this course was my introduction to electronics and circuit design. like the text on which it is based (the art of electronics, horowitz and hill, see below), it achieved very broad coverage of standard circuits needed to do useful design work in a laboratory. the course was split between lecture/discussion and breadboarding and circuit building. topics covered included:
• dc circuits: ohms law, voltage divider, thevenin model, oscilliscopes
• capacitors: rc circuits, filter capacitor circuits
• diodes: fourier series, wave rectifiers, clamps, limiters
• transistors: emitter follower, current gain, common emitter amplifier, transistor switches, differential amplifiers, ground emitter amplifiers, current mirror, ebers moll, biasing, push-pull, bootstrapping, miller effect, darlington, superbeta
• field effect transistors: fet current sources, source follower, voltage controlled resistance, amplitude modulation, the 723 regulator, voltage reference, three terminal adjustable regulator, crowbar
• op amps: open loop gain, (non) inverting amplifier, follower, current source, summing amp, current to voltage converter, push-pull buffer, ac amplifier, integrator, differentiator, active rectifier, active clamp
• oscillators: comparator; Schmitt trigger; ic relaxation, sawtooth wave, voltage controlled, wien bridge sine, and unwanted oscillations
• gates: ic gates (CMOS, TLL), gate innards, cmos: not, nand, 3-state
• flip flops: latch, d flop, j-k flop, ripple counter, synchronous counter, shift register, digitally timed one shot
• counters: 8-bit, cascading, period meter, capacitance meters
• memory and state machines: ram, memory-based state machines, single loop, with control
• analog to digital/digital to analog conversion
• phase locked loop
• digital feedback
