FAEN 108 - (Basic Electronics )

History and overview of electronics from vacuum tubes to large scale integration, including reasons for studying electronics, selected important areas of application, role of electronics in computer engineering. Semi-conductivity: materials and properties, electrons and holes, concept of doping, acceptors and donors, p and n-type materials, conductivity and resistivity. Diodes and Circuits: symbol and representation, diode operation and characteristics, region of operation and limitations, zener and schottky diodes, diode circuit and load line, diode application in rectifier and dc/dc converter, diode logic functions - AND and OR . Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT): physical structure of BJT, symbol and circuit representation, NPN and PNP transistor operation, voltage-current characteristics of transistors, transistor region of operation and limitation, transistor circuit analysis, biasing for logic application, transistor operation as logic functions – OR and  AND logics.