This course was originally designed for an intensive classroom course, but has been adapted to the online format for all of you to study. It covers everything from basic electronic physics to basic components and all the way to digital electronics.
Basics:
- Intuitive electronics concepts
- Voltage source model
- Electron current and conventional current flow
- Resistance: opposing the flow of current
- Ohm's law
- Series and parallel circuits
- Conductance
- Storing energy: Capacitance
- Time and delays: RC time constant
- Diode: Most basic semiconductor device
- The bridge rectifier
- The zener diode
- Light Emitting Diodes, LED's
- Bipolar transistors
- Emitter follower or common collector amplifier
- Common emitter transistor amplifier
- Transistor operating point or biasing
- Field effect transistor, FET
- Junction FET, JFET
- Metal-Oxide Semiconductor FET, MOSFET
- CMOS: Complimentary MOSFET
- The Operational Amplifier, OPAMP
- Negative feedback overview
- Opamp inverting amplifier
- Opamp non-inverting amplifier
- Opamp Difference amplifier
- Opamp Summing amplifier
- Non-linear circuits: Opamp Integrator
- Non-linear circuits: Opamp Differentiator
- Opamp simple comparator
- Opamp window comparator
- Opamp Schmitt trigger