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Introduction to the design and analysis of semiconductor circuits using diodes, transistors, op-amps, field effect devices, thyristors, and regulators.
Laboratory activities to include the design, construction, computer simulation, and analysis of semiconductor circuits, amplifiers and power supplies.
1. Semiconductor materials, PN, NPN, and PNP junctions. Simplified description of the operation of diodes and transistors. Diode and transistor characteristic curves. The diode equation. Testing diodes and transistors.
2. Diode applications as rectifiers, zeners, limiters, clampers, switching, and logic. Light emitting diodes, variable capacitance diodes.
3. Bipolar junction transistors. Common base, common emitter, and common collector characteristics and biasing circuits. Bias design for BJT's. Bias stabilization using collector and emitter feedback, and voltage dividers. Transistor specifications. The transistor as a switch.
4. Bipolar junction transistor amplifiers. AC and DC amplifier gain, input and output impedance, and effect of source and load resistance. Brief treatment of h parameters.
5. Load line analysis of transistor amplifiers.
6. Field effect transistors (FET's). Junction FET characteristics and biasing. Fixed bias, self bias, and voltage divider bias. Graphical and algebraic bias solutions. Junction FET specifications.
7. Metal oxide semi-conductor FET's (MOS-FET's). Enhancement and depletion type MOS-FET characteristics and biasing. Fixed bias, self bias, voltage divider bias and feedback bias. Graphical and algebraic bias solutions. MOS- FET specifications.