431-305 Electronics 3

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On completion of this subject students should:

• have an understanding of the physical and modelling basis for the analysis of key devices in analog electronic circuits and the operation principles of a variety of subcircuits in integrated circuits;

• be able to analyse typical subcircuits and to design feedback amplifiers;

• be able to analyse both small-signal and large-signal circuit behaviour;

• appreciate the use of the circuit simulation program SPICE

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High-frequency device models, charge storage and switching, large signal device models. Switching performance of devices, computer simulation. Analog integrated circuit technology, differential amplifiers, asymmetry, drift, offset. Current sources and active loads. Power amplifiers. Multistage frequency response. Feed-back, frequency response and stability of feedback amplifiers. Operational amplifiers. Nonlinear analog circuits. Noise in devices and circuits. Bandpass amplifiers and oscillators.

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