LEARNING OUTCOMES

The main goal of the course is to provide students practical fundamental knowledge regarding the use of measurement instrumentation and the characterization of simple circuits and devices.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course students will know how:

• to use basic bench instruemntation for test and measuremt
• to know different modalities for interfacing with sensors
• to write simple microcontroller code to record and process signals coming from different tyoes of sensors
• to report an experimental measuremtn session and its results

PREREQUISITES

Basic knowledge of electronics and circuit theory, informatics and C language

TEACHING METHODS

Practical experiemntal work in the lab divided into five "lab projects". Few lectures in the classroom to introduce the topic of each lab project.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Five "lab projects" regarding the following topics:

• use of basic electronic measurement instruemntation
• the use of microcontrolers in intrumentation
• how to interface analog and digital sensors with linear and non linear response
• sensor characterization
• measurement uncertainity evaluation
• characterization of noise in the measurement chain and its reduction using analog or digital filters
• "real time" processing of biomedical signals (e.g. photopletismograhpy sifgnal)

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lecture notes will be made avaiable