EE401 Course Description
EE401 – Introduction to Electronic Circuits 3(3,1,0)
Op-amp applications: inverting and non-inverting amplifiers, integrator, difference amplifier. Differential amplifier. Current Mirror. Negative and positive feedback. NMOS and CMOS inverters, CMOS and pseudo NMOS logic gates, pass-transistor logic, dynamic logic. BJT digital circuits: TTL, and ECL logic.
Textbook: Sedra and Smith, "Microelectronic Circuits", 5th Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Pre-requisite: EE 310.
Course Learning Outcomes:
1- Knowledge of the terminal characteristics and applications of the ideal op-amp .
2- Understand the biasing of IC, and the analysis of current sources.
3- Ability to analyze of the difference and multi-stage amplifiers.
4- Analyzing and applying the feedback topologies
5- Understand the analysis of the CMOS and the BJT digital circuits.
6- Know how to design digital circuits.
Teaching Schedule:
Week # 1: Introduction to Electronic Circuits, The Ideal Op Amp.
Week # 2: Analysis of circuits containing ideal Op Amps, Applications of Op Amps.
Week # 3: Effect of finite open loop gain and bandwidth. The BJT differential pair.
Week # 4: Small-signal operation of BJT differential pair, Common mode gain and CMRR, Biasing inBJT ICs.
Week # 5: The current mirror, Current source, the Wilson current source, multi stage amplifiers.
Week # 6: MOS Differential Amplifiers, MOS Current sources; Active load.
Week # 7: Feedback, Basic topology, ideal situation, practical situation.
Week # 8: Introduction to Digital circuits, Introduction to CMOS inverter.
Week # 9: Design and performance analysis of CMOS inverter.
Week # 10: CMOS logic gate circuits.
Week # 11: Pseudo NMOS logic circuits.
Week # 12: Dynamic operation of BJT digital circuits
Week # 13: TTL logic.
Week # 14: ECL logic.
Week # 15: Pass Transistor logic circuits; CMOS Dynamic logic circuits.