Diode Circuits: Diode clipping and clamping circuits.
Transistor biasing and stabilization: Operating point, analysis and design of fixed bias circuit, self- bias circuit, Emitter stabilized bias circuit, voltage divider bias circuit, stability factor of different biasing circuits. Problems. Transistor switching circuits.
Transistor at low frequencies: BJT transistor modelling, CE fixed bias configuration, voltage divider bias, emitter follower, CB configuration, collector feedback configuration, analysis using h – parameter model, relation between h – parameters model of CE, CC and CB modes, Millers theorem and its dual.
Multistage amplifiers: Cascade and cascode connections, Darlington circuits, analysis and design.
Feedback amplifiers: Feedback concept, different types, practical feedback circuits, analysis and design of feedback circuits.
Power amplifiers: Amplifier types, analysis and design of different power amplifiers,
Oscillators: Principle of operation, analysis and derivation of frequency of oscillation of phase shift oscillator, Wien bridge oscillator, RF and crystal oscillator and frequencystability.
FETs: Construction, working and characteristics of JFET and MOSFET. Biasing of JFET and MOSFET. Analysis and design of JFET (only common source configuration with fixed bias) and MOSFET amplifiers