Course Title: Electronic Concepts 1

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term2 2009

Course Code: EEET6216L

Course Title: Electronic Concepts 1

School: 130T Engineering (TAFE)

Campus: City Campus

Program: C6050 - Advanced Diploma of Electrical Engineering

Course Contact : William Lau

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4468

Course Contact Email:william.lau@rmit.edu.au

Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Nominal Hours: 60

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

NONE

Course Description

  Students will develop a well-balanced coverage of fundamental electronic concepts with emphasis on the principle and applications of operational amplifiers. This learning Unit is one of a group of units designed to collectively meet underpinning skill & applied knowledge essential for developing the following Core Competency UTE NES 406 bA – Develop complex testing and evaluation procedures- Electrical which is contained in the National Electrotechnology Training Package UTE99.

National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:	UTENES406BA Develop complex testing & evaluation procedures
Element:	1.Plan and prepare for the development of complex testing and evaluation procedures 2. Develop complex testing and evaluation procedures 3. Completion of work
Performance Criteria:	1.1 Identified OH&S policies and procedures to be followed are planned and prepared, and the work sequence in accordance with requirements 1.2 Appropriate personnel are consulted to ensure the programs for maintenance are coordinated effectively with others involved on the work site 1.3 Programs to be developed for complex testing and evaluation are checked against job requirements 1.4 Materials necessary to complete the work are identified and detailed in accordance with established procedures and checked against job requirements 1.5 Tools, equipment and testing devices needed to carry out the work are identified and detailed in accordance with established procedures 1.6 Preparatory work is identified to ensure compliance with requirements 2.1 OH&S policies and procedures are followed are detailed 2.2 Normal function of advanced systems and associated apparatus is ascertained and detailed in accordance with requirements 2.3 Systems and associated apparatus isolation and specified testing procedures are detailed where necessary 2.4 Systems and associated apparatus complex testing is detailed in accordance with requirements 2.5 Response to unplanned events or conditions in accordance with established procedures are detailed 2.6 Approval to implement contingencies in accordance with established procedures from appropriate personnel are detailed 2.7 On-going checks of the quality of the work in accordance with established procedures are detailed 2.8 Final complex testing and evaluation procedures of systems and associated apparatus conforming to requirements are detailed 2.9 Notification of work completion in accordance with established procedures is detailed 3.1 Final testing and evaluation procedures are undertaken in accordance with established procedures 3.2 Complex testing and evaluation procedures completion is notified in accordance with established procedures

Learning Outcomes

Students will participate face to face in
•classroom tutorial activities to consolidate the theory of basic electronic and operational amplifier concepts, which may include calculations for electrical quantities but not limited to: voltage & current gain, output and input resistance values.

•practical activities to develop skill in construction of operational amplifier circuits and measurement of electrical quantities at the output: voltage, current, resistance, using analog and digital multi-meters, oscilloscope and other currently available measuring instruments

•Work simulation projects involving the design and construction of operational amplifier circuits, development of testing procedure to verify the performance specification, diagnosis of faults in the systems and repair the fault. Specifications will be provided with work simulation (team or individual basis) or may be negotiated to suit a workplace based application.

Projects may be undertaken as part of a team or individual basis.

It is expected that students would require approximately 20% of course hours to be allocated for independent study to do project research, design, construction, testing and problem solving activities.

Access to computer / Internet resources are essential.

Details of Learning Activities

Participate in supervised workshop practice in simulated workplace environment, including:

• Design and construction of operational amplifier circuits, development of testing procedure to verify the performance specification, diagnosis of faults in the systems and repair the fault. Specifications will be provided with work simulation (team or individual basis) or may be negotiated to suit a workplace based application.

Contents of Electronic Concepts

Application of Electronic Instruments
• Occupational, Health and Safety (OH&S)
• Principles and applications of CRO
• Signal generator
• DC power supplies
Voltage and current sources
• Ideal and real voltage and current sources
• Electronic circuits which behave like voltage or current sources
• Source resistance
• Load line
Signal waveforms
• Direct current and alternating current
• Frequency and period
• Electromagnetic frequency spectrum
• Peak, peak to peak values of a.c.
• RMS values for sinusoidal, triangular and square wave signals
• Steady state and incremental change conditions
• superposition concept
Transfer characteristics of electronic systems
• Linear and non-linear transfer characteristics
• Transfer characteristics as black boxes
• Transfer ratios in decibels
• Concept of frequency response
• Bandwidth of an electronic system
Characteristics of small signal (black box) amplifier
• Block diagram of an amplifier
• Amplifier specifications
• voltage and current sources
• quiescent conditions
• input and output resistance
• voltage, current, tran-resistance and trans-conductance gains
• power gain
• bandwidth
• noise sensitivity and signal to noise ratio
• Gain calculations
• Different types of amplifier
• power, current, voltage, trans-resistance and trans-conductance amplifiers.
• DC biasing
Amplifier in blocks
• Gain in linear ratio or decibels
• Trans-resistance and trans-conductance gains
• Differential and single ended input and output configurations
• Differential mode and common mode gains
• Common mode rejection ratio
• Limits to amplifier linearity, clipping and harmonic distortion
Operational amplifiers
• Characteristics of an ideal operational amplifier
• Inverting and non-inverting amplifiers
• Summing amplifier
• Difference amplifier
• Voltage follower
• Gain calculation
Practical operational amplifiers
• Characteristics and specifications of practical operational amplifier
• Practical specifications
• Data sheets for, effect due to, and nulling circuits for
• input bias current
• input offset current
• input offset voltage
• DC output voltage due to bias currents
• Drift in input offset voltage and current
• Slew rate
• Signal to noise ratio
• Frequency compensation
• Common methods of external compensation in amplifiers:
 single capacitor
 two capacitor
 feed forward

Teaching Schedule

1
Intro to course information and OHS Fundamentals

Introduction to Lab
safety and behaviour in lab;



1
Characteristics of small signal amplifiers
2
BJT and FET Small signal Amplifiers
3
Introduction to Operational amplifier
4
Characteristics of Op amps, Open Loop and Closed Loop Configurations of Op-Amps
5
Negative Feedback and Positive Feedback in Op-Amps
6
Written assessment (20%)
7
Various Applications of Op-Amps – Inverting and Non-inverting Amplifiers
8
Summing Amplifier

9
Subtractor
11
Multichannel Amplifier
12
Integrator
13
Differentiator
14
Comparators
15
Filters
16
Revision
17
Final Assessment
18
Catch Up Exam

Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts

Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, the latest edition – Boylestad and Nashelsky Introduction Circuit Analysis – Boylestad

References

Lecture Notes on S drive and DLS

Other Resources

"Op-Amp and Linear Integrated Circuits" by Ramakant Gayakwad

Overview of Assessment

Assessment in this course will include accumulative assessment of practical/laboratory exercises, and written tests/assignments. 

Assessment Tasks

5 Laboratories- 40%

Final Theory Exam - 60%

Assessment Matrix

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