Description
A study of transistor principles, bipolar and field effect device characteristics, modern thyristor devices, differential amplifiers, operational amplifiers, regulators, instrumentation amplifiers, active filters, and timers. Emphasis is placed on laboratory experiments on various op amp performances leading to design and interfacing between the analog and digital world. Prerequisite: ELEC 1022 Electronics Fundamentals AC.
Objectives:
• Learn basic diode applications.
• Build basic rectifiers and power supplies.
• Learn transistor bias circuits.
• Use small-signal, power, and FET amplifiers.
• Learn amplifier frequency response and voltage regulators.
• Learn use of thyristors such as SCRs and Triacs.
• Build oscillator circuits.
• Understand analog op amps circuitry.
• Learn the design of gain, input resistance and output resistance specifications.