EEE 313 Electronic Circuit Design

Course description

This course covers the analysis and design of electronic circuits using discrete components such as diodes and transistors. It starts out with a very brief introduction to the physical operation principles of electronic components, in other words, to what is "inside" the transistor or the diode. Otherwise, only the terminal current-voltage (i - v) characteristics of the components come into play. This course is primarily devoted to analog circuits, in particular to linear amplifiers.

• Nonlinear circuit elements, piecewise-linear models, small signal models.
• Semiconductor device principles: A very brief introduction to the physical principles of semiconductor electronic devices.
• Diodes and diode circuits: Junction diodes and their i - v characteristics. Diode models and diode circuits.
• Bipolar junction transistors (BJTs): Operation principles of BJTs. DC analysis of BJT circuits.
• Transistor biasing: Adjusting the DC voltages and currents of a transistor in order to operate it as a linear amplifier for AC signals.
• Single-stage transistor amplifiers: Linear amplifiers that use a single transistor to amplify AC signals.
• Multi-stage amplifiers: Amplifiers composed of two or more amplifying stages.
• Field effect transistors (FETs): Operation principles of FETs. DC analysis of FET circuits. FET biasing and FET amplifiers.
• Power amplifiers: Brief survey of output stages capable of delivering high levels of electrical power, for example to drive audio loudspeakers.
• Frequency characteristics: Behavor of transistor amplifiers at low and high frequencies.
• Differential amplifiers: A differential amplifier is a linear amplifier with two input terminals whose output is proportional to the voltage difference between these input terminals.
• Operational amplifiers.