Syllabus Electronic Circuits and Analysis - (EC25C05) Diode and Filter Circuits : Diode circuits - clipper, clamper, voltage doubler, voltage quadrupler, half-wave rectifier, centre-tapped full-wave rectifier, and bridge rectifier circuits. Power supply design. Regulators - Voltage regulator circuits using Zener diode. Passive filters - analysis of RC, RL, RLC filters. (Chapter - 1) BJT Circuits : Load-line analysis, different biasing techniques of BJT, bias stabilization, and early effect, RC-coupled and transformer-coupled multistage amplifiers, and current mirror circuits. (Chapter - 2) MOSFET Circuits : Biasing by fixing VGS, biasing by fixing VG, and connecting a resistor in the source, Biasing using a drain-to-gate feedback resistor, and biasing using a current source. Analysis and design of common source, common drain, common gate amplifier configurations. (Chapter - 3) Frequency Response of Amplifiers : Frequency response of amplifiers - Low frequency response of BJT and FET amplifiers, lower cut off frequency - hybrid π equivalent circuit of BJT - high frequency response of BJT amplifiers - upper cut off frequency - transition frequency - Miller effect, high frequency response of FET amplifiers. Wide band amplifiers - Wide banding techniques - CC - CE /CD-CS cascade, cascode amplifier, Darlington pair. (Chapter - 4) Feedback Amplifiers and Waveform Generators : Feedback and stability - negative and positive feedback in amplifiers, analysis of four feedback topologies, loop gain. Oscillators - Barkhausen criterion, effect of feedback on amplifier poles, Bode plots, gain and phase margins; positive feedback and sinusoidal oscillators using BJT - Wein bridge oscillator, RC phase shift oscillator, Hartley and Colpitts oscillators. Multivibrators using BJT - Astable, Monostable, and bistable circuits. (Chapters - 5, 6) Power Amplifiers and Wideband Techniques : Power amplifiers - Analysis of Class A, B, AB, C, D & S power amplifiers, Conversion efficiency and relative performance, Total Harmonic Distortion (THD), Relationship Between Total Power and THD, Heat sinks. (Chapter - 7)
