Universidad Pública de Navarra - Nafarroako Univertsitate Publikoa

Module/Subject matter

Basic formation / Physics

Fundamentals of electronics

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Contents

This course is part of the area Fundamentals of electronics, which includes also the corresponding course in the second semester. Thus, the contents of Electronics Circuits are based on what the student has learned in this previous course. Also, it is advised that the student has also taken the course Signals and Systems I, as many of its proficiencies are required and its knowledge is assumed.

Electronic circuits covers the fundamentals of the materials employed in telecommunications and the most important electronic and photonic devices built employing them. From this concepts, the design of analog circuits will be studied. Also, some basic notions of electronic instrumentation and signal conditioning are included.

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Descriptors

Basic electronic circuits. Electronic components and devices. Analog circuits. Amplifier circuits

Requirements

It is highly advisable to have passed the courses Fundamentos de Electrónca and Señales y Sistemas I.

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General proficiencies

• G2. Teamwork

• G3. Self-directed learning

• G7. Ability to conceive, design, implement and operate systems and services in the field of Information Technologies and Communication

• CB2. Enable the students to know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess skills that tend to be demonstrated through the elaboration and defense of arguments and solving problems within their field of study

• CB5. Enable the students to develop those learning skills needed to undertake studies with a high degree of autonomy 

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Specific proficiencies

• 1.4 - Understanding and mastery of the basics of linear systems and functions and transformed related, theory of electrical circuits, electronic circuits, physical principle of semiconductors and logic families, electronic devices and photonic, materials technology and its application for solving engineering problems.

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Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student well be capable  of:

1. Describe the characteristics, working principles and applications of basic semiconductor devices (diodes, BJT, FET, etc.) as well as the operational amplifier.
2. Analyze single-stage and differential amplifiers, intensity sources, active loads, output stages and power amplifiers. Understand the feedback techniques employed in electronic circuits.
3. Perform the simulation of electronic components and circuits and compare it with the theoretical and experimental results.
4. Select the most adequate electric and opotelectronic components for a specific application, employing the documentation provided by the manufacturer.
5. Apply the basic principles of competence 1.4 to the resolution of problems in engineering.
6. Work in group effectively, identifying the objectives of the group and planning the work to achieve those objectives, as well as assuming the responsibilities and commitments associated with the assignment.
7. Be capable of correctly outlining a problem based on its formulation, identifying the different resolution options and applying the most adequate to each case. Identify the right solution of the problem proposed.

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Methodology

In the schedule prepared by the faculty, six hours per group are reserved for the teaching of the course. Several of these hours (typically three or four hours weekly) are employed in the designated classroom, until completion of the planned theoretical classes (approximately 45 hours). During these sessions theoretical and participative lectures are included. Exercises solving sessions are alternated with the theoretical sessions to clarify the concepts studied. Exercises will be posed to the students to be solved autonomously, being its resolution a fundamental part for the correct assimilation of the theory.

The 15 hours of practical sessions in small groups will be devoted to experimental or simulation laboratory sessions where teamwork will be encouraged. These sessions are distributed along the semester and are included within the hours reserved by the faculty for the course.

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Languages

English.

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Evaluation

Ordinary evaluation

The ordinary evaluation consists of two different parts: two theoretical exams of the contents studied during the lectures and two theoretical-practical exams of the contents studied during the laboratory sessions. The first two theoretical and theoretical-practical exams will take place mid-semester and the other two will take place at the end of the semester. To pass the course a qualification superior to 40% is required in all the evaluation activities. These exams can be remedied.

The realization of the evaluation activities is subordinated to the assistance and participation in all the laboratory sessions. The unjustified absence to any laboratory session will suppose the automatic failure of the course

The exams will take place in the dates determined by ETSIIT.

Extraordinary evaluation

The ordinary evaluation consists of two theoretical exams and two theoretical-practical exams that will allow to the student the repetition of those parts not passed in the ordinary evaluation. The conditions and the format are similar to the ordinary evaluation exams.

The exams will take place in the dates determined by ETSIIT.

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Agenda

Lectures

1. Introduction
2. Basic circuits' theory. Single stage ampliiers
3. The operational amplifier. Non-idealities. Circuits with the operational amplifier
4. Electronic devices: diode and transistor.
5. Amplifier stages with transistors. Current sources and active loads
6. Differential amplifiers: the differential pair
7. Output stages

Laboratory sessions

Five three-hours laboratory sessions are planned during the course where the most relevant applications of the course contents will be analyzed.

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Bibliography

Access the bibliography that your professor has requested from the Library.

Basic bibliography

Microelectronic Circuits (7th edition)
Adel Sedra, Kenneth C. Smith
Oxford University Press, 2011
978019532303
http://www.sedrasmith.org

Complementary bibliography

Electronic Circuits. Analysis, Simulation & Design.
Norbet R. Malik
Prentice-Hall 1995
9780023749100

Electronic Circuit Analysis and Desing 4ª Ed.
D. A. Neamen
MacGraw-Hill (2010).
978007338064

Understanding Semiconductor Devices
S. Dimitrijev
Oxford University Press
0-19-513186-X

Fundamentos de microelectrónica, nanoelectrónica y fotónica
J.M. Albella, J.M. Martínez, F. Agulló, Pearson
Prentice Hall (2005).
84-205-4651-8.

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