2. Resources (Where to read from)
1.
Circuit laws: Ohms law,
KCL, KVL Engineering Circuit Analysis by William H. Hayt
& Jack E. Kemmerly
2.
Circuit theorems:
Thevenin;s theorem, Norton's theorem, Maximum power transfer theorem,
Superposition, Reciprocity, Source transformation. Engineering Circuit Analysis by William H. Hayt
& Jack E. Kemmerly
3.
System properties:
Causality, time in-variance, BIBO stability, linearity Engineering Circuit Analysis by William H. Hayt
& Jack E. Kemmerly
4. The tools of Fourier and Laplace transform of
common signals, Bode plots
Engineering Circuit Analysis by William H. Hayt & Jack E. Kemmerly
5. First order RC circuits: Should be able to
write/graph time domain and frequency domain response to input impulse, input
step, and input sinusoid without calculation / pen paper analysis.
6. Should be able to tell approximate pole
locations at each of the nodes of any order RC network.
Should be done with pen, paper and lot of example circuits and lot of patience.
7. Step response of second order series and
parallel RLC circuits.
8. Basic charge pump architecture related
questions.
9. Concept of negative feedback, concept of
stability, stability criterion, gain and phase margin and their limitations,
open and closed loop transfer functions, properties of feedback ( impedance
modification, bandwidth modification, gain desensitization) Analog IC design lectures- Nagendra Krishnapura
(available on YouTube)
10.Ideal opamp as a building block, inverting and
non-inverting configurations. Engineering
Circuit Analysis by William H. Hayt & Jack E. Kemmerly
11.Controlled sources: CCCS, CCVS, VCCS, VCVS,
terminal impedances, achieving these using negative feedback. Analog circuits lectures- Nagendra Krishnapura
(available on YouTube)
12.Concept of biasing, linearizing and small-signal
analysis. Analog circuits lectures-
Nagendra Krishnapura (available on YouTube)
13.Point 12 applied to diodes and MOSFETS. Analog circuits lectures- Nagendra Krishnapura
(available on YouTube)
14.Basic circuit topologies: common source, common
gate, common drain, cascode etc. Behzad Razhavi
15.Characterization (i.e. how are they measured?)
of mismatch and noise, understand why they are of concern to designers, how
they are calculated in different circuit elements (MOSFETS, resistors etc.) and
circuit/ design techniques to minimize them. Behzad Razhavi
17.Realizing controlled sources using MOSFETS.
18.Realizing opamps using MOSFETS. Different architectures: single stage differential to single ended- normal, telescopic cascode, folded cascode, two and more stage amplifiers.
19.Instability and compensation in two and more stage opamps: Miller, Ahuja, Feed-forward
20.Fully differential amplifiers.
