Lab Exercises for Electronic Devices

Thomas L. Floyd has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering (SMU) and Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (UF). He has worked as a design engineer at Texas Instruments and senior engineer at Martin-Marietta (now Lockheed-Martin). In addition, he has five years’ experience teaching and as department head of the Electrons Technology program at Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL, and five years teaching electronics technology at Mayland Community College, Spruce Pine, NC.  Floyd has been writing textbooks in electronic technology since 1975 including Digital Fundamentals, Principles of Electric Circuits, Electronics Fundamentals, Electronic Devices, Electric Circuit Fundamentals, Digital Fundamentals: A Systems Approach, Digital Fundamentals with PLD Programming, Fundamentals of Analog Circuits: A Systems Approach, Science of Electronics: Digital, Analog Fundamentals, Basic Operational Amplifiers and Linear Integrated Circuits, DC/AC Fundamentals: A Systems Approach, and Renewable Energy Systems.

• 1. Introduction to Semiconductors 12. Diodes and Applications 243. Special-Purpose Diodes 1024. Bipolar Junction Transistors 1635. Transistor Bias Circuits 2166. BJT Amplifiers 2557. BJT Power Amplifiers 3198. Field-Effect Transistors (FETs) 3649. FET Amplifiers and Switching Circuits 43410. Amplifier Frequency Response 49311. Thyristors 55212. The Operational Amplifier 59013. Basic Op-Amp Circuits 65614. Special-Purpose Integrated Circuits 70715. Active Filters 75316. Oscillators 79617. Voltage Regulators 84118. Communication Devices and Methods 880Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems 923Glossary 937Index 000