EE 322 Electronics II

1996-97 Catalog Data: 3 credits

Theory of small signal amplifiers, biasing, and introduction to feedback theory. Prerequisite EE 222, Corequisite EE 313.

Additional Information

Textbooks:

Microelectronics, 3rd edition, Sedra and Smith, Holt, Reinhart and Winston, Inc., New York, 1991.

Reference:

None

Coordinator:

Jaime Ramirez-Angulo, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Instructor(s):

Paul M. Furth

Goals:

Upon completion of this course the student will understand the following:

1. How to design and analyze transistor amplifiers with multiple transistors and stages
2. How to analyze the amplitude and phase response of a transistor amplifier
3. Differential and operational amplifier circuits
4. Feedback theory and circuits
5. Oscillation, regeneration, and oscillator circuits

Prerequisites by Topic:

1. Kirchoff circuit analysis techniques.
2. Diode and transistor operation.
3. Biasing and single stage ac analysis of bipolar junction transistors and field effect transistors.
4. Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits.
5. Laplace transforms and circuit analysis techniques (corequisite).
6. Bode plots and frequency analysis techniques.

Topics:

1. Differential amplifiers, constant current sources, current mirrors, level shifters, and internal structure of operational amplifier circuits.
2. Ideal operational amplifier, basic configurations, limitations of practical operational amplifiers.
3. Frequency response and transfer functions of single and multiple stage amplifier circuits.
4. Amplifier types and feedback theory and circuits.
5. Oscillator theory and oscillator circuits.

Computer Usage:

Some homework assignments require the usage of the popular circuit simulation program SPICE. See accompanying laboratory.

ABET Category Content:

Engineering Science: 2 credits or 67%

Engineering Design: 1 credit or 33%

First Prepared by:

Steven Omick

Date: February 25, 1994