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Analog Electronics

Continuous-valued circuits including diodes, transistors, amplifiers, filters, oscillators, and signal conditioning.

By Siddhant Krishna · Published 2026-10-06 · Updated 2026-10-06

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Diodes

A diode is a nonlinear semiconductor device that strongly favors current flow in one direction under its operating conditions. Diodes are used for rectification, protection, switching, detection, and regulation.

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Transistors

Transistors are semiconductor devices capable of controlling current or voltage. MOSFETs are central to modern integrated circuits and are used in switching, amplification, power conversion, and digital logic.

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Operational Amplifiers

Operational amplifiers are high-gain differential amplifiers used with feedback to implement useful analog functions such as amplification, filtering, integration, differentiation, and signal conditioning.

V_out ≈ A(V_+ - V_-)

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Filters

  • Low-pass filters attenuate sufficiently high frequencies.
  • High-pass filters attenuate sufficiently low frequencies.
  • Band-pass filters emphasize a frequency region.
  • Notch filters reject a selected frequency region.

References

  1. MIT OpenCourseWare, undergraduate foundations of analog and digital electronic circuits.
    https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-002-circuits-and-electronics-spring-2007/
  2. Sedra & Smith, Oxford University Press, comprehensive treatment of analog and digital electronics.
    https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/microelectronic-circuits-9780190853464

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