Lecture:
Basic Principles of Electronics.
Analog signal, Digital signal. DC and AC voltage; Ohm Law, Kirchhoff’s Laws: KCL, KVL; Gain (Transmittance) of circuits.
Passive electronics elements: resistors, capacitors, inductors; parameters.
RC and LR circuits (filters)
Low-pass filter; High-pass filter; Band- pass filters; Resonance circuits.
Frequency response of simple RC circuits.
Amplification of step voltages and pulses.
Semiconductor materials, crystal structures, basic of quantum theory and band theory.
Introduction to p-n junction theory: electrostatics; ideal p-n diode equation. Non-ideal diode description. DC voltage-current characteristics, temperature effects. Reverse bias transition capacitance.
Charge storage and transient behavior. Real diode small- and large- signal models. Junction breakdown;
The Zener, Capacitance, LED, Photodiode and other special types of diodes.
Metal-semiconductor junctions: Schottky diodes, non-rectifying contacts, tunneling.
Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT); principles of operation; derivation of voltage-current and current gain expressions. DC and AC models and equivalent circuits. Frequency response.
The small-signal models of BJT.
BJT amplifiers configurations – OE, OB and emitter follower. (OC) Benchmark parameters for different configurations.
Theory of Junction Field Effect Transistor (JFET); dc characteristics and ac performance.
Two-terminal MOS structure, MOS capacitors, flat-band and threshold voltages.
Static MOS transistor (MOSFET), principle of working, its equivalent circuit.
MOSFET biasing and amplifier configurations – CS, CG and CD.
Comparison transistors: BJT and MOSFET.
Basic classes of amplifiers. Input and output impedance.
OpAmp as a Black Box. Negative voltage feedback Analysis of linear applications with OpAmps – inverting and non-inverting, voltage follower, adder and subtracter.
Behavioral description of open loop OpAmp’s gain. Gain-bandwidth exchange in OpAmp circuits. Other OpAmp non-idealities and their impact on application performance.
Analysis of linear applications: OpAmp Integrator, OpAmp Differentiators for integration and differentiation configuration.
OpAmp RC Active filters. Types of filters. Parameters.
Comparators, principle, parameters. Real comparators, with hysteresis loop, without hysteresis loop; Circuits with positive feedback; The RC oscillator
Power supplies
Basic rectifying circuits, - full wave rectifying circuits.
Smoothing circuits: π- sections filters
Other forms of power supply
Electronic regulation of power supplies
Digital Logic Elements:
Boolean Logic, Basic Logic function and selected complex functions.
The Basic of Digital circuits:
Logic gates
Flip-flops type;
Counters - using Flip-flops (binary and BCD counters)
Logic gates; Parameters of logic gate design: e.g. TTL, CMOS
Analysis of selected logic gate design.
Converters D/A and A/D
Principles of working of selected converters; parameters.