Course Overview
This course provides the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary for the student to install, maintain, and troubleshoot circuits which employ integrated semiconductor devices. The electronic devices covered are operational amplifiers, timers and voltage regulators. Practical circuits which employ these devices are also studied.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
6.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
Operational Amplifiers
- Describe the operation of operational amplifiers.
- Interpret the information carried in operational amplifier data sheets.
- Discuss the effects of negative feedback on an amplifier.
- Discuss the concepts of operational amplifier frequency response, stability and compensation.
- Identify basic and more advanced operational amplifier circuits and analyze their operation.
- Identify different types of active filters and analyze their operation.
- Apply troubleshooting principles to circuits that employ operational amplifiers.
Oscillators
- Discuss the principle of oscillator operation.
- Identify sinusoidal oscillators with RC and LC feedback circuits and analyze their operation.
- Describe the operation of non-sinusoidal oscillators.
- Describe the operation of the phase-locked loop.
Voltage Regulators
- Discuss the concept of voltage regulation.
- Describe the operation of series, shunt and switching regulators.
- Explain the operation of various integrated voltage regulators.
Effective as of Fall 2003
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