Course details

Analog Electronics 2

BPC-AE2 FEKT BPC-AE2 Acad. year 2020/2021 Summer semester 6 credits

Current academic year

This course improves and extends gained knowledge from Analog electronics 1 in the area of practical analog circuit design and brings an amount of new areas that are essential for designers of analog electronic circuits. The circuits for signal shaping, basic transistor building blocks (current mirrors, differential pairs), design of single stage transistor amplifiers (including bias point), switching applications, guidelines of practical work with operational amplifiers and their specific nonstandard applications, comparative operations, flip-flop circuits and multivibrators, circuits for signal generation, etc. belong to the fundamental skills of bachelor students focused on weak current electronics. The solved examples at lectures are supported by computer (OrCAD PSpice, Snap, Matlab) and laboratory exercises.

Guarantor

Language of instruction

Czech

Completion

Credit+Examination

Time span

  • 26 hrs lectures
  • 6 hrs exercises
  • 13 hrs laboratories
  • 13 hrs pc labs

Department

Lecturer

Instructor

Subject specific learning outcomes and competences

The graduate (1) understands problems of selected practically oriented areas (emphasis of design) of analog electronics. The area of gained skills belongs to knowledge of fundamental principle of shaping and switching applications, simple transistor stages and comparators, non-sinusoidal signal generation, etc. The graduate (2) is able to evaluate suitability of active elements for expected application, (3) to select optimal approach, topology, concept, (4) to design/calculate values of circuit elements for specific required operational parameters and (5) to verify operation of circuit by computer simulation and experimentally in laboratory.

Learning objectives

Lectures aim on specific areas of analog circuits and systems focused on impulse, switching, comparative and other linear and nonlinear applications of transistors, operational amplifiers and modern active elements. In addition, these activities target especially on practical utilization of gained knowledge.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Students registering for the course should be able to explain the basic principles of electrotechnics, electronic elements, high-school mathematics, basis of experimental work and basis of computer simulation.
Work in the laboratory is conditioned by a valid qualification of a "trained worker" according to Notice 50/1978 Coll., which students must obtain before the start of teaching. Information on this qualification is given in the Dean's Directive Familiarization of students with safety regulations.

Syllabus of lectures

1. Propagation of signal by linear and nonlinear system (two-ports, time constants, transient responses, parameters of square-wave signal)
2. Diode shapers, limiters and their applications
3. Practical features of basic bipolar junction transistors and unipolar transistors based building blocks (current mirror, differential pair, operational amplifier)
4. Design of simple amplification stages with bipolar junction transistor and unipolar transistor (parameters and bias point)
5. Bipolar junction transistor and unipolar transistor based power switches
6. Guidelines for practical work with operational amplifiers (parasitic behavior, parasitic features and protection)
7. Analog comparators (suitable active elements, typical topologies and design)
8. Operational amplifiers in selected applications
9. Discrete and integrated flip-flop circuits (transistor-based bistable, monostable and astable version, NE555, another active elements)
10. Design of tunable single- and multi-phase oscillators
11. Design of tunable non-sinusoidal waveform generators
12. Additional principles of signal generation (noise, heterodyne, phase locked loop)
13. Modern active elements for design of analog circuits and examples of applications

Syllabus of numerical exercises

1. Propagation of signal by linear system (time constants, step responses, parameters of square-wave signal), design of diode shapers and limiters
2. Calculations in basic transistor-based building blocks (current mirror, differential pair, operational amplifier) and design of simple amplification stages with bipolar junction transistor and unipolar transistor
3. Bipolar junction transistor and unipolar transistor-based power switches and design of comparators (topologies, thresholds)
4. Design of flip-flop circuits and applications of NE555
5. Design of tunable oscillators and waveform generators
6. Design of phase locked loop

Syllabus of laboratory exercises

1. Diode shapers and limiters
2. Unipolar transistor-based amplifiers
3. Parameters of transistor switches
4. Analog comparators and their applications
5. Discrete flip-flop circuits and NE555
6. Harmonic oscillators
7. Discrete and integrated generators of waveforms
8. Principles of RF signal generation

Syllabus of computer exercises

1. Propagation of signal by linear and nonlinear system
2. Diode shapers and limiters
3. Simple amplification stages with unipolar transistor (parameters and bias point)
4. Bipolar junction transistor and unipolar transistor based power switches
5. Analog comparators (suitable active elements, typical topologies and design)
6. Discrete and integrated flip-flop circuits (transistor-based bistable, monostable and astable version, NE555)
7. Principles of signal generation I (tunable oscillators and waveform generators)
8. Principles of signal generation II (RF, noise, synthesis)

Progress assessment

During the semester, student can obtain up to 16 points for his activity in laboratory, up to 16 points for his activity at computer exercises, up to 8 points for test and up to 60 points for final exam.

Teaching methods and criteria

Teaching methods include lectures, computer exercises and practical laboratories. All materials are available in e-learning.

Controlled instruction

The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course annually.

Course inclusion in study plans

  • Programme BIT, 2nd year of study, Elective
  • Programme IT-BC-3, field BIT, 2nd year of study, Elective
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