Foundation Level
Electrical and Electronic Circuits
by Prof. Sankaran Aniruddhan , Prof. Boby George , Prof. R. S. Ashwin Kumar
Course ID: EE1103
Course Credits: 4
Course Type: Foundation
Pre-requisites: EE1101 - Electronic Systems Thinking and Circuits MA1101 - Math for Electronics I
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Course structure & Assessments
4 credit course, weekly online assignments, 2 in-person invigilated quizzes, 1 in-person invigilated end term exam. For details of standard course structure and assessments, visit Academics page.
| Module 1 | Phasor analysis of AC circuits; impedance, composite networks, and complex power. |
| Module 2 | AC/DC network theorems; Thevenin, Norton, and maximum power transfer analysis. |
| Module 3 | Advanced circuit analysis techniques; nodal analysis, superposition, dependent sources, and network transformations. |
| Module 4 | Introduction to Laplace transforms and signal-domain analysis of electrical systems. |
| Module 5 | Applications of Laplace transforms in circuit analysis; transient behavior and s-domain modeling. |
| Module 6 | Semiconductor diode fundamentals; rectifiers, clipping circuits, and nonlinear device behavior. |
| Module 7 | Advanced diode circuits and voltage regulation; introduction to Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJTs) |
| Module 8 | BJT amplifier circuits; biasing, small-signal analysis, differential amplifiers, and current mirrors. |
| Module 9 | Problem solving and analysis of BJT-based circuits. |
| MOSFET fundamentals and amplifier design; CMOS circuits and transistor-level analysis. | |
| Two-port network analysis; transformers, impedance matching, and review of semiconductor devices. | |
| Transfer functions and system analysis; poles, zeros, impulse response, and Bode plots. |
Prescribed Books
The following are the suggested books for the course:
Engineering Circuit Analysis, Hayt, Kemmerly and Durbin, 8th Edition, 2013
MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITS: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, Sedra, Smith and Chandorkar, 7th Edition, 2017
About the Instructors
Dr Sankaran Aniruddhan is Associate Professor in the VLSI group of the department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He obtained his B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras in 2000, and Ph.D. degree from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2006. Between 2006 and 2011, he worked in the RF-Analog group at Qualcomm Inc., San Diego where he designed integrated circuits for Cellular RF applications. His research primarily focuses on CMOS RF Integrated Circuits for Wireless Communications.
Other courses by the same instructor: EE1101 - Electronic Systems Thinking and Circuits
Dr. Boby George received the M. Tech. and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras. He is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras. His research areas include Sensor Interface Electronics, Electric and Magnetic field Based Sensors and their Applications, Sensor Systems for Water Quality and Quantity Monitoring, and Biomedical Instrumentation. He also serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
Other courses by the same instructor: EE1101 - Electronic Systems Thinking and Circuits , EE3103 - Sensors and Applications and EE3104 - Electromagnetic Fields and Transmission Lines
Prof. R. S. Ashwin Kumar received his Bachelor's degree from the College of Engineering, Guindy (Anna University) in 2013 and his Ph.D. degree from IIT Madras in 2020. He is currently an Assistant Professor with IIT Kanpur. His research interests are in analog & mixed-signal IC design and signal processing.