BOE309/ BOE409/BOE309H/ BOE409H ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
Course Outcomes:
At the end of this course students will demonstrate the ability to:
1. Understand the concept of PN junction and special purpose diodes.
2. Study the application of conventional diodes and semiconductor diodes.
3. Analyse the I-V characteristics of BJT and FET.
4. Analyze the Op-Amp, amplifiers, integrator, and differentiator.
5. Understand the concept of digital storage oscilloscope and compare of DSO
with analog oscilloscope
Unit 1 PN junction diode: Introduction of semiconductor materials;
Semiconductor diode: Depletion layer, V-I characteristics, ideal and
practical, diode resistance, capacitance, diode equivalent circuits, transition
and diffusion capacitance, Zener diodes breakdown mechanism (Zener
and avalanche).
Unit II Diode application: Series, parallel and series, parallel diode configuration,
half and full wave rectification, clippers, clampers, Zener diode as shunt
regulator, voltage-multiplier circuits special purpose two terminal devices :
light-emitting diodes, Varactor (Varicap) diodes, tunnel diodes, liquid-
crystal displays.
Unit III Bipolar junction transistors and field effect transistor: Bipolar junction
transistor: Transistor construction, operation, amplification action,
common base, common emitter, common collector configuration dc
biasing BJTs: operating point, fixed-bias, emitter bias, voltage-divider bias
configuration. Collector feedback, emitter-follower configuration. Bias
stabilization. CE, CB, CC amplifiers and AC analysis of single stage CE
amplifier (re Model), Field effect transistor: Construction and
characteristic of JFETs. AC analysis of CS amplifier, MOSFET (depletion and
enhancement) type, transfer characteristic.
Unit IV Operational amplifiers: Introduction and block diagram of Op-Amp, ideal
& practical characteristics of Op-Amp, differential amplifier circuits,
practical Op-Amp circuits (inverting amplifier, non-inverting amplifier, unity
gain amplifier, summing amplifier, integrator, differentiator), Op- Amp
parameters: input offset voltage, output offset voltage, input biased
current, input offset current differential and common-mode operation.
Unit V Electronic instrumentation and measurements: Digital voltmeter:
Introduction, RAMP techniques digital multimeters: Introduction
Oscilloscope: introduction, basic principle, CRT, block diagram of
oscilloscope, simple, measurement of voltage, current phase and frequency
using CRO, introduction of digital storage oscilloscope and comparison of
DSO with analog oscilloscope.
