2015/16 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

ELEC2130 Electronic Circuit Design

10 creditsClass Size: 128

Module manager: Mr. R.G.Clarke
Email: r.g.clarke@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2015/16

Module replaces

ELEC2120

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This module aims to give students the necessary skills and knowledge to design and build a variety of electronic mixed-signal circuits. This will be achieved through a mixture of theory, simulation and practical implementation.

Objectives

The objective of this module is to give students the necessary skills and knowledge to design and build a variety of electronic circuits and systems.
These circuits include common amplifier and filter topologies that are used to interface analogue and digital circuits. As well as covering the underlying circuit theory, the module will also cover the simulation of these circuits, together with their practical implementation.
The module will also cover the most common communication protocols that are used in modern digital circuits.

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
- Understand the key principles of operational-amplifiers
- Be able to design, simulate and build op-amp amplifiers
- Use an op-amp buffer for impedance matching
- Be able to design, simulate and build multi-stage active filters (low-pass, high-pass, band-pass)
- Design op-amp circuits for signal conditioning
- Understand the key principles of analogue-to-digital conversion
- Be able to interface digital signals with differing threshold levels and use digital signals to control loads with differing voltage and current requirements
- Understand the most common digital communication protocols and how they can be used with an embedded microcontroller
- Understand the main practical issues that arise in circuit design and how to alleviate them
- Understand the origins of heat generation in circuits and how it affects circuit performance.
- Understand the need for power supply regulation and decoupling
- Appreciate key system design issues such as modularity

Syllabus

Signal conditioning circuits (amplifiers, attenuators, filters, buffers, DC offsetting)
Active filters (Sallen-Key, Multiple Feedback topologies)
Signal detection(comparators, Schmitt triggers)
Analogue-to-Digital conversion
Digital interfacing (level shifting, inversion, open/tri-state ports, load switching)
Digital communication protocols (UART, SPI, I2C, CAN)Practical circuit design (PCB layout, screening, decoupling)
Thermal management and power supply design
System design approaches, modularity, compatibility, fail-safe circuit design

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lecture	10	1.00	10.00
Practical	10	2.00	20.00
Private study hours			70.00
Total Contact hours			30.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			100.00

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	Case study	25.00
Report	Practical Report	25.00
Report	Practical Report	25.00
In-course MCQ	MCQ	25.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

There is no reading list for this module

Last updated: 12/01/2017

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