Course detail

Analog technology

FEKT-BPA-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, active filters, signal generators, wideband amplifiers, power amplifiers, supply sources, analog switches and samplers with memory, analog circuits for DAC and ADC, measuring circuits.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

7

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Norbert Herencsár, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Telecommunications (UTKO)

Offered to foreign students

The home faculty only

Entry knowledge

Knowledge on the level of the fundamentals of electrical engineering is required.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Requirements for completion of a course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every. 
The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.

Aims

To obtain basic knowledge of applying analog technology in the broades sense, i.e. from simple building blocks with ddiodes, bipolar and unipolar transistors up to the application of integrated analog circuits in concrete applications
The nature of the subject will make it possible to acquire a practical approach to the design of analog circuits of most diverse types.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

FEUCHT, D.: Designing High - performance amplifiers. SciTech Publishing, 2010
KOTON, J.; HERENCSÁR, N. Analog Technology for joint teaching programme of BUT and VSB- TUO. 2014. s. 1-170.
RAUT, R.; Swamy, M.N.S.: Modern Analog Filter Analysis And Design, Wiley Verlag, 2005
SEDRA , A. S.; SMITH, K. C.: Microelectronic Circuits. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998
TIETZE , U.; SCHENK, CH.: Electronic circuits - Design and applications. Springer, London 1999
WINDER , S.: Filter design. Bidless, Oxford 1998

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BPA-ELE Bachelor's

    specialization BPA-ECT , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Norbert Herencsár, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Building elements of analog circuits: basic elements with diodes and reference diodes, amplifiers with bipolar and unipolar transistors, reference sources of voltage and current, current mirrors.
2. Inner structure of analog integrated circuits: difference amplifier, elementary connection of operational amplifier, instrumentsl, electric, wideband and impulse operational amplifiers, current and voltage conveyors.
3. Wideband amplifiers: frequency dependence of current apmlifier factor, effect of outer and parasitic transistor capacitances, cascade amplifier, difference amplifier as a wideband amplifier, symmetrical wideband amplifier, wideband voltage follower, transimpedance amplifiers.
4. Emitter follower as a power amplifier, complementary emitter follower as a booster, terminal amplifiers with Darlington circuit and power MOS FETs.
5. Linear circuits:inverting, non-inverting, summing, subtracting and instrumental amplifiers, bridge systems, current sources. integrating amplifier and differential amplifiers, a.c. amplifiers.
6. Filters: passive RC and LRC circuits, various approximations of transfer function - lowpass, highpass and bandpass filters, notch filter, all-pass filter.
7. Active filters: design of filters with opamps, filters with current conveyors, transimpedance amps and OTA amps.
8. Non-linear circuits: diode limiters and function generators, logarithmic and exponential converters, analog divider and multipliers, operational rectifiers, peak detectors.
9. Circuits with electronic switches: analog multiplexers and demultiplexers, programmable amplifiers, electronic choppers, samplers and followers with memory.
10. D/A and A/D converters: fundamental principle of D/A conversion, D/A converter parameters, bipolar and CMOS D/A converters. A/D conversion, A/D converter parameters, fundamental principles of A/D converters.
11. Comparators: inner comparator structure, comparator properties, comparator with hysteresis.
12. Generators: LC oscillators, crystal oscillators, function generators, multivibrators, multivibrators with 555 timer.
13. Rectifiers, basic arrangement of stabilizers, control elements of stbilizers, electronic fuses, integrated stabilizers. 

Fundamentals seminar

13 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Norbert Herencsár, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Basic connection of amplifiers with bipolar and unipolar transistors
2. Difference amplifier, design of basic opamp connection, wideband amplifier
3. Properties of inverting and non-inverting amplifier, summing /subtracting connection of operational amplifier
4. Design of filters with operational amplifiers or conveyors
5. Design of non-linear circuits with operational amplifiers
6. Function generators and multivibrators
7. End-of-course test 

Exercise in computer lab

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Norbert Herencsár, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Modelling the operation of basic building blocks of analog circuits with bipolar and unipolar transistors
2. Modelling the properties of wideband amplifier
3. Model of operational amplifier, testing the properties of basic connections of operational amplifier
4. Passive frequency filters
5. Computer analysis of filters with operational amplifiers
6. Computer analysis of filters with current conveyors and transimpedance amplifiers
7. End-of-ccourse evaluation of results 

Laboratory exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Norbert Herencsár, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Individual design, construction, debugging and measurement of a circuit with transistors
2. Individual design, construction, debugging and measurement of frequency filters with operational amplifiers
3. Individual design, construction, debugging and measurement of a diode function generator
4. End-of-course evaluation of the assignments realized