Syllabus
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1. AC circuits Analysis of AC circuits using Laplace and Fourier transformations. Signal link, source and load impedance matching, reflections and cross-talk. *
2. Voltage and current supplies Electronic design of DC power supplies, regulators, switching power supplies and DC/DC converters. Current and reference voltage supplies. *
3. Amplifiers and oscillators Design of DC and AC amplifiers, special purpose amplifiers in physics - electrometric and impuls amplifiers. Fixed frequency oscillators. Voltage controlled oscillators, frequency synthesizer, phase-lock loop. *
4. Linear and nonlinear applications of operational amplifiers (OA) Output signal amplitude limitation, enhancement of output voltage and current range, power OA. Ideal diode circuit, diode converters. Logarithmic amplifiers, isolation amplifiers. *
5. Analog signal processing Passive and active analog filters - low-pass and high-pass filters, notch, pass-band and stop-band filters. Synchronous detection, narrow-band filtration. Frequency transformation. *
6. Special A/D and D/A conversion methods Accuracy of A/D conversion, noise. Sigma-delta A/D converters. Logarithmic A/D converter. Using pulse-width modulation in D/A conversion. *
7. Electric and nonelectric quantities measurement Fundamentals of electric and nonelectric quantities measurements, low signal measurement. Electronic measurement devices, analog, digital, storage and sampling oscilloscopes, logical analyzers, spectral and pulse-amplitude analyzers. Signal generators. *
8. Programmable logic Programmable logic circuits - introduction and applications. State machines. ASIC, programmable logic devices PAL, GAL, CPLD, FPLA, and examples. *
9. Single-chip microcontrollers Overview of microcontroller families, block diagram architecture and programming. *
10. Overview of analog and digital data transmission Serial buses RS-232, RS-422, RS-485, I2C, SPI. Analog and digital current loops, plug and play sensors (TEDS). Galvanic isolation of electronic blocks. *
11. Modular instrumentation and connectivity. GPIB instrument bus, CAMAC, VME/VXI, NIM, PXI modular instrument platforms.
Annotation
Electronic design of DC power supplies, regulators, switching power supplies and DC/DC converters, DC and AC amplifiers, special purpose amplifiers in physics, applications of operational amplifiers. Passive and active analog filters, oscillators.
Special A/D and D/A conversion methods. Fundamentals of electric and nonelectric quantities measurements, low-signal measurement.
Electronic measurement devices, oscilloscopes, logical analyzers, spectral and pulse-amplitude analyzers. Standards for data acquisition and measurement systems.
Programmable logic and single-chip microcontrollers.