Fall 2010

PHYS-3100 Electronics J. H. Davis Physics Department University of Guelph Fall, 2010 Vital statistics: • Textbook: Microelectronic Circuits, 6th Edition, A. S. Sedra

and K. C. Smith, Oxford University Press • Supplementary Text: Electronics: Circuits, Amplifiers and Gates,

D. V. Bugg, CRC Press; this book has a nice section on digital electronics which Sedra and Smith does not. I recommend it as a reference but it is not necessary for the course as I will provide all the material you need on digital circuits. • Lectures: ROZH 105, Tuesday and Thursday at 1:00 pm; Lab-

oratory: MacNaughton 415B, Wednesdays 2:30 to 5:20 p.m., or Thursdays 7:00 to 9:50 pm • Final Exam: Dec. 13, 2010, location TBA •

Weighting for final marks: Mid-Term exam: 25% Final Exam: 40% Problem assignments/lab reports: 15/20% (there will be a penalty for late assignments. Problem solutions will be posted on Monday mornings, so no problem assignments will be accepted after that time).

• Office hours: Rm. NSC 1243, Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:30

to 3:50 pm, but I am also available at other times, especially before exams. • Phone extension: 53909; E-mail: [email protected] • TA: Andrew Tersigni, MacN 022, Ext. 58564 [email protected]

Description: This course provides a practical introduction to modern electronics. Although some aspects of semiconductor physics will be discussed the emphasis is on learning to use electronic components to build useful devices for signal amplification, filtering, data acquisition and device control. While much of this can be accomplished by treating electronic devices as ’black boxes’, for the physicist it

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is important to have an understanding of the principles on which these devices operate so that new applications of these devices can be conceived. Circuit capture and simulation software is a very useful tool for designing new electronics circuits. The textbook, ”Microelectronics Circuits” by Sedra and Smith comes with a student version of MultiSim which is used to analyze many of the circuits discussed in the text. In addition, I would like to introduce the students to National Instruments LabView software and applications during the laboratory periods. For this reason, the lab schedule below is still in the planning stages as many of the labs are new. If you have any questions on lecture material or problem assignments please come to see me, or the TA, during our office hours. If you come to my office and I am not there, please leave a note and come back later if you can. A tentative lecture schedule is: • Week 1: DC and AC Circuits, Network Theorems, Single Time Constant Circuits: resistors, capacitors, inductors, impedance (Lab 1: DC and AC (single time constant circuits, simple filters) Circuits) • Week 2: Amplifiers. The Ideal Operational Amplifier Lab 2: Diodes/Rectifiers • Week 3: Real Operational Amplifiers: the ideal op-amp vs real op-amps (Lab 3: Op-Amps I) • Week 4: Op Amp applications and Diodes (Lab 4: Op-Amps II) • Week 5: Introduction to Digital Logic: Inverters, Buffers and Gates (Lab 5: Introduction to LabView) • Week 6: Sequential Logic: Flip-flops and Memory (Lab 6: Introduction to Digital Devices and Combinatorial Logic) • Week 7: Interfacing to a Computer: A/D and D/A conversion (Lab 7: Introduction to Digital Devices and Sequential Logic) • Week 8: The Field Effect Transistor (FET) I (Lab 8: LabView Exercises: Part II) • Week 9: FET II (Lab 9: LabView Exercises: Part III Computer Analog and Digital IO) • Week 10: The Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) I (Lab 10: Transistor Analysis and Applications )

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• Week 11: BJT II (Lab 11: Review?) • Week 12: Bipolar Junction Transistors II

The following are useful reference books. • The Art of Electronics. Horowitz and Hill, Cambridge Univ. Press. • Electronics: A Systems Approach. Neil Storey, Prentice-Hall. • Electronic Circuits, E. C. Lowenberg, Schaum’s Outline Series, Schaum Publishing Co. There are also a number of excellent web-sites provided by component manufacturers. These web-sites provide detailed specification sheets and application notes for their devices. For example: • http://www.analog.com the web-site of Analog Devices, one of the best sources of high quality operation amplifiers. Analog devices has a large number of useful application notes on their web-site. • http://www.ti.com the web-site of Texas Instruments, probably the largest producer of electronics components, both digital and analog (linear) (and the inventor of the integrated circuit!). • http://www.national.com the web-site of National Semiconductors who produce both digital and analog circuits. • http://www.ni.com is the web-site of National Instruments who developed LabView. They have some useful tutorials on using LabView which you can access. • http://www.spectrum-soft.com/index.shtm the web-site of Spectrum-Soft which provides a free student version of their design/simulation program MicroCap 10 which you can download. I am setting up a Web page for this course which will include this information, the lab descriptions and problem sets

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