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. A successful 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 piecewise-linear form using the Static Translinear Principle (STLP). The obtained results are shown.