UELE 222 - Solid State Devices and Circuits II

Prerequisite(s): UELE 121

  

1. Analyze differential, instrumentation, and bridge amplifiers that use operations amplifiers.
2. Describe the operation of circuits using operational amplifiers with positive feedback.
3. Use basic analysis techniques to describe how operational amplifiers are used to generate waveforms.
4. Discuss operational amplifier characteristics that may affect performance, including bias currents, offset voltages and currents, drift, frequency response, and slew rate.
5. Analyze basic low-pass, high-pass, notice and bandpass active filters.
6. Explain the operating characteristics of the silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) and triac in switching applications.
7. Apply the scientific method of inquiry and deduction relating the laws theories and axioms of operational amplifiers, power supplies, and regulators to specific laboratory experiments
8. Discuss series, shunt, and switching voltage regulators, stating the advantages and disadvantages of each.
9. Analyze fixed and variable-voltage integrated circuits (IC) regulators in terms of ripple, regulation and thermal characteristics.
10. Explain the operating characteristics of the silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) and triac in switching applications.
11. Explain the concept of the transconductance and its effect on the Field Effect transistor amplifier gain.
12. Describe the operation of common-source, common-drain and common-gate amplifiers and draw schematic diagrams for each.
13. Determine the voltage gains and frequency-response characteristics of R-coupled multistate amplifiers.
14. Discuss the operation, biasing, advantages, and limitations of class A, B, and C amplifiers.

1.   OM-AMP Applications
   1. The instrumentation amplifier
   2. Voltage-controlled current courses
   3. Differential amplifiers
2. Non-Linear OPAMP Circuits
   1. Positive feedback
   2. Comparators
   3. Window detectors
   4. Waveform conversion
   5. Waveform generation
3.    Operational Amplifier Limitations
   1. Bias currents
   2. Input offset voltage
   3. Drift
   4. Slew rate
   5. Frequency response
4.   Active Filters
   1. Basic concepts
   2. The low-pass Butterworth filter
   3. The high-pass Butterworth filter
   4. Bad pass filters
   5. Notch filters
5. Regulated Power Supplies
   1. Voltage feedback regulation
   2. Power supply characteristics
   3. The series regulator
   4. The shunt regulator
   5. Switching regulator
6.   The IC Regulator
   1. Three terminal IC regulators
   2. Regulator families
   3. Regulator specification and characteristics
7. Thyristors
   1. The ideal latch
   2. The four-layer diode
   3. The SCR
   4. The triac and unijunction transistor
   5. Thyristor applications
8.  Field Effect Transistor Amplifiers
   1. Transconductance
   2. The CS amplifier
   3. The CD amplifier
   4. The CG amplifier
   5. Other applications
9.  Frequency Effects
   1. Lead and lag networks
   2. Miller’s theorem
   3. High-frequency FJT analysis
   4. Decibel power gain
   5. Bode plots
   6. Amplifier frequency response
10. Class A and B Power Amplifiers
    1. The AC load line
    2. Class A operation
    3. Class B operation
    4. Power relationships for Class A, B, and Class C