Operational Amplifier Design

(2-0-3-3)

CMPE Degree: This course is Selected Elective for the CMPE degree.

EE Degree: This course is Selected Elective for the EE degree.

Lab Hours: 3 supervised lab hours and 0 unsupervised lab hours.

Technical Interest Groups / Course Categories: Threads / ECE Electives

Course Coordinator: Robert Allen Jr Robinson

Prerequisites: ECE 3041 [min C] or ECE 3043 [min C]

Catalog Description

Analysis and design techniques for the utilization of integrated circuit operational amplifiers for applications in electronic systems.

Textbook(s)

Design with Operational Amplifiers and Analog Integrated Circuits

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)

N/A

Topic List

  1. Properties of Op-Amps
    1. The ideal op-amp.Open-loop gain, input resistance, and output resistance.
  2. Ideal Op-Amp Circuits
    1. 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.
  3. Op-Amp Active Filters
    1. Filter transfer functions.Butterworth, Chebyshev, Thompson, and elliptic approximations. Sallen-Key, infinite-gain-multi-feedback, state variable, generalized impedance converter, and switched capacitor topologies.
  4. Nonlinear Applications
    1. Precision rectifier, peak detector, wave-shaping, and log-converter circuits.
  5. Characteristics of Non-Ideal Op-Amps
    1. Open-loop transfer function, bandwidth, gian-bandwith product, slew rate, power bandwidth, clipping, rise time, offset voltages and currents, stability, frequency compensation, noise.
  6. Op-Amp Signal Generator Circuits
    1. Sine-wave oscillators, triangle-wave generators, square-wave generators, and pulse generators.
  7. Other Applications of op-Amps
    1. 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.