Contents

• Contents
• Laboratory 1: Diodes and Operational Amplifiers
  • introduction
  • Diodes and Rectifier Circuits
    • Experiment: Simple Half-Wave Rectifier:
    • Experiment: The Full Wave Rectifier
  • DC Power Supplies
    • Half-Wave Single-Sided Supply
    • The Full-Wave Single-Sided Power Supply
    • Experiment: The Full Wave Rectifier and Power Supply
    • Experiment: Design of Dual Output Power Supply
  • Operational-Amplifier Review
    • Noninverting Amplifier
      • Voltage Gain
      • Input Resistance
      • Output Resistance
    • Inverting Amplifier
      • Input Resistance
    • Experiment on Simple Op-Amps
  • Preliminary Questions
• Laboratory 2: Simple Transistor Amplifiers
  • Introduction
  • BJT Forward Active Operation, Equivalent Circuit and $\beta$
    • Theory
    • DC Levels and Loop Equations
    • Experiment: Determining BJT Current Gain $\beta$ and Verifying the Equivalent Circuit
  • Common Emitter Amplifier: DC Bias
    • Theory
    • Experiment: CE Amp DC Bias
  • CE Amp Small Signal Voltage Gain at Midband Frequencies
    • Theory: Approximate Analysis
    • Experiment
    • Theory: Accounting for V_be in the CE Amp
    • Experiment
    • Theory: Voltage Amplifier Equivalent Circuit, Input Resistance and Output Resistance
      • Input Resistance:
      • Output Resistance
      • Voltage Amplifier Equivalent Circuit
    • Experiment: Effect of Input and Output Resistances
  • Emitter Follower
    • Theory: DC Bias and Small Signal Voltage Gain
      • DC Bias
      • Voltage Gain
      • Input Resistance
      • Output Resistance R_o
    • Experiment
  • Putting it All Together: Practical Amplifier Design
    • DC Bias
    • Small Signal Voltage Gain, Input and Output Resistance
    • Experiment: Multi-Transistor Amplifier
  • Preliminary Questions
• Design and Build Your Own Compact Disk Hi Fi Audio System
  • Introduction
  • Design Considerations
    • Power to Load
    • Complementary Symmetry Power Amplifiers
    • Preamplifier Stage
    • Power Amplifier Stage
    • Example Design
  • Experiment: Building the Hi-Fi System
    • Basic Audio Amp
    • Tone Controls
  • Preliminary Questions
• Frequency Response of Simple Transistor Circuits
  • Introduction
  • Low Frequency Brute Force Approach
    • Poles, Zeros and the Transfer Function
    • Bode Plots
  • CE Amp with Emitter Bypass Capacitor
  • Short Circuit Time-Constant Approximation (SCTCA)
  • Experiment: Low Frequency Response of CE Amp
  • High Frequency Response Using Miller's Approximation
    • Miller Time Constant Approach
  • Experiment: Miller Effect and High Frequency Response Part I
  • Transistor Intrinsic Capacitance
  • High Frequency Response Using Open Circuit Time Constant Analysis(OCTCA)
  • Experiment: The OCTCA and High-Frequency Response Due to Intrinsic Capacitances
  • Frequency Response of Multi-Transistor Amplifiers
  • Experiment: Multi-Transistor Amps.
  • Preliminary Questions
• Differential Amplifiers and Op-Amp Basics
  • Introduction
  • Differential Amplifiers
    • Differential Pair DC Bias
    • Differential Pair Small Signal Voltage Gain
      • Input and Output Resistance
    • Experiment
  • Op-Amp Basic Concepts
    • Open Loop Analysis
    • Small Signal Open Loop Gain
      • Small Signal Output and Input Resistance
    • Gain with Feedback (Closed Loop Gain)
    • Experiment
  • Preliminary Questions
• Lab 6: Design and Build Your Own Op-Amp
  • Current Mirror Current Source and Differential Amp.
  • Experiment: Active Loads
  • Experiment: Realistic Op-Amp
  • Preliminary Questions