Introduction Review on Circuits Basics Assistant Professor: Nabila Elsawy Electronics and C ommunications Engineering department Faculty of Engineering Zagazig University ECE 123 Electronic Engineering 2 (1 st Year – ECE) 2 nd Semester 2024/2025 1
Introduction 2 ENIAC, U.S. Army, 1946 Size → Large hall (> 150 ) Power Consumption ≈ 150kW Smart phone Size → Your pocket Power consumption < 1W
Electronics All Around Us 3
Transistor Evolution 4 First transistor Contacts separation ≈ 100 μ m Bell Labs, 1947 Trigate Transistor Fin width ≈ 8nm Intel, 2015
Integrated Circuit Evolution 5 First IC Only one transistor (+ R + C)! Texas Instruments (TI), 1958 Quad-core CPU > transistors! Intel, 2017
Sensing Microsystems 6 First accelerometer B&K, 1940s Simple bulky transducer Acceleration → Voltage ADXL350 Analog Devices, 2012 Complete system on a tiny chip 3-axis MEMS* accelerometer Interface electronics Analog-to-digital conversion Memory Control logic Power management Digital interface * MEMS = Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
What is an Integrated Circuit (IC )? 7 Various circuit elements: transistors, capacitors, resistors, and even small inductances can be integrated on one chip Discrete component Integrated Circuit
Discrete vs. Integrated Electronics 8
Analog vs Digital Signals 9 Digital : discrete in time and amplitude Analog: continuous in time and amplitude
Why Digital ? 10 Digital circuits are Less sensitive to noise (robust ) Easier to store (digital memories ) Easier to process (digital signal processing: DSP ) Amenable to automated design Amenable to automated testing Direct beneficiary of Moore’s law (down-scaling)
Why Analog? 11 All the physical signals are “analog” Voice (mic), light (camera), EM waves (RF/wireless), temperature, pressure, voltage, current , etc. We will always need an “analog” interface to connect the analog and digital worlds Full-custom digital design is done by “analog” designers Analog and digital blocks need power and clock signals generated in the “ analog” world
Signal Processing Chain 12
Electronic System Example: Wireless Transceiver 13
Review on Circuits Basics 14
Ohm’s Law 15
Kirchhoff’s Current Law (KCL) 16 The sum of all currents flowing into a node is zero .
Kirchhoff’s Voltages Law ( KVL ) 17 The sum of all voltage drops around any closed loop is zero
Resistor Combinations 18
Voltage and Current Dividers 19 Voltage divider → the largest resistor takes most of the voltage Current divider → the smallest resistor (largest conductance) takes most of the current Remember that current flows in the least resistance path
Thevenin Equivalent Circuit 20 Any one port circuit can be replaced by a voltage source and a series impedance
Norton Equivalent Circuit 21 Any one port circuit can be replaced by a current source and a parallel impedance