DC02 FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRONICS
1. Electronic Components 6 hours
1.1 Passive Components
1.1.1 Resistors-types, ratings, colour code, tolerance,
fixed valued, variable thermistor, negative and positive temperature
co-efficient, basic construction of various types of resistors.
1.1.2 Capacitors-types, (air, paper, ceramic, polystyrene, mica, electrolytic) fixed valued and variable, ratings, basic construction.
1.1.3
Inductors- types, inductors for high frequency
applications.
1.2 Active Components
1.2.1 Types
of active components (electron tubes, gas tubes, semiconductor devices).
1.2.2 Voltage & Current Sources.
1.2.3
Ideal and practical voltage
source and current source, equivalent circuits and characteristics, conversion
of a voltage source into current source and vice versa. Thevenin’s theorem and
Norton’s theorem.
I [1]; II
[1]
2.
Semiconductor
Theory and P-N Junction
16 hours
2.1 Physics of Insulators, intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors, energy bar
diagrams, doping,
Semiconductors : conduction in
semiconductors, effects of temperature.
2.2 P-N
Junction: p-n junction, unbiased, forward and
reverse biased p-n junctions,
V-I characteristics of a p-n junction
diode, ideal, static and dynamic
resistance of a diode.
2.3 Special Purpose Diodes: Special purpose diodes-Zener diodes, Tunnel diodes,
Varactors diodes, Schottky diodes, Light-
emitting diodes (LED), Liquid crystal diodes (LCD), and diodes for higher frequency applications.
I [4, 5, 6, 19]; II [1, 2]
3.
Transistors
15
hours
3.1 Bipolar Junction: Transistor action and
its characteristics. Common Base,
Transistor (BJT) Comparison
of CB, CE and CC configurations with respect to input & output dynamic resistance, current gain and
voltage gain. Biasing of transistors
3.2 Field Effect Transistor (FET): Field effect in transistors. JFETs and
MOSFETs Construction, operation and characteristics of FET and their comparison
with electron tubes. FET as a switch,
Typical applications of FET
3.3
Amplifier, Amplifier with feed back & Oscillators.
I [8, 9, 17]; II [3, 5, 20]
4.
Boolean Algebra and Logic Gates 15
hours
4.1
Introduction.
4.2
Boolean Algebra: Laws, Postulates, Theorems.
4.3
Logic Gates: AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, Ex-OR.
4.4
Boolean functions, Standard Canonical Forms, Realization
with gates.
4.5
Karnaugh map representation of Logical Functions.
4.6
Simplification of Logic Functions using K-maps.
4.7
Simplification Functions specified in Minterms/Maxterms.
4.8
Simplification Functions not specified in
Minterms/Maxterms.
4.9
Don’t Care Conditions.
4.10
Design Examples.
4.11
Characteristics of Digital ICs: speed of operation, power
dissipation, fanout, current/voltage
levels, noise immunity, operating temperature, power supply.
4.12
Digital Logic Families: RTL (logic operation, loading
considerations, noise margins, propagation delay time).
4.13
Direct Coupled Transistor Logic.
4.14
Diode Transistor Logic: NAND gate operation, propagation
delays, wired logic. Modified DTL NAND
Gate.
4.15 Transistor
Transistor Logic: NAND gate operation, clamping diodes.
4.16 Basics
of FET, JFET, MOSFETs, CMOS & MOSFET NAND/NOR gates.
III [1
(1.1, 1.3-1.6), 3 (3.7), 4 (4.2-4.4, 4.6-4.8, 4.13-4.15, 4.17) 5 (5.1-5.8)]
5. Operational Amplifiers
5
hours
5.1 Op Amp characteristics, inverting and
non-inverting modes.
5.2 Differential amplifiers, common mode rejection ratio
(CMRR).
5.3 Applications of op-amp (adder, scale changer, phase
shifter, voltage-follower, integrator, differentiator, voltage-to-current and
current-to-voltage converters).
5.4 Concept of offset currents and slew rate.
I [25, 26]; II [13, 14]
6. Integrated
Circuits (ICs)
3
hours
6.1 Fabrication – IC technology and processes involved in
fabrication of IC Chips.
6.2 IC-resistors and IC –
capacitors. IC packaging methods.
I. J.B. GUPTA, “Electronic Devices and
Circuits”, S.K. Kataria & Sons 2nd edn. 2003.
II. R.L. Boylestad and L. Nashelsky, “Electronic Devices and
Circuit Theory,” Pearso Education Asia, New Delhi, 8th edn. 2002.
III R.P Jain, “Modern Digital Electronics”, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing
Company
Limited, 2nd Edition, New
Delhi 1997.
1. G.K.
Mittal, “Basic Electronics”, G.K. Publishers Pvt. Ltd., NOIDA, UP, 4th
edn. 2002.
2. R.
Mittal and G.K. Mittal, “Text Book of Electronic Devices ,” G.K. Publishers (P)
Ltd. Noida U.P., 2nd edn. 2002.