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  • General description

    - Course General Objectives: This course aims to give the students ideas to understand devices and basic Circuits, includes the most fundamental and essential topics for the study of electronic circuits. The three basic semiconductor devices will be briefly studied: the diode, the MOS transistor, and the bipolar transistor. In each case, we study the device operation, its characterization, and its basic circuit applications. Since the purpose of electronic circuits is the processing of signals, an understanding is essential of signals, their characterization in the time and frequency domains, and their analog and digital representations. The most common signal-processing function, amplification, and the characterization of amplifiers will be studied. Besides diodes and transistors, the basic electronic devices, the op amp is, also, studied. Although, the op amp is not an electronic device in the most fundamental sense, the op amp is commercially available as an integrated circuit (IC) package and has well-defined terminal characteristics. Its almost-ideal terminal behavior makes it possible to treat the op amp as a circuit element and to use it in the design of powerful circuits, as we do in this course, without any knowledge of its internal construction. Most physical systems incorporate some form of feedback. The general structure of the negative-feedback amplifier and the basic principle that underlies its operation will be studied. The advantages of negative feedback will be introduced. The appropriate feedback topology to employ with each of the four amplifier types: voltage, current, transconductance, and transresistance amplifiers will be developed. We will study an important class of analog circuits: filters and oscillators. Both topics have in common an application or system orientation. They provide dramatic and powerful illustration of the application of both negative and positive feedback. In the study of electronic systems, the need usually arises for signals of various waveforms—sinusoidal, triangle, square-wave, and so on. The generation of such signals will be done. This course forms a prerequisite to introduction to communication and signal processing courses at next levels. Intended Learning Outcomes: Code Intended Learning Outcomes - Comprehension of basic concepts in electronic circuits concerning electrical signals and signal amplification. - Understanding The terminal characteristics of the ideal op. amp., analysing circuits containing op amps, resistors, and capacitors, and recognizing most important applications. - Understanding the basics of semiconductors, the diode operation, its characterization, and its basic circuit applications. - Understanding the MOS transistor operation, its characterization, and its basic circuit applications. - Understanding the BJT transistor operation, its characterization, and its basic circuit applications. - Understanding the general structure of the negative-feedback amplifier and the basic principle that underlies its operation. - Describing filters by its transfer functions, and classifying filters into different types based on the relative location of their pass-band(s) and stop-band(s). Recognizing a filter transfer function that meets the given specifications, including the use of popular special functions such as the Butterworth and the Chebyshev. - Using the tuned transistor amplifiers for radio-frequency (RF) applications. - Understanding the basic principles of oscillator circuit that generates sine waves.