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Gujarat Technological University: Basic Electronics 1 Year Subject Code: 3110016

This document outlines the curriculum for a basic electronics course, including 6 topics that cover diodes, transistors, special purpose devices, AC analysis, FETs, and digital circuits. Students will learn circuit design and testing skills through both theory and laboratory experiments. The goal is for students to gain fundamental knowledge of electronics that can be applied across various engineering disciplines.

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Gujarat Technological University: Basic Electronics 1 Year Subject Code: 3110016

This document outlines the curriculum for a basic electronics course, including 6 topics that cover diodes, transistors, special purpose devices, AC analysis, FETs, and digital circuits. Students will learn circuit design and testing skills through both theory and laboratory experiments. The goal is for students to gain fundamental knowledge of electronics that can be applied across various engineering disciplines.

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GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

BASIC ELECTRONICS
1st Year
Subject Code: 3110016

Type of course: Engineering Science

Prerequisite: High School Education & Physics

Rationale: Electronics is playing a key role in all engineering applications. All engineers should have basic
knowledge of electronics. Purpose of this subject is make students familiar with basic electronics concepts.
Students will be able to operate electronic test and measurement equipment like multi-meter, CRO, DC
power supply and function generator.

Teaching and Examination Scheme:

Teaching Scheme Credits Examination Marks Total


L T P C Theory Marks Practical Marks Marks
ESE (E) PA (M) ESE (V) PA (I)
3 0 2 4 70 30 30 20 150

Content:

Sr. Content Total % Weightage


No. Hrs

1 Diode theory and applications 10 20%


Basic idea about forward bias, reverse bias and VI characteristics, ideal
diode, second and third approximation, surface mount diodes, Zener diode,
Testing of diode with multi-meter, half wave rectifier, full wave rectifier,
bridge rectifier, RC and LC filters, Design of un-regulated DC power supply,
Clipping circuit, Clamping circuit, voltage multiplier circuit, Reading
datasheet of semiconductor diode.

2 Bipolar junction transistors and its biasing 10 20%


BJT operation, BJT voltages and currents, CE, CB and CC characteristics,
DC load line and bias point, base bias, emitter feedback bias, collector
feedback bias, voltage divider bias, Thermal stability, biasing BJT switching
circuits, transistor power dissipation and switching time, Testing of bipolar
junction transistor with multi-meter, Reading datasheet of BJT.

3 Special purpose diodes and transistors 4 10%

Light emitting diode (LED). Zener diode, Zener diode circuit for voltage
regulation, Photo diode, Solar cell, PIN diode, Varactor, Schottky diode,
Varistors, Tunnel diode, Seven Segment display, Sixteen segment display,
Identify segments on pin using multi-meter, Dot-matrix LED display, Photo
transistor, Opto-coupler, Reading datasheet of opto-electronics devices

4 AC Analysis of BJT circuits and small signal amplifier 10 20%


Coupling and bypass capacitors, AC load lines, Transistor models and
parameters, Common emitter circuit analysis, common base circuit analysis,
common collector circuit analysis, Comparison of CE, CB and CC circuits,
Transistor as a switch

5 Field effect transistors (FET) and its biasing 10 20%


Junction field effect transistors(JFET), Comparison of BJT and FET, JFET
characteristics, FET, Biasing in ohmic region and active region, Trans-
conductance, amplification and switching, MOSFETs (D-type and E-type
MOSFET), CMOS introduction, E-MOSFET amplifier. MOSFET testing,
Reading datasheet for FET and MOSFET.

6 Digital Circuits 4 10%


Basic gates AND, OR,NOT, NAND, NOR, EX-OR, EX-NOR, Building
AND, OR Gate with diodes, Digital logic families RTL, DTL, TTL, CMOS,
Comparison of logic families

Suggested Specification table with Marks (Theory):

Distribution of Theory Marks

R Level U Level A Level N Level E Level C Level


15 % 15 % 20 % 20% 15 % 15 %

Legends: R: Remembrance; U: Understanding; A: Application, N: Analyze and E: Evaluate C:


Create and above Levels (Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy)

Note: This specification table shall be treated as a general guideline for students and teachers. The actual
distribution of marks in the question paper may vary slightly from above table.

Reference Books:

[1] David A. Bell, “Electronic Devices and Circuits”, Oxford University Press, Fifth edition

[2] Albert Malvino & David, “Electronic Principles”, Tata McGraw-Hill, Seventh edition

[3] R. L. Boylestad and L. Nashelsky, “Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory”, Pearson Education

[4] Jaccob Millman, Chritos Halkias, Chetan D Parikh, “Integrated Electronics”, Tata McGraw-Hill,
Second edition

[5] Albert Malvino & David, “Problems and Solutions in Basic Electronics, McGraw Hill Education
Course Outcome s:

After learning the course the students should be able to:

 Obtain VI characteristics of semiconductor diode


 Design and test diode rectifier circuits
 Draw and observe waveforms of clamper and clipper circuits
 Understand transistor characteristics, configuration and biasing methods
 Compare transistor CE, CB and CC circuits
 Design, construct and test transistor amplifier circuit
 Plot characteristics of FET and MOSFET
 Test passive electronic components
 Use multi-meter to measure voltage, current and resistance
 Use CRO to observe waveforms and measure amplitude and frequency
 Use open source software like eSIM for simulation of basic electronics circuits

List of Experiments:

(General guidelines.. Institute may change list of experiments)

 To measure DC voltage and current, AC voltage and current with multi-meter

 To observe waveforms on oscilloscope, measure basic parameters amplitude and frequency of sine
wave and square wave.

 Obtain VI characteristics of semiconductor rectifier diode, LED, Photo-diode

 To observe waveform at the output of half wave rectifier with and without filter capacitor. To
measure DC voltage, DC current, ripple factor with and without filter capacitor

 To observe waveform at the output of full wave rectifier with and without filter capacitor. To
measure DC voltage, DC current, ripple factor with and without filter capacitor

 To observe waveform at the output of bridge rectifier with and without filter capacitor. To measure
DC voltage, DC current, ripple factor with and without filter capacitor

 To construct clamper circuits on breadboard and To observe waveforms at the output of clamper
circuits

 To construct clipper circuits on breadboard and To observe waveforms at the output of clipper
circuits

 Construct AND gate & OR gate with help of diode and verify truth table

 To obtain common emitter characteristics of NPN transistor

 To obtain common base characteristics of NPN transistor

 To obtain common collector characteristics of NPN transistor

 To design common emitter amplifier and construct circuit on breadboard. Measure gain at different
frequencies and plot frequency response
 To understand working of transistor as a switch. To draw DC load line for given circuit.

 To observe input-output waveforms of common collector (CC) amplifier. To measure gain of


amplifier at different frequencies and plot frequency response

 To obtain characteristics of field effect transistor (FET)

 To measure gain of FET common source (CS) amplifier

 Verify truth table of basic digital logic gates OR, AND, NOT, NAND, NOR, EX-OR, EX-NOR

 To test individual circuit prepared by the student (Get circuit from the faculty, build it, draw circuit
diagram and test it in the laboratory. Write test results in this practical)

Design based Problems (DP)/Open Ended Problem:


1. Design and test unregulated +12V DC power supply using transformer, bridge rectifier and
capacitor filter.
2. Design +5V DC power supply, Current capacity 1A without using transformer
3. Design circuit to obtain +15V out of +5V
4. Design common emitter amplifier circuit to provide gain 20 dB
5. Design and test listening bug
6. Design and test electronic switch using transistor and electromagnetic relay

Major Equipment:

1. CRO
2. Function generator
3. DC Power Suppy
4. Bread board and discrete electronics components

List of Open Source Software/learning website:

 http://nptel.ac.in/syllabus/117103063/
 https://swayam.gov.in/course/3595-basic-electronics
 eSIM available on FOSSEE website: https://fossee.in/

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