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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Electronic Circuits for Measurements

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 450-4052/01
Abbreviation EOMP
Course title Electronic Circuits for Measurements
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Ludvík Koval, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
- Passive components and their properties, contacts and diodes switching circuits, switching circuits with unipolar and bipolar transistors, analog multiplexers.
- Operational amplifiers and their static and dynamic properties, fault signals, noise characteristics. - Universal and special directly related operational amplifiers. Operational amplifiers with intermittent activity. Measurement of Operational amplifiers.
- Measuring amplifiers and analog comparators.
- Sampling circuits for digitizing the signal. Filtering the signal circuits.
- Functional analog converters, analog multipliers, converters for AVG, RMS, and MAX value, converters for amplitude.
- Voltage and current references and their influence on measurement accuracy. The basic type of converting analog signal, V/ f and f/ V convertors.
- Analog to digital converters. Properties of the A / D converters, the most commonly used types.
- Measurement A / D converter.
- Signal generators. Use of phase coupling in the measuring technique.
- Logic and memory circuits in the measuring technique. Memory ROM, RWM.
- Microcomputer circuit, processor, bus, watchdog, I / O circuits.
- Peripheral circuits for microcomputers, LCD displays, LED.
- Microcomputers communication circuits. Communicating through an interface, connecting analog inputs and outputs.
- Power sources, their properties and principles of operation, power supplies for measuring equipment, batteries, power supply noise rejection, cooling components.

Exercises:
- Operational amplifiers, measurement of static and dynamic properties, fault analysis . Entering the project.
- Filter circuits, design of bandpass filter, the filter circuit simulation using computational environment.
- Design and measurement of analog filter circuits, measurement of amplitude and phase characteristics.
- Calculation of the effective values for different types of signals in the computational environment.
- Measurement of linearity and transfer characteristics of V / f converter.
- Measurement of functional inverters and converters.
- Measurement characteristics of the reference voltage depending on load and temperature. Test No. 1
- Measurement of functional generators and reference sources.
- A/ D converters, using the properties of the sigma/ delta A / D converter for measuring electric power. Measurement of electric power by analog multiplier.
- Serial communication with FLASH memory, parallel communication with the memory SRAM.
- Connecting peripherals to the user microcomputer system, controlling display elements.
- Interface of microcomputer system. Test No. 2
- Check semester project.


Laboratories:
Measuring No. 1: Measurement of instrumentation amplifiers
Measuring No. 2: Design and measurement of analog filter circuits
Measuring No. 3: Measuring functional inverters and converters
Measuring No. 4: Measurement function generators and reference sources
Measuring No. 5: Measurement of electrical power by sigma delta A/ D converter and analog multiplier.


Projects:
Project implementation meter with A / D converter,
Filtering,
Process of digitaliation signals,
Integrating A / D converter in the systém,
Display data on LCD.

Literature

Tooley, M. : Electronic circuits: fundamentals and applications, Oxford : Elsevier/Newnes, 2006

Advised literature

Tietze, U., Schenk, Ch., Gamm, E., : Electronic circuits : handbook for design and application, Berlin : Springer, 2008