Course focuses on circuit analysis with elements of introductory electronics and signal processing. Preceded by ECE110 — Electrical Fundamentals, followed by ECE231 — Introductory Electronics and ECE216 — Signals and Systems. We used the Design and Analysis of Linear Circuits (10th edition) textbook by Thomas, Rosa, and Toussaint.
Really cool course. Prof Najm taught my section — and it was thoroughly solid for building up the foundations of why we did certain things in ECE110.
It’s a good idea to learn LTspice and in the latter half of the course to use MATLAB to do computations and verify answers. Both are powerful tools in their own right.
Concepts covered
Linear resistive circuits
- Electrical circuit
- Kirchhoff’s laws
- Nodal analysis
- Mesh analysis
- Linearity
- Superposition
- Equivalence (source transformation)
- Thevenin’s theorem and Norton’s theorem
Operational amplifiers
- Transfer characteristic
- Divider circuit
- Amplifier and operational amplifier
- Buffer amplifier (voltage follower)
- Analogue adder
- Differential amplifier
- Comparator
- Transimpedance amplifier (current to voltage converter)
- Differentiator
- Integrator
Linear dynamic circuits
- Differential equation (linear, ordinary, constant coefficients)
- Capacitor and inductor
- Unit step function
- First-order transient circuit
- RLC circuit (second-order transient circuit, series, parallel)
Sinusoidal steady state
- Complex number
- Sinusoid
- Phasor analysis
- Kirchhoff’s laws
- Mesh, nodal analysis
- Thevenin’s and Norton’s theorems
- Superposition
- Transformer (device)
- Root-mean-square
- Power grid
- Power analysis
- Power factor (angle)
- Power triangle
- Rating
Frequency domain analysis
- Laplace transform
- Frequency domain
- Network function
- Transfer function
- Decibel
- Bode plot
- Frequency response
- Active filter