Operational Amplifier Design
(2-0-3-3)
CMPE Degree: This course is Elective for the CMPE degree.
EE Degree: This course is Elective for the EE degree.
Lab Hours: 3 supervised lab hours and 0 unsupervised lab hours.
Technical Interest Group(s) / Course Type(s): Electronic Design and Applications
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Prerequisites: ECE 3041 [min C] or ECE 3043 [min C]
Catalog Description
Analysis and design techniques for the utilization of integrated circuitoperational amplifiers for applications in electronic systems.
Course Outcomes
- Describe operational amplifiers (op-amps) fundamentals and their applications.
- Analyze and design of op-amp based feedback circuits with various inverting and non-inverting configurations.
- Design linear op-amp circuits, including amplifiers, I-V/V-I converters, instrumentation amplifiers, integrators, differentiators.
- Describe the static and dynamic limitations of practical op amps, their causes, and their impacts on application circuits based on op-amps.
- Demonstrate basic filter theory, filter responses, and filter synthesis techniques.
- Analyze and design of various continuous-time active filter designs based on op amps.
- Analyze and design of discrete-time circuits (switched capacitor circuits) based on op amps.
- Analyze and design of nonlinear circuits (e.g., comparators, Schmitt triggers, rectifiers, and peak detectors) based on op amps.
Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs)
Not Applicable
Topical Outline
Properties of Op-Amps
The ideal op-amp. Open-loop gain, input resistance, and output
resistance.
Ideal Op-Amp Circuits
Inverting and non-inverting amplifiers. Differential input and output
amplifiers. Integrators and differentiators. Single-pole low-pass and
high-pass amplifiers. The op-amp as a comparator.
Op-Amp Active Filters
Filter transfer functions. Butterworth, Chebyshev, Thompson, and
elliptic approximations. Sallen-Key, infinite-gain-multi-feedback, state
variable, generalized impedance converter, and switched capacitor
topologies.
Nonlinear Applications
Precision rectifier, peak detector, wave-shaping, and log-converter
circuits.
Characteristics of Non-Ideal Op-Amps
Open-loop transfer function, bandwidth, gian-bandwith product, slew rate,
power bandwidth, clipping, rise time, offset voltages and currents,
stability, frequency compensation, noise.
Op-Amp Signal Generator Circuits
Sine-wave oscillators, triangle-wave generators, square-wave generators,
and pulse generators.
Other Applications of op-Amps
Applications to digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters,
electronic switching circuits, voltage-to-current converters, and
voltage-to-frequency and frequency-to-voltage converters.