ELG 2136 Electronics I

3 units
Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Physics of semiconductors. Diodes: operation, models. and application circuits. Bipolar Junction Transistors - operation and characteristics. DC and AC circuit models. Basic single-stage BJT amplifier configurations. Field-Effect Transistors: Structure and physical operation, bias circuits, small-signal equivalent circuits and basic amplifiers. Basic concepts of digital logic circuits. The BJT inverter. The CMOS Inverter. Propagation delay of the CMOS inverter. CMOS gates and other digital circuits. Introduction to Semiconductor Power Devices: thyristor, triac, Insulated Gate Bipolar transistor. Power Electronics Applications: The AC-DC, DC-DC, and DC-AC converters.

Components:

Laboratory
Lecture
Tutorial

Requirements:

Prerequisite: ELG 2138 .

Previously Offered Terms:

Winter

French Equivalent:

Organized

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Clear Expectations

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Learned a Lot

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Recommend

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Workload

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Fair Assessments

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