525.432 - Analog Electronic Circuit Design II Course Homepage
Instructor Information
Edward Darlington
Email: e.h.darlington@jhuapl.eduWork Phone: (443) 778-8453
Course Information
Course Description
This course extends the fundamental concepts of practical electronic circuit design developed in the course 525.424 Analog Electronic Circuit Design I. The general feedback method is reviewed. Students examine a wide range of devices, including operational amplifiers, A/D and D/A converters, switching regulators and power supplies. Applications include low noise amplification and sensor conditioning nonlinear transfer functions and analog computation, and power control.
Prerequisites
525.424 Analog Electronic Circuit Design I or permission of the instructor.
Course Goal
Extend design techniques applied in course 1 to include a range of integrated circuits. This includes selection criteria.
Course Objectives
Use the unifying principle of negative feedback to bring together various designs already analysed.
Understand operational amplifier parameters, use and selection.
Learn about analog to digital and digital to analog conversion.
Understand the basic principles of switching regulators and power supplies.
When This Course is Typically Offered
This course is offered in the Spring term of alternate, even numbered, years at the Kossiakoff Center.
Syllabus
Topics Covered
- Negative Feedback
- Operational Amplifiers
- Arithmetical operations (add and subtract)
- Non linear operations (multiply, divide, logarithm)
- Digital to analog conversion
- Analog to digital conversion
- Sensor conditioning
- Switching regulators
- Switching power supplies
Student Assessment Criteria
| Homework ( a continuous assessment tool) | 40% |
| Midterm | 20% |
| Final | 40% |
Computer and Technical Requirements
Some experience of SPICE desirable which will normally come from the required first course in Analog Design.
Participation Expectations
As indicated above there will be weekly homework assignments. These are used for assessment and should be completed individually. Discussion with other class members on general toipics is encouraged. The class is traditional in style but informal, and questions from the floor are encouraged.
Textbooks
Textbook information for this course is available online through the MBS Direct Virtual Bookstore.
Course Notes
There are no notes for this course.
Final Words from the Instructor
This is intended as a course leading to practical skills even though hardware is not constructed. Designs should be produced to a level where they could be made.
(Last Modified: 07-22-2008 at 11:07:57 AM)