Electronics

It does not require experience in electronics.

1 – Theoretical classes: Description of fundamental concepts and techniques of analysis and design, which enables students to acquire essential skills for practical classes. Several analog electronics circuits used in digital systems will be analyzed.
2 – Practical classes: Resolution of exercises, namely analysis and design of low complexity analog circuits and their implementation in a breadboard.

In the theoretical component, students should understand the basic electrical quantities and how to compute them, for that, different methods for electrical circuit analysis should be learned.
The students will study semiconductors, in order to be able to analyze circuits with diodes and bipolar transistors.
Students must understand the previous concepts in order to: identify electrical quantities, to know how to use different circuit analysis methods, to obtain the transfer function of circuits with diodes and bipolar transistors and to analyze BJT amplifier circuits.
In the laboratory component the students should be able to analyze electrical circuits (DC circuits and circuits with diodes and transistors), and for that they should know how to use some measurement equipment and some simulation tools.

1. Definitions of electrical quantities; the circuit elements; Ohm’s law; Kirchhoff’s circuit laws and current and voltage divider.
2. Analysis of resistive circuits, Nodal Analysis; Mesh Analysis; Source Transformation; Thevenin’s Theorem, Norton Theorem and Superposition Theorem for electrical circuits.
3. Physical proprieties of semiconductors, conductors and insulators; electrical characteristics of materials and semiconductor doping.
4. The PN junction diode: composition, forward biased, reverse biased, electrical model, volt-ampere characteristic, temperature dependence of the V-I Characteristic; analysis of circuits with diodes.
5. Bipolar transistor: composition, forward-active mode, cutoff mode, saturation mode and reverse-active mode, circuit configurations, input and output characteristics and BJT hybrid model.
6. BJT circuit analysis.

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