Course detail
Analog Technology
FEKT-BKC-ANAAcad. year: 2024/2025
Basic applications: passive RC and LCR circuits, basic circuits with diodes, bipolar and unipolar transistors with opamps and conveyors, OTA, comparators and timers. Further applications: linear and non-linear operational circuits with operational amplifiers, active filters, signal generators, wideband amplifiers, power amplifiers, supply sources, analog switches and samplers with memory, analog circuits for DAC and ADC, measuring circuits.
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Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
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Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Laboratory lessons and computer exercises are obligatory. Justified absence from laboratory lessons or computer exercises can be made up after prior arrangement with the instructor, usually in the credit week.
Aims
The nature of the subject will make it possible for students to acquire a practical approach to the design of analog circuits of most diverse types. Having completed the course, students will be able to:
design basic transistor structures with bipolar and unipolar transistors,
explain the internal structure of operational amplifiers and other analog integrated circuits,
design basic linear circuits with operational amplifiers,
design the required transfer function of active filters,
describe the function of non-linear circuits with operational amplifiers,
understand the applications of operational amplifiers in function generators, voltage stabilizers and in A/D and D/A converters.
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Type of course unit
Lecture
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Syllabus
2. Basic building blocks of analog circuits: circuits with diodes, with reference diodes, with bipolar and unipolar transistors, reference sources of voltage and current, current mirrors
3. Structure of operational amplifiers: differential amplifiers, examples of operational amplifiers with bipolar and unipolar transistors, OTA amplifiers, etc.
4. Parameters of operational amplifiers and their influence on basic applications: final gain, differential and common mode input impedance, output impedance, voltage offset, input bias currents, drift, noise, frequency response, step response, slew rate
5. Linear circuits with operational amplifiers: inverting, non-inverting, summing and differential circuits, bridge circuits, controlled voltage and current sources, DC reference voltage and current sources, integrator, derivator, AC amplifiers
6. Passive and active frequency filters: low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, band-stop and all-pass filters, frequency characteristics approximation, design of second-order filters, higher order filters
7. Non-linear circuits: diode limiters and diode function transducers, logarithmic and exponential converters, operational rectifiers
8. Circuits with electronic switches: analog multiplexers and demultiplexers, amplifiers with adjustable gain, electronic choppers, S/H and T/H circuits
9. Power supplies: power rectifiers, voltage stabilizers, integrated stabilizers, symmetrical tracking stabilizers
10. Comparators: parameters, window comparators, comparators with hysteresis
11. Generators: oscillators, functional generators, multivibrators
Fundamentals seminar
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Constant current source with transistor, current mirror, current source with FET, common-emitter amplifier
3. Design of simple differential operational amplifier (OA), inverting amplifier with OA and the influence of real properties of OA to its the performance
4. Non-inverting amplifier with OA and its properties, design of precision instrumentation amplifier, precision current source
5. Design of active filters: 2nd- and 6th-order low-pass filter, 2nd-order high-pass and band-pass filter
6. Design of electronic chopper, design of amplifier with electronically controllable gain, full-wave rectifier with opamps, design of voltage supply source with integrated stabilizer
Exercise in computer lab
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. AC analysis and its importance in analogue circuit design
3. Transient analysis and its importance in analogue circuit design
4. Sensitivity analysis and its importance in analogue circuit design
5. Active elements models, level based definition
6. Identification of errors in the designed analogue circuit
Laboratory exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
3. - 4. Individual design, construction, debugging and measurement of a diode function converter
5. - 6. Individual design, construction, debugging and measurement of circuits with comparators
7. End-of-course evaluation of the assignments realized