ELEC 4446 - Digital Electronic Circuits

Prerequisite: ELEC 2247. Analysis and design of digital circuit classes (comparators and logical gates) by application of Ebers-Moll transistor model (saturation/active/cutoff regions). Comparators treated as overdriven differential/operational amplifiers, including bistable Schmitt trigger. Gates treated for major technologies: resistor-transistor logic (RTL), transistor-transistor logic (TTL), and emitter-coupled logic (ECL). Related integrated circuit analysis including internal variables and I-O characteristics. 3 credits.