AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Learn the main notions and applications of electrical and electronic measurements.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The student acquires basic knowledge on circuits and electromagnetism, on binary logic and arithmetic, and on electrical measurements and metrology, so to master laboratory test and measurement tasks. For the vast majority, instrumentation is in fact nowadays electronic and digital.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures in classroom with supporting material (slides).

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

1) Basics of electromagnetics

• Basics of electrotechnics
• Ohm's law and circuit solution with Kirchoff
• Passive components (resistors, inductors, capacitors)
• Introduction to forces and intensity in an electric or magnetic field

2) Introduction to Measurements

• Basics of Measurements
• Sistematici and random errors, related statistics
• Introduction to the law of error propagation

3) Basics of Digital Electronics

• Binary arithmetic
• Decimal/Binary and Binary/Decimal conversion
• Logic gates

4) Introduction to electronic design

• Analog and logic quantities
• Boolean algebra, Boolean equations
• Simplifications and minimizing criteria (Karnaugh)
• Principles of buffering and amplification of signals

5A) A/D and D/A conversion

• General caracteristics of information
• Discretization in time and amplitude
• Sampling, Quantization and Conversion errors
• Electronic instrumentation (basics)

5B) DAC converter examples

• Converters with ladder network R-2R

5C) ADC converter examples

• Converters with successive approximations
• Converters with single and double ramp
• Flash converter

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Course notes in the form of slides partially in Italian and English.

Textbook fo rthe part on measurement theory discussed in the course:

John Taylor, An Introduction to Error Analysis, 2nd ed., University Science Books, California, 1997. ISBN: 0-935702-42-3

Other texts like excerpts, manuals or papers will be provided in the classroom, made available through AulaWeb or a web-link.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ANDREA MARISCOTTI (President)

MARIA PIA SORMANI (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)

LESSONS

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written test. Questions with open answers of various difficulty levels and different weighting.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Written test. Questions with open answers of various difficulty levels and different weighting.

Exam schedule