EE 310Electronic Circuit Design I

4 credits · Electrical Engineering · Penn State

EE 310 provides the foundational education in electronic circuit analysis and design through lecture, laboratory, and out-of-class assignments. In EE 310 , students learn about the electrical properties of different fundamental semiconductor devices and their basic circuit design applications. This course deals explicitly with both linear and nonlinear applications of devices, and with the practical aspects of design such as the inherently nonlinear nature of semiconductor devices. The lecture portion of the class begins with the introduction of diodes (their characteristics and DC/AC models), followed by methods for analysis and design of diode circuits, such as rectifiers, regulators, and limiters. Next, both metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFET) and bipolar junction transistors (BJT) are introduced with an emphasis on their characteristics and DC/AC models as well as the analysis (gain and input/output resistance) of different amplifier configurations with transistors. The design and analysis of integrated-circuit analog MOSFET amplifiers and digital MOSFET logic gates are also covered in this course. EE 310 also introduces the design and analysis of circuits containing ideal operational amplifiers (op amps), such as buffers, inverting/noninverting amplifiers, summers, integrators, differentiators, and instrumentation amplifiers, as well as the effects of non-ideal op-amp characteristics on circuits. In the laboratory portion of the course, students first learn how to use basic electrical engineering test equipment. Students then perform a series of experiments that parallel the theory learned in the lectures. Experiments involve electronic devices such as diodes, transistors (both MOSFET and BJT), and operational amplifiers. Circuit analysis modeling software is utilized as a tool for circuit analysis and design.