Syllabus
1. Introduction to electronics circuits, passive and active electronics components, amplifiers, feedback, noise, resonances and resonance effects, transition effects, filters, derivation and integration circuits, grounding, shielding, cabling, SMD soldering, wire-bonding, bump-bonding. 2. Introduction to measurements: measurement errors, voltage, current, resistance, frequency and phase differences, AD-DA converters, digital multi-meters, magnetic and optical measurements. 3. Interfaces - RS-232, RS-422, RS-485 (GPIB), USB, RJ45. 4. Pulse counters, D/A and A/D converters, special amplifiers for nuclear spectroscopy, single channel and multichannel pulse analyzers, discriminators, coincidence circuits, time-amplitude converters, PC architecture, FPGA circuits, Arduino kits for slow control measurements. 5. C/C++, ROOT, compilation and program debugging, safe code writing for communication with devices, correct code writing and sharing in team. 6. Communication in various operating systems (Windows, Linux). 7. Communication from command line and visualized communication tools, programs from National Instruments. 8. Monitoring of work in laboratories (messages, alerts, warnings, remote control, supervising on laboratories, noise alarms, e-mail, SMS). 9. Modular work with devices, interconnecting measurements to more complex tasks, feedback, automation.
Practical exercise: 1. Laminating and soldering cable to the connectors to the cable. Good soldering principles. 2. Shielding and grounding of preamplifiers, monitoring by scopes. 3. Make own beeper (circuit 555), preamplifier, oscillator. 4. Programming and communication with FPGA or Arduino kit.
Annotation
Measurement and automation electronics used in physics laboratory.
Electric signal processing for automation with modern acquisition devices.
Transfer, processing and acquisition of data via various computer interfaces, interface types.
Introduction of devices and systems used in particle and nuclear physics.
Communication on various operating systems (Windows, Linux).
Modern devices for data processing: FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) and modular kit Arduino.
Basic principles of safe and reliable communications with devices in laboratories.