EE 247 - Electronics I

Prerequisite: EE 201 or EAS 230 Signals and their frequency spectrum, amplifiers, circuit models for amplifiers, frequency response. Operational amplifiers, ideal op-amps, inverting and noninverting configurations, op-amp circuits. Basic semiconductor concepts, drift currents, the p-n junctions, analysis of diode circuits, Zener diodes. BJT transistors, physical structure and modes of operation, biasing techniques, the BJT as an amplifier, biasing the BJT for discrete circuit design, analysis of the transistor as a switch. Field-effect transistors, structure and physical operation of MOSFETs, voltage-current characteristics of various FETs. FET circuits at DC, the FET as an amplifier. 3 credits