| CODE | MNE1701 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Foundations in Operational Amplifiers Circuits | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The study-will cover op amp fundamentals and circuitry including: the Op-amp concept and its implementation, design, construction and manufacture. The students will first learn how to analyse simple circuits using an op-amp model. The students will also be able to analyse and design basic negative feedback op-amp circuits such as Voltage follower, Inverting, Noninverting Amps, Adder, and the Subtractor circuit. A model for evaluating a Non ideal Operational Amplifiers circuit is presented and adopted for the analyses of simple circuits. Finally, non-linear op-amp circuits such as the Comparator, Integrator, Differentiator, Log, Antilog, Super-Rectifier, Peak Detector, Instrumentation Amplifier,Multivibrators: the 555 Timer IC are presented. Study-unit Aims This unit aims to introduce an important electronic building block used for implementing computer interfacing and communications circuitry - the Operational Amplifier (opamp). The students will appreciate the behaviour of the op-amp and be able to use it in simple feedback circuits. Students will be able to analyse and design simple circuits implemented with op-amps. Learning Outcomes 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: • Describe the internal principle of operation of the opamps; • Describe the properties of an ideal and non-ideal typical opamp; • Analyse and design oscillator and multivibrator circuits, Integrators, Differentiators, Adders, Subtractors, Log, Antilog etc. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to build and test various operational amplifier circuits. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings Main Text: 1) Franco, Sergio, Design with Operational Amplifiers and Analog Integrated Circuits. McGraw-Hill. 2) Mancini, Ron, Op-Amps for Everyone, Second Edition, Newnes Publishers, ISBN-13: 978-0750677011. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-Requisite Study-unit: MNE1302 | |||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Practicum & Tutorial | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Edward Gatt (Co-ord.) |
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