School Of EngineeringElectronicsWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 300025.2
Discipline: ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
Student Contribution Band: 2
Level: 2
Credit Points: 10
Assumed Knowledge
Topics associated with the unit 300464 - Physics and Materials: Vibrations and wave phenomena; Photoelectric effect, atomic structure and periodic table; Electricity and magnetism.
Prerequisite
300021 Electrical Fundamentals
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Students should have a sound understanding of: The basic principles of analysing an electric circuit; Kirchhoff's Voltage and Current laws and their use in electric circuits; Nodal analysis, mesh analysis and superposition analysis in DC electric circuits; Thevenin and Norton equivalent and their use in electric circuits; The storage elements capacitor and inductor and understand their performance in first and second order circuits.
About this Unit
This unit further develops skills in the analysis, design, practical implementation and testing of the main analogue electronic circuits. Topics covered are: semiconductor diodes and their applications, Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT), Field Effect Transistors (FET), analysis of BJT and FET, design of discrete operational amplifiers, and operational amplifier characteristics and circuit configurations.