The Design and Testing of Analog Amplifiers

Please note that each individual lab is a stepping stone to the next lab and all the hardware constructed will eventually be used to form a single circuit.  Please do not dismantle you circuits until the course is complete.

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Lab 1: Design and Verification of a Voltage and Current Reference Circuit

Description: Investigate the operation of a voltage and current reference circuit through a transistor-level simulator. Use any one of the many freely-available SPICE tools such as PSPICE, LTSPICE or TINA-TI.

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Lab Report Submission Date: Friday Sept. 20th

Lab 2: Design and Verification of Single-Transistor BJT Amplifiers with Voltage and Current Source Biasing

Description:  Design, simulate and characterize the operation of a single-transistor BJT amplifier circuits through a transistor-level simulator. Use any one of the many freely-available SPICE tools such as PSPICE, LTSPICE or TINA-TI.

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Lab Report Submission Date: Friday Sep. 27th

Lab 3: Design, Simulation and Verification of a High-Gain Single-Stage Differential Amplifier

Description:  Design and validate the operation of a high-gain single-stage differential amplifier to have a nominal voltage gain of 250 V/V using a discrete prototype involving commercially available BJT transistors.

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Lab Report Submission Date: Friday Oct. 11th

Lab 4: Design, Simulation and Verification of a Class AB Output Stage

Description:  Design, simulate and validate the operation of a class AB output amplifier using a discrete prototype involving commercially available BJT transistors.

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Lab Report Submission Date: Friday Nov. 1st

Lab 5: Design, Simulation and Verification of an Interface (Buffer) Circuit Between a Differential Amplifier and Class AB Output Stage

Description:  Design a BJT circuit that maximizes the gain of a multistage cascade consisting of a front-end differential amplifier and a class-AB output amplifier, and further establish the correct DC biasing of the two stages so that the maximum output signal swing is made possible. 

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Lab Report Submission Date: Friday Nov. 15th

Lab 6: Design, Simulation and Verification of a General-Purpose Operational Amplifier

Description:  Design, simulate and validate the operation of a general-purpose operational amplifier using a discrete prototype involving commercially available BJT transistors.  The student will draw much of their design from the work performed in the previous labs of this course.

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Lab Report Submission Date: Wednesday Dec. 4ths