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Electronics

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 430-2201/05
Abbreviation EL
Course title Electronics
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Applied Electronics
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Petr Palacký, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
Properties of passive electronic devices. Resistors, condensers, inductors. Properties of active electronic devices. Semiconductor diodes. Basic features, characteristics, applications.
Properties of active electronic devices. Bipolar transistors. Unipolar transistors. Basic features, characteristics, applications.
Supply units. Requirements on individual parts of supply units. Rectifiers. Filtration of directional voltage.
Parametric voltage stabilizers. Continuous and switched feedback voltage regulators. Basic features, characteristics, applications.
Amplifiers. Setting and stabilization of the static operating point of bipolar transistors and unipolar transistors.
Wideband amplifiers for small signal. Transfer parameters. Analysis of the frequency band. Solution of amplifiers for small signal.
Multistep amplifiers. Direct and alternating coupling. Feedback in electronic circuits.
Differential amplifier and its application.
Power amplifiers in class A, B, AB. Transistor in the switching mode. Flip-flop circuits. Basic methods of signal modulation. Modulators and mixers.
Theory of operational amplifiers. Ideal and real operational amplifier. Basic connections of operational amplifiers. Linear application of operational amplifiers.
Nonlinear application of operational amplifiers. Active filters.
Generators of periodic signals. Harmonic oscillators. Generators of square wave, triangular and saw signals.
Power switching devices. Power uncontrolled rectifiers and their applications. Power controlled rectifiers and their applications. Principles of control circuits of controlled rectifiers. DC converters, circuit and their applications. Principles of control circuits of DC converters.
Direct frequency converters, cycloconverters. Frequency converters with voltage and current DC link and their applications. Control methods of the output voltage and current.

Exercises:
Repetetion of properties of passive and active electronic devices.
Calculation eaxamples of supply units.
Calculation examples of parametric voltage stabilizers and feedback voltage regulators.
Design examples of circuits for setting and stabilization of the static operating point of transistor.
Design examples of wideband amplifiers.
Test T1 - Basic knowledge from area of supply units.
Aplication examples of differential amplifiers and operational amplifiers.
Test T2 - Amplifiers, power amplifiers.

Laboratories:
Measurement of basic connections of rectifiers.
Measurement of characteristics of parametric voltage stabilizers.
Measurement of basic types of feedback voltage regulators.
Measurement of feedback voltage in applications.
Flip-flop circuits.
Modulators.
Linear applications of operational amplifiers.
Nonlinear applications of operational amplifiers.
Harmonic signal generators and function generators.
Waveform generators.

Projects:
Laboratory reports (10 hours).

E-learning

Study supports are available in the LMS to students of the course.

Literature

Brandštetter, P. Electronics.: Study text in English, VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, 2015.
Horowitz, P., Hill, W.: The Art of Electronics. Cambridge University Press, 3rd edition 2015. ISBN 0521809266 .
Heumann, K.: Basic Principles of Power Electronics. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York, ISBN 3642826768 , 2012.

Advised literature

Kale, C.O.: Introduction to passive, linear, and digital electronics. Reston Publishing Company, ISBN 0-8359-3263-X, 1985.