ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI :: CHENNAI – 600 025
AFFILIATED INSTITUTIONS
B.E. ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
SEMESTER IV
(Regulation 2017)
SYLLABUS
EC8452: ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS - II
UNIT I FEEDBACK AMPLIFIERS AND STABILITY 9
Feedback Concepts – gain with feedback – effect of feedback on gain stability, distortion,
bandwidth, input and output impedances; topologies of feedback amplifiers - analysis of series-
series, shunt-shunt and shunt-series feedback amplifiers-stability problem-Gain and Phase-margins-
Frequency compensation.
UNIT II OSCILLATORS 9
Barkhausen criterion for oscillation – phase shift, Wien bridge - Hartley & Colpitt‘s oscillators
– Clapp oscillator-Ring oscillators and crystal oscillators – oscillator amplitude stabilization.
UNIT III TUNED AMPLIFIERS 9
Coil losses, unloaded and loaded Q of tank circuits, small signal tuned amplifiers – Analysis of
capacitor coupled single tuned amplifier – double tuned amplifier - effect of cascading single
tuned and double tuned amplifiers on bandwidth – Stagger tuned amplifiers - Stability of tuned
amplifiers – Neutralization - Hazeltine neutralization method.
UNIT IV WAVE SHAPING AND MULTIVIBRATOR CIRCUITS 9
Pulse circuits – attenuators – RC integrator and differentiator circuits – diode clampers and
clippers –Multivibrators - Schmitt Trigger- UJT Oscillator.
UNIT V POWER AMPLIFIERS AND DC CONVERTERS 9
Power amplifiers- class A-Class B-Class AB-Class C-Power MOSFET-Temperature Effect-
Class AB Power amplifier using MOSFET –DC/DC convertors – Buck, Boost, Buck-Boost
analysis and design.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Sedra and Smith, “Micro Electronic Circuits”; Sixth Edition, Oxford University Press,
2011. (UNIT I, III, IV, V)
2. Jacob Millman, ‘Microelectronics’, McGraw Hill, 2nd Edition, Reprinted, 2009.
(UNIT I, II, IV, V)
REFERENCES:
1. Robert L. Boylestad and Louis Nasheresky, “Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory”, 10th
Edition, Pearson Education / PHI, 2008
2. David A. Bell, “Electronic Devices and Circuits”, Fifth Edition, Oxford University Press,
2008.
3. Millman J. and Taub H., “Pulse Digital and Switching Waveforms”, TMH, 2000.
4. Millman and Halkias. C., Integrated Electronics, TMH, 2007.