2019/20 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

ELEC1130 Circuit Analysis and Design

20 creditsClass Size: 180

Module manager: Dr. Chris Wood
Email: C.D.Wood@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2019/20

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Objectives

This module provides an introduction to key electronic components, the basic concepts of electronic circuit analysis and design and the basic principles of electronic circuit test and measurement.

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to:

- Apply basic physical and mathematical principles to circuit problems;
- Apply circuit theory and modelling techniques to the design and analysis of electronic circuits;
- Use quantitative methods and software tools to the analysis and design of electronic circuits;
- Apply a systems approach to the analysis and design of electronic circuits;
- Demonstratre familiarity with electronic components, such as diodes and transistors, and related measurement equipment;
- Demonstrate good laboratory skills, including the safety aspects of lab work, keeping a laboratory log book.

Syllabus

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

- Introduction to electronic circuits: current, voltage, charge, circuit diagrams, Kirchhoff's current & voltage laws;
- Resistors, Ohm's Law, resistor combinations, potential divider, and superposition principle;
- Ideal and real voltage & current sources;
- Concept of a load;
- Thevenin and Norton equivalents;
- Capacitors & inductors;
- Phenomenological transisent response;
- Electrical power and energy;
- Energy storage and dissipation;
- Introduction to AC circuit behaviour: rms quantities;
- Reactance, impedance and phase shifts between current & voltage;
- Electronic circuit labs;
- Safety in the Laboratory;
- Laboratory record keeping;
- Basic measurement techniques: digital multimeter and oscilloscope, loading effects;
- Circuit simulation: Using multisim or equivalent contemporary software packages;
- Diodes: ideal and real I-V characteristics;
- AC rectification;
- Transistors: basic operating principles of BJTs and FETs;
- Transistor biasing;
- Load-line;
- Small-signal equivalent circuit models;
- Amplifier design with transistors;
- Circuit models;
- Amplifier gain, input and output resistance;
- Operational Amplifiers: virtual ground principle, use of feedback, simple op-amp filter circuits

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Laboratory	22	2.00	44.00
Lecture	22	1.00	22.00
Private study hours			134.00
Total Contact hours			66.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Students receive feedback on their progress through the in-semester tests and also through on-line quizzes on Minerva.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
In-course Assessment	In-Semester Test 1	10.00
In-course Assessment	Semester 1 (End) Test	20.00
In-course Assessment	In-Semester Test 2	30.00
In-course Assessment	Semester 2 (End) Test	40.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Re-sits for ELEC modules are subject to the rules in the School’s Code of Practice on Assessment. Students should be aware that, for some modules, a re-sit may only be conducted on an internal basis (with tuition) in the next academic session. .

Reading list

There is no reading list for this module

Last updated: 30/04/2019

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