This course is intended for individuals with limited prior knowledge of electrical/electronic engineering.
Introduction
- Physics: electrons, charge, voltage, current.
Resistors
- Conductors & insulators, voltage, current & resistance in electric circuits
- Ohm's Law
- Series & parallel circuits
- Thévenin's theorem
- Kirchhoff's Laws
- Energy and power
- Resistor types & construction
Capacitors
- Capacitor types and construction
- RC circuits
- Capacitance in AC circuits
- impedance
Diodes and their applications
- Rectifierslimiting circuits
- the Zener diode
- light emitting diodes (LEDs)
- photodiodes
Operational Amplifiers (Op-Amps)
- Characteristics of an ideal op-amp
- negative feedback
- inverting and non-inverting circuits
- characteristics of non-ideal op-amps
Applications of Op-Amps
- Summing amplifiers
- integrators and differentiators
- Active filters
- frequency responses
- high-, low- and band-pass circuits
Inductors and Transformers
- Inductors
- Transformers
- LR circuits
- impedance
- LCR circuits
- Resonance
- Band-pass filters
Signal Integrity: Interference and Noise
- The need to consider signal integrity
- Interference
- Differential signals and amplifiers
- Noise Calculations
- Quantisation Noise
Semiconductors
- p- and n- doping
- The pn junction diode
- The bipolar transistor
- The field effect transistor (FET)
Transistors
- npn and pnp bipolar transistors
- "small signal" amplification
- current
- voltage and power gain
- application examples
- n- and p- channel FETs
- amplification and switching
- applications