Electronic Circuit Design - with Bipolar and MOS Transistors

This university level Electrical Engineering text is for anyone who wants to know how to design electronic circuits. The present text is unusually accessible to readers who want to acquire the skills of electronic circuit design.

This text is different from other electronic circuit design texts, because we actually design circuits using the relevant equations, and not just talk about them. The equations are made live by...
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This university level Electrical Engineering text is for anyone who wants to know how to design electronic circuits. The present text is unusually accessible to readers who want to acquire the skills of electronic circuit design.

This text is different from other electronic circuit design texts, because we actually design circuits using the relevant equations, and not just talk about them. The equations are made live by displaying their properties in figures created by Spice, which is simply a tool we use to create the figures.

The equations allow you to design. Equations we have not seen in other texts. The figures show the performance created by the equations.

Eight experiments are included that give life to the text's contents, and provide the reader with real world experience with making measurements, using instruments, and learning about all kinds of parts. We consider the experiments to be significant learning activities.

Furthermore you will learn how to design and include in your electronic circuits multistage amplifiers, feedback amplifiers. operational amplifiers, tuned amplifiers, and oscillators, basic digital circuits, and vacuum tube circuits.

Electronic circuits are designed in two basic forms. One form uses discrete parts placed on a printed circuit board. The second form is an integrated circuit placed on a silicon chip.

There are two major classes of transistors in use today. BJT bipolar junction transistors and MOS field effect transistors. We leave the why of device physics to semiconductor texts.

We explain the BJT transistor AC and DC properties. We show how to design current mirror and differential amplifier BJT analog building blocks that are widely used in complex BJT analog IC circuits.

The MOS transistor AC and DC properties are explained. We show how to design, in integrated circuit format, current mirror and differential amplifier MOS analog building blocks. We show how to design an operational amplifier, an LC tuned circuit amplifier, an LC oscillator, a CMOS digital inverter, and a CMOS 2 input NAND gate.

We explain feedback as Bode conceived it. We place the BJT and MOS amplifiers we designed into feedback structures, and apply Nyquist's Stability Theory to the amplifiers. And, feedback circuit design is illustrated by designs of one and two stage BJT feedback amplifiers, MOS voltage feedback amplifiers (VFA), and a BJT current feedback amplifier (CFA). Figures show performance.

Two basic types of op amp are the voltage feedback amplifier (VFA), and the current feedback amplifier (CFA). The useful ideal and realistic properties of VFA and CFA are made clear so that one can design circuits using them. We have not seen the CFA explained in other texts.

The presentations are eminently clear, because they are based on the policies assume nothing and nothing is obvious.

The present text's contents are topics one actually uses when engaged in electronic circuit analysis and design.