Catalog Description: Single and multiple stage transistor amplifiers. Operational amplifiers. Feedback amplifiers, 2-port formulation, source, load, and feedback network loading. Frequency response of cascaded amplifiers, gain-bandwidth exchange, compensation, dominant pole techniques, root locus. Supply and temperature independent biasing and references. Selected applications of analog circuits such as analog-to-digital converters, switched capacitor filters, and comparators.

Units: 4

Prerequisites: MAS-IC students only.

Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for EE W240A after taking EE 140 or EE 240A.

Formats:
Summer: 4.5 hours of web-based lecture and 1.5 hours of web-based discussion per week
Fall: 3 hours of web-based lecture and 1 hour of web-based discussion per week
Spring: 3 hours of web-based lecture and 1 hour of web-based discussion per week

Grading basis: letter

Final exam status: Written final exam conducted during the scheduled final exam period

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