DOĞUŞ UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
Electronics and Communications
Engineering Department (ECED)
DOGUS UNIVERSITY
ECE 321 Electronic Circuits II - Course Instruction Manual
This course instruction manual aims to provide a topic by topic outline for this course together with the
appropriate in-class materials and the appropriate reading.
Faculty
Faculty of Engineering
Department
Electronics and Communication Engineering
Credits / Hours
4
Prerequisites
ECE 222
Lecturer
Shahram Minaei, F 819, Tel: (Ext) 1298, E-mail: sminaei@dogus.edu.tr.
The text book
Sedra/Smith, “Microelectronic Circuits”, 5th Edition, 2004, Oxford University
Press
Recommended Text
Neamen, Donald, A. “Microelectronics Circuit Analysis and Design” 3th Edition,
2007, McGraw-Hill.
The Course
ECE 321 Electronic Circuits II
Purpose
This course of study aims to develop students’ understanding of microelectronic
circuits and their applications.
Caution
This course instruction manual is aimed at providing a quick reference and a brief
guidance for the students.
Content of the Course
High-Freq. MOSFET and BJT models, Multistage Amplifiers, OP-AMP circuits,
Feedback and Stability, Bode Plots, Non-Ideal Op-Amps, Oscillators.
Learning Outcomes
In successfully completing this course student will analyse and design multistage
amplifier circuit and their frequency response, feedback circuits, and Oscillators.
General Skills
Analytical and logical skills
Learning Experiences
Attendance to formal lectures, homework and exercises
Learning Methods
Formal lectures, simulation programs, and experimental works.
Learning by Students
Attendance at lectures, performing homework and Lab. Experiments
Assessment
1 Mid-Semester Examination 1 (Week 6) ……………………………………………. 20 %
2 Mid-Semester Examination II (Week 12) ……………………………………….
20 %
3 Lab. Experiments (Weeks 7-14) …………………………………………
……….15 %
4 Project
………………………………………………………
………5 %
5 Final Examination (Examinations Week) ……………………………… ……… 40 %
Additionally, you are strongly recommended to read, daily, the text book and solve relevant problems.
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Week 1 – Introduction to the course – High Frequency BJT and MOSFET model.
Please read pages 485-490 and 320-325 of the main text book before coming to the lecture.
Some of the Important Concepts
These models can be used to predict the high-frequency response of MOSFET and BJT amplifiers.
-High-frequency model of Bipolar transistors
- High-frequency model of MOSFET transistors.
-Unity-gain frequency (fT).
-SPICE model for high frequency operation of transistors.
-Some examples.
At the end of this lecture, students should solve problems 5.149-5.156 in pages 537-538 and 4.90-4.93 in page
372.
Week 2 – Frequency Response (1)
Please read pages 491-497 and 326-332 of the main text book before coming to the lecture.
Some of the Important Concepts
-s-Domain analysis
-The amplifier transfer function
-High-frequency response of the common-source and the common-emitter amplifiers
-Miller Effect
-Design examples
Week 3– Frequency Response (2)
Please read pages 497-503 and 332-336 of the main text book before coming to the lecture.
Some of the Important Concepts
-Low-frequency response of the common-source and the common-emitter amplifiers
-Design examples
At the end of this lecture, students should solve problems 5.157-5.167 in pages 538-540 and 4.94-4.104 in pages
372-374.
Week 4– Differential Amplifiers (1)
Please read pages 687-727 of the main text book before coming to the lecture.
Some of the Important Concepts
-The MOS differential pair
-Operation with a common-mode and differential input voltage
-Large-signal operation
-Small-signal operation, differential gain, common-mode gain and CMRR
-Examples
At the end of this lecture, students should solve problems 7.1-7.19 in pages 575-577.
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Week 5– Differential Amplifiers (2)
Please read pages 727-740 of the main text book before coming to the lecture.
Some of the Important Concepts
-The BJT differential pair
-Large-signal and small-signal operations
-Differential and common-mode gains
-MOS differential amplifier with active load
-Bipolar differential amplifier with active load
-Examples
At the end of this lecture, students should solve problems 7.20-7.47 in pages 777-780 and 7.62-7.79 in pages
782-784.
Week 6– First Midterm Exam / Multistage amplifiers
First Midterm Exam: The first midterm exam covers the high frequency model of the BJT and MOS
transistors, low and high frequency responses of the common source and common emitter amplifiers, and
differential amplifiers.
Lecture: Multistage amplifiers
Please read pages 749-766 of the main text book before coming to the lecture.
At the end of this lecture, students should solve problems 7.90-7.103 in pages 786-789.
Week 7– Operational amplifiers (1)
Please read pages 63-89 of the main text book before coming to the lecture.
Some of the Important Concepts
-Ideal op-amp
-differential and common-mode signals
-Inverting configuration
-Closed-loop and open-loop gains
-Weighted summer circuit
-Noninverting configuration
-Difference amplifiers
-Examples
At the end of this lecture, students should solve problems 2.1-2.78 in pages 123-133.
Week 8– Operational amplifiers (2)
Please read pages 89-105 of the main text book before coming to the lecture.
Some of the Important Concepts
-Finite open-loop gain and bandwidth effects
-Frequency response of closed-loop amplifiers
-Large signal operation of op-amps
-Full-Power Bandwidth
-Slew rate
-DC imperfections
-Examples
At the end of this lecture, students should solve problems 2.79-2.111 in pages 134-136.
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Week 9– Feedback (1)
Please read pages 791-810 of the main text book before coming to the lecture.
Some of the Important Concepts
-General feedback structure
-Some properties of negative feedback
-The four basic feedback topologies
-The series-shunt feedback amplifier
-Examples
At the end of this lecture, students should solve problems 8.1-8.35 in pages 860-865.
Week 10– Feedback (2)
Please read pages 811-823 of the main text book before coming to the lecture.
Some of the Important Concepts
-The series-series feedback amplifier
-The shunt-shunt feedback amplifier
At the end of this lecture, students should solve problems 8.36-8.43 in pages 865-867.
Week 11–Second Midterm Exam /Feedback (3)
Second Midterm Exam: The second midterm exam covers multistage amplifiers, operational amplifiers and
feedback amplifiers as well as differential amplifiers and low/high frequency responses of amplifiers.
Lecture: The shunt-series feedback amplifier and examples
Please read pages 823-830 of the main text book before coming to the lecture.
At the end of this lecture, students should solve problems 8.44-8.52 in pages 867-868.
Week 12– Stability problem and compensation
Please read pages 834-855 of the main text book before coming to the lecture.
Some of the Important Concepts
-Nyquist plot
-Stability and pole location
-Stability study using Bode plots
-Gain and phase margins
-Frequency compensation
-Examples
At the end of this lecture, students should solve problems 8.61-8.81 in pages 869-870.
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Week 13– Bipolar and CMOS op-amp circuits, output stages
Please read pages 872-879, 893-921 and 1229-1244 of the main text book before coming to the lecture.
Some of the Important Concepts
-The two-stage CMOS op-amp
-Bipolar op-amp circuit
-Examples
-Classification of output stages
-Class A, Class B, Class AB
-Circuit operationi, Transfer characteristic, Power-conversion efficiency, Power dissipation
At the end of this lecture, students should solve problems 9.1-9.9 in page 941, 9.25-9.61 in pages 943-946 and
14.1-14.18 in pages 1277-1278.
Week 14– Oscillators / Review
Please read pages 1165-1176 of the main text book before coming to the lecture.
-Basic principles of sinusoidal oscillators.
-The oscillation criterion
-op-amp RC oscillator circuits.
-The Wien-Bridge oscillator
-Limiter circuit for amplitude control
- Phase-shift and quadrature oscillator
-Some examples
-Review
At the end of this lecture, students should solve problems 13.9-13.20 in pages 1220-1222.
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