20810067 - ELECTRONICS LABORATORY

Electronics Laboratory is an experimental lab course that provides the fundamentals of electronic design, simulation, construction, test and debugging of analog and digital electronic circuits. Lectures will be devoted to design strategies and methods. The intensive use of PSpice simulation will allow fast circuit verification before its fabrication. The course will include several measurement techniques to perform the experimental tests. Expected results are the ability to design electronic circuits for both analog and digital signal processing, the knowledge of the characteristics of the major electronic components and skills in the use of PSpice simulator, combined with the ability to measure electrical quantities with laboratory instrumentation.
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Programme

1) Review of devices and circuits
• BJT, JFET, MOSFET
• amplifiers
• building blocks
• feedback
• combinational and sequential circuits
• A/D and D/A conversion
2) Case study 1 (analog electronics): audio Hi-Fi circuits
• Theory
• Simulations
• Fabrication
• Tests
3) Case study 2 (digital electronics): TBD
• Theory
• Simulations
• Fabrication
• Tests

Core Documentation

P. Horowitz, W. Hill, “L’arte dell’elettronica”, Zanichelli
C.D. Motchenbacher, J.A. Connelly, “Low noise electronic system design”, Wiley Interscience.
P. Tobin, “PSpice for Circuit Theory and Electronic Devices”, Morgan&Claypool Pub.


Type of delivery of the course

The course lessons are made of theory, computer simulations and laboratory experiments.

Attendance

Attendance is not mandatory but it is strongly recommended

Type of evaluation

The evaluation includes an oral test and a report. During the COVID-19 emergency, the examination will be carried out according to art.1 Decreto Rettorale n°. 703 del 5 maggio 2020