EC294 ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND CIRCUITS 3 0 0 3

1. SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES: 9

Conductors, Semiconductors, Silicon crystals, intrinsic semiconductors, two types of

flow, doping a semi conductor, two types of extrinsic semiconductors, ideal diode, diode
approximation, zener diode, zener regulator.
Bipolar transistors: Basic ideas of junction FET, Depletion mode MOSFET,
Enhancement mode MOSFET and Silicon control rectifier (Qualitative Treatment Only)

2. RECTIFIER, AMPLIFIER AND OSCILATOR: 9

Half wave Rectifier, Full wave Rectifier, Bridge Rectifier, Filter, Choke input filter,
Capacitors input filter, Zener Regulator.
Un-biased transistor, Biased transistor, transistor currents, CE connection, Collector
curves, CE Amplifier, Frequency response of an amplifier, JFET Amplifier.
Theory of Sinusoidal Oscillation, RC Oscillators, LC Oscillators, 555 Timer, 555
Circuits.

3. OPERATION AMPLIFIER: 9

Introduction of an Inverting Amplifier, Non Inverting Amplifier, Basic Application of

operation amplifier: Subtractor, Summing Amplifier, Digital to Analogue Converter,
Low Pass Filter, First Order Low Pass Filter, First Order High Pass Filter, Integrator,
Differentiator, Relaxation Oscillator.

4. VOLTAGE AND CURRENT LAWS: 9

Nodes, Paths, Loops, and Branches; Kirchoff’s current law, Kirchoff’s Voltage law,
Single loop circuit, single node-pair circuit, Series and parallel connected independent
sources, Resistors in series and parallel, Voltage and current division

5. CIRCUIT ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES: 9

Linearity and superposition, Sources transformation, Thevenin and Norton equivalent

circuits, Maximum power transfer, Dela-Wye conversion, Single Phase and 3 Phase
Circuits – Power factor – Power – Concept of Phasor Diagrams.

TOTAl : 45

TEXT BOOK:

1. Albert Paul Malvino, “Electronic Principles” Sixth Edition, Tata McGraw-Hill

Publishing Company Limited, 1999.
2. William H. Hayt, Jack E.Kemmerly, Steven M.Durbin, “Engineering Circuit
Analysis”, Sixth Edition, Tata Mc Graw-Hill Edition 2002.
REFERENCES:

1. Robert L. Boylestad , Louis Nashelsky – “Electronic devices and Circuit Theory”,

Eigth Edition, Pearson Education Asia, 2002.
2. Floyd, “Electronic Devices “–-Sixth-Edition, Pearson Education, 2002.
3. David A. Bell, “Electronics Devices and Circuits”, Fourth Edition-Prentice Hall
of India, 1999.