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Electronics Department:
Electronic Devices II

605-121    4 credits    approximately 6 hours of classroom time per week

Introduction to unipolar transistors, JFETS, and MOSFETS being used in linear and nonlinear circuits. Students will use high frequency analysis with both bipolar and unipolar transistors. Operational amplifiers are used as linear amplifiers and in nonlinear circuits. Some circuits covered include voltage amplifiers, summing amplifiers, instrumentation amplifiers, active filters and oscillators.

Upon completion of this course, the student will meet the following competencies:

  1. Identify and evaluate the characteristics of field-effect transistors
  2. Construct, analyze and troubleshoot the field-effect transistor amplifier.
  3. Simplify circuits using decibels and Miller’s theorem.
  4. Calculate and test frequency effects on amplifier performance.
  5. Analyze and construct regulated and switching power supply.
  6. Construct, analyze and troubleshoot a differential amplifier.
  7. Construct, analyze and troubleshoot operational amplifiers.
  8. Analyze and explain the effects of negative feedback to amplifiers.


The hybrid self-paced course consists of four separate but connected activities:

The student attends the lecture of their choice.  The lectures typical last from 60 to 90 minutes.  If a student misses a lecture or would like a different perspective, they may visit the other session's lecture(s).  The lecture schedule is selected by the students on the first day of class and then posted in the classroom at all times.  There is also an extensive video library that the students can view, in our Open-Entry, Self-Paced Resource Center (T-403). 

The semester plan is laid out in "units".  Each unit is approximately equal to one week.  The student must complete all items in each row before moving on to the next row.

Learning Objects are included in the semester plan. It is the student's responsibility to complete them. They are not graded, nor does the instructor know if they were viewed. However, successful completion of the Learning Objects will most certainly improve exam scores and more importantly,  overall understanding of the material. The Learning Objects were developed solely to aid the student in their understanding of the material.

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Semester Plan
Unit Lecture Topic LabVolt Learning Objects Lab Projects
1 JFETs Junction FETs MOSFET Vocabulary

E-MOSFET: The Ohmic Region

JFET Bias
2 MOSFETs JFET Amplifier

JFET Current Source

(JFET) Junction Field Effect Transistor

JFET Amplifiers

JFET Drain Curves

JFET Amplifiers
3 Thyristors Unijunction Transistor Review of Logs

The Log function

The SCR
4 Review Thyristors & Power Control Circuits

Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR)

none none
5 Frequency Effects SCR DC Control Frequency Response Vocabulary Frequency Response
6 Frequency Effects SCR AC Control Decibel Gain, Voltage and Power Decibels & Rise time
7 Review Triac Devices none none
8 Differential Amplifiers none The Ideal Bode Plot

EWB, The  Bode Plotter

none
9 Operational Amplifiers The Operational Amplifier The Operational Amplifier The Operational Amplifier
10 Negative Feedback The Inverting Amplifier

The Non-inverting Amplifier

The Inverting Amplifier

The Non-Inverting Amplifier

Non-Inverting Voltage Feedback
11 Review The Voltage Follower none none
12 Linear Op-Amp Circuits The Inverting Summer

The Non-inverting Summer

The Summing Amplifier Linear IC Amplifier
13 Active Filters none The Transconductance Amplifier

The Transresistance Amplifier

Active Filters
14 Non-linear Op-Amp Circuits Low Pass Filter Ideal Filters; Low-pass, High-pass, Bandpass, and Notch

The RC Low-pass Filter

The RL Low-pass Filter

Wave shaping Circuits
15 Review High Pass Filter The RC High-pass Filter

The RL High-pass Filter

none
16 Oscillators Band Pass Filter The RC Low-pass Filter with Bode Plot

The RC High-pass Filter with Bode Plot

Wien-Bridge Oscillator
17 Review none none none

 

 


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