Department Of Electronics and Communication Engineering EC 2254 LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS Second Year (IV Sem) First Internal

Exam Time: 3hr PART A

1. How does the precision rectifier differ from the conventional rectifier? 2. What is active load? Where it is used and why? 3. Mention the advantages of integrated circuits 4. Draw the voltage follower circuit of an OP-AMP 5. Why aluminum is preferred for metallization? 6. Draw the circuit of a sign changer? 7. State the important features of an instrumentation amplifier? 8. What is a precision diode? 9. What is a peak detector? 10. Give some applications of Comparator?

Marks: 100 10x2=20

PART B

5x16=80

1. Explain in detail the fabrication of ICs using silicon planar technology. 2. (i) What is an active load? Explain the CE amplifier with active load.
(ii) Explain pole-zero compensation. 3. (i) Explain the operation of Schmitt trigger (ii) Explain log amplifier 4. (i) Discuss the working of instrumentation amplifier .Name two applications of the same. (ii) Explain a positive clipper circuit using an op-amp and a diode with neat diagrams. 5. (i) Explain widlar current source? (ii) Design an op-amp circuit to give an output voltage V0=3V1-2V2+5V3 where V1, V2, and V3 are inputs.

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