Trasmission lines. Semiconductor devices, their models application circuits for analog and digital electronics. Amplification and feedback. Operational amplifier and its applications. Laboratory measurements on electronic circuits.
R.C. Jaeger - Microelectronic circuit design – McGraw-Hill.
P. Horowitz & W. Hill - The Art of Electronics - Cambridge University Press.
J. Millman & A. Grabel – Microelectronics – Mc Graw-Hill.
Learning Objectives
Understanding of basic application circuits for semiconductor devices and techniques for electronic network characterization. Assembling and operation of basic electronic circuits. Use of laboratory instrumentation to measure electronic networks properties.
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Type of Assessment
Discussion about the laboratory experiments: the base working principles of the used electronic devices, the implemented circuits and the results obtained.
Course program
Transmission lines – Charge transport in semiconductors - PN junction - built-in potential – law of the junction – junction diode - non-linear circuits - dynamic conductance and capacitance - two ports networks and g,h,m,r parameters - bjt, mosfet and jfet transistors - polarization and application examples - Amplifiers – Feedback loop – Operational Amplifier – Main applications of operational amplifiers with negative feedback - basics of digital circuits: binary code, logical gates, de Morgan laws - CMOS and TTL logical families - flip-flop - counters