Course Pre-requisites, Co-requisites, and/or Other Restrictions

(Knowledge of single-stage amplifiers, differential amplifiers, current mirrors, references, opamp design, frequency response, and stability and compensation) Course Description Operation principles of different dc-dc converters: switched-mode power converters, switched-capacitor power converters and linear regulators. Design and analysis of voltage references and introduction to magnetics. Use of CAD tools to simulate power management circuits. Student Learning Objectives/Outcomes The objectives of this course are to provide analytical understanding on principles and circuit-level design knowledge of different power management circuits. The students are also expected to use CAD tool such as Hspice and Cadence for circuit design and simulation in the homework and project. The outcomes are: an ability to understand concepts in theory of advanced electrical engineering, an ability to understand concepts in applications of advanced electrical engineering, an ability to apply knowledge of advanced electrical engineering to formulate and analyze problems in the student’s specialty and solve them, an ability to learn emerging concepts in theory and applications of electrical engineering, an ability to design and conduct experiments as well as to analyze and interpret data