UNIVERSITY OF LIVINGSTONIA

FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING.
CEN 3605 APPLIED ANALOG ELECTRONICS
ASSIGNMENT #1. DATE DUE 31 March 2022
1. A group of Level 3 students is designing some automated circuits for their
research projects. In the implementation, they would like to incorporate a
constant voltage and constant current power supply that has to provide 5 V dc
at 1200 mA. They have opted for a zener controlled transistor series voltage
regulator to be connected to a 12 V dc power supply.
a. Sketch the circuit to implement their choice. 8 marks
b. Calculate the values of the components to fit in the circuit. 12 marks
2. “A typical transistor amplifier in the active region has the voltage drop between
the collector and emitter of the transistor between 25% and 75% of the supply
rail Vcc” .
a. Justify the general observations from your design workshop, where your
team lead advised you to “set Vce to 4,8 Vdc for a supply rail of 9 V dc”
2 marks
b. How would you comment of the measurements on 3.3 V dc between the
collector and emitter of your transistor when it was connected to a 20 V
dc supply rail? 5 marks
c. What is the main purpose of measuring the voltage between the collector
and emitter of your BJT? 3 marks
3. Discuss the concept of:
a. Thermal runaway in a Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT). 4 marks
b. Bias Stabilization in Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT). 4 marks

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