EE 311 – Electronic Circuit Design II

Designation:

Junior-level technical elective for Electrical Engineering students

Catalog Data:

Electronic circuit design with consideration to single and multi-device subcircuits, frequency response characteristics, feedback, stability, efficiency, and IC techniques. Prerequisite: EE 310.

Prerequisites by topic:

1. Understanding and the ability to analyze and design basic electronic circuits, particularly with application to op amps, diodes, bipolar junction transistors, and field effect transistors.
2. Understanding and ability to be proficient with computer skills (e.g., PSpice) for the analysis and design of circuits.
3. Proficiency with technical writing skills important for effective communication.
4. Proficiency with teamwork skills for working effectively in groups.

Course Objectives:

This course provides the foundational education in electronic circuit analysis and design. Through lecture, and out-of-class assignments, students are provided learning experiences that enable them to:

1. Analyze BJT differential pair for small and large signal operation, understand non-ideal characteristics, know how to bias and work with active loads and design multistage amplifiers.
2. Know how to draw bode plots and work with amplifier transfer functions, calculate low and high frequency response, understand different amplifier circuit topologies.
3. Understand properties of feedback, study and understand four basic feedback topologies, know how to design amplifiers that are stable.
4. Know classifications of output stages – Class A, B, and AB, know how to bias.
5. Understand and analyze 741 type of op-amp for DC analysis, small-signal gain, and frequency.

Topics:

1. Analysis and design of Differential and Multistage Amplifiers (12 classes)
2. Properties of Negative Feedback, Four Basic Feedback Topologies (12 classes)
3. Frequency Response, Poles, Zeroes, and Bode Plots, and Amplifier Transfer Function (12 classes)
4. Output Stages and Power Amplifiers, Class A, B, and AB, Biasing in Class AB (6 classes)
5. Analog Integrated Circuits, 741 Op-Amp, DC Analysis, 741 Small-Signal Analysis, AC Gain (3 classes)

Class Schedule:

Three 50-minute lectures per week

Contribution to meeting the professional component:

This course provides a specialized design emphasis in the area of electronic circuits. It is a prerequisite to senior-level electronic design courses. Topics pertaining to manufacturability are considered in the context of advanced electronic circuit design and construction.

Relationship to program outcomes:

The course relates to the following program outcomes:

1. Graduates will understand how to analyze and design specialized electrical/electronic circuits. [Ref: Outcome O.3.1.]
2. Graduates will have teamwork skills. [Ref: Outcome O.5.1.]