Electronics

Syllabus

• Basic electrical circuit analysis: Linear DC circuits. Voltage and current sources. Kirckhoff's laws. Loop and node voltage analysis methods. Thevenin's and Norton's theorems. The superposition theorem. Capacitance and inductance. First and second order circuits. Transient response of first and second order circuits.
• AC circuits: Impedance. Sinusoids and phasors. Series and parallel resonance. Passive filters.
• Semiconductors: Carriers motion. PN junction. Built in potential. Depletion capacitance. Reverse bias. Forward bias. Drift and diffusion currents. Rectifiers. Zener diodes. Photoelectric devices. Bipolar junction transistor (BJT) operation and various configurations. DC current and voltage gains. Ebers-Moll model. BJT as a electronic switch.
• Operational amplifiers: Principles. Various configurations. Bias and offset currents. Input offset voltage. Open and closed loop response. Slew rate. Applications: analog comparators, photodiode amplifier, precision rectifiers, peak detectors, sample and hold, instrumentation amplifiers, first and second order active filters. Thermal and shot noise. Linear and switching regulators. Digital to analog and analog to digital converters.
• Digital circuits: combinational logic circuits and synchronous sequential circuits.
• Applications in physics.

Sources:

1. Franco , S . : Electric Circuits Fundamentals , Oxford University Press,1999
2. Alexander , C . : Fundamentals of Electric Circuits , McGraw Hill , 2000.
3. Bar- Lev , A . : Semiconductors and Electronic Devices , Prentice - Hall, 1993.
4. Sedra , A . S. and Kenneth , C . S . : Microelectronics circuits , OUP ,1998 .
5. Franco , S . : Design with Operational Amplifiers and Analog Integrated Circuits, McGraw Hill , 1998 .
6. Mano , M . M . : Digital Design , Prentice Hall , 1997 .