Course Outline

ELECTRONICS I (Fall 2011)

COURSE OUTLINE

Course Title: Electronics I (Theory) Pre- Requisites: Circuit Analysis-II

Course Code: EE 214 Credits Hrs: 3

Text Book:

• 1. Electronic Devices 6^th Ed. By Floyd

Reference Books:

1. Introductory Electronic devices and circuits By Robert T. Paynter

2. Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory 9^th Ed. By Robert L. Boylestad and Louis Nashelsky

3. Electronic Circuits 5^th Ed. Sedra/Smith

Weekly distributed Course Outline

Week 1-3: Atomic structures, semiconductors, conductors and insulators, covalent bonds, conduction in semiconductors. N-Type and P-Type semiconductors, the diode, Biasing the diode, VI characteristic of a diode, Diode models, testing a diode.

Week 4-5: Half wave rectifiers, full wave rectifiers, power supply filters and regulators, Diode limiting and clamping circuits, voltage multipliers, the diode data sheet, system application.

Week 6: 1^st Mid Term

Week 7-9: Zener diodes, its applications, Different types of Diodes, System Application, Transistor structure, Basic transistor operation, its characteristics and parameters, Transistor as an amplifier and as a switch, transistor packages and terminal identification, System application.

Week 10-12: The DC operating point, voltage-divider bias, other bias methods, Amplifier operation, Transistor AC Equivalent circuits, Common-Emitter Amplifier, Common-collector Amplifier. 2^nd Mid Term

Week 13-14: Common-Base Amplifier, Multistage Amplifiers, The JFET, its characteristics and parameters, Biasing, the MOSFET, its characteristics and parameters, Biasing.

Week 15-16: FET Amplification, Common-source Amplifiers, Common-Drain Amplifiers, Common-Gate Amplifiers, Class ‘A’ Power Amplifiers, Class B and Class AB push-pull Amplifiers, Class C Amplifiers.

Marks Distribution: Quizzes + Assignments = 20

Waqar Ahmad Malik

waqar.malik@nu.edu.pk