Syllabus : Basic Electronics
Unit Contents Hours
1 Diode:
Basic construction
Operation and characteristics of diode
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Application of diode as clipper
Full Wave Bridge Rectifier with and without Filter
Analysis and selection of the components required for C and LC filter
2 Bipolar Junction Transistor:
Structure and I-V characteristics of a BJT
BJT as a switch. BJT as an amplifier
DC Circuit Analysis: Types of biasing circuits, load line (Numerical)
Thermal runaway, stability factor analysis, thermal stabilization
AC Circuit Analysis: Small signal analysis of CE configurations with different biasing 8
network using H-parameter Model and re Model
Amplification derivation of expression for voltage gain, current gain, input impedance
and output impedance of CC, CE amplifiers (Numerical)
Study of frequency response of BJT amplifier
Introduction BJT’s hybrid-pi model
3 Field Effect Transistor:
Types of FETs, basics of construction and working principle
MOSFET structure and I-V characteristics
MOSFET as a switch. MOSFET as an amplifier
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DC Circuit Analysis: Types of biasing circuits of MOSFET (Numerical), dc load line and
region of operation
AC Circuit Analysis: Small signal model of MOSFET CS amplifier, derivation of
expressions for voltage gain and output impedance of MOSFET CS amplifier (Numerical)
4 Operational Amplifiers:
Differential amplifier, direct coupled multi-stage amplifier
Block diagram of Op-amp, ideal op-amp, non-idealities in an op-amp
Frequency response
Idealized analysis and design of Inverting and Non-inverting amplifier, voltage follower
Design of different Op-amp circuits (adder, subtractor, integrator and differentiator, 10
Schmitt trigger)(with Numerical)
Comparator (ZCD, window comparator)
Introduction to Instrumentation amplifier (using 3 Op-amp)
First order Low Pass Filter using op-amp
Oscillator (Wein bridge), Square-wave generator.
5 Special Purpose Semiconductor Devices:
Principle of operation and applications of special diodes– Zener diode, LED, Schottky
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diode and Photodiode
Basics of Opto-isolator