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Electronic Circuits I

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Course Unit Code440-2203/02
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated6 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Optional
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredSummer Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionEnglish
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
GAJ10Dr. Ing. Libor Gajdošík
Summary
Feedback and its influence on the properties of electronic devices. Multistage amplifier amplifying stages and links. Errors caused by amplifiers real properties of building elements. Transconductance amplifier (OTA). Transimpedanční amplifier (CFA). High-frequency amplifiers. Power amplifiers. Electric filters. RC and LC oscillators, function generators. Modulators, demodulators, mixers, frequency multipliers and dividers. Synthetic elements and their applications. Peripheral Solutions digital circuits.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Understand the involvement of electronic circuits formed from discrete components and integrated circuits.

Learning outcomes are set so that the students are able to identify and apply tasks in the field of analogue electrical circuits.
Course Contents
Lectures:

Feedback, its influence on the characteristics of electronic equipment.
Multi-stage amplifiers, coupling of amplifier stages, Influence of coupling on the characteristics of amplifiers.
Parameters of real operational amplifiers and their impact on the operating characteristics of the network.
Stability of operational networks.
Transconductance amplifiers (OTA), principles and applications.
Transimpedance amplifiers (CFA) and Circuits type of current conveyor (CC), principles and applications.
Power amplifiers, Classes of amplifiers and their properties.
Implementation of high frequency amplifiers, compensation and neutralization of parasitic impedances.
Electric filters, approximations of transfer functions, implementation of higher-order filters.
RC and LC Oscillator, function generators.
Circuit solutions of modulators and demodulators AM, FM and discrete modulations.
Circuit solutions of mixers, multipliers and dividers of frequency.
Circuit solutions of synthetic elements (synthetic inductance, FDNR) and their applications.
Logical circuits, circuit solutions and electrical parameters.

Exercises:

Determination of the parameters of equivalent circuits of real devices based on catalogue data and on the basis of measurement.
Calculation of error output signal cause by the parameters of real operational amplifier.
Calculation of frequency characteristics of amplifiers.
The design of differential amplifier stage.
Design of cascode amplifiers.
Design of higher-order filters (cascade synthesis).

Laboratories:

Measurement of the properties of designed differential amplifiers.
Measurement of the properties of designed two stage amplifier.
Design and measurement of inverting and non-inverting amplifiers with the OTA.
Design and measurement of inverting and non-inverting amplifiers with the CFA.
Measurement of the frequency characteristics of the proposed filter type DP 4th order. Regulations.
Measurement of the parameters of synthetic inductance.
Measurement characteristics of circuits TTL and CMOS.

Projects:

Design of stages of amplifiers (specified the parameters and construction elements).
Design of electrical filters (specified the type, order and the building blocks).
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
Tietze U., Schenk Ch., Gamm E.: Electronic circuits : handbook for design and application, Springer, Berlin, 2008
DOSTÁL, Tomáš. Analogové elektronické obvody. Brno: VUT Brno, 2004.
Vrba, K.: Technika analogových obvodů a systémů - sbírka příkladů. Skriptum FE VUT Brno, 1988
Punčochář, J.: Operační zesilovače v elektronice. BEN technická literatura, 1996
Gajdošík, L., Tesař, Z.: Elektronické obvody I. Ostrava : VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2015. str. 147. Skripta.
Recommended Reading:
SEDRA, Adel a Kenntth SMITH. Microelectronics Circuits. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-19• 532303-0.
FRANCO, Sergio. 2002. Design with operational amplifiers and analog integrated circuits. 3.rd ed. New York : McGraw-Hill, 2002. stránky xiv, 658. ISBN 0-07-112173-0.
Vedral, J., Fischer, L.: Elektronické obvody pro měřící techniku. ČVUT Praha, 1999
Punčochář, J. : Operační zesilovače, historie a současnost. BEN technická literatura, 2002
Dostál, T.: Elektrické filtry. Skriptum EF VUT Brno, 1993
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials, Experimental work in labs
Assesment methods and criteria
Tasks are not Defined