Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Open Lectures on Electronic Circuits


How semiconductors work? What is the fundamental physics of diodes? How operational amplifiers work? How can we design integrated circuits? People who like to play with electronic devices might throw these questions to themselves. To help them study further, this brings a collection of open lectures on electronic circuits and semiconductors. Lectures cover a variety of topics: the very basic concepts of voltage and current and circuit elements, the properties of semiconductors, PN diodes, bipolar junction transistors, MOS transistors, operational amplifiers, digital integrated circuits, analog ICs, and RF integrated circuits.

1) Circuits and Electronics (MIT OCW)
This course introduces the fundamentals of the lumped circuit abstraction. Topics covered include: resistive elements and networks; independent and dependent sources; switches and MOS transistors; digital abstraction; amplifiers; energy storage elements; dynamics of first- and second-order networks; design in the time and frequency domains; and analog and digital circuits and applications.

2) Electronic Techniques for Engineering (UC Berkeley)
This course serves as an introduction to the principles of electrical engineering, starting from the basic concepts of voltage and current and circuit elements of resistors, capacitors, and inductors. Topics covered in this course include: the fundamental concepts of electrical engineering; circuit analysis techniques - KCL, KVL, and Thevenin and Norton equivalents; batteries; operational amplifiers; capacitors, general response of the RC circuit; inductors, general response of the RL circuit; phasor analysis; frequency response, filters, Bode plots; and guitar circuits.

3) Basic Electronics (IIT Guwahati)
Semiconductor Diodes. Bipolar Junction Transistors. Field Effect Transistors. Operational Amplifiers. Power Circuit and Systems.

4) Introduction to Microelectronic Circuits (UC Berkeley)
Fundamental circuit concepts and analysis techniques. Basic circuit characteristics, Ohm's Law, KCL, KVL. Resistive circuits, capacitors and inductors. Node voltage analysis, linearity, superposition, Thevenin & Norton equivalent circuits. Operational amplifiers. Transient and AC analysis, Bode plots and transfer function. Digital circuits; transistors, memory & sequential circuits.

5) Microelectronic Devices and Circuits (UC Berkeley)
This course covers the fundamental circuit and device concepts needed to understand analog integrated circuits. After an overview of the basic properties of semiconductors, the p-n junction and MOS capacitors are described and the MOSFET is modeled as a large-signal device. Two port small-signal amplifiers and their realization using single stage and multistage CMOS building blocks are discussed.

6) Electronic Circuits I (UCLA)
Basics of semiconductor physics. Physics and operation of diodes and bipolar and MOS transistors. Equivalent circuits and models of semiconductor devices. Analysis and design of single-stage amplifiers. DC biasing circuits. Small-signal analysis. Operational amplifier systems.

7) Solid State Devices (NPTEL)
Evolution and uniqueness of Semiconductor Technology. Equilibrium. Procedure for analyzing semiconductor devices. P-N Junction. Bipolar Junction Transistor. MOS Junction. Metal Oxide Field Effect Transistor.

8) Integrated Circuits, MOSFETs, OP-Amps and their Applications (NPTEL)
This course is a design-oriented course aimed at understanding fabrication, parameters, and specifications of integrated circuits, MOSFETs, Op-Amps as well as their applications in the Analog domain.

9) Integrated-Circuit Devices (UC Berkeley)
This course provides the fundamentals of basic semiconductor devices: the pn-junction diode, the bipolar junction transistor, the metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitor, and the field-effect transistor. Topics covered in this course include: an overview of electronic properties of semiconductor, metal-semiconductor contacts, pn junctions, bipolar transistors, and MOS field-effect transistors. This course will discuss properties that are significant to device operation for integrated circuits, and silicon device fabrication technology.

10) Introduction to Digital Integrated Circuits (UC Berkeley)
This course is an introduction to digital integrated circuits. The material will cover CMOS devices and manufacturing technology along with CMOS inverters and gates. Other topics include propagation delay, noise margins, power dissipation, and regenerative logic circuits. This course will look at various design styles and architectures as well as the issues that designers must face, such as technology scaling and the impact of interconnect. Examples presented in class include arithmetic circuits, semiconductor memories, and other novel circuits.

11) Analog Integrated Circuits (UC Berkeley)
Linear Integrated Circuits - Single and multiple stage transistor amplifiers. Operational amplifiers. Feedback amplifiers, 2-port formulation, source, load, and feedback network loading. Frequency response of cascaded amplifiers, gain-bandwidth exchange, compensation, dominant pole techniques, root locus. Supply and temperature independent biasing and references.

12) Analog ICs (NPTEL)
The course covers lessons in Basic Building Blocks In Analog ICs, Current Mirrors, Differential Amplifier, Cascade Amplifier, IC Voltage Regulator, Switched Mode Regulator And Operational, Analog Multipliers, Voltage Controlled Oscillator, Phase Locked Loop, Current Mode ICs.

13) Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits (UC Berkeley)
Analysis and optimized design of integrated analog systems and building blocks. Specific topics include operational and wide-band amplifiers, gain-bandwidth and power considerations, analysis of noise in integrated circuits, low noise design, feedback, precision passive elements, analog switches, comparators, CMOS voltage references, non-idealities such as matching and supply/IO/substrate coupling.

14) High-Speed Electrical Interface Circuit Design (UC Berkeley)
This course focuses on the design of the signaling, timing, and peripheral circuitry used in modern high-speed electrical interfaces. The system-level requirements placed on these links by their operating environment will be reviewed and used to highlight the implications on link architecture, performance, and power consumption. Detailed design aspects of high-speed transmitters, receivers, equalizers (transmit, receive, linear, decision-feedback), timing generation and recovery circuits (phase interpolators, PLLs, DLLs), and supporting subsystems (supply regulators, on-chip termination, adaptation) are covered.

15) RF Integrated Circuits (NPTEL)
This course will develop electronic circuits for radio frequency applications, specific to CMOS integrated circuits. As the course title suggests, the course will be specific to CMOS integrated circuits, and specific to radio frequencies. In particular, the course will focus on circuits for radio front-ends for mobile phone handsets. The course will cover low noise amplifiers, mixers, power amplifiers, frequency synthesizers (and phase locked loops).

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