Textbook: A. V. Oppenheim and A. S. Willsky, Signals and Systems, 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall, 1996.

Anchoring concept: Noise

• Random process
• Strict and wide-sense stationary
• Auto correlation functions
• Frequency spectrum and filtering
• White Gaussian process

Textbook: Electronics II, booklet, prepared by Tom Chen; Fundamentals of Microelectronics by B. Razavi, Wiley

Anchoring concept: Feedback and stability

• Basic feedback types and topologies (Booklet pp. 244-247, Book Sections 12.1)
• Series-shunt feedback (Booklet pp. 248-251, Book Section 12.6)
• Shunt-shunt feedback (Booklet pp. 252-255, Book Section 12.6)
• Shunt-series feedback (Booklet pp. 256-257, Book Section 12.6)
• Series-series feedback (Booklet pp. 258-259, Book Section 12.6)
• More feedback examples (Booklet pp. 281-292)
• Stability, phase margin, and gain margin (Booklet pp. 293-308, Book Section 12.8)
• Stability compensation techniques (Booklet pp. 309-327, Book Section 12.8)

Textbook: Electromagnetics, Branislav M. Notaros, Pearson Prentice Hall)

Anchoring concept: Circuit Analysis of Transmission Lines

• Telegrapher’s Equations and Their Solution in Complex Domain (Section 12.1)
• Complex-Domain Circuit Analysis of Transmission Lines (Sections 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6)
• Short-Circuited, Open-Circuited, and Matched Transmission Lines (Sections 12.8)
• Circuit Analysis of Transmission Lines Using the Smith Chart (Sections 12.11, 12.12)
• Transient Analysis of Transmission Lines, Step & Pulse Responses (Sections 12.15, 12.16, 12.18)