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    • Course Outline

      Rectifier circuits: Overview of semiconductor diodes, half-wave rectifiers, full-wave rectifiers. Transistor characteristics and biasing:  Bipolar junction transistor amplifiers (Common Base; Common Emitter; Common Collector) field effect transistors: biasing and equivalent Circuits, FET amplifiers (Common Gate, Common Source, Common Drain) -  two-port representation of a transistor; H Parameters and their determination. Analysis of transistor amplifiers using h-parameters: field effect transistor amplifier resistor-capacitor coupled amplifier and its frequency responses. Feedback in amplifiers: Negative feedback, effects of negative feedback, positive feedback and oscillations, Hartley and Collpitt’s oscillators. Large signal amplifiers:  analysis of class A, B, AB and C amplifiers (Push-pull and complementary symmetry circuits), power gain and efficiency, estimation of distortion. Thermal variation and device parameters. Design of power amplifiers. Noise in amplifiers: noise sources, types, signal/noise ratio, common electronic circuits.

      KEY COURSE RESOURCES

      Books:

      1.     Electronic Devices, Conventional Current Version by Thomas L.Floyd ; Ninth Edition or later. (Class Text)

      2.     Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory by Robert Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky; Seventh Edition or later.

      Websites:

      1.     http://www.electronics-tutorials.ws

      2.     http://www.electrical4u.com

       

      Course Assessment

      Type                       Weighting (%)

      Examination                      60

      Continuous Assessment     10

      Practical                           25

      Assignment                        5

      Total                                 100