Course Instructors: Adrian Surpăţeanu, Cornel Trisca

The students will learn and get knowledge on: how does function the most important semiconductor devices; elementary principles of main technologies used for manufacturing linear integrated circuits; bipolar and field effect transistors based elementary amplifiers operation; main implementing principles of specific applications using op amps and some other linear integrated circuits; fundamentals on power supply regulators used in electronic equipments; how to elementary generate harmonic signals, as well as signals modulation and demodulation.

Syllabus:

• Electronic devices: Electronic processes in semiconductor circuit devices.
• PN junction.
• Elementary circuitry using diodes.
• Bipolar transistors.
• Field effect transistors.
• Linear integrated circuits manufacturing principles.
• Amplifiers: Amplifiers specific parameters.
• Elementary amplifiers using bipolar and field effect transistors.
• Direct current polarizing circuits.
• Equivalent schemas and composed transistors.
• Input circuits, output circuits and dynamic loads.
• Power amplifiers. Differential amplifiers.
• Frequency response of an amplifier.
• Negative Feedback in Amplifiers: General case.
• In-series voltage negative feedback.
• In-parallel voltage negative feedback.
• Applications.
• Doublets.
• Operational Amplifiers: Real op amp parameters.
• Inverting structures using op amps.
• Non-inverting structures using op amps.
• Differential amplifiers using op amps.
• Active filters using op amps. Nonlinear circuits using op amps.
• Analog multipliers.
• Power supply regulators: General structure.Main parameters. Constructive types. Protections.
• Integrated power supply regulators.
• Harmonic oscillators: Implementing principles.LC oscillators. RC oscillators. Quartz oscillators.
• Modulation and demodulation: Modulation types.
• Amplitude modulation circuits.
• Frequency demodulators.