ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND CIRCUITS

OBJECTIVES of the subject:

• Lectures presents:
  
  • the principles of circuit analysis and design,
    
  • the basic concepts and characteristics of the electronic devices and circuits.
    
• Tutorials complete the lectures and develop the ability of analyzing actual electronic circuits that implements the basic circuits presented at the lectures.
  
• Laboratory work has been developed to give the student practice in the experimental setup, measurement, and analysis of basic electronic devices and circuits.
  
• Design project is the activity to which this subject is focused. The project improve the student ability to see the simplicity in a complex design problem, a skill that is not usually taught in engineering classes. The design project will require significant design effort, simulations and/or lab work, and a written report.
  
• The course as a whole outlines some ways of thinking about analog circuits that hopefully will help to develop intuition. By the end of this subject, students should have acquired reasonable proficiency in the analysis and design of basic electronic circuits.
  

• Faculty: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (ET)
  
• Specialization: Electrical Engineering and Computers (EEC)
  
• Category: Compulsory Subjects, 2-nd Year, 4-th Semester
  

Structure of the subject: lectures - 3 hours weekly, tutorial - 2 hours weekly.

The exam subjects.
 

Syllabus

• Introduction to analogue electronics: modeling and circuit elements, waveforms, basic network configurations, Thévenin and Norton equivalence;
  
• The semiconductor diode, diode models and applications: rectifiers, limiters, dc restorer, voltage doubler and tripler;
  
• Physical operation of diode, semiconductors and the pn junction;
  
• Zener diodes and applications: the voltage regulator and zener limiting;
  
• The small-signal diode models;
  
• Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT), physical operation, models, characteristics, modes of operation;
  
• Analysis and design of BJT bias circuits;
  
• BJT ac equivalent circuits; analysis of one transistor stage small-signal amplifiers;
  
• Field Effect Transistors: construction, operation, characteristics, bias circuits, large-signal and small-signal models;
  
• Basic amplifier concept and amplifier models;
  
• Class B power amplifier analysis and design: complementary pair circuit operation, biasing the class AB output stage;
  
• Heat-sink calculations and temperature problems;
  
• Analysis of bootstrap configuration, the driver stage of a power amplifier.
  

• Faculty: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (ET)
  
• Specialization: Electrical Engineering and Computers (EEC)
  
• Category: Compulsory Subjects, 3-rd Year, 5-th Semester
  

Structure of the subject (No of weekly hours): lectures - 2, tutorial -1, laboratory -1, design -1.

The exam subjects.
 

Syllabus

• Amplifier frequency response, open-circuit and short-circuit time constant methods;
  
• Negative feedback and its effects; Analysis of ideal and practical feedback amplifiers;
  
• Introduction to operational amplifiers: parameters and basic configurations;
  
• The differential amplifier;
  
• Voltage regulators, linear regulators, integrated circuits voltage regulators;
  
• Oscillators: principles, RC and LC oscillator circuits;
  
• Wave-shaping circuits: integrator, differentiator, comparators, wave-form generators, the 555 timer;
  
• Thyristors, uni-junction transistors and theirs basic applications;
  
• Bipolar digital circuits, the BJT inverter, characteristics of standard TTL;
  
• CMOS digital circuits: CMOS inverter, basic gate circuits and transmission gate.
  

Labs Description
• Introduction, safety rules and evaluation of the lab reports :   Intro
  
• Diodes and Basic Power Supply :   DioPwSup
  
• Bipolar Junction Transistor as an Amplifier :   BJTAmp
  
• Audio Power Amplifier :   PwAmp
  

Project handout (first part: IndrPr_1.pdf, in Romanian) and some transisitors datasheets (Car_tz_m.zip) can be found here.

Notes:

1. A successful final qualification is conditioned by obtaining at least the mark of 5 at examination, laboratory and design.
   
2. Students must be fully aware, however, that any sort of cheating will have severe consequences, and that cheating includes things such as unauthorized notes stored in calculators or any sort of communication with other students during exams.

1. Adel S. Sedra, Kenneth C. Smith - Microelectronic Circuits , 2-nd Edition, CBS College Publ. 1987; 4-th Edition, Oxford University Press, 1998;
   
2. Adrian Virgil Craciun - Dispozitive si circuite electronice, Dispozitive electronice si aplicatii (Electronic Devices and Circuits - Electronic Devices and Applications), Editura Universitatii Transilvania Brasov, 2003;
   
3. Donald A. Neamen - Electronic Circuit Analysis and Design, McGraw Hill, 1996;
   
4. Thomas L. Floyd - Electronic Devices, 2-nd Ed, Merrill Publ.Co, Columbus-Ohio, 1988;
   
5. Albert Paul Malvino - Electronic Principles, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delphi, 1982;
   
6. Stephan Senturia, Bruce Wedlock - Electronic Circuits and Applications, John Willey&Sons Inc. NY 1975;
   
7. Paul R. Gray, Robert G. Meyer - Circuite integrate analogice - Analiza si proiectare (Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated circuits), Ed.Tehnica, Bucuresti, 1997;
   
8. Paul E. Gray, Campbell L. Searle - Bazele electronicii moderne (Electronic Principles - Physics, Models and Circuits), Ed.Tehnica, Bucuresti, 1975.
   

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