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Design of Electronic Circuits 1 - ZEIT1206
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Campus: University College Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
 
 
Excluded: ZITE1201
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 2 (more info)
 
   
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

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Resistance and Ohm's Law; Kirchoff's voltage and current laws; power; simple DC circuits; superposition; Thevenin's theorem; Norton's theorem; node and mesh analysis; dependent sources; electrical measurements; RMS voltages and currents; capacitance and inductance; impedance and admittance; phasors; simple AC circuits, transformers. Introduction to intrinsic and doped semiconductors; formation and characteristics of a PN junction diode; Zener and avalanche breakdown. Diode rectifier and simple filter circuits. Regulated power supplies using Zener diodes. Basic construction and characteristics of bipolar junction transistors (BJT); biasing circuits and Q-point selection. DC and graphical analysis of single-stage, small-signal low-frequency amplifier circuits. Introduction to electronic CAD tools (PSPICE). Operational amplifiers; ideal and non-ideal performance; introduction to filter and wave shaping circuit applications. Choosing electronic components.

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