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Electronic Devices and Circuits: Course Description

This course covers electronic devices and circuits over 8 hours per week through lectures, tutorials, and labs. The course objectives are to differentiate between passive and active components, identify their characteristics, and explain the working principles and applications of various semiconductor devices and circuits like CB, CE, CC configurations, dc power supplies, JFETs, MOSFETs, SCRs, PUTs, UJTs, and wave generating circuits. The course is divided into 7 units covering topics such as basic passive devices, semiconductor diodes, power supplies, bipolar junction transistors, field effect transistors, and special semiconductor devices. Students will demonstrate tasks in labs related to diode, BJT, FET, rectifier, UJT, PUT,

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Electronic Devices and Circuits: Course Description

This course covers electronic devices and circuits over 8 hours per week through lectures, tutorials, and labs. The course objectives are to differentiate between passive and active components, identify their characteristics, and explain the working principles and applications of various semiconductor devices and circuits like CB, CE, CC configurations, dc power supplies, JFETs, MOSFETs, SCRs, PUTs, UJTs, and wave generating circuits. The course is divided into 7 units covering topics such as basic passive devices, semiconductor diodes, power supplies, bipolar junction transistors, field effect transistors, and special semiconductor devices. Students will demonstrate tasks in labs related to diode, BJT, FET, rectifier, UJT, PUT,

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Electronic Devices and Circuits

EG 2108 EX
Total: 8 hour /week
Year: II Lecture: 4 hours/week
Semester: III Tutorial: 1 hours/week
Lab: 3 hours/week
Course Description:
This course deals with different electronic devices and circuits.

Course Objectives:
On completion of this course the students will be able to:
1 Differentiate between passive and active components.
2 Identify the characteristics of passive and active components.
3 Explain the working principles of various semiconductor devices, relate their
characteristics and applications
4 Explain the characteristics of CB, CE and CC configuration circuits
5 Explain the function of different dc power supplies.
6 Explain the function of JFET, MOSFET
7 Explain the function of SCR, PUT, UJT , special diodes and wave generating circuits
Course Contents:

Units Topics Contents Hours Methods/ Marks


Media
1 History of 2 hrs
1.1 Electron vacuum tubes:
electronic devices 1.2 Diode,
1.3 Triode and Pentode:

2 Basic Passive 2.1 Construction, 4 hrs


Devices: R, C and 2.2 Types,
L: 2.3 Color coding
2.4 Characteristics
3 Semiconductor 3.1 Energy levels, valence and
10 hrs
Diodes: conduction bands, conduction of
electrons and holes.
3.2 Intrinsic and extrinsic
semiconductor devices (Si),
impurities, doping, majority and
minor charge carries in P – type
and N – type materials..
3.3 PN Junction and depletion layer
and potential barrier – definition
and characteristics.
3.4 Forward and reverse biasing of PN
junction diode – The V-I

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Units Topics Contents Hours Methods/ Marks
Media
characteristic, principles of
operation, and effects of
temperature and junction
capacitance.
3.5 Analysis of PN junction diode
circuit: The V-I characteristic and
mathematical expressions with
equivalent model circuit diagrams.
3.6 Operation in the reverse breakdown
region- Zener diode, principles of
operation and IV characteristic.
4 Power Supplies: 4.1 Half wave and full wave rectifiers
6 hrs
– Types, working principles,
characteristics and applications.
4.2 Analysis of simple DC voltage
power supplies – Principles,
characteristics and ripple (voltages)
factors.
4.3 Simple voltage regulation using
Zener diodes – Principles, circuits,
characteristics and application.

5 Bipolar Junction 5.1 The Unbiased Transistor, The


14hrs
Transistors (npn Biased Transistor, Transistor
and pnp) – Types, Currents, The CE Connection, The
construction, base Curve, Collector Curves,
working principle BJT AC Models: Base-Biased
as an amplifier and Amplifier, Emitter-Biased
characteristics: Amplifier, Small Signal operation,
AC Beta, AC Resistance of the
Emitter Diode, Reading Data Sheets
5.2 Other characteristics of BJT – The
load line, operating point,
Saturation and cutoff modes:
Definition, circuits, principles and
characteristics.
5.3 CC and CB Amplifier: CC
Amplifier, Output Impedance,
Cascading CE and CC, Darlington
Connections, Voltage Regulation,
The Common Base amplifier
5.4 Types of amplifier circuits: Class
A, Class B, Class AB and Class C –

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Units Topics Contents Hours Methods/ Marks
Media
Definition, characteristics and
applications.
5.5 Frequency Effects: Frequency
Response of an Amplifier, Decibel
Power gain, Decibel voltage gain,
Impedance matching,

6 Field Effect 6.1 Basic Ideas, Drain Curves, Tran


12hrs
Transistor (JFET conductance Curves, Biasing in
and MOSFETS) – Ohmic Region, Biasing in Active
Types, Region,
construction, 6.2 Saturation, cut off breakdown and
working principles ohmic regions of operation –
as an amplifier and analysis of V-I characteristic
characteristics: curves.
6.3 The Depletion Mode MOSFET,D-
MOSFET Curves, Depletion Mode
MOSFET Amplifier, The
Enhancement Mode MOSFET
6.4 Data Book
7 Special 7.1 UJT, PUT, SCR, Diar and Triac.
12hrs
Semiconductor 7.2 Photo voltaic effects and solar
Devices – Working cells.
principles, 7.3 Photodiode, phototransistor, LED,
functional circuits, LDR, opt couplers and isolators.
characteristics and 7.4 Tunnel diode, schottyky diode,
applications: GaAs Transistors, MOSFET.
7.5 Charge coupled devices, Hall
effects, solid state relay and
thermister.
7.6 Multi vibrators: Generation of
square and triangular wave forms
using 555 IC

Practical: Demonstrate the following tasks: 45 hrs


1 Diode characteristics – PN diode
and Zener diode
2 BJT characteristics – C.E. input
and output characteristics
3 FET characteristics – C.S. input
and output characteristics
4 HW and FW rectifier –
waveforms and characteristics

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Units Topics Contents Hours Methods/ Marks
Media
5 UJT characteristics – IV
characteristics
6 PUT characteristics – IV
characteristics
7 SCR characteristics – IV
characteristics
8 Tunnel diode characteristics – IV
characteristics
9 Photo diode characteristics – IV
characteristics

Reference books:
1. Theraja, B. L. (2010). Basic Electronics: Solid state. New Delhi: S. Chand & Company Ltd.
2. Sharma, S., & Sharma, D. (2010). Electronic principles. New Delhi: S.K. Kataria & Sons
3. Floyd, T. L. (2005). Electronic devices. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Pearson Education.
4. Malvino, A. P., & Bates, D. J. (2016). Electronic principles. New York: McGraw-Hill
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