Advanced Electronic Circuits

Active Filters, Frequency response of Major Active filters, First order low-pass Butterworth filter: Filter Design, Frequency Scaling, Second-order low-pass Butterworth filter: First-order high-pass Butterworth filter, Second-order high-pass Butterworth filter, Band-pass filters: Wide band-pass Filter, Narrow Band-Pass Filter, Band-reject filters: Wide Band-Reject Filter, Narrow Band-Reject Filter, All-Pass filter.

Comparators: basic comparator, zero-crossing detector, Schmitt trigger, comparator characteristics, limitations of Op-Amp as comparators, voltage limiters.

Oscillators: Oscillator Principles, Oscillator Types, Quadrature Oscillator, Sawtooth wave generator, Voltage-controlled oscillator

Bistable Multivibrator, fixed-bias bistable multivibrator, Loading, self-biased transistor binary, commutating capacitors, Triggering the binary, Unsymmetrical Triggering of the bistable multivibrator, Triggering Unsymmetrically through a Unilateral Device, Symmetrical Triggering, Triggering of a Bistable Multi Symmetrically without the Use of Auxiliary Diodes, Schmitt Trigger Circuit (Emittercoupled Bistable Multivibrator).

Monostable Multivibrator, Gate Width of a Collector-Coupled Monostable Multivibrator, Waveforms of the Collector-Coupled Monostable Multivibrator, Emitter-Coupled Monostable Multivibrator, Triggering of the Monostable Multivibrator. Astable Collector-Coupled Multivibrator, Emitter-coupled Astable multivibrator.

Voltage Controllable Negative resistance devices, Tunnel Diode operation and characteristics, Monostable Astable, Bistable circuits using tunnel diode, Voltage controlled Negative Resistance Switching Circuits

IC 555 Timer: IC 555 Timer as a Monostable Multivibrator and its applications, IC 555 Timer as Astable Multivibrator and its applications. Phase Locked Loop: Operating principle of PLL, Phase detectors, Exclusive-OR phase detector, Monolithic phase detector, Instrumentation Amplifier and its applications

Time-Base Generators, General features of a Time-base signal, Methods of generating a voltage time-base waveform, Exponential sweep circuit, Miller and bootstrap time base generators-Basic principles, Transistor miller time base generator, Transistor bootstrap time base generator, Current Time-Base Generators, A Simple Current sweep, Linearity Correction through adjustment of driving waveform, Transistor current time base generator