This is a book for a lab course meant to accompany, or follow, any standard course in electronic circuit analysis. It has been written for sophomore or junior electrical and computer engineering students, either concurrently with their electronic circuit analysis class or following that class. This book is appropriate for non-majors, such as students in other branches of engineering and in physics, for which electronic circuits is a required course or elective and for whom a working knowledge of electronic circuits is desirable.
This book has the following objectives:
1. To support, verify, and supplement the theory; to show the relations and differences between theory and practice.
2. To teach measurement techniques.
3. To convince students that what they are taught in their lecture classes is real and useful.
4. To help make students tinkerers and make them used to asking “what if” questions.
Author(s): Farzin Asadi
Series: Synthesis Lectures on Electrical Engineering
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 239
City: Cham
Preface
Contents
1 Diode Circuits
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Diode Current-voltage (I–V) Characteristic
1.3 Test of Diodes with DMM
1.4 Voltage Regulation with Zener Diode
1.5 Clipper Circuit
1.6 Clamping Circuit
1.7 Small Signal AC (Dynamic) Resistance of Diode
1.8 Voltage Doubler
1.9 Half-Wave Rectifier
1.10 Full Wave Rectifier
1.11 Full-Wave Rectifier with Zener Diode Regulator
1.12 Switching Behavior of Diode
References for Further Study
2 Transistor Amplifiers and Their Frequency Response
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Testing a Transistor with DMM
2.3 Current-Voltage Characteristic (I–V) of Transistor
2.4 Transistor as a Switch
2.5 Switching Times of Transistor
2.6 Effect of Temperature on the Operating Point of the Transistor
2.7 Common Emitter Amplifier
2.8 Measurement of Input Resistance for Common Emitter Amplifier
2.9 Measurement of Output Resistance for Common Emitter Amplifier
2.10 Frequency Response of Common Emitter Amplifier
2.11 Common Base Amplifier
2.12 Common Collector Amplifier
2.13 Darlington Configuration
References for Further Study
3 MOSFET Transistor Amplifiers
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Measurement of Threshold Voltage
3.3 Current Voltage Characteristic of MOS Transistor
3.4 Common Source Amplifier
3.5 Common Gate Amplifier
3.6 Common Drain Amplifier
3.7 MOSFET as a Switch
References for Further Study
4 Current Sources and Differential Pair
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Current Mirror
4.3 Widlar Current Source
4.4 Wilson Current Mirror
4.5 Current Source with Op Amp
4.6 Differential Pair (Resistive Bias)
4.7 Differential Pair (Current Source Bias)
References for Further Study
5 Transistor Feedback Amplifiers
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Voltage Series Feedback
5.3 Voltage Shunt Feedback
References for Further Study
6 Op Amp Circuits and 555 Timer IC
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Measurement of Saturation Voltage
6.3 Non Inverting Amplifier
6.4 Nulling the Output Offset Voltage
6.5 Inverting Amplifier
6.6 Buffer
6.7 Improving the Current Driving Capability of a Buffer
6.8 Difference Amplifier
6.9 Instrumentation Amplifier
6.10 Voltage Comparator
6.11 Window Voltage Comparator
6.12 Conversion of Sine Wave to Square Wave
6.13 Schmitt Trigger
6.14 Slew Rate
6.15 Half Wave Precision Rectifier
6.16 Improved Half Wave Rectifier
6.17 Full Wave Rectifier
6.18 Low Pass Filter
6.19 Cascaded Filters
6.20 High Pass Filter
6.21 Band Pass Filter
6.22 Integrator Circuit
6.23 Differentiator Circuit
6.24 Wien-Bridge Oscillator
6.25 RC Phase Shift Oscillator
6.26 Square Wave Generator
6.27 Triangular Wave Generator
6.28 Timer IC
References for Further Study
7 Voltage Regulators and Power Amplifiers
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Series Voltage Regulator
7.3 Shunt Voltage Regulator
7.4 Voltage Regulator IC’s
7.5 Class B Power Amplifier
7.6 Class B Power Amplifier with Feedback
7.7 Class AB Power Amplifier
References for Further Study
Appendix A: Drawing Graphs with MATLAB®
A.1 Introduction
A.2 FPLOT Command
A.3 Plotting the Graph of a Numeric Data
A.4 Addition of Labels and Title to the Drawn Graph
A.5 Exporting the Drawn Graph as a Graphical File
A.6 Drawing Two or More Graphs on the Same Axis
A.7 Logarithmic Axis
Appendix B: Circuit Design with Circuit Wizard
B.1 Introduction
B.2 555 Timer Wizard
B.3 Filter Wizard
B.4 Opamp Wizard
B.5 CE BJT Amplifier Wizard
