Even though the class is one unit, the workload feels like a 4 unit class but professor Darabi is so understanding, he often told us to go easy on lab reports and as long as it covers all the requirements, it doesn't need to be over 10 pages. His lectures are really really helpful and in details. I took 2 circuit lab classes before this but all the professors expected us to know how to work with equipments, but professor Darabi explained every small and basic steps which made me an expert in circuit analysis.
This class is not all about the instructor, most of the class depends on TA's too which unlikely mine was horrible. So my recommendation : no matter what, take professor Darabi but also make sure you know the TA from your previous classes or you gonna have a hard time in this class

I thoroughly enjoyed this class, and Professor Darabi prepares you very well for Analog IC design. Class is split up w/ a 27.5% project, 27.5% midterm, 43% final, and 3% participation/survey. Homework is totally optional, but was very good practice for exam and project, with 2 written homeworks and 1 Cadence homework. The project is about designing a differential op-amp with certain gain, swing, and bandwidth requirements, and was overall relatively easy to complete, and gives good practice into using Cadence Virtuoso. The class lectures were very comprehensive and insightful, and Darabi did a good job answering questions and building intuition. The exams are not too bad, and he still curves very well regardless. The TA Somanshu was also excellent in giving us additional practice in his discussion sections, as well as being generous to provide extra office hours where we could ask questions. Overall, I would definitely take this class again.

EE 1115A is one of the 8 choose 6 core classes. And typically people take the easier ones and are left with deciding between 115a, CS33, and ee133a. Between those three 115 is the easier one. Darabi is a decent lecturer and because 115 is more formula based than 110 and 10 it makes it easier to not only follow but also understand. The homework’s are really long and take forever. But doing them is the only study material you’ll have since there are no practice exams. The midterm was super tough as was the final. Overall would take again with darabi. The ta’s were fantastic.

I really don't know how to describe this amazing professor. In my opinion professor Darabi has one the best lectures in ECE department. He explains everything from baby steps and he's so caring about the students. He never let a question unanswered and except his normal office hours, he always made an extra one for student who need helps. This class has 4 hw sets with 12 question each, where usually 5 of those are extra credits, if you start early you can finish them way before the deadline, but my quarter everyone got lazy and complained about the workload so he gave us and extra 25% bonus on each hw. His midterm and final are fair but not easy, but again he's so caring that he offered to reduce the midterm weight if we preform better on final.

Darabi is a very kind professor and made the best out of our Friday 8 am lectures, but the class was still difficult to follow despite going to every lecture. I did not feel confident with most of the material until a few days before the midterm and final, and walked out of both tests feeling like I had done poorly. So, I do think the grading was pretty lenient. There are not many resources provided in terms of practice tests/past exams so while the tests were fair, studying for them was difficult. Overall I definitely learned a lot though. Some advice: make sure to set aside plenty of time for the homeworks, they started getting pretty difficult after the first one. Also make sure you understand the examples Darabi goes over in class and look in the textbook for more examples. Working with others on homework and studying makes it a lot more manageable.

Darabi is an awesome professor, but I had this class for 4 hours at 8am which made it so much harder to focus. He's a great, concise lecturer, and his tests are very straightforward. Also, big props to the TA Stheya who was awesome and gave out a lot of homework and discussion help. The hardest part of this class is the homework: there are 4 of them in the quarter, ranging from 5 to 8 problems each. Do not start them last minute, homeworks take several hours but are super useful for understanding the material. He also curved the class at the end, which was awesome. Overall, pretty cool and interesting class, Darabi definitely makes the material interesting and provides great application examples.

Deeply grateful to him. You have to believe in yourself, fight until the end, and you will receive what you deserve. Initially, my understanding of CMOS was poor during my undergraduate studies, which led to struggles with both midterms and finals despite my hard work. However, he still awarded me a B-, which was higher than I expected. I am so thankful and will continue to work hard in my future courses.

Professor Darabi was brought in to teach this class fairly last minute, leading to a very unfortunate lecture time (8-12 on Fridays) and final time (two days after the last lecture). That being said, he and the TA did a fantastic job teaching this class and accomodating the ~100 students. The grading scheme was very fair (34% homework, 32% midterm, 32% final, 1% course evaluation survey, 1% attendance) and the exams themselves were extremely reasonable. Furthermore, the class was recorded and though the recordings were of poor visual quality, the TA made the effort to take stand-alone photographs of the whiteboard so students could compare side-by-side while watching the recording.
Overall, the material was taught well, the TA (Stheya Julakanti) did a stellar job (one TA for 100 students is crazy), and though I struggled to understand topics initially, I was able to do fairly well in class by attending office hours when I needed help and by looking through the material the TA released every week.

The only thing that would have made my experience better was a more convenient lecture time as I found it difficult to pay attention after the 2.5 hour mark. However, Professor Darabi did the best he could with the situation. Massive shoutout to both him and the TA, would take again.

I love this big beautiful sexy man. One of the best teachers I've ever had, and he taught a very sexy and interesting subject (wooo filters!). So insanely nice and kind and understanding and gives so much extra credit. I would love to take this class again (or any class with him in the future for that matter).

Depending on the time sequence of your circuit-related physics/engineering courses, many concepts may appear elsewhere before (physics 1 series, ECE 3...). In general, this course is a good review and elevation to circuit theory fundamentals. Professor Darabi has a well-structured lecture with examples, but it is still worthwhile to do practice problems from other sources before the exams besides the given examples and homework problems (don't forget to review transformer equations). The textbook is probably the only thing to be improved for this course, as I personally think it is a little bit old (from half a century ago), but as long as you follow the lectures, you do not need it.