Reading Assignments
chapter 1: 1.1 Signal, 1.2 Frequency spectrum of signals, 1.3 Analog and digital signals, 1.4.1 Signal amplification, 1.4.2 Aplifier circuit symbol, 1.4.3 Voltage gain, 1.4.4 Power gain and current gain, 1.4.5 Gain in DB, 1.4.6 Amplifier power supply, 1.4.7 Amplifier saturation, 1.4.8 Symbol convention
chapter 3: 3.1 Intrinsic Semiconductors 3.2 Doped Semiconductors 3.3 Current Flow in Semiconductors (Drift and Diffusion) 3.4 PN junction in open circuit depletion region built-in voltage (Eq3.22) depletion region width (Eq. 3.26) and its extension into n and p regions (Eq 3.27, 3.28) 3.5 Biased PN Junction 3.5.1 Qualitative description of junction operation 3.5.2 Forward bias IV equation (Eq 3.39 and 3.40) (you don't need to worry about derivation here just need to know the IV equation and what it means) 3.5.3 Reverse Breakdown (Zener and Avalanche) 3.6 PN Junction Capacitance (Eq 3.48 and 3.49)
chapter 4: 4.1 Ideal Diode 4.2 Terminal characteristics of junction diodes 4.3 Modeling of diode forward characteristic 4.4 Operation in the reverse breakdown region (zener diodes)
chapter 4: 4.5 Rectifier circuits 4.6 Limiting and Clamping circuits
chapter 6: 6.1 BJT Device Structure and Physical Operation (pages 352-365) 6.2 Current Voltage Characteristics of BJT 6.3 BJT Bias circuits
chapter 5: 5.1 MOSFET device structure and physical operation 5.2 MOSFET current voltage characteristics
Chapter 6: 6.4 Applying the BJT in amplifier design 6.5 Small signal operations and model
chapter 6: 6.6 basic BJT amplifier configuration
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