ESP1104A - Sensor Systems Electronics
In this module students learn fundamental principles essential to the design and use of electronic circuits for a variety of different disciplines. Particular emphasis will be given to circuits that are used in research and development, such as sensor amplifiers, filters, and data-acquisition. The module has both analog and digital circuit principles, and involves hands-on construction and testing of circuits during practical sessions that are correlated to tutorial questions.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the module, the students should be able to
- Apply principles to understand and design commonly widely used electronic devices
- Design analog electronic circuits to measure signals from various sensor and transducers
- Design electronic circuits that can process analog signals
- Use sampling circuits and generate sampled data
- Understand and use Analog to Digital Converters to obtain digital signals
- Understand different number systems and codes and to be able to convert between them and to perform basic arithmetic operations.
- Understand the function of the basic logic gates through their truth tables.
- Learn how to combine the basic logic gates to form more complicated digital circuits.
- Learn how to reduce digital circuits to the minimum number of components using various reduction techniques such as Karnaugh maps.
- To understand the function of basic memory elements such as flip flops and shift registers through their truth tables.
- To learn how to design sequential logic circuits for various applications using excitation and truth tables.
- To understand how digital signals can be acquired and generated using signal conditioning and computer based instrumentation and software.
Syllabus
- Basic circuit parameters - Current, voltage energy and power, DC resistive networks, basic principles such as Kirchoffs laws, Thevenin and Nortons theorems
- Capacitors, inductors and transient response
- Concept of complex impedance. Power factor for AC circuits and distribution networks and loads.
- Filters and frequency response - Frequency and transient study of first-order circuits, RC, RL., Second-order circuits, RLC, tuning and damping, Frequency response and resonance, Fourier signal representation.
- Devices - Diodes, Zener, LEDs, BJT transistors and simple transistor circuits
- Amplifiers - Pulse and frequency response, feedback and cascade.
- OP-Amp circuits - Summing, subtracting, integrators and differentiators, negative feedback, inverting and non-inverting amplifiers, difference amplifier and Instrumentation amplifier
- Basic digital logic circuits - Basic logic gates and representation of numerical data in binary form
- Combinatorial logic circuits - Combination, synthesis and minimization of logic circuits
- Flip-flop, SR flip-flop, D flip-flop, and JK flip-flop
- Sequential logic circuits - Register, counter, and introduction to microcontroller
- Digital signals, Sampling and sampling theorem, sample and hold, analog to digital conversion
- Data acquisition systems - Introduction to DAQ systems and basics of LabVIEW
Main textbook
R. Hambley, Electrical Engineering, Prentice Hall, USA, 2005.
Supplemental reading
P. Horowitz and W. Hill: The Art of Electronics, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1989.
R. Hambley, Electrical Engineering, Prentice Hall, USA, 2005.
Supplemental reading
P. Horowitz and W. Hill: The Art of Electronics, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1989.