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ELECTRONICS AND INSTRUMENTATION (UNIT INSTRUMENTATION)
cod. 1000354

Academic year 2007/08
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Elettronica (ING-INF/01)
Field
Ingegneria elettronica
Type of training activity
Characterising
45 hours
of face-to-face activities
5 credits
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Integrated course unit module: ELECTRONICS AND INSTRUMENTATION

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Learning objectives

The course aims at providing insight into the operation of the building blocks most frequently encountered in the analogue signal conditioning chain in electronic instruments.

Prerequisites

Fondamenti di Elettronica A, Fondamenti di Elettronica BC

Course unit content

<p> Analogue signal conditioning <br />
The main functional blocks in a data acquisition and processing system. </p>
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Linear amplifiers. <br />
A deeper insight of operational amplifiers. OTA and trans-impedance amplifiers. Electrometric amplifiers, instrumentation amplifiers, isolation amplifiers. </p>
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Non-linear processing. <br />
Log-antilog amplifiers. The Gilbert cell. Analogue multipliers and their application in true rms measurements. </p>
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Voltage and current references <br />
Zener, Vbe, Vth and band-gap references. Implementations in bipolar and CMOS technologies. </p>
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Sample and hold circuits.</p>
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D/A and A/D converters. <br />
D/A’s based on resistive weighting: binary weighting, block-binary weighting, direct and inverse R-2R networks.Capacitive weighting: binary weighting, serial conversion. <br />
Complements on A/D converters:over-sampling converters, delta-sigma converters, high speed converters. </p>
<p><br />
Phase Locked Loops <br />
Phase detection, VCO, linear PLL analysis in the phase domain. Type and order of the PLL. Steady state errors and tracking characteristics. <br />
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Full programme

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Teaching methods

<p>Exercises Simple exercises are solved during the lectures. Homework. <br />
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<p>There is a single examination covering the modules of Electronics and Instrumentation.<br />
Evaluation: homework (1/4), experimental activity (1/4), oral examination (1/2) <br />
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