{"ModuleCode":"ESP1104","ModuleTitle":"Introduction to Electronic Systems","Department":"Engineering Science Programme","ModuleDescription":"The first part of this course consists of an introduction to Analog Electronics. Students will learn about basic circuit laws, resistive networks, inductors, capacitors, transient responses, complex impedance, frequency response and filter design. They then go on to cover active devices, such as diodes and their use in rectifiers, load-line analysis, basic transistor characteristics, common emitter and common collector amplifier circuits, operational amplifiers and their applications. The second part of the course covers digital electronics, which includes basic logic gates, combinatorial logic circuits, flip-flops, sequential logic circuits, digital signals and data acquisition systems. 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This course sets out to teach fundamental principles of Analog and digital electronics. It introduces basic circuit components and decribes how they are used in widely used electronic circuits. The course is meant to provide an introduction to Electronics for those who will be going on to carry out research in Engineering Science which invariably utilises electronics instrumentation.
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\r\n\t\t6 labs of 2 hour each through the semester
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\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t7: | \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBasic digital logic circuits\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t | \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t11: | \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDigital signals\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t | \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t12: | \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tData acquisition systems\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t | \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t13: | \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSummary and Review | \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
1. Basic circuit parameters
Current, voltage energy and power, theorems and components
Resistors, Kirchoff’s laws, Thevenin and Norton’s theorems. Superposition principle.
3. Filters
AC phasors and complex impedance. Frequency study of first-order circuits, RC, RL. Second-order circuits, RLC, tuning and damping. Frequency response and resonance. Fourier signal representation.
4. Diodes Circuits
Diodes, Zener, LEDs, and rectifiers
5. Transistor circuits
BJT and FET amplifiers and circuits
6. OP-Amp circuits
Amplifier frequency response. Summing, subtracting, integrators and differentiators, negative feedback, inverting and non-inverting amplifiers, difference amplifier and Instrumentation amplifier
7. Basic digital logic circuits
Basic logic gates and representation of numerical data in binary form
8. Combinatorial logic circuits
Combination, synthesis and minimization of logic circuits
9. Flip-flop
SR flip-flop, D flip-flop, and JK flip-flop
10. Sequential logic circuits
Register, counter, and introduction to microcontroller
11. Digital signals
Sampling and sampling theorem, sample and hold, analog to digital conversion
12. Data acquisition systems
Introduction to DAQ systems and basics of Labview
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