Implementing transistor roles for facilitating analysis and synthesis of analog integrated circuits

Barbarosou, Maria; Paraskevas, Ioannis; Kliros, George S.; Andreatos, Antonios

doi:10.1109/educon.2017.7942881

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“…To date, however, there has been no published work specifically focused on student conceptual understanding of the behavior of bipolar junction transistor (BJT) circuits. While there has been some work outline strategies for teaching transistor circuits in engineering education journals, it has primarily centered around a pedagogical approach of combining transistors into functional groups [31,32]. These articles do not provide any data on the efficacy of such an approach, nor do they provide insight into the kinds of difficulties students might encounter when analyzing basic circuits involving a single transistor.…”

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Investigating student understanding of bipolar junction transistor circuits

Bogart

Stetzer

2018

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res.

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The research reported in this article represents a systematic, multi-year investigation of student understanding of the behavior of bipolar junction transistor circuits using a variety of different tasks to isolate and probe key aspects of transistor circuit behavior. The participants in this study were undergraduates enrolled in upper-division physics electronics courses at three institutions, as well as undergraduates in upper-division engineering electronics courses at one of the institutions. Findings from this research indicate that many students have not developed a robust conceptual understanding of the functionality of bipolar junction transistors circuits even after all relevant instruction. Most notably, when asked to analyze the impact of a transistor circuit on input signals, students frequently applied reasoning appropriate for an analysis of the circuit's dc bias behavior. However, students often displayed knowledge of fundamental transistor behavior when responding to more targeted questions. This article provides insight into student thinking about transistor circuits, describing the most prevalent conceptual and reasoning difficulties identified and discussing some important implications for instruction.

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Investigating student understanding of bipolar junction transistor circuits

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Stetzer

2018

Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res.

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“…In [12], the author proposes the reutilization of teaching methodologies of digital circuits that can be applied in the teaching of analog programmable circuits. In [13], the author introduces a methodology based on sub-division to explain the macroblock of the Operational Amplifier. Instead of going from the elementary circuits (e.g., Resistor, Transistor), an intermediate phase of sub-blocks is proposed.…”

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Transistor teaching back to Transfer-Resistor : A summary table of definitions and students’ perceptions

Felgueiras¹,

Costa²,

Fidalgo³

et al. 2018

2018 XIII Technologies Applied to Electronics Teaching Conference (TAEE)

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The Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) study is a regular subject on analog electronic subjects taught in the initial phase of electronic engineering courses. This electronic component, often considered elementary, is far from being simple to explain because it covers several concepts, such as three Regions of Operation, two Working Regimes, and two Region of Operation Boundaries. It is not surprising then that students often find it difficult to understand the functioning of this component. The present article describes partially the work developed by a team with a number of students in order to understand the difficulties of teaching/learning the BJT. We present the students' perceptions from the analysis of several traditional and modern means to support the learning of the BJT. Interestingly, the learning BJT model considered simpler for beginner students corresponds to the model that originally gave it the name i.e. Trans-Resistor (Transistor).

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Comparison of the Output Parameters of the Memristor-based Op-amp Model and the Traditional Op-amp Model

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Almalı²

2022

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Implementing transistor roles for facilitating analysis and synthesis of analog integrated circuits

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

Investigating student understanding of bipolar junction transistor circuits

Investigating student understanding of bipolar junction transistor circuits

Transistor teaching back to Transfer-Resistor : A summary table of definitions and students’ perceptions

Comparison of the Output Parameters of the Memristor-based Op-amp Model and the Traditional Op-amp Model

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