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Electronic Circuits I


Course Code: EEE 211
Credit Hour: 3
Course Group: Core Courses

Signals, their origin and processing in electronic system. Development of electronic processing devices; Vacuum tubes and semiconductor devices; P-N junction semiconductor diodes; Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors, operational principle of p-n junction diode, Application of diode as rectifier,contact potential, current-voltage characteristics of a diode, simplified DC and AC diode models, dynamic resistance and capacitance. Diode circuits: Half wave and full wave rectifiers, rectifiers with filter capacitor, characteristics of a Zener diode, Zener shunt regulator, clamping and clipping circuits. Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT), BJT characteristics and regions of operation, BJT as an amplifier, biasing the BJT for discrete circuits, small signal equivalent circuit models, BJT as a switch. Single stage mid-band frequency BJT amplifier circuits: Voltage and current gain, input and output impedance of a common base, common emitter and common collector amplifier circuits. Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET) as circuit element: structure and physical operation of an enhancement MOSFET, threshold voltage, Body effect, current-voltage characteristics of an enhancement MOSFET, and biasing discrete and integrated MOS amplifier circuits, single-stage MOS amplifiers, MOSFET as a switch, CMOS inverter. Junction Field-Effect-Transistor (JFET): Structure and physical operation of JFET, transistor characteristics, pinch-off voltage. Differential and multistage amplifiers: Description of differential amplifiers, small-signal operation, differential and common mode gains, RC coupled mid-band frequency amplifier.

 

Reference Books:

  1. Adel S. Sedra, Kenneth C. Smith: Microelectronic Circuits.
  2. Robert L. Boylestad, Louis Nashelsky -Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory
  3. Thomas L.Floyd -Electronics Fundamentals: Circuits, Devices and Applications (7th Edition)
  4. Jimmie J. Cathey - Schaum's Outline of Electronic Devices and Circuits, Second Edition