Linear Electronics

Higher education teachers: Bürmen Arpad
Collaborators: Olenšek Jernej
Credits: 6
Semester: winter
Subject code: 64633

Subject description

Prerequisits:

Enrolment in the year of the course.
Positive (passed) exam on Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering I and II is required.

Content (Syllabus outline):

Two-port networks. Voltage, current, and power gain. Input and output admittance. Reciprocity, active and passive linear electronic circuits, absolute stability and potential instability. Systematic approach to writing down circuit equations.
Small-signal models of nonlinear electronic components. Operating point of nonlinear circuits. Nonlinear distortion. Small-signal circuit model. Bipolar junction transistor orientations: common emitter, common collector, and common base. Unipolar transistor orientations: common source, common drain, and common gate. Darlington pair, cascode amplifier, and differential amplifier.
Transfer function. Zeros and poles of a linear system. Bode diagram. Lower cutoff frequency. Nonlinear capacitances in linear electronics. Modelling transistors at high frequencies. Miller transformation. Upper cutoff frequency.
Linear feedback systems. Feedback in linear electronics. Characteristics of linear circuits with feedback. Stability and Nyquist criterion. Phase and gain margin.
Sine wave oscillators. Transient response and the poles of a linear system. Oscillation startup, oscillation with constant amplitude. Barkhausen criterion. Analysis of oscillator circuits.

Objectives and competences:

Basic knowledge of linear electronic circuit analysis and synthesis.

Intended learning outcomes:

The student will acquire the basic knowledge of the properties of common linear electronic circuits.

Learning and teaching methods:

Lectures with computational examples and laboratory practice.