Maricopa Community Colleges  ELE221   19886-19925 
Official Course Description: MCCCD Approval: 03/10/87
ELE221 19886-19925 L+L 3 Credit(s) 5 Period(s)
Solid-State Devices and Circuits III
Theory and application of differential and operational amplifiers. Power supplies and regulators; special devices and circuits. Prerequisites: ELE115 and ELE122.
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MCCCD Official Course Competencies:
 
ELE221   19886-19925 Solid-State Devices and Circuits III
1. Explain the concept of differential versus common-mode signals. (I)
2. Analyze a differential amplifier; compute gain, input impedence and common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR). (I)
3. Calculate voltage gains, input and output impedances and bandwidths for inverting and non-inverting operational amplifier circuits. (II)
4. Analyze differential, instrumentation and bridge amplifiers that use operational amplifiers. (III)
5. Describe the operaton of circuits using operational amplifiers with positive feedback. (IV)
6. Use basic analysis techniques to describe how operational amplifiers are used to generate waveforms. (IV)
7. Discuss operational amplifier characteristics that may effect performance, including bias currents, offset voltages and currents, drift, frequency response and slew rate. (V)
8. Analyze basic low-pass, high-pass, notch and bandpass active filters. (VI)
9. Discuss series, shunt and switching voltage regulators, stating the advantages and disadvantages of each. (VII)
10. Analyze fixed-and varaible-voltage IC regulators in terms of ripple, regulation and thermal characteristics. (VIII)
11. Explain the operating characteristics of the silicon controlled rectifier and triac in switching applications. (IX)
12. Apply the scientific method of inquiry and deduction relating the laws, theories and axioms of operational amplifiers, power supplies, and regulators to specific laboratory experiments. (Labs)
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ELE221   19886-19925 Solid-State Devices and Circuits III
    I. OP-AMP Theory
        A. The differential amplifier
        B. DC analysis of a differential-amplifier
        C. AC analysis of a differential-amplifier
        D. The operational amplifier
        E. OP-AMP characteristics
      II. Linear OP-AMP Circuits
          A. Nagative feedback
          B. Non-inverting voltage amplifiers
          C. The inverting voltage amplifier
          D. The summing amplifier
        III. OP-AMP Applications
            A. The instrumentation amplifier
            B. Voltage-controlled current courses
            C. Differential amplifiers
          IV. Non-Linear OP-AMP circuits
              A. Positive feedback
              B. Comparators
              C. Window detectors
              D. Waveform conversion
              E. Waveform generation
            V. Operational Amplifier Limitations
                A. Bias currents
                B. Input offset voltage
                C. Drift
                D. Slew-rate
                E. Frequency response
              VI. Active filters
                  A. Basic concepts
                  B. The low-pass Butterworth filter
                  C. The high-pass Butterworth filter
                  D. Band-pass filters
                  E. Notch filters
                VII. Regulated Power Supplies
                    A. Voltage-feedback regulation
                    B. Power-supply characteristics
                    C. The series regulator
                    D. The shunt regulator
                    E. Switching regulators
                  VIII. The IC regulator
                      A. Three-terminal IC regulators
                      B. Regulator families
                      C. Regulator specification & characteristics
                    IX. Thyristors
                        A. The ideal latch
                        B. The four-layer diode
                        C. The SCR
                        D. The Triac and unijunction transistor
                        E. Thyristor applications
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