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News and Messages
Course Goals
- Understand the principles of electronic components. In
particular, understand the principles of transistors and op amps, key
building blocks of modern electronics.
- Know and understand simple circuits and applications. For
example, understand methods for filtering electronic signals to
reduce noise or enhance the signal.
- Be able to calculate the values of currents, voltages, and
resistances in circuits.
- Gain an understanding of the currents, voltages, principles
and calculations that allow you to select components for circuits.
- Be able to design basic circuits with electronic components.
- Learn about various applications (flashing lights, lie detector,
ECG measurement, etc.)
Dates, Topics, Files
The documents, animations, videos etc. on this page are
copyright protected. They can be used for teaching purposes only. Please
do not distribute them.
01) February 17, 2009
Topics: op amp
applications (integrator, AD conversion)
Files:
presentation,
problem set,
solutions
02) February 24, 2009
Topics: op amp
applications (differentiator)
Files:
presentation,
problem set,
solutions
03) March 3, 2009
Topics: transistor (chapter 3 of the course book)
Files: (no presentation), problem set,
(solutions: see course book)
04) March 10, 2009
Topics: transistor switch (chapter 4 of the course book)
Files: presentation,
problem set,
CircuitMaker, (other solutions: see course book)
05) March 17, 2009
Topics: JFET, emitter follower amplifier
Files: presentation,
problem set,
solutions,
CircuitMaker1,
CircuitMaker2
06) March 24, 2009
Topics: memristor, CircuitMaker (op amp and transistor circuits)
Files: presentation,
problem set,
solutions,
CircuitMaker
07) March 31, 2009
Topics: emitter follower amplifier, Schmitt trigger
Files: presentation,
problem set,
solutions,
CircuitMaker
08) April 14, 2009
Topics: biosignal acquisition
Files: presentation,
problem set,
solutions
09) April 21, 2009 - Midterm Exam
Topics: LabVIEW introduction
Files: presentation,
no problem set due to the midterm exam
10) April 28, 2009
Topics: midterm exam, laboratory
Files: presentation,
problem set: see laboratory problem set
11) May 05, 2009
Topics: biosignals
Files: presentation,
problem set,
solutions
(corrected version)
12) May 12, 2009
Topics: analog and digital filters, LTspice
Files: presentation,
problem set,
solutions,
research article
May 19, 2009
No class ("Magnetismuswoche")
13) May 26, 2009
Topics: Solve Elec, BJT (function, characteristic curves, application)
Files: presentation,
problem set
14) June 2, 2009 - Final Exam
Topics: qucs, JFET (characteristic curves, applications)
Files: presentation
15) June 9, 2009
Topics: project examples (sleep apnea diagnosis, brain imaging)
Files: presentation,
final exam solutions
Grading, Problem Sets, Exams
- Grading
- 10 % laboratories
- 10 % problems of the week
- 40 % midterm exam
- 40 % final exam
- Problem of the week
- All students have to hand in their problem of the week according to the deadline given in the problem
set (usually two weeks after the corresponding lecture).
- You can put it in the box that I will bring to class. Students who do not come to class can
send their solution by
email to Markus Lempen (firstname.lastname@bfh.ch). The same deadline applies.
- Grading of each problem of the week: 0 or 2 points.
- Midterm exam
- F2a: April 21, 2009, 10:50 - 11:35, usual class room
- F2b: April 21, 2009, 11:40 - 12:25, usual class room
- Exam available in German and in French
- Written, closed-book exam (no aids)
- Duration: 45 minutes
- Relevant for the midterm exam: day 1 - day 7
- Slides and problem sets
- Chapters 3 and 4 of the course book (know the facts and be able
to do the calculations)
- Final exam
- F2a: June 2, 2009, 10:50 - 11:35, usual class room
- F2b: June 2, 2009, 11:40 - 12:25, usual class room
- Exam available in German and in French
- Written, closed-book exam (no aids)
- Duration: 45 minutes
- Relevant for the exam: day 8 - day
12
- Additional exam for students who missed one exam
- June 9, 2009, 15:00 - 15:45, room 507
- Exam available in German (since only
one student registered so far)
- Written, closed-book exam (no aids)
- Duration: 45 minutes
- Relevant for the exam: day 1 - day
7
- How to prepare for the exams?
The problem sets are the most important guide. Find the solutions to
all problems in the problem sets on your own. In
addition, study the slides.
- Make sure that you understand the slides
- Make sure that you understand the problems.
- Be able to solve the given and similar problems without aids.
- Make sure that you understand the circuits.
- Be able to draw circuits.
- Be able to explain the important circuits and concepts.
Literature
- All New Electronics Self-Teaching Guide
Harry Kybett, Earl Boysen
Third Edition, 2008
The book can be ordered at
Amazon.de for 28.03 €.
- Grundlagen der Elektronik
Stefan Goßner
7. Auflage, 2008
Dieses Buch kann für 22.80 €
gekauft oder kostenlos
heruntergeladen
werden.
- Analogelektronik (auf deutsch und französisch)
P. Walther, B. Käser
2007
Free download:
Skript
- The Art of Electronics
P. Horowitz, W. Hill
Second Edition, 1989
- Die hohe Schule der Elektronik 1
P. Horowitz, W. Hill
1996 (Originalversion: 1989)
- Traité de L'électronique
P. Horowitz, W. Hill
1996 (l'édition originale: 1989)
- Einführung in die Halbleiter-Schaltungstechnik
Holger Göbel
2. Auflabe, 2006
CircuitMaker
- Installation process
1) Download
software and exercises
2) Unzip it
3) Move folder "My electronics" into the "C:\" folder
- Frequent CircuitMaker mistakes: no ground, wrong simulation settings, multimeter not selected before selecting a point to measure, wires
are not correctly connected, wrong components (e.g., transistors
with wrong current amplification)
- Download
CircuitMaker manual
Other Electrical Engineering Software
- Spice-based analog simulation program:
LTspice (alternatives:
TINA-TI,
TINA)
- Free tool for circuit simulation:
Solve Elec (very simple, properties sometimes not displayed, very
simple transistor models)
Laboratories
Laboratory Session 1
- Group 4 (F2a2): Tuesday 13:30, Room 402
- Group 2 (F2a1): Wednesday 13:20, Room 402
- Group 3 and 1 (F2b1 and F2b2): Wednesday 16:10, Room 402
Laboratory Session 2
- Monday, April 27, 16:10, Room 402
- Tuesday, April 28, 13:30, Room 402
- Wednesday, April 29, 13:20, Room 402
- Thursday, April 30, 12:00, Room 402
- Problem set
- Data sheets: OP97,
AD620
- Screenshots:
Lehmann
Links
Interesting News
The following articles are not required for the exams.
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Spintronic
Memristors (IEEE Spectrum Online,
March 2009)
Researchers have made magnetic devices that act like the recently
discovered fourth circuit element.
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Inside the Plastic
Electronics Revolution (IEEE Spectrum Online,
February 2009)
IEEE Spectrum tours Plastic Logic's new fab in Dresden, Germany,
where it will make its Kindle-killing e-reader.
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