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Electrical and Computer Engineering

18-220 – Electronic Devices and Analog Circuits

12 units

This course covers fundamental topics that are common to a wide variety of electrical engineering devices and systems. The topics include an introduction to semiconductor devices and technology, DC circuit analysis techniques, operational amplifiers, energy storage elements, sinusoidal steady-state response, frequency domain analysis, filters, and transient response of first- and second-order systems. The laboratories allow students to use modern electronic instrumentation and to build and operate circuits that address specific concepts covered in the lectures, including semiconductor devices and sensors, layout, operational amplifiers, filters, signal detection and processing, power converters and circuit transients.

3 hrs. lec., 1 hr. rec., 3 hrs. lab.

Prerequisite: 18-100. Corequisite: 18-202.

Prerequisite for: 18-300, 18-310, 18-321, 18-322, 18-396, 18-418, 18-493

Last updated on August 19, 2009

ECE classifications

Undergraduate areas

Circuits

Undergraduate designations

Core

This course is currently being offered.

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Upcoming offerings

S10

Past semesters

S09, F08, S08, F07, S07, F06, S06, F05, S05, F04

Please note that the course history information is incomplete and/or may reflect different courses offered under the same course number.



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