UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

EE 342 LESSON OBJECTIVES

SPRING 2004

  1. Electronics Review
    1. BJT Voltage gain and input and output resistance for CE, CB, and CC configurations.
    2. FET voltage gain and input and output resistance for CS, CG, and CD configurations.
    3. Cascaded stages.
  2. BJT Differential Pair
    1. Common mode and differential mode of the differential pair.
    2. Large signal behavior of differential pair.
    3. Common mode and differential input resistance.
    4. Relation of differential pair to half circuit equivalent.
  3. BJT Differential Amplifier Analysis
    1. Small signal analysis and gain calculation in common mode and differential mode.
    2. Understand and know how to calculate common mode rejection ratio (CMMR).
    3. Recognize input bias and offset current.
    4. Able to compute the common mode input range.
  4. BJT IC Biasing
    1. BJT current mirrors and current scaling.
    2. Analysis and design of Wilson, Widlar, and base current compensation current mirrors.
  5. Differential Amplifier and Active Load
    1. Understand the advantage of active loads in BJT circuits.
    2. Be able to analyze differential amplifiers with active loads.
    3. Able to analyze cascode configuration and understand its advantages with respect to CE/CB cascade.
  6. Multistage Amplifiers
    1. Able to recognize each BJT/MOS configuration in multistage amplifiers.
    2. Able to compute voltage and current gain, input and output resistances in multistage amplifiers.
    3. Able to use SPICE for multistage amplifier analysis.
  7. MOS Differential Amplifier Analysis
    1. Able to analyze FET differential pairs.
  8. Frequency Response/Bode Plots
    1. Understand concept of poles and zeros.
    2. Able to sketch approximate transfer functions given the poles and zeros.
    3. Understand the low frequency, mid, and high frequency bands.
    4. Able to sketch a body plot for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th order transfer functions.
  9. Amplifier Transfer Function
    1. Understand and know the standards forms of transfer functions in low frequency and high frequency.
    2. Able to compute approximate and exact dominant pole/zero locations and cutoff frequency.
  10. Low Frequency Response
    1. Able to derive amplifier low frequency voltage transfer function for CS, CD, CG, CE, CB, CC configurations.
    2. Able to compute the cutoff frequency from the poles and zeros and sketch frequency response for each of the configurations listed in 1.
  11.  High Frequency Response
    1. Able to derive amplifier high frequency voltage transfer function for CS, CD, CG, CE, CB, CC configurations.
    2. Able to compute the cutoff frequency from the poles and zeros and sketch frequency response for each of the configurations listed in 1.
    3. Know major bandwidth and gain limits.
    4. Understand the advantage of the cascode configuration and know how to analyze its frequency response.
  12. Feedback Amplifiers
    1. Understand and be able to describe the advantages of negative feedback
    2. Various amplifier models: Voltage, current, transconductance, and transresistance.
    3. Descriptions of these models in terms of their two port parameters: Z, Y, H, and G parameters.
    4. Know how to identify the type of configuration from the circuit and where and what signals are sampled and what signals are feedback.
    5. Analyze BJT series-shunt, series-series, shunt-shunt, and shunt-series amplifiers in the midband.
    6. Know how to draw the beta circuit and how to calculate its gain.
    7. Know how to draw the loaded A-circuit and how to calculate its gain.
    8. Know how to calculate the closed loop gain.
    9. Know how to determine the input and output resistances of the closed loop circuit.
    10. Loop gain and frequency compensation.
  13. Class A, Class B, Class AB Amplifiers
    1. Properties of power amplifiers.
    2. Circuit implementations and analysis of class A, class B, and Class AB power amplifiers.
    3. Power and efficiency calculations.
    4. Performance comparison.
  14. 741 OP-AMP Analysis
    1. Input, second, and output stages.
    2. DC and small signal analysis of the three stages.
    3. Frequency response.
  15. Filter Functions
    1. Standard forms of 1st and 2nd order transfer functions of low pass, high pass, and bandpass filters.
    2. Quality factor, cutoff frequency, resonance frequency, bandwidth.
    3. Frequency response.
  16. 1st & 2nd Order Passive Filters
    1. Low pass, high pass, and bandpass configurations.
    2. Ionou’s circuit.
  17. KHN and Tow-Thomas filters
    1. Basic configurations.
    2. Analysis and design.
    3. Comparison with passive filters.
  18. 2nd Order Biquad Filters
    1. Concepts behind the biquads.
    2. Analysis and design of low pass, high pass, and bandpass.
    3. Comparison with KHN and Tow-Thomas configurations.
  19. Sinusoidal Oscillators
    1. Understand the concept of positive feedback and the Burkhausen oscillation criterion.
    2. Wien bridge oscillator: Analysis and design.
    3. Phase shift oscillator: Analysis and design.
    4. Quadrature oscillator: Analysis and design.
  20. LC and crystal Oscillators: Analysis and design
    1. Op-amp based and BJT-based Colpitts Oscillator.
    2. Op-amp-base and BJT-based Hartley oscillator.
    3. Crystal oscillator.
  21. Multivibrators
    1. Understand how a comparator works.
    2. Inverting and noninverting Schmidt trigger circuits.
    3. trigger levels and hysteresis.
    4. Analysis and design of Bistable, Astable, and monostable.
    5. Derive expressions for the period of output signals.