and poor lecture videos.
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Fall 2026 · Projected
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About this estimate
The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.
The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.
8 earlier forecasts · 0.23 GPA average error.
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Through Fall 2026
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About this comparison
1283 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.
Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.
Sources & history
UW–Madison
Catalog & offerings
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Selected offering source records
Electronic Circuits II
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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Model & dataset provenance
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