bishopwy@email.uah.edu
course deals with analog vs digital
used to be very separate

people started to realize that the two should be combined where practical to yield the best possible results
this course deals mainly with mosfets
you have to set the operating point and keep it stable
use that biased operating point to amplify a signal
basic building blocks in ICs that get repeated over and over again
current mirror
differential amplifier
bjt:
	common emitter amplifier
	common base
	common collector
mosfet:
	common gate
	common source
	common drain

multisim, used to be electronic workbench, takes 9.2 pspice and puts a good gui on it
pspice for free on the net, now owned by national instruments
everything on switched mode power supplies today, more efficient than transformer/rectifer based, may get into this toward the end

midterm and final will be open textbook, because tons of formulas
suggestions on angel for good pages in the text with tables of equations
independent project, design or lengthy analysis
outside class assignment
we're going to start in BJTs in ch5
setup the bias, figure out what's happening with the signal
cmos amplifiers should be fun!
feedback fun as well from a different angle, used to control AND improve performance
thevenin equivalent exchanges
want Rin to be inf to make all signal power go into input side and Rout to be 0 to make sure all power goes to the load
amplifier has a power reservoir aka power supply that it uses to dump power to the output based on the input signal