ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND

CIRCUITS
Lecture 1
OUTLINE

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 Instructor’s Introduction
 Course outline (PLOs, CLOs and Rubrics)
Recommended books

Course Instructor : Salman Ayub Khan


 Marks Distribution
 Attendance Policy

 Brief historical background of electronics

 Types of electronics (digital vs. analog, discrete vs.
integrated)
 Difference between electrical and electronic circuits
 Application areas of electronics
 Career prospects of Electronics field 2
CONTACT DETAILS

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 Email
 salman.ayub@nu.edu.pk

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 Office:
 EE FYP Lab, Basement

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COURSE INFORMATION

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 EE1004 – Electronic Devices and Circuits (EDC)
 3 + 1 Credit Hours

Course Instructor : Salman Ayub Khan

 2 Lectures every week (1.5 hour each)

 3 hours of Lab work every week

 Pre Req. EE115 – Linear Circuit Analysis

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ASSIGNED PROGRAM LEARNING
OUTCOMES

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 Problem Analysis
 An ability to identify, formulate, research literature,
and analyze complex engineering problems reaching

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substantiated conclusions using first principles of
mathematics, natural sciences and engineering
sciences

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 COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

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Taxono
PL Domai
No. CLO Statement my Tool
O n
Level

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Analyze useful diode-based
Cognitiv A, Q,
1 circuits containing up to four 2 4
e M
diode elements.
Analyze BJT circuits, with
respect to DC, AC and Biasing Cognitiv A, Q,
2 2 4
point of view, containing up to e M, F
two BJT elements.
Analyze MOSFET circuits,
with respect to DC, AC and
Cognitiv A, Q,
3 Biasing point of view, 2 4
e M, F
containing up to 2 MOSFET
elements.
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RECOMMENDED BOOKS

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 Text Book(s)
 Microelectronic Circuits by Adel S. Sedra &
Kenneth C. Smith 6th Edition

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 Electronic Devices by Thomas L. Floyd 9th Edition

 Reference Book(s)
 Fundamentals of Microelectronics by Behzad
Razavi 2nd Edition
 Grob’s Basic Electronics by M. E. Schultz

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MARKS DISTRIBUTION

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Quizzes (4 - 5) 10%

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Mid Term I 15%
Mid Term II 15%
Assignments (3 – 5) 10%
Final 50%
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Total 100%

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ATTENDANCE POLICY

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 In order to appear in final exam, 80%
attendance is must, and there will be zero
tolerance on attendance

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 Attendance will be called at the start of every
class and you will be marked as absent if you are
more than 20 minutes late
 Only excuses obtained officially are accepted.
Personal excuses are not accepted. No make-up
tests/quizzes/exams will be provided until
instructed by academic committee

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GENERAL GUIDELINES

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 Some of the quizzes will be unannounced
 You are free to ask relevant questions during the
lecture

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 Use of mobile phones/tablets/laptops is strictly not
allowed
 OBE based grading scheme will be applied and
you have to pass all the CLOs to pass the course
 Partially or fully copied assignments/reports will be
marked as ZERO
 There will be no extension in the deadlines

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COURSE CONTENTS AND
RUBRICS
Refer to the Course Outline and Rubric document
NOW LETS START THE COURSE
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WHAT IS ELECTRONICS?

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 Electronics, branch of physics and electrical
engineering that deals with the emission,
behavior, and effects of electrons and with

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electronic devices
 It came to be used in its broader sense with
advances in knowledge about the fundamental
nature of electrons and about the way in which
the motion of these particles could be utilized

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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND (1/3)

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 Electronics’ actual history began with the invention of
vacuum diode by J.A. Fleming, in 1897; and, in 1906, a
vacuum triode was implemented by Lee De Forest to
amplify electrical signals. This led to the introduction of

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tetrode and pentode tubes that dominated the world until
the World War II
 Subsequently, the transistor era began with the junction
transistor invention in 1948 and this invention got the
Nobel prize
 Transistors was then later replaced by bulky vacuum tubes
 Later on the use of germanium (1950s) and silicon (1960s)
semiconductor materials made the transistors gain the
popularity and wide-acceptance usage in different electronic
circuits
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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND (2/3)

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 And the trend further carried forward with the
JFETS and MOSFETs that were developed during
1951 to 1958 by improving the device designing

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process and by making more reliable and powerful
transistors
 The subsequent years (1958 – 1975) witnessed the
invention of the integrated circuits (ICs) that
drastically changed the electronic circuits’ nature as
the entire electronic circuit got integrated on a single
chip, which resulted in low: cost, size and weight
electronic devices
 Digital integrated circuits were yet another robust IC
development that changed the overall architecture of
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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND (3/3)

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 All these radical changes in all these components
led to the introduction of microprocessor in 1969
by Intel

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 Soon after, the analog integrated circuits were
developed that introduced an operational
amplifier for an analog signal processing. These
analog circuits include analog multipliers, ADC
and DAC converters and analog filters

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EVOLUTION OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES

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 Vacuum Diode → Vacuum Triode → Vacuum
Tetrode and Pentode tubes → Germanium
Transistors → Silicon Transistors → JFETS →

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MOSFETS → Integrated Circuits (ICs) → Digital
Integrated Circuits → Microprocessor → Analog
ICs

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TYPES OF ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS (1/2)

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 Digital Electronics  Analog Electronics
 In digital electronic  Analog electronic circuits
circuits, electric signals are those in which

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take on discrete values, current or voltage may
to represent logical and vary continuously with
numeric values time to correspond to the
 Mostly binary encoding information being
is used represented
 Transistors are used to  Wires, resistors,
form the logic gates capacitors, inductors,
 SRAM, DRAM, Flip
diodes, and transistors
Flops, Counters, MUX are used
are examples  Amplifiers, ADC and
DAC are examples
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TYPES OF ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS (2/2)

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 Discrete Electronics  Integrated
 Constructed of components Electronics
which are manufactured  An integrated circuit
separately is a microscopic array
 Later, these components are of electronic circuits

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connected together by using and electronic
conducted wires on a circuit components
board or a PCB (resistors, capacitors,
 The transistor is one of the inductors…) that are
primary components used in diffused or implanted
discrete circuits into the surface of
semiconductor
 And combinations of these material wafer such
transistors can be used to create as silicon
logic gates
 All the components
 These logic gates can be used to are fabricated on chip
obtain the desired output from
an input  Mostly designed to
operate on small
 Discrete circuits can be designed voltages
to operate at higher voltages
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ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
(1/2)

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 Electrical Circuits  Electronic Circuits
 Do Not have decision  Do have decision
making (processing) making (processing)

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capability capability
 An electric circuit  An electronic circuit
simply powers can interpret a signal/
machines with instruction, and
electricity perform a task to suit
 Electrical components the circumstance
tend to be larger, and  Most electronic
use alternating components are very
current (AC) voltages small, and require
small direct current
(DC) voltages
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ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
(2/2)

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 Electrical and Electronic Circuits in a Washing
Machine
A washing machine has an electrical circuit

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
comprising a plug socket, fuse, on/off switch, heater
and motor, which rotates the drum
 The desired wash cycle and temperature are inputted
by the user via the control panel
 These instructions are interpreted by electronic
circuits, which have been designed and programmed
to understand what the user would like based on
what buttons have been pressed
 When the electronic circuit has interpreted these
commands, it sends signals to the electrical circuit to
operate the heater and motor, to heat and rotate the 21
drum, for the time required
APPLICATIONS AREAS OF ELECTRONICS

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 Consumer Electronics
 Office gadgets, home appliances, audio/video systems,
memories
Industrial Electronics

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
 Smart meters, industrial automation
 Medical Sciences
 Respiration meters, digital thermometer, glucose meter,
pace maker
 Defense and Aerospace
 Missile Launching systems, Rocket Launchers for space,
Aircraft systems, Cockpit controllers
 Automotive (Automobiles)
 Anti-collision unit, Anti-lock braking system, Window
regulators, Electronic Control Unit (ECU), Airbag control
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CAREER PROSPECTS OF ELECTRONICS
FIELD

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 You can find work in a variety of areas, as
electronics are used in many things. These areas
include:

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 Automotive
 Defense
 Medical Instruments
 Mobile Phones
 Nanotechnology
 Radio and Satellite Communication
 Robotics
 Telecommunication
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