- Docente: Franco Mastri
- Credits: 3
- SSD: ING-IND/31
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Mechanical Engineering (cod. 0949)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Aerospace Engineering (cod. 8263)
Learning outcomes
The student is able to use computer programs for circuit simulation and to apply them to the design of simple electric and electronic circuits.
Course contents
- LTspice circuit simulation program. Circuit component models. Analysis modes: DC analysis, time domain and frequency domain analysis.
- Network functions. Expression of gains in decibels. Bode diagrams. Passive filters.
- Elements of semiconductor physics. PN junction.
- Diodes: ideal diode, junction diode, static characteristic, breakdown, junction and transition capacitance, varactor diodes, Zener diodes.
- Diode circuits: half wave and full wave rectifiers, limiters, AND and OR logic gates, peak rectifier, clamper, voltage multiplier.
- Bipolar junction transistor (BJT): operating principle, static characteristics, operating regions, Ebers-Moll model, small signal model.
- BJT amplifiers: common emitter, common base and common collector configurations. Use of a BJT as a controlled switch.
- Operational amplifier: definition, characteristic, differential gain and common-mode gain, common mode rejection ratio, ideal operational amplifier.
- Non-ideal operational amplifiers: finite open-loop gain, input and output resistances, saturation, offset voltage, input bias currents, frequency response of an operational amplifier, single-pole model, gain-bandwith product, slew-rate.
- Circuits with operational amplifiers: inverting and noninverting configurations, voltage follower, weighted summer, voltage-current converters, difference amplifier, instrumentation amplifier, integrator and differentiator, comparators with hysteresis, multivibrators.
Readings/Bibliography
Lecture slides and simulation examples presented in the classes are available at the following address:
http://www.die.ing.unibo.it/pers/mastri/didattica.htm
Teaching methods
Theoretical lessons and laboratory exercitations.
Assessment methods
Oral exam based on the discussion of some simulation examples presented in the classes and aimed to verify the knowledge of the simulation program, on the properties of the electronic devices studied in the course, and on their application in the realization of simple functional blocks.
Teaching tools
PC, video projector, LTspice circuit simulator.
Links to further information
http://www.die.ing.unibo.it/pers/mastri/didattica.htm
Office hours
See the website of Franco Mastri