OVERVIEW

The course provides theoretical and practical skills on circuits, architecture and the use of electronic instrumentation for
time and frequency domain measurements, for analog and digital signals.
It also has integrated instrumentation with personal computer, measurement instrumentation and software tools
simulation and development.
The course includes experimental exercises for the synthesis and consequent analysis of analog and digital signals.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide the student with the knowledge and operational skills necessary to tackle the problems
related to the study, design and simulation of simple electronic circuits to be created and tested in the laboratory with
appropriate instrumentation.

The student will be able to:

1 - Understand the methodologies of design, development and experimental verification of electron circuits.

2 - Develop simple projects starting from the speci you assigned.

3 - Check the operation of real electronic circuits knowing how to operate with electronic instrumentation, collecting the results in adequate documentation.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon completion of the course, the student will have acquired the following skills:

1. Understand the methodologies of design, development, simulation in the analog and digital domains as well as of experimental verification of electronic circuits.
2. Develop simple projects starting from assigned speci ces, considering the representation both at the block diagram and at the circuit level and also conducting the stability analysis of the considered systems.
3. Carry out the tests of the functioning of real electronic circuits knowing how to operate with circuit simulators and electronic instrumentation.
4. Draw up adequate documentation as evidence of the progress of the project and check carried out.

PREREQUISITES

Fundamentals of electronic devices and circuits

TEACHING METHODS

Approximately one third of the teaching is divided into frontal lessons and two thirds into exercises both via circuit simulator and experimental (in the laboratory).

A report is required for each of the two proposed projects.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The "Electronics Laboratory" teaching program is placed in direct succession with that of the "Module B of Embedded Electronic Systems" module and aims to guide the student to effective learning of the operational characteristics of analog and digital circuits of particular educational significance.

To this end, the program provides for the analysis and development of two projects:

Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO - Voltage Controlled Oscillator) based on a Colpitts circuit with bipolar transistor. The project will be verified through an extensive use of circuit simulation programs.
Frequency synthesizer based on phase locked loop (PLL). The project will concern the architecture, the stability of the ring, the problems of circuit realization both for the analogic and for the numerical part. The realization will make use of a specially supplied individual kit comprising active components (bipolar transistor and integrated circuits), passive (resistors and capacitors), an FPGA board equipped with a programmer and an experimental board (breadboard) where to mount the components. In addition to the circuit simulation (LTSPICE) for the analog part, the DEEDS development environment and the Intel/Altera - Quartus II programming environment will be used.
The program outlined in this way also includes the presentation and use of electronic laboratory instruments and indications for the drafting of the final reports.

As regards the contribution of this teaching to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda, what has already been stated in the corresponding sheet of the "Electronics Laboratory" module applies.

In particular, since Electronics constitutes the main "discipline" on which the development of information technologies (ICT) has been based in recent decades and will also be so for the future, training expert electronic engineers will allow society to possess the knowledge necessary for the application of these technologies to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

The teaching material relating to the proposed exercises and the equipment presented will be made available at the aulaweb URL of the course.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

DANIELE CAVIGLIA (President)

MAURIZIO VALLE

CHRISTIAN GIANOGLIO (President Substitute)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

https://corsi.unige.it/9273/p/studenti-orario

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Presentation of the report describing of the exercises carried out during the couse, and oral discussion.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Evaluation of the skills acquired by the student regarding the operational characteristics of the analog and numerical circuits presented in the course..

Exam schedule