Rajalakshmi College of Engineering, Thandalam,Chennai

Department Of Electronics and Communication

SUBJECT: ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS II

SUBJECT CODE: EC 2251
STAFF IN CHARGE: H.RADHIKA
CLASS: II YEAR / IV SEM / ECE A

AIM

The aim of this course is to familiarize the student with the analysis and design of feed
back amplifiers, oscillators, tuned amplifiers, wave shaping circuits, multivibrators and
blocking oscillators.

OBJECTIVES

On completion of this course the student will understand

• The advantages and method of analysis of feedback amplifiers
• Analysis and design of LC and RC oscillators, tuned amplifiers, wave shaping
circuits, multivibrators, blocking oscillators and time base generators.

UNIT 1 FEEDBACK AMPLIFIERS 9

Block diagram, Loop gain, Gain with feedback, Effects of negative feedback – Sensitivity
and desensitivity of gain, Cut-off frequencies, distortion, noise, input impedance and
output impedance with feedback, Four types of negative feedback connections – voltage
series feedback, voltage shunt feedback, current series feedback and current shunt
feedback, Method of identifying feedback topology and feedback factor, Nyquist criterion
for stability of feedback amplifiers.

UNIT II OSCILLATORS 9

Classification, Barkhausen Criterion - Mechanism for start of oscillation and stabilization

of amplitude, General form of an Oscillator, Analysis of LC oscillators - Hartley, Colpitts,
Clapp, Franklin, Armstrong, Tuned collector oscillators, RC oscillators - phase shift –
Wienbridge - Twin-T Oscillators, Frequency range of RC and LC Oscillators, Quartz
Crystal Construction, Electrical equivalent circuit of Crystal, Miller and Pierce Crystal
oscillators, frequency stability of oscillators.

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

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cascading single tuned and double tuned amplifiers on bandwidth – Stagger tuned
amplifiers – large signal tuned amplifiers – Class C tuned amplifier – Efficiency and
applications of Class C tuned amplifier - Stability of tuned amplifiers – Neutralization -
Hazeltine neutralization method.

UNIT IV WAVE SHAPING AND MULTIVIBRATOR CIRCUITS 9

RC & RL Integrator and Differentiator circuits – Storage, Delay and Calculation of

Transistor Switching Times – Speed-up Capaitor - Diode clippers, Diode comparator -
Clampers. Collector coupled and Emitter coupled Astable multivibrator - Monostable
multivibrator - Bistable multivibrators - Triggering methods for Bistable multivibrators -
Schmitt trigger circuit.

UNIT V BLOCKING OSCILLATORS AND TIMEBASE GENERATORS 9

UJT sawtooth waveform generator, Pulse transformers – equivalent circuit – response -

applications, Blocking Oscillator – Free running blocking oscillator - Astable Blocking
Oscillators with base timing – Push-pull Astable blocking oscillator with emitter timing,
Frequency control using core saturation, Triggered blocking oscillator – Monostable
blocking oscillator with base timing – Monostable blocking oscillator with emitter timing,
Time base circuits - Voltage-Time base circuit, Current-Time base circuit - Linearization
through adjustment of driving waveform.

TUTORIAL= 15 TOTAL = 60

TEXT BOOKS

1. Sedra / Smith, Micro Electronic Circuits Oxford University Press, 2004.

2. S. Salivahanan, N. Suresh Kumar and A. Vallavaraj, Electronic Devices and
Circuits, 2nd Edition, TMH, 2007.

REFERENCES

1. Millman J. and Taub H., Pulse Digital and Switching Waveforms, TMH, 2000.
2. Schilling and Belove, Electronic Circuits, 3rd Edition, TMH, 2002.
3. Robert L. Boylestad and Louis Nasheresky, Electronic Devices and Circuit
Theory, 9th Edition, Pearson Education / PHI, 2002.
4. David A. Bell, Solid State Pulse Circuits, Prentice Hall of India, 1992.
5. Millman and Halkias. C., Integrated Electronics, TMH, 1991.

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Book

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1 Block diagram of Feed back amplifier I R5 410-413
2 Loop gain, Gain with feedback,Desensitivity of I R5 413-418
gain
3 Distortion and Cutoff frequencies with feedback I R5 418-419
4 Four basic feedback topologies & the type of gain I R5 414
stabilized by each type of feedback
5 Input & output resistance with feedback I R5 419-425
6 Method of identifying feedback topology, feedback I R5 425
factor & basic amplifier configuration with loading
effect of feedback n/w taken into account
7 Analysis Of feedback amplifier I R5 425-445
1.Voltage series feedback
2.current series feedback
3.Voltage shunt feedback
4.Current shunt feedback
8 Nyquist Criterion for stability of Feedback I R5 471-474
amplifier
9 Barkhausen Criterion. Mechanism for start of II R3 789-790
oscillation and stabilization Of amplitude
10 Analysis of oscillator using cascade connection II R5 487-488
of one RC and CR filters
11 RC phase shift Oscillator II R2 534-536
12 Wein bridge Oscillator
13 Twin T Oscillator II T2 530-531
14 Analysis Of LC Oscillator II R3 795-796
15 Colpitts oscillator II R2 539-541
16 Hartley oscillator
17 Clapp ,Miller , Pierce Oscillator II R3 799-801
18 Frequency range of RC & LC oscillator II T2 536
19 Quartz crystal construction & its equivalent circuit II R3 798-800
Crystal oscillator circuits
20 Coil losses, unloaded and loaded Q of tank circuits III T2 451-455
21 Analysis of single tuned amplifier III R2 474-484
22 Analysis of synchronously tuned amplifiers III R2 484-487
23 Instability of tuned amplifiers III T2 479
24 Stabilization techniques III T2 479-482
25 Narrow band neutralization using coil III T2 482-483

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26 Broad banding using Hazeltine neutralization III T2 483-484
27 Class C tuned amplifier & its applications III T2 477-479
28 Efficiency of Class C tuned amplifiers III T2 478
29 RC Circuits, integrator and differentiator circuits IV R1 28-50
30 RL Circuits IV R1 55-56
31 Diode Clippers, slicers IV R1 226-231
32 Clampers IV R1 262-266
33 Collector coupled astable multivibrator IV R1 438-441
34 Emitter coupled astable multivibrator IV R1 445-451
35 Monostable multivibrator IV R1 415-422
36 Bistable multivibrator IV R1 367-375
37 Triggering methods IV R1 380-387
38 Storage delay and calculation of switching times IV R1 375-378
Speed up capacitors
39 Schmitt trigger circuit IV R1 389-394
40 Pulse transformers V R1 64-69
41 Frequency control using core saturation V R1 606-608
42 Monostable Blocking oscillator using base timing V R1 597-601
43 Monostable Blocking oscillator using emitter timing V R1 601-606
44 Astable blocking oscillator V R1 609-617
45 UJT sawtooth generators V R1 500-501
46 Bootstrap and Miller sawtooth generators V R1 535-540
47 Current time base generator V R1 571-573
48 Linearization using constant current circuit V R1 573-576
49 Push pull operation of astable blocking oscillator V R3 601-603

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