SyllabusThe subject will cover the following topics: Circuit principles, Kirchhoffs rules, circuit theorems for AC and DC circuits, phasor method, analysis of RLC circuits, frequency response and resonance;
Conduction in solids, intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors, PN junction, rectifier equation, diode characteristics, zener diode, regulation, rectification, filtering and voltage stabilisation;
FET and BJT transistors, transistor construction and characteristics, common emitter and common base modes, emitter follower, current amplification, biasing circuits, load line analysis, small signal models and frequency response;
Ideal amplifiers, power amplifiers, types of coupling, class A, B and C operation, power output and efficiency, small signal amplifiers, frequency response, multistage amplifiers, operational amplifiers, positive feedback and oscillators;
Logic gates: AND gate, OR gate, NOT gate, NOR gate, NAND gate. Binary numbers: binary-to-decimal conversion, decimal-to-binary conversion, binary arithmetic, bits and bytes, binary-coded decimals. Boolean algebra: AND, NOT, and OR logical operations, Boolean theorems, DeMorgans theorems, truth table. |
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