UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY
EECS Department
EECS 40, Fall 2006
Prof. Chang-Hasnain
Homework #9
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Posted: 11/08/06
Due at 5 pm in 240 Cory on Wednesday, 11/15/06
Total Points: 100
Put (1) your name and (2) discussion section number on your homework.
You need to put down all the derivation steps to obtain full credits of the problems.
Numerical answers alone will at best receive low percentage partial credits.
No late submission will be accepted expect those with prior approval from Prof.
Chang-Hasnain.
Load-Line Analysis of Diode Circuits
1. P10.16 (10pts)
2. P10.19 (10pts)
Zener-Diode Voltage Regulator Circuits
3. P10.22 (5pts)
4. P10.25 (5pts)
Ideal-Diode Model
5. P10.32 (10pts)
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY
EECS Department
Diode Circuit
6. Find the value of the voltage at X with respect to ground in the following circuit
using the large-signal model for the diodes and the “assumed state” approach
(assume which diodes are conducting or not conducting, etc.). VS = 5 V, VB = 1.5
V, R1 = 350 , R2 = 100 , R3 = 150 (15pts)
X
R1
D2
R2
R3
VS
D1
VB
7. P10.45 (10pts)
8. P10.46 (10pts)
9. P10.52 (15pts)
10. P10.53 (10pts)
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