Prohibition: ELEC3401 Electronic Devices and Circuits.

Offered: Semester 1

Classes: 2 hours of lectures per week, and a 1 hour tutorial and 3 hour lab per fortnight.

Assessment: Laboratory work 15%, on-line exercises 5%, mid-semester quiz 10%, end of semester exam 70 %.

This unit of study aims to teach students analysis and design techniques for electronic systems such as signal amplifiers, differential amplifiers and power amplifiers. A background in basic electronics and circuit theory is assumed. Completion of this unit will allow progression to advanced studies or to work in electronics and telecommunication engineering.

Topics covered are as follows. The BJT as an amplifier. Biasing in BJT amplifier circuits. Small signal operation and models. Single stage BJT amplifiers. BJT internal capacitances and high frequency models. The frequency response of the common-emitter amplifier. BJT current sources and current mirrors. Differential amplifiers. Output stages and power amplifiers:class A, class B and class AB.

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