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Electronics I

Analytical Thinking

Course Description

Diodes, transistors, and operational amplifiers.

Athena Title

Electronics I

Equivalent Courses

Not open to students with credit in ELEE 3270E

Prerequisite

ECSE 2170-2170L or ECSE 2170H or ENGR 2170-2170L

Semester Course Offered

Offered every year.

Grading System

A - F (Traditional)

Student Learning Outcomes

  • Students will gain an understanding of basic EE abstractions on which analysis and design of electrical and electronic circuits and systems are based, including lumped circuit, digital and operational amplifier abstractions.
  • Students will gain the capability to use abstractions to analyze and design simple electronic circuits.
  • Students will gain the ability to formulate and solve the differential equations describing time behavior of circuits containing energy storage elements.
  • Students will gain an understanding of how complex devices such as semiconductor diodes and field-effect transistors are modeled and how the models are used in the design and analysis of useful circuits.
  • Students will gain the capability to design and construct circuits, take measurements of circuit behavior and performance, compare with predicted circuit models and explain discrepancies.

Topical Outline

  • Introduction, KVL and KCL
  • Node Analysis
  • Linearity and Superposition
  • Thevenin and Norton Equivalence
  • Digital Abstraction and Logic
  • MOS Switches and Digital Logic
  • Nonlinear Resistors
  • Nonlinear Resistors and Small Signals
  • Dependent Sources and Amplifiers
  • MOS Amplifiers and Biasing
  • Small-Signal Analysis
  • Small Signal Circuit Models
  • RC Networks and Step Responses
  • RL Networks and Step Responses
  • Digital Circuit Delay
  • Transient Response Relations
  • Digital Memory
  • Digital Memory, ZIR and ZSR
  • LC Networks and Responses
  • RLC Networks and Responses
  • SSS and Frequency Response
  • Impedance and Admittance
  • Filters, RLC Network SSS and Q
  • Op-Amps and Amplifiers
  • Add, Sub, Int and Diff
  • Positive Feedback
  • Op-Amp Filters
  • Energy and Power in Digital Logic
  • MOS Differential Amplifiers
  • Intro to CMOS
  • CMOS Examples
  • Diodes and Power Electronics
  • Diodes, RC and LC Networks
  • Violating the Abstraction Barrier

Institutional Competencies

Analytical Thinking

The ability to reason, interpret, analyze, and solve problems from a wide array of authentic contexts.


Syllabus

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