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Structured Design - 1: end terms
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    :description: Training courses and workshops analog electronics, design of application-specific amplifiers with operational amplifiers
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This course discusses the theory and the application of basic structured design techniques to the design of application-specific amplifiers with operational amplifiers.

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What you will know at the end of this course
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#. You will know the characteristic properties of amplifiers and you will be able to derive the functional requirements for amplifiers from their application:

   - The input and output impedance
   - The signal transfer from source to load
   - The port isolation requirements
  
#. You are able to model and characterize the non-ideal behavior of amplifiers and you will know to derive performance requirements from the application description:

   - The small-signal noise behavior
   - The small-signal dynamic behavior
   - The static nonlinear behavior
   - The dynamic nonlinear behavior
   - The influence of temperature and ageing
  
#. You will know about other relevant design aspects of amplifiers such as:

   - Environmental conditions
   - Cost factors
  
#. You will be able to design low-noise and power efficient amplifier structures for arbitrary port impedance and port isolation requirements with the aid of feedback techniques, balancing techniques and isolation techniques:

   - Direct feedback and indirect (model-based) feedback
   - Nonenergic feedback, passive feedback and active feedback
   - Balancing and port isolation techniques
  
#. You are able to relate the properties of the components in the feedback network to important performance aspects and costs factors of the amplifier:

   - Inaccuracy
   - Noise
   - Nonlinearity
   - Power dissipation
   - Area
   - Costs
  
#. You are able to model individual performance aspects of voltage-feedback and current-feedback operational amplifiers:

   - Equivalent-input voltage and current noise sources
   - Equivalent-input voltage and current offset sources
   - Equivalent-input bias sources
   - Gain and input and output impedances, including their dynamic behavior
   - PSRR and CMRR
  
#. You know about other relevant performance aspects of operational amplifiers, such as:

   - Input voltage range
   - Output voltage and current drive capability
   - Voltage slew rate

#. You know in which way and to what extent the equivalent input noise sources of the feedback network affect the noise performance of a negative feedback amplifier.

#. You know in which way and to what extent the equivalent input noise sources of the controller (operational amplifier) affect the noise performance of a negative feedback amplifier.

#. You can apply the asymptotic-gain negative feedback model to derive budgets for the gain-bandwidth product of the operational amplifier:

   - Loop gain-poles product

#. You are able to evaluate the frequency response stability of a negative feedback amplifier:

   - Routh array
   - Nyquist stability criterion
   - Root locus technique

#. You can apply frequency compensation techniques to achieve the desired dynamic response of an amplifier:

   - Phantom-zero compensation
   - Pole-splitting by means of pole-zero canceling 
   - Resistive broadbanding
   - Phase marging correction with lag and lead networks