Analog Electronics (3-0-3)

Objective: To analyze and design basic transistor amplifiers; to study frequency response and feedback in transistor and integrated circuit amplifiers.

Prerequisite: Microelectronic Circuits

Text: At the level of Howe and Sodini, Microelectronics: An Integrated Approach, Prentice-Hall, 1996.

The pn Junction Diode

• Terminal characteristics, circuit models, physics, applications

The Bipolar Junction Transistor

• Physical structure; terminal characteristics
• Operating regions; large-signal models
• Small-signal models
• Device physics
• Lateral pnp BJTs

Single-Stage Bipolar/MOS Transistor Amplifiers

• General considerations
• Common-emitter amplifier
• Common-source amplifier
• Current source supplies
• Common base/gate amplifiers
• Common collector/drain amplifiers

Multistage Amplifiers

• MOS multistage amplifiers
• BiCMOS multistage amplifiers
• Direct-coupled amplifiers
• DC voltage and current sources

Frequency Response

• Frequency domain analysis; Bode plots
• Device models for frequency response analysis
• Voltage gain amplifiers
• Frequency response of CC/CD amplifiers
• Frequency response of CB/CG amplifiers
• Frequency response of multistage amplifiers

Differential Amplifiers

• General concepts
• Small-signal analysis
• Frequency response of differential amplifiers

Feedback and Operational Amplifiers

• Amplifier models and the feedback concept
• Frequency response of feedback amplifiers
• Practical feedback amplifiers
• Integrated operational amplifiers
• BiCMOS operational amplifiers

MOS Memories

• Memory classification
• MOS memory architecture
• Memory cells
• Sense amplifiers