Bachelor Degree
Electronics and Communication Program
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Course specification
Electronic Circuit II
EE422
1. Course Aim
This course illustrates design with numerous examples, and
provides numerous open-ended design problems with which
students can practice. The course also point out various
characteristics and properties of circuits as go through the
Main Aim
analysis. The course give students an understanding of analysis
methods and design techniques of feedback amplifiers, tuned
amplifiers, oscillators, waveform and harmonic generators,
analog multipliers and mixers, phase-locked loops and some
integrated circuits (ICs).
Sub-Aims
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i) To supply graduates with detailed knowledge about
communication transmitters and receivers.
ii) The students should be able to analyze and design
feedback amplifiers, single tuned and synchronous &
staggered double tuned amplifiers.
iii) To supply graduates with detailed discussions about
the feedback principles, harmonic generators,
sinusoidal and nonsinusoidal oscillator circuits.
iv) To make the graduates be familiar with analog-to-digita
converters, digital-to-analog converters and quadran
multipliers and their applications.
v) To supply graduates with detailed knowledge about
different types of modulation and demodulation
Bachelor Degree
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EE422-Electronic Circuits (II).
techniques: AM, FM, PM, ….
vi) The students should be able to analyze and design
different modulator and detection circuits.
vii) To produce graduates who can implement information
and communication technology in the material course.
2. Course Content
Feed back Amplifiers- Tuned Amplifiers - Synchronous & Staggered – Single tuned
& Double tuned - Harmonic Generators - Sinusoidal Oscillators - RC & Tuned
Oscillators- The Four - Quadrant Multipliers - Modulation - Amplitude and Angle
Modulation- Detection: of AM - FM & PM - Communications Transmitters &
Receivers - For AM – FM - PM. Signals, ADC/DAC.
(Reference: Faculty bylaw 2004 – program specification)
3. Course Topics
Topic
1sttopic
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Feed back
Amplifiers
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Introduction. Classification of Feedback. Principle of
Feedback Amplifiers. Some Properties of Negative
Feedback. Gain Desensitivity . Bandwidth Extension.
Noise Reduction. Reduction in Nonlinear Distortion.
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The Four Basic Feedback Topologies. Voltage Amplifiers
Current Amplifiers. Transconductance Amplifiers.
Transresistance Amplifiers. The Series-Shunt Feedback
Amplifier. The Ideal Situation. The Practical Situation.The
Series-Series Feedback Amplifier. The Ideal Case. The
Practical Case.
The Shunt-Shunt And Shunt-Series
Feedback Amplifiers. The Shunt-Shunt Configuration.The
Shunt- Series Configuration.
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A Systematic Method to Analyze Feedback Amplifiers with any
Topology. The Stability Problem.Transfer Function of the
Feedback Amplifier.
The Nyquist Plot. Effect of
Feedback on the Amplifier Poles. Stability and Pole
Location. Poles of the Feedback Amplifier.Amplifier with a
Single-Pole Response. Amplifier with Two-Pole Response.
Amplifier with Three or More Poles. Stability Study Using
Bode Plots. Gain and Phase Margins. Effect of Phase Margin
on Closed-Loop Response
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2ndtopic
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EE422-Electronic Circuits (II).
Introduction. Single-Tuned Amplifiers. Single-Tuned
Amplifier Design Single-Tuned Amplifier Stability.
Impedance Transformation, and Transformer Coupling.
Tuned Amplifiers Synchronous and Stagger Tuned Amplifiers. Synchronously
Tuned Design. The Narrowband Approximation. StaggerTuned Design.
3rdtopic
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and Sinusoidal
nonsinusoidal
Oscillators
4thtopic
Waveform and
Harmonic
Generators
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5 topic
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Nonlinear
Analog Circuits
6th topic
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Introduction. Feedback Oscillator Principles. Positive
Feedback. Conditions for Oscillation. Start-Up Conditions.
Oscillators With RC Feedback Circuits. The Wien-Bridge
Oscillator. Phase-Shift Oscillator. Op-Amp Phase-Shift
Oscillator.FET Phase-Shift Oscillator. BJT
Phase-Shift
Oscillator.
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Bubba Oscillator. Quadrature Oscillator. Twin-T Oscillator.
Oscillators With LC Feedback Circuits. Colpitts Oscillator.
The Clapp Oscillator. The Hartley Oscillator. The
Armstrong Oscillator. Crystal-Controlled Oscillators.
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Introduction. Relaxation Oscillators. Triangular-Wave
Generator. Voltage-Controlled Sawtooth Oscillator (VCO).
The 555 Timer, as an Astable Multivibrator, as a
Monostable Multivibrator. Operation as a VoltageControlled Oscillator (VCO).
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The function generator. Basics of Harmonic Generators.
Buffering of Harmonic Generators. Analysis of Generalized
Harmonic Generators Circuits. Class C Power Amplifiers.
Class C Power Amplifier as a Frequency Multiplier.
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Precision Rectification. Differential Pairs. Analog
Multipliers Employing the Bipolar Transistor. The EmitterCoupled Pair as a Simple Multiplier. The dc Analysis of
The Gilbert Multiplier Cell. The Gilbert Cell as An Analog
Multiplier. A Complete Analog Multiplier. Gilbert Cell as a
Balanced Modulator and Phase Detector. The IC Linear
Multiplier.
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Multiplier Quadrants. Basic Applications of the Multiplier.
Squaring circuit. Divider Circuit. Square Root Circuit.
Mean-Square Circuit. The Phase-Locked Loop (PLL). Basic
principles. The Phase Detector. The Voltage-Controlled
Oscillator (VCO). Basic PLL Operation. The LM565 PhaseLocked Loop.
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Frequency Mixers. Switching-Type Mixers. Four Diode
Switching Type Mixer. Conversion Loss. Intermodulation
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Amplitude and
Angle
Modulation
Detection
EE422-Electronic Circuits (II).
Distortion. Square-law Mixers. Diodes Mixer. BJT Mixers.
FET Mixers Amplitude Modulators. Standard Amplitude
Modulators. Single Sideband AM. Single Sideband AM
Modulators. Vestigial-Sideband Modulation.
Amplitude Demodulators. Demodulation of AM signals.
Average Envelope Detectors. Synchronous (Coherent)
Detector. Single Sideband AM Demodulators. Angle
Modulators. FM using Reactance Modulator. Reactance
Modulator using a Varactor-Diode. Reactance Modulator
Utilizing a Transistor. Indirect-FM Modulators (The
Armstrong Modulator).
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Phase Modulator. Phase Modulation from Frequency
Modulation and Vice Versa. FM Reception Principles
Amplitude Limiter. FM Demodulators. Foster–Seeley
Discriminator.
Ratio
Detector.
Balanced
Slope
Discriminator. The PLL as an FM Demodulator.
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4. Grade Distribution
Assesment Methods
Final Exam
Oral Final Exam
Med term exam
Written Exam
Oral Exam
Tutorial assessment
Project assessment
Assessments
Model assessment
Report assessment
Quiz assessment
Presentation assessment
Discussion
Laboratory test
Home Exam
Monitoring
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5. List of References
Course notes
Are written from the lectures
Required book 1) Prof. M. Abo-Zahhad, and Prof. Sabah M. Ahmed , " Analysis and Design
(Text Book)
of Electronic Circuits (II)", Assiut University, 2010.
[1] R. C. Jaeger and T. N. Blalock, "Microelectronic Circuit Design", 2nd
ed., McGraw-Hill, NY, 2004.
Recommended
books
[2] Adel S. Sedra and Kenneth C. Smith, “Microelectronic Circuits”, 5th
ed., Oxford University Press, 2004.
[5] Robert L. Boylestad , Louis Nashelsky, "Electronic Devices and Circuit
Theory", New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 9th Edition, 2003.
[1]http://hyperphysics.phyastr.gsu.edu/hbase/electronic/diodecon.html#c2
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Periodicals, [2] Motorola, www.motorola.com.
web sites.. etc.
[3] National Semiconductor, www.national.com
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