Units: 4 (3 Lecture; 1 Discussion)
Prerequisites: EEC 100; (EEC 140A (can be concurrent) or EEC 140AV (can be concurrent) or EEC 111 (can be concurrent))
Catalog Description: Use and modeling of nonlinear solid-state electronic devices in basic analog and digital circuits. Introduction to the design of transistor amplifiers and logic gates. GE Credit: SE, VL
ABET Student Outcomes:
1) Students will be able to design and analyze integrated circuits, such as amplifiers, composed of different devices, including diodes, bipolar, and MOSFETs. Students can use both time-domain and frequency-domain techniques to analyze a given electric circuit. Students will also be able to analyze circuit and system frequency responses, feedback networks, and basic digital circuits.
2) Students who have completed this course should have achieved:
a) Student Outcome 1: an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.
b) Student Outcome 3: an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences.
c) Student Outcome 6: an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgement to draw conclusions.
Expanded Course Description:
I. Introduction to electronic systems and design
A. Analog and digital systems
B. Classification of signals
C. Explain difference between analysis and design (e.g., the form of the result is important, it must be simple enough to relate performance to individual devices)
II. Electronic Devices Recap
A. PN junctions and diodes
B. Bipolar junction transistor operation
C. MOS transistor operation
III. Analog electronic systems and design
A. Introduction to small-signal linearity and modeling
B. Analysis methodology – separate large-signal DC bias analysis and small-signal AC signal analysis
C. Amplifier models (unilateral two ports), DC- and AC- coupled response
D. DC analysis of single-stage transistor amplifiers: common-emitter, common-emitter with degeneration, emitter follower and common base
E. Small-signal midband analysis of single-stage transistor amplifiers
F. Frequency response of single transistor amplifiers (Miller’s theorem and approximation, open circuit time constants). Emphasis on common emitter
G. Feedback: conceptual, theoretical and practical circuit level to feedback around multistage cascade amplifiers
H. Stability and Compensation
IV. Digital circuits
A. Introduction to logic: binary logic gates, truth tables, Boolean algebra
B. Static inverter specifications
C. Dynamic inverter specifications
D. CMOS logic
