You will study methods for calculating the behaviour of analogue and digital electronic circuits.  Analogue topics include Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Laws; voltage and current generators both ideal and practical; Thèvenin and Norton Theorems; superposition; nodal analysis, AC circuit analysis using complex numbers; while digital topics include basic logic functions, Boolean algebra, De Morgan's theorem, binary mathematics, Karnaugh maps, simplification of expressions, flip-flops, and state machines, highlighting environmental impact, energy efficiency, recycling and reuse of electronic chips as appropriate

4 lectures per week

1 lab per week (3 hours)

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Digital Electronics:

10% Midterm test

15% Digital Labs

25% Written Final Exam

Analogue Electronics:

7.5% Online Exam - Mid-term theory examination

17.5% Written Exam - Circuit design examination

7.5% Written Assignment - Group Design Project

2.5% Lab 1 Report

2.5% Lab 2 Report

10% 4 Online Tutorials

2.5% Post lecture tutorial questions

It is the default expectation that all courses will offer opportunities for reassessment or deferred assessment. Where it is not possible to offer this in some assessment components, the grade achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade, and any exceptions for this course are described below.

[No exceptions]

The aims of this course are to:

■ introduce key analogue electronic circuit analysis concepts and develop confidence in applying them to simple networks of passive components (resistors, capacitors, inductors);

■ introduce key digital electronic design and analysis concepts and develop confidence in applying them to simple combinational and sequential logic circuits;

■ give practical experience of designing, building and measuring analogue circuits based on passive components, and digital circuits based on standard logic gates;

■ give practical experience of constructing electronic circuits using printed circuit boards and integrated circuits;

■ develop skills in systematic design and documentation.

. develop an understanding of circuit design and implementation, and energy efficiency and how this is linked to environmental impact

By the end of this course students will be able to:

Digital electronics

■ explain the concept of binary, octal and hexadecimal number systems and relation to the decimal system

■ develop basic logic functions including AND, OR, NOT and how show how others such as NAND, NOR are derived from these

■ use truth tables in logic circuit design and derive logic functions from these

■ develop and use Boolean algebra including De Morgan's theorem in logic circuit design

■ use Karnaugh maps to minimise digital logic circuits

■ design digital latches, i.e. a digital logic circuit with memory

■ design Data (D), Toggle (T), Set-Reset (SR) and JK flip flops, by using circuit symbols and truth tables

■ design, analyse, implement and verify the operation of simple sequential logic circuits including oscillators, dividers, up/down counters with and without reset, pseudo-random number generators, and a reaction timer;

■ use digital logic training boxes to build and verify basic circuit operation

■ fault find circuits built using digital logic training boxes to correct wiring errors;

■ design, analyse, implement and verify the operation of simple combinational logic circuits for addition, subtraction, and testing the equality of binary numbers, showing how to implement the functions using different types of gates

■ plot the expected output waveforms for sequential circuits, observe signal traces on an oscilloscope and compare. Identify any non-idealities in the signal and explain how this limits performance in terms of maximum clock speed;

Analogue electronics

■ describe the fundamental electrical properties of charge, current, voltage, potential, and power in terms familiar to each Engineering Discipline, and be able to translate between units of these properties;

■ define Ohm's Law and Kirchhoff's Current and Voltage Laws;

■ apply these laws to obtain unknown currents and voltages in networks of resistors, inductors, capacitors, current and voltage sources;

■ demonstrate how these laws can be applied to devise more powerful analysis tools such as Nodal Analysis;

■ calculate unknown currents and voltages in general networks through Nodal Analysis;

■ state Thévenin's and Norton's Theorems;

■ calculate the values of the Thévenin Voltage, Thévenin Resistance, Norton Current and Norton Resistance for any two port network;

■ apply Norton's and Thevenin's Theorems to the simplification of circuit analysis problems for two port networks;

■ analyse general a.c. networks using the complex representation of impedance;

■ define the fundamental properties of ideal op-amps;

■ calculate the voltage gain of common and novel amplification circuits built around ideal op-amps.

■ design circuits to meet practical challenges

■ work in a team to develop solutions to technical challenges

■ appreciate the potential impact of circuit design and implementation, and energy efficiency to the environment