Electronics

Study materials: NPHC206

Electronics

Topic 1: Essentials of Electronics
- (a): Atomic structure
- (b): Valance electron
- (c): Free electron
- (d): Voltage and Current source
Topic 2: Fundamental of Digital Electronics
- (a): Analog and digital signals
- (b): Binary number system
- (c): Octal number system
- (d): Hexadecimal number system
- (e): Logic gates, OR, AND, NOT gates
- (f): Combination of basic logic gates
Topic 3: Boolean Operation
- (a): Boolean algebra
- (b): Boolean theorems
- (c): De Morgan’s theorems and Operator precedence
- (d): Combinational logic circuits
- (e): Sum of the products form and its simplification
- (f): K-map simplification
- (g): Arithmetic circuits: binary adder and subtractor
Topic 4: Network Theorems
- (a): Kirchhoff’s voltage and current laws
- (b): Maximum power transfer theorem
- (c): Thevenin’s theorem
- (d): Norton’s theorem
- (e): Superposition theorem
Topic 5: Semiconductor Physics
- (a): Atomic energy levels, energy bands
- (b): Classification of solids and energy bands
- (c): Semiconductor
- (d): Intrinsic semiconductor
- (e): Extrinsic semiconductor
- (f): Effect of temperature on semiconductors
- (g): Majority and minority carriers
Topic 6: Principles of p-n junction
- (a): P-N junction and its properties
- (b): Biasing of P-N junction
- (c): Voltage-current characteristics
Topic 7: Semiconductor diodes
- (a): Diode resistance
- (b): Diode as rectifier
- (c): Ripple factor
- (d): Filter circuits
- (e): Zener diode and voltage regulation
Topic 8: Special purpose semiconductor devices
- (a): Light emitting diode
- (b): Photodiode
- (c): Shockley diode
- (d): Tunnel diode, and varactor diode
- (e): BJT
- (f): JFET
- (g): MOSFET
Topic 9: Transistor principle
- (a): CB and CE configuration and their characteristics
- (b): Methods of transistor biasing
- (c): Stabilization
- (d): Mid-point biasing
Topic 10: Modern semiconductor devices
- (a): Single stage transistor amplifier
- (b): DC and AC equivalent circuits
- (c): Principle of negative voltage feedback in amplifiers
- (d): Differential amplifiers
- (e): Op-amp
- (f): Applications of Op-amp
- (g): Solution of differential equations
- (h): Multivibrators, 555 timer based circuits.