Research-Oriented Junior/Senior Design Projects: An Analog Circuit Design Example

Briefly, the advantages of offering research-oriented design projects for undergraduate students of particular interest and talent are discussed.Asuccessful research-based analog circuit design project is described as an example. The project is concerned with developing bipolar transistor circuit cells capable of realizing arbitrary nonlinear current transfer characteristics in piecewiselinear form using the Static Translinear Principle (STLP). The obtained results are shown.