CSU, Chico Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

EECE 316:Electronics II

Prerequisites:EECE 315

Required for EE and MECA majors

Catalog Description:Op Amp circuits, waveform generation and shaping, sinusoidal oscillators, high frequency amplifiers, active filters, power supply regulators, power electronics, advanced linear ICs. Formerly ECE 146.

Course Objectives:

• understand the characteristics and non-idealities of an operational amplifier
• analyze and design various operational amplifier circuits, oscillators, active filters
• learn circuit applications of voltage-to-frequency converters and phase-locked loops
• understand power supply circuits
• analyze high-frequency response of transistor circuits
• learn the characteristics and comparative advantages of power amplifiers
• introduce silicon controlled rectifiers

Course Outcomes:

Students shall be able to analyze:

• Op Amp circuits with dual or single power supplies
• diode Op Amp circuits
• sinusoidal oscillators using Barkhausen criterion
• non-sinusoidal oscillators, including timer circuits
• active filter circuits with different types of filters
• voltage regulator and power supply circuits
• high frequency transistor amplifiers using hybrid-pi models
• power amplifiers
• simple silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) circuits. (A)

Students shall be able to design:

• Op Amp circuits with various mathematical operations
• Schmitt trigger circuits with any given transfer characteristics
• sinusoidal oscillators
• multivibrator and timer circuits
• active filter circuits with specifications given in frequency domain
• power supply circuits including the use of IC voltage regulators
• high frequency transistor amplifier circuits
• class-A and class-B power amplifier circuits.

Class/Laboratory schedule:

• One hundred and fifty minutes a week lecture
• One hundred minutes a week laboratory

Contribution of Course to Meet the Professional Component:

• Engineering Science: 2 units
• Engineering Design: 2 units

Relationship of Course to Program Outcomes and Objective:

This course makes significant contributions the following program outcomes:

• An ability to design and conduct experiments as well as to analyze and interpret data
• An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs
• An ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems

This course supports the achievement of the following elements of the program objective:

• Apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering to identify, formulate, and solve computer engineering problems
• Use industry standard tools to analyze, design, develop and test computer-based systems containing both hardware and software components.
• Achieve success in graduate programs in computer engineering, electrical engineering or computer science.
• Continue to develop their knowledge and skills after graduation in order to succeed personally and contribute to employer success.

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