A large portion of these questions are based off of the 18-220 Analog course from Carnegie Mellon. You can find the course notes for the class here.
- How do you find the equivalent resistance of a circuit?
- How do you find the equivalent capacitance of a circuit?
- What a Thevenin and Norton equivalents, why do we use them?
- How does a capacitor work?
- How does an inductor work?
- A diode is made from a P and N type, explain how these two regions build a diode
- How does a transistor work and why would you use one in a circuit?
- What is the difference between a BJT and a MOSFET?
- Why are MOSFETs more common in modern circuits?
- Explain the 3 main parts of a MOSFET, the gate, source and drain.
- What does it mean for a MOSFET to be on?
- What do we say a MOSFET behaves like a VCCS (voltage-controlled current source) in saturation?
- Design the following digital gates with MOSFETS:
- NOT
- OR
- AND
- XOR
- Explain why a CMOS is advantageous to a MOSFET.
- What are some applications of a MOSFET?
- What is an RC circuit, and how do you solve it? What are some applications for it?
- What is an RL circuit, and how do you solve it? What are some applications for it?
- Why would you use an RC vs an RL circuit?
- What is a full-wave rectifier?
- What is a way to regulate current, why do we need to do this in certain circuits?
- What is a way to regulate voltage, and why do we need to do this in certain circuits?
- What is parasitic capacitance/inductance?
- What is a transformer, and why are they useful?
- What is an ideal transformer, and what are the assumptions for it?
- What are non-ideal transformer properties?
- Know the following switching power converters:
- Buck Converter
- Boost Converter
- Flyback (Buck-Boost) Converter
- Draw an LC oscillator -- how does it behave?
- Draw an overdamped, critically damped, and underdamped time response for an RLC circuit.
- What are op-amps and why do we use them?
- What is a transfer function in the context of an op-amp?
- What is an ideal op-amp? Explain what it means for a non-ideal op-amp:
- Nonzero input current
- Finite input resistance
- Finite output impedance
- Draw an inverting and noninverting op-amp
- Draw a differential op-amp
- What are the assumptions for an ideal op-amp?
- How does RFID technology work?
- Draw the circuit for an RFID scanner and tag
- Draw a LPF (Low Pass Filter)
- Draw a High Pass Filter
- What is a Bode plot and what can it tell us?
- Be able to take a transfer function and draw the Bode plot for it
- What is the Shannon-Nyquist sampling theorem?
- What is aliasing?
- Explain what parasitic capacitance is and how to handle it. Also understand it in the context of:
- Where it might occur
- Why we can't always increase clock speed
- Design a circuit that allows an Arduino to control a 12V RGB LED strip