Electronics

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Measure and test a circuit containing a mix of analogue and digital components
• Design a PCB that contains a mix of analogue and digital components

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Explore performance vs power tradeoffs in the context of battery powered and sustainable solutions
• Identify boundaries between analogue and digital domains in a system
• Design a circuit with a given frequency response

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Analyse the DC and AC characteristics of LCR circuits
• Explain how active analogue circuits can be used to construct digital building blocks
• Relate analogue circuit characteristics to digital timing characteristics

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Perform laboratory measurements in a small team

Principles of passive analogue circuits:

• Voltage/current
• Nodal analysis etc.
• Passive components (LCR)
• Frequency dependent circuits
• Circuit board design

Active and digital components:

• Transistors and diodes (operation only)
• DACs and ADCs
• Sampling and quantisation
• Sequential components (latches, FFs)
• RAMs and ROMs

Circuit performance:

• Propagation delay
• Setup and hold
• Timing analysis and closure
• Area vs delay tradeoffs

System design:

• Specification
• Compositional design
• Testing

Lectures, labs and guided self-study

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.