ECE 3413

INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS

CATALOG DATA: ECE 3413. Introduction to Electronic Circuits. (3)

(Prerequisites: Credit or registration in ECE 1002, MA 3113 and PH 2223).

Three hours lecture. Circuit analysis in the time, phasor, and Laplace transform domains applied to elementary electronic circuits including first and second order circuits with operational amplifiers. Analysis, simulation, and measurement of circuit performance, as well as circuit construction, are emphasized.

PREREQUISITES BY TOPIC:

1. Solution of simultaneous linear algebraic equations.
2. Differential and integral calculus.
3. Concepts of current and voltage, Ohm's Law.

TEXTBOOK(S) AND OTHER REQUIRED MATERIAL:

1. Giorgio Rizzoni, Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineering (revised 4th Edition), McGraw-Hill 2004.
2. Joseph G. Tront, PSpice for Basic Circuit Analysis, McGraw Hill, Boston, 2004.
3. MATLAB® Student Version Release 14 with SIMULINK®, The MathWorks, Inc.
4. DSSF3 Realtime Analyzer software, Yoshimasa Electronic
5. Hardware Homework Parts

GENERAL COURSE OBJECTIVES AND RELATIONSHIP TO PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:

1. To learn and apply basic time and frequency network analysis to circuits with ideal resistors, capacitors, inductors, and operational amplifiers. [1,2,9]
2. To apply simulation software to circuits with resistors, capacitors, inductors, and operational amplifiers. [1,2,9]
3. To construct, test and debug simple circuits with practical resistors, capacitors, inductors, and operational amplifiers. [1,2,4,9]
4. To measure performance of the constructed circuits with personal laptops and digital multimeters. [1,2,4,9]
5. To practice self-assessment and interpretation of work from multiple perspectives by comparing measured results for simple circuits with results from analysis and simulation. [3]

COURSE TOPICS COVERED:

1. Resistive circuits; network theorems (7 classes)
2. Operational amplifiers (6 classes)
3. Phasors and impedance (6 classes)
4. Passive and active filters (6 classes)
5. First order circuits (5 classes)
6. Second order circuits (5 classes)
7. Complex frequency and the Laplace transform (3 classes)
8. Instantaneous and average power (3 classes)
9. Exams (4 classes)

CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT:

1. Engineering Science : 4 hours
2. Engineering Design : 0 hours
3. Basic Math and Science : 0 hours

ASSESSMENT:

1. Homework exercises.
2. Examination exercises.
3. Final Exam.

SPECIFIC COURSE OBJECTIVES AND RELATIONSHIP TO MEASURABLE OUTCOMES:

Objective 1:

• Demonstrate the ability to calculate analytically time dependent voltages and currents in circuits. (1)
• Demonstrate the ability to calculate time dependent voltages and currents by writing differential equations and solving them with MATLAB. (1,2,9)
• Demonstrate the ability to calculate analytically phasor voltages and currents in circuits as functions of frequency. (1)

Objective 2:

• Demonstrate the ability to calculate time dependent voltages and currents by simulating circuits with OrCAD PSpice. (1,2,9)
• Demonstrate the ability to calculate the frequency dependence of phasor transfer functions by simulating circuits with OrCAD PSpice. (1,2,9)

Objective 3:

• Demonstrate the student's ability to purchase parts, construct circuits by soldering parts on a printed circuit board, and debug circuits. (3,4)

Objective 4:

• Demonstrate the ability to use DSSF3 Real Time Analyzer (RTA) software running on personal laptops to measure time and frequency responses of circuits by driving the circuit with various waveforms (including white noise) and using the RTA Oscillopscope and FFT Analyzer. (2,4,9)
• Demonstrate the ability to measure DC voltages in a circuit with a personal digital multimeter. (2,4,9)

Objective 5:

• Demonstrate the ability to compare, pairwise, results from analysis, simulation, and measurements to obtain feedback on a circuit's performance (and insight for debugging or troubleshooting if the results are inconsistent) without immediate direct involvement of the teacher. (3)

PREPARED BY:

Dr. Marion Hagler, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, June 9, 2005.