General frequency considerations for single stage or multi stage network: low and high frequency analysis and bode plot, multistage frequency effect and determining the cut-off frequencies. Operational Amplifiers (Op-Amp): Op-amp characteristics, open loop voltage gain, differential input voltage, inverting amplifier, inverting adder, non-inverting amplifier, voltage follower, differentiator, integrator, subtractor, CMRR, zero crossing and voltage level detector, hysteresis and their applications. Signal generators using op-amp: square, triangle, sawtooth and sine wave. DC performance: bias, offset and drift. AC performance: frequency parameter, unity-gain bandwidth, slew rate and noise. Various applications of op-amps: Precision Rectifier, MAV circuit, peak detector, precision clipper, Differential, Instrumentation and bridge amplifier. Active filter: frequency response of low pass, High pass, Band pass and Band stop filters for ideal and practical conditions; Band pass filter: narrow-band and wide-band filter. Feedback Amplifier: classification of amplifier as voltage, current, trans-resistance and trans-conductance amplifier, effect of feedback on amplifier bandwidth, condition of stability and the Nyquest criterion. Sinusoidal oscillator: the Barkhausen criterion, phase shift oscillator, general form of oscillator circuits; Colpitts oscillator, Hartley Oscillator, Crystal oscillator. Power Supplies (Voltage regulator), pnpn devices: SCR, SCS, DIAC, TRIAC, UJT. Timer circuit design, Multivibrators: Astable, monostable and bistable multivibrators.

• CEN 210 + Lab : Electronics I

• Design and build basic op-amp circuits, common-emitter amplifiers with required AC characteristics and biasing circuits for common-emitter amplifiers using hand calculations and PSPICE simulations.
• Predict frequency behaviours of amplifiers using hand calculations and PSPICE simulations and sketch appropriate Bode plots.
• Describe the advantages and disadvantages of negative feedback including its influence on gain, bandwidth, input and output resistance.
• Establish feedback topologies of op-amp and BJT amplifiers and evaluate the amplifier’s close-loop characteristics using hand calculations and PSPICE simulations.
• Design circuits to partially address circuit issues on specific problems.
• Analyze circuits, extract performance figures-of-merit analytically and analyze them against desired specifications.
• Simulate and extract performance figures-of-merit against desired specifications for circuits and fairly compare circuits.

1. Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory by Robert L Boylestad, Louis Nashelsky
2. Principle of Electrical Engineering & Electronics (M.E.) by V. K. Mehta, Rohit Mehta
3. Operational Amplifiers and Linear Integrated Circuits by Robert F. Coughlin, Frederick F. Driscoll

Biweekly Quiz, Biweekly Programming Assignment, One Midterm Exam, One Final Exam