Course detail

Analog Technology

FEKT-BPC-ANAAcad. year: 2025/2026

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.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

6

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Kamil Vrba, CSc.

Department

Department of Telecommunications (UTKO)

Entry knowledge

Knowledge on the level of the fundamentals of electrical engineering is required, in particular Ohm’s law and Kirchhoff’s laws; students must be able to analyse simple passive circuits, they must know the function of semiconductor diode, the function of bipolar and unipolar transistors.

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

To obtain basic knowledge of applying analog technology in the broadest sense, i.e. from simple building blocks with diodes, bipolar and unipolar transistors up to the application of integrated analog circuits in concrete applications
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.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

TIETZE, Ulrich a SCHENK, Christph a GAMM, Eberhard.: Electronic circuits: Handbook for design and application. New York: Springer, 2008, ISBN: 978-354004295
VRBA, K.; KOTON, J. Analogové kmitočtové filtry. Vysoké učení technické v Brně: Nakladatelství VUTIUM, 2023. 91 s. ISBN: 978-80-214-6168-0. (CS)
VRBA, K.; MIŠUREC, J. Technika analogových obvodů. Vysoké učení technické v Brně, Nakladatelství VUTIUM, 2020. 423 s. ISBN: 978-80-214-5901-4. https://dspace.vutbr.cz/handle/11012/195807

Recommended reading

FEUCHT, D.: Designing High - performance amplifiers. SciTech Publishing, 2010
RAUT, R.; Swamy, M.N.S.: Modern Analog Filter Analysis And Design, Wiley Verlag, 2005
WINDER , S.: Filter design. Bidless, Oxford 1998

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BPC-AMT Bachelor's 0 year of study, winter semester, elective

  • Programme BPC-AUD Bachelor's

    specialization AUDB-ZVUK , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    specialization AUDB-TECH , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme BPC-ECT Bachelor's 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
  • Programme BPC-IBE Bachelor's 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
  • Programme BPC-MET Bachelor's 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
  • Programme BPC-SEE Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme BPC-TLI Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
  • Programme BIT Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
  • Programme BIT Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Kamil Vrba, CSc.

Syllabus

Lectures:
1. Basic knowledge and methods of solving linear analog circuits (repetition): passive elements, elementary circuits, voltage and current sources, linear circuits basic methods of solution, interconnection of transfer blocks
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

12 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Kamil Vrba, CSc.

Syllabus

1. Design and properties of reference sources with a diode, Zener diode, with transistor, integrated reference sources
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

12 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Kamil Vrba, CSc.

Syllabus

1. DC analysis and its importance in analogue circuit design
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

14 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Kamil Vrba, CSc.

Syllabus

1. - 2. Individual design, construction, debugging and measurement of frequency filters with operational amplifiers
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