Analogue and Mixed Signal Electronics

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• Understand the various techniques which can be used for signal conditioning, including filter design
• Understand the various techniques used for analogue to digital conversion and their relative merits
• Understand the sources of noise in electronic circuits, and the limitations they impose

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Design Interface and Amplifier circuits

Signal conditioning using op amps and discrete devices

• Interface requirements for various signal sources (voltage, current, charge)

Analogue filters

• Filter types, filter implementation – passive, active, IIR FIR
• Filter design parameters and methodology
• Active and Passive filter implementation, terminated filters including common circuit implementations (eg Rausch, Tow-Thomas)
• Practical implementation issues, dynamic range, component sensitivity, adaptive tuning

Introduction to phase locked loops

• Basic operation of PLL, linear phase domain model, phase detector circuitry
• Uses of PLL, including for example, tracking filter , FM demodulation, clock and data recovery

Data conversion

• Review of digital conversion requirements and limitations, including detail of sample and hold requirements and limitations, and anti-aliasing
• Fundamentals of noise in digital systems
• Nyquist and Oversampling A to D converters
• D to A conversion and techniques including PWM, reconstruction filters and applications of D to A

Transmission lines for HF signals

• Basic theory and common implementations including characteristic impedance, mismatch and pulse behaviour
• Applications issues

Low noise amplifiers

• Fundamentals of noise in passive and active devices
• Physical noise models, passive and active devices
• Noise in simple amplifiers and opamps

Power Supplies

• Linear Regulators
• Switching Converters
• Power Amplifiers
• Class A/AB/B/D Amplifiers
• Thermal Design

Practical Aspects including EMC conformity and techniques to achieve it (PCB design issues)

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.