EEEN30120 Analogue Electronics

Academic Year 2021/2022

The purpose of the module is to provide an understanding of the main analogue electronic circuit building blocks, such as amplifiers, operational amplifiers, oscillators, and power electronic circuits. The module will focus on providing an understanding of their operation, how to analyse their operation in circuits and their design. Laboratory work provides an opportunity to design simple circuits, analyse their operation with circuit simulation software and build and test circuits.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

On the successful completion of this module students should be able to:

- Explain the operation of analogue electronic devices and circuits and appreciate the technologies underpinning such devices and circuits.
- Identify, formulate and solve the correct relationships and hence analyse basic analogue electronic circuits and building blocks.
- Design analogue electronic circuits using amplifiers, op-amps and oscillators to meet given specifications
- Simulate and build relevant circuits, design and carry out experiments to measure their performance, and analyse and interpret the resulting measured experimental data;
- Effectively communicate the results of their work through written laboratory reports.

Indicative Module Content:

The module content is arranged in 8 sections which cover the following topics:
- Review of single transistor circuits for MOSFETs and BJTs and their small signal models.
- Multi-transistor electronic circuits and their small signal models including differential amplifiers, cascode amplifiers, output stages (Class A, B, and AB)
- Operational amplifiers and their non-ideal effects. Applications of Op amps including Schmitt Trigger, Oscillator and Precision rectifier;
- Feedback, stability, and related issues in electronic amplifiers;
- Oscillator circuits including RC oscillators, LC oscillators and Crystal oscillators;
- Phase Locked Loops
- Analogue to digital and digital-to-analogue converters; (Flash, SAR, Subranging and Pipeline ADCs)
- Power electronic circuits; Buck and Boost converters

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

30
Tutorial

6
Laboratories

15
Specified Learning Activities

16
Autonomous Student Learning

56
Total

123
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
A major approach to teaching and learning is through the delivery of lectures. Circuit simulation examples for most of the circuits analysed are provided online and students are encouraged to use these examples to gain an improved understanding.
Online tests are provided throughout the trimester at the end of major sections of the module where students can test their knowledge. Practice tests with feedback on answers, which can be taken multiple times are provided before graded tests are taken.
A series of laboratory sessions are held where students can put into practice the theory from the lectures. These sessions focus on design, simulation, build and test of circuits. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations
Learning Requirements:

Familiarity with Circuit Theory and Electronic Circuits to the level of modules EEEN20020 and EEEN20040.

Familiarity with electronic devices and integrated circuits.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Pre-requisite:
EEEN20040 - Electronic Circuits


 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Continuous Assessment: A series of online quizzes with analogue electronic design and analysis questions. Varies over the Trimester n/a Standard conversion grade scale 40% No

10
Examination: End-of trimester examination 2 hour End of Trimester Exam No Standard conversion grade scale 40% No

50
Examination: Midterm class test. Week 8 Yes Standard conversion grade scale 40% No

20
Lab Report: Series of short reports on laboratory work Varies over the Trimester n/a Graded No

20

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Autumn No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

For laboratory reports, feedback will be provided by returning annotated lab reports online and with feedback from rubric indicating the scoring achieved against defined criteria. Further more detailed feedback can be always be provided on request from the module coordinator or teaching assistant. For the continuous assessment component the feedback is automatically provided online in response to the answers provided for the online tests. For the exam components feedback is usually just in terms of the grade, but more detailed individual feedback can be provided on request from the module coordinator.

Microelectronic Circuits, 6th Edition
Adel S. Sedra, Kenneth C. Smith, Oxford University Press, 2011

Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, 2nd Edition
Behzad Razavi, McGraw Hill, 2017