EE3C11 2021-2022

Welcome to the course web site of the BSc course: Structured Electronics Design (EE3C11, Electronics part).

The course and this web site are developed and maintained by the instructors Chris Verhoeven and Anton Montagne

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Educational method

At the beginning of the course, the application specification of an amplifier to be designed will be presented.

Step-by-step design of this amplifier will be discussed during the course.

Motivation of the design steps, their underlying theory and application to other designs will be elucidated.

Examples and exercises will help the participants to understand the design steps and their interaction.

The course will be concluded with a written exam (Brightspace Quiz).

Structure of the lectures

Preparation

Students need to prepare the lecture as follows:

  • Study the sections in the book associated with that lecture

  • Study the presentations of the lecture

  • Watch the videos of the lecture

First hour

  1. A classroom poll / discussion provides information about the preparation and the level of understanding.

  2. Instructors will elucidate topics using:

    • Posters

    • Demonstrations

    • Ad hoc presentations

Second hour

Students work in groups on a homework assignments. Group assignments will be rated with pass/fail. Passing all assignments adds up to 100 points. The total number of points, divided by 100 will be added to the result of the electronics part of the written exam.

Detailed course information

  1. Read more about: Structured Electronics Design

  2. Read: What you will know at the end of this course

  3. For detailed information about the lectures, click the lecture in the list below.

Course material

  1. The course book can be downloaded for free: Structured Electronics Design - 3rd edition

  2. SLiCAP and LTspice source files of this book SED1_5_LTSPICE_SLiCAP.zip

  3. A PYTHON-based symbolic SPICE simulator for deriving and solving design equations for electronic circuits. Course participants require a laptop with SLiCAP installed. See SLiCAP for installation instructions.

  4. LTspice can be downloaded and installed from here.

  5. Posters

    1. Poster EE3C11

    2. Poster Object Performance Specification

    3. Poles and Zeros

    4. Application of Negative Feedback

    5. Modeling of negative feedback

    6. Derive Controller Requirements from Amplifier Specifications

    7. Frequency compensation

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