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This course presents the circuits and theory of operation for many important electronic devices that use solid state components.

Solid State Electronics or equivalent skills.

This course contains 16 lessons and 16 drills.

Unit 1 - Op Amp characteristics, inverting and non-inverting inputs, open loop gain, output voltages

Unit 2 - Differential amplifier operation, Op Amp parameters, inverting and non-inverting amplifiers, voltage followers, cascaded amplifiers

Unit 3 - Digital signals versus analog signals, comparators, integrators, summing amplifiers, summing amplifiers with weighted inputs, Digital-to-Analog converters

Unit 4 - JFET characteristics, drain current control in a JFET, pinch-off voltage, constant current region, drain current calculations

Unit 5 - JFET transconductance curves, gate bias, Q-point range for a JFET

Unit 6 - JFET biasing: self bias, voltage divider bias, current source bias; JFET configurations

Unit 7 - MOSFET's, depletion mode operation, enhancement mode operation, biasing, VMOS, cascode amplifiers

Unit 8 - Amplifier frequency response, bandwidth, Bode plots, gain in decibels

Unit 9 - Negative feedback amplifiers, effective gain

Unit 10 - Tuned amplifiers, passband, stop band, roll-off, Q for a tuned amplifier

Unit 11 - Loaded Q for a tuned amplifier, Class C amplifiers, active filters

Unit 12 - Oscillators, the Barkhausen criterion, phase shift oscillators, Wien-bridge oscillators, Colpitts oscillators

Unit 13 - Clapp oscillators, Hartley oscillators, Armstrong oscillators, crystal-controlled oscillators

Unit 14 - Electronic devices: LED's, multisegment displays, photo devices, optoisolation, tunnel diodes, Schottky diodes, Varactors

Unit 15 - Four-layer devices: Shockley diodes, SCR's, Diacs, Triacs

Unit 16 - SCR motor controls, SCR power controls, AC motor controls, unijunction transistors, relaxation oscillators

The computerized drill units give you virtually unlimited practice on key computational skills needed to analyze the operation of widely used electronic circuits.

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