1. Circuit abstraction: small number of simple elements to describe a wide variety of electronic circuits
2. Time and frequency domain representations: steady state analysis, energy storing elements
3. Analog and digital signal representations: amplitude quantization, dynamic range, electronic noise
4. Engineering tradeoffs: power, speed, accuracy
Specific Subjects Learned:
1. Electrical variables: charge, voltage, current, power, energy, resistance, impedance, frequency
2. Node-voltage analysis: including controlled sources and ideal operational amplifiers, no floating voltage sources
3. Operational amplifier based gain-stages: ideal opamps, concept of negative feedback, no stability analysis
4. Energy storing devices: capacitors and inductors
5. Time-domain analysis: 1st order RC and RL response
6. Steady state frequency domain analysis: phasors, Laplace transform notation – without the math, transfer functions, Bode plots
7. Analog / Digital signals: signal representations, ADC, DAC, digital circuits, sampling not covered)
8. Circuit simulation: SPICE / Multisim, dc, ac, transient analysis |