Courses offered in Circuits and Devices
ECE 331-Electronic Devices
ECE 332-Electronic Circuits
ECE 431-Operational Amplifier Circuits
ECE 432-Electronic Amplifiers
ECE 531-Advanced Analog Electronics I
ECE 532-Advanced Analog Electronics II



Course Descriptions

331 Electronic Devices (3) Basic semiconductor physics, theory of p-n junctions; diodes, field transistors, and bipolar transistors; modeling of diode and transistor devices; analysis and design of diode switching and rectifier circuits; basic transistor switching circuits and single stage amplifiers; electronic simulation using SPICE. Includes Level 1 design projects which require laboratory work. Prereq: 202. Coreq: 251.

332 Electronic Circuits (3) Multistage transistor amplifier biasing; gain stages, and output stages; frequency and transient response of open loop linear amplifiers; fundamentals of integrated circuits, operational amplifier applications in basic feedback configurations; basic transistor switching circuits. Includes laboratory experiments and design projects. Design content. 1.5 hours. Prereq: 331.

431 Operational Amplifier Circuits (3 ) Linear and non-linear active circuits using commercial operational amplifiers. Operational, instrumentation, isolation, bridge, rms and logarithmic converters, multipliers and function generators, rectifiers, references, active filters, modulation and demodulation, sinusoidal generators. Noise fundamentals and calculations in op-amp circuits. Design for specified pole -zero functions. Applications: transducer interfacing. Level 1 design projects which require laboratory work. Prereq: Linear System Analysis, Electronic Circuits, Analog Communication Amplitude and Frequency Modulation.

432 Electronic Amplifiers (4) Feedback amplifier principles; wideband linear amplifier design; low-noise preamplifier design; audio power amplifier design; linear regulated power supply design and switching regulator principles. Radio frequency amplifier design; oscillator principles. Laboratory experiments and design projects. Level 2 design projects which require laboratory work. Prereq: 431.

531 Advanced Analog Electronics I (3 ) Physical operation of modern electronic devices; semiconductor devices : diodes, bipolar transistors, J-FETs, and MOS-FETs. Small -signal equivalent circuits and noise models of active devices. Project laboratory. Prereq: 431, 432, or consent of instructor.

532 Advanced Analog Electronics II (3) Design and analysis of linear wide-band low -noise feedback amplifiers and radio-frequency amplifiers using discrete, monolithic and hybrid devices; voltage and current regulators, switching regulators. Use of specialized electronic systems in analog signal processors. Advanced topics from current literature. Project laboratory. Prereq: 531.



 
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