Calvin College - Engineering DepartmentEngineering 332Analog Design

Spring 2005

Professor: Paulo F. Ribeiro, SB132 - X6407, PRIBEIRO@CALVIN.EDU

Textbook: Sedra / Smith, Microelectronic Circuits, Fourth Edition

Lectures: 12:30-1:20PM SB 120 and SB 076Laboratory

IntroductionTeaching / Learning Process: An Integrated-Participative Approach (No Lectures)General Goals (Design of Electronic Devices and Circuits and Development Christian

Character)Curriculum/SyllabusInstructionEvaluationStudent versus Instructor

Responsibility“The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”CS Lewis

Interaction“It often happens that two students can solve difficulties in their work for one another better than the master can. When you took the problem to a master, as we all remember, he was very likely to explain what you understood already, to add a great deal of information which you didn’t want, and say nothing at all about the thing that was puzzling you. I have watched this from both sides of the net; for when, as a teacher myself, I have tried to answer questions brought me by students, I have sometimes, after a minute, seen that expression settle down on their faces which assured me that they were suffering exactly the same frustration which I had suffered from my own teachers. The fellow-student can help more than the master because he knows less. The difficulty we want him to explain is one he has recently met. The expert met it so long ago that he has forgotten. He sees the whole subject, by now, in a different light that he cannot conceive what is really troubling the student; he sees a dozen other difficulties which ought to be troubling him but aren’t.” CS Lewis

Practice“Engineering is a human cultural activity that involves an interplay between theory, experiment and imagination, in which human beings form and transform nature for practical ends and purposes, with the aid of tools and procedures.”Responsible Technology

Course objectives To focus on the design of amplifiers, filters, oscillators, and converters with an emphasis on design.

Topics covered Differential and Multistage Amplifiers, Frequency Response, Feedback, Output Stages, Analog Integrated Circuits (741), Filters and Tuned Amplifiers, Signal Generators.

Class/laboratory schedule 2-3 class-workshop interaction per week plus 3-hour laboratory.

Contribution of course to meeting the professional component This course contributes primarily to the students' knowledge of engineering topics, and does provide design experience.

Relationship of course to undergraduate degree program objectives

This course primarily serves students in the department. The information below describes how the course contributes to the undergraduate program objectives. Mastery of specific technical design skills which are key to a wide range of electrical engineering applications. Mastery and critical evaluation of the use of computer aided simulation tools (SPICE) as an engineering design aid.

Assessment of student progress toward course objectives Student’s design skills is assessed primarily on detailed homework and design problems that involve the use of analytical and simulation tools such as PSPICE.

Schedule

Topics Chapter # of classes

Differential and Multistage Amplifiers 6 6

Frequency Response 7 6

Feedback 8 6

Output Stages 9 6

Analog Integrated Circuits (741) 10 3

Filters and Tuned Amplifiers 11 3

Signal Generators 12 3

Design Part Ia: Chapters 6, 7

Design Part Ib: Chapters 8, 9, 10

Final Design: Chapter 6-12

Spring Break March

Reading Recess April GradingPreliminary Design 25% Final Design 50%Homework and Assignments 20%

100%

Lab Schedule:

Lab 1 – The BJT Differential Pair and Amplifications

Lab 2 – Single-BJT Amplifiers at Low and High Frequencies

Lab 3 – Principles of Feedback Using and Op-AMP Building Block

Lab 4 – Basic Output-Stage Topologies

Lab 5 – OP-AMP-RC Filter Topologies and – Waveform Generators

Lab 6 – 12 – Personal Projects

Basic Homework Assignments (Minimum List)Students are recommended to work out most of the problems in the back of each assigned chapter. Additional Interactive Examples from accompanying CD and design problems will also be required to be completed.

Chapter Problems Observations6 6.1, 6.5, 6.15, 6.19, 6.33, 6.42, 6.50, 6.70, 6.77 7 7.1, 7.7, 7.11, 7.26, 7.28, 7.38, 7.57, 7.67, 7.73 8 8.1, 8.8, 8.16, 8.20, 8.32, 8.48, 8.52, 8.719 9.4, 9.14, 9.18, 9.22, 9.32, 9.37, 9.4510 Detailed Analysis of the 741 OP-AMP11 Analysis of A Second Order Active Filter12 Analysis of the Wien Bridge Oscillator

All laboratory and homework exercises must be turned in on time for full credit. Late assignments will be assigned a penalty. Assignments more than one week late may be assigned a 50% penalty.Homework and lab assignments should be prepared electronically (Word, MathCAD, PSpice, MATLAB / Simulink, PSCAD, etc.). No handwritten assignments will be accepted.