Faculty of Science

Objectives

To provide a thorough comprehension of the fundamental behaviour of digital and analogue electronic circuits.

Contents

Basic linear circuit analysis: Basic definitions, Sources and loads, Power transfer to a load, Resistors in parallel and series, Current and voltage laws, Equivalent circuits, Bridge circuits, Linearity and superposition, Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Laws, dependent sources, Nodal analysis, mesh analysis, Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits, maximum power transfer; Introduction to Analogue circuits: Hybrid-pi model of the bipolar transistor, Calculation of gain, input and output impedances of bipolar transistor amplifiers using the hybrid-pi model, Elements of RC coupling between circuits; Op-amps: negative feedback, Op-amp circuits - differentiators, integrators, etc, Input and output impedances of op-amp circuits, offset voltage; Introduction to logic systems: Positive and negative logic, Logic functions - NOT, AND, OR, NOR, EX-OR, EX-NOR, Truth tables, Boolean Algebra, de Morgan's theorems, Standard forms for logical expressions - Sum of Products, Product of Sums,

Specification of logical functions in terms of Minterms and Maxterms,

Karnaugh Maps, simplification of logical functions, introduction of "don't care" states.