Units: 4 (3 Lecture/1 Laboratory)
Prerequisites: EEC 110A
Catalog Description: Analysis and design of integrated circuits. Single-stage amplifiers, cascaded amplifier stages, differential amplifiers, current sources, frequency response, and return-ratio analysis of feedback amplifiers. GE Credit: SE, VL
ABET Student Outcomes:
1) This course is intended to develop an understanding of analog bipolar integrated-circuit design. Students who have completed this course should:
a) be able to explain the hybrid-pi model of the bipolar junction transistor,
b) be able to analyze and design amplifier, current-mirror, and output-stage circuits,
c) be able to analyze the operation of an operational amplifier at the transistor level,
d) be able to use the Miller effect to find the bandwidth of a circuit,
e) be able to use open- and short-circuit time constants to obtain an estimate of the frequency response of a circuit,
f) be able to use the return ratio to analyze circuits with negative feedback,
g) be able to determine the gain and phase margins of a negative-feedback amplifier,
h) be able to design a simple compensation scheme to stabilize a negative-feedback amplifier,
i) know how to use SPICE to find the characteristics of amplifiers, current mirrors, and output stages, and
j) be able to use laboratory equipment including signal generators and oscilloscopes.
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 6: an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions.
Expanded Course Description:
I. Single-stage amplifiers (common emitter, common emitter with degeneration, common collector
II. Differential Amplifiers
A. Large-signal analysis
B. Small-signal analysis with half circuits
C. Offset
III. Current sources
IV. Output stages
V. Operational amplifiers
VI. Frequency response
A. Open-circuit time constants
B. Short-circuit time constants
C. Miller effect
VII. Return-ratio analysis of feedback amplifiers
