Advanced Electronics
Course Objectives:
Continuation of ELECTRONIC DEVICE & CIRCUITS with emphasis on data conversion, instrumentation and power circuits
- Operational Amplifier Circuits(6 hours)
- Bias circuits suitable for IC Design
- The Widlar current source
- The differential amplifier
- Active loads
- Output stages
- Operational Amplifier Characterization(8 hours)
- Input offset voltage
- Input bias and input offset currents
- Output impedance
- Differential and common-mode input impedance
- DC gain, bandwidth, gain-bandwidth product
- Common-mode and power supply rejection ratios
- Higher frequency poles settling time
- Slew rate
- Noise in operational amplifier circuits
- Digital-To-Analog and Analog-To-Digital Conversion(8 hours)
- The R-2R ladder circuit
- Unipolar and bipolar D/A converters
- Count-up and Tracking A/D’s based on D/A’s
- Successive approximation A/D converters
- Integrating voltage-to-time conversion A/D converters, dual and quad slope types
- Sigma delta A/D converters
- Flash A/D converters
- Instrumentation and Isolation Amplifiers(4 hours)
- One and two operational amplifier instrumentation amplifiers
- The three operational amplifier instrumentation amplifier
- Consideration of non-ideal properties
- Isolation amplifier principles and realization
- Consideration of non-ideal properties
- Operational Amplifier-Bipolar Transistor Logarithmic Amplifier(3 hours)
- The basic logarithmic amplifier
- Non-ideal effects
- Stability consideration
- Anti-logarithmic operations
- Log-Antilog Circuit Application(5 hours)
- Analog multiplier based on log-antilog principles
- The multifunction converter circuit
- Proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) devices
- RMS to dc conversion
- Introduction to Power Electronics(7 hours)
- Diodes, thyristors, triacs, IGBT
- Controlled rectifier circuits
- Inverters
- Choppers
- DC-to-DC conversion
- AC-to-AC conversion
- Switched Power Supplies(4 hours)
- Voltage step-down regulators
- Voltage step-up regulators
- Step-up/step-down regulators
- Filtering considerations
- Control circuits, IC switched
Laboratory:
- Characteristics of operational amplifier
- 4 bit D to A converter
- Differential amplifier, Instrumentation amplifier
- Logarithmic amplifier
- Study of switched voltage regulator
- Study of Silicon-controlled-rectifier (SCR) and TRIAC circuit
Reference:
- A.S. Sedra and K.C. Smith, “Microelectronic Circuits”, 6th Edition, Oxford University Press.
- W. Stanely, “Operational Amplifiers with Linear Integrated Circuits”, Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, Toronto, 1984.
- Jacob Millman and Christos C. Halkias, “Integrated Electronics”, TATA McGRAW- Hill Edition 1991.
- Muhammad H. Rashid, “Power Electronics: Circuits, Devices and Applications”, 3rd Edition, Pearson Education, 2003.
- Ramakant A. Gayakwad, “Operational Amplifiers with Linear Integrated Circuits”, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, New Delhi, 2004.
- Robert F. Coughlin and Frederick F. Driscoll, “Operational Amplifiers and Linear Integrated Circuits”, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, New Delhi, 1996.
- C.W. Lander, “Power Electronics”, 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York,1987.
- J.G. Graeme, “Application of Operational Amplifiers: Third Generation Techniques”, The Burr-Brown Electronics Series, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1973.
- N. Mohan, T. M. Undeland and W. P, Robbins, : Power Electronics: Converters, Applications and Design”, John Willey and Sons, New York, 1989.
Evaluation Scheme:
Unit |
Hour |
Number of Questions |
Mark Distribution |
1 |
6 |
1 |
7 |
2 |
8 |
2 |
14 |
3 |
8 |
2 |
14 |
4 |
4 |
1 |
7 |
5 |
3 |
1 |
4 |
6 |
5 |
1 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
2 |
14 |
8 |
4 |
1 |
7 |
1, 4, 5, 6, 8 |
|
1 |
6 |
Total |
45 |
12 |
80 |
*Note: There may be minor deviation in marks distribution.
|