Advanced Electronic Devices and Structures (ETF AEO NES 4870)

General information

Module title

Advanced Electronic Devices and Structures

Module code

ETF AEO NES 4870

Study

ETF-B

Department

Control and Electronics

Year

1

Semester

2

Module type

Mandatory

ECTS

6

Hours

70

Lectures

36

Exercises

24

Tutorials

10

Module goal - Knowledge and skill to be achieved by students

  To elaborate advanced electronic devices and structures. Emphasis is put on realisation of such components and systems in VLSI technology. In the course are elaborated advanced CMOS technologies, BiCMOS and hybrid technologies.
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Syllabus

  1. VLSI: planar technology on silicon, advanced techniques, BiCMOS, SOI, CMOS VLSI low power consumption circuits, GaAs integrated circuits, designing VLSI.
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2. Operational Amplifiers: advanced constructions, Norton's operational amplifiers, filters, oscillators, comparators, instrumentation operational amplifiers, noise, v-f and f-v converters, analog multiplier, analog switch.
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3. Analog to digital and digital to analog conversion: basics of AD and DA conversion, error, noise. ADC types. DAC types. Reference voltage sources. Antialiasing filters. S/H circuits.
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4. Digital arithmetic and logic structures: adder, multiplier, comparator.
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5. General and special application processors: computer architectures for signal processing, Harvard architecture, FIFO architectures, multiplier-accumulator hardware, cache, processor for general purpose digital signals, implementation of DSP algorithms on processor for general purpose digital signals, FIR, IIR, FFT, adaptive filtering, DSP hardware for special applications, digital filtering hardware, FFT hardware.
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6. Digital data transmission, modulations, interfaces.
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Literature

Recommended1. Lecture notes and slides (will be available at the Web site)
Additional1. Integrisana kola, Branko L. Dokic
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2. Design with Operational Amplifiers and Analog Integrated Circuits, Sergio Franco.
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3. Analog-to-digital and Digital-to-Analog Conversion Techniques, David F. Hoeschele.
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4. Digital Signal Processing, Emmanuel C. Ifeachor, Barrie W.Jervis.
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Didactic methods

  Lectures are being held in an auditory, where the teacher illustrates theoretical knowledge by solving assignments and tasks from domain being processed. Students have homework that refers to calculation of specific devices and structures. Homework is realised individually and examined in the lab or analysed on tutorials. Laboratory work represents experimental support for theoretical phenomena, and uses combined method of simulation and work with physical models. Laboratory groups can have maximum ten students.
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Exams

  Through the course, student gains points according to following system.
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Attendance to lectures and auditory hours: 10 points, student which misses lectures and auditory exercises more than three times cannot get teacher's signature for ratification. Students are obligated to attend all laboratory hours.
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Homework and laboratory assignments: maximum 10 points. There are 13 homework exercises, equally allocated through semester, and their valorisation is being done by checking the results in the lab.
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Partial exams: two partial exams, each worth 20 points.
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Partial exam lasts for 90 minutes and is structured in the following way:
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- answers on simple questions, whose purpose is to verify if student has basic theory knowledge. Student which answers all the questions correctly gets 5 points.
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- solving the assignments with given multiple answers, of which only one is correct. Student which answers all the assignments correctly gets 5 points.
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- solving two assignments without given answer; each correctly solved assignment is worth 5 points.
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Student which has gained more than 20 but less than 40 points during the course takes corrective exam. Corrective exam is structured in the following way:
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- written examination, structured in the same way as partial exam; worth 40 points.
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- verbal examination, worth maximum 40 points.
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Student can take verbal corrective examination only if after passing written examination has made total score of 40 or more points; this score is made of points gained through: attendance, homework, passing written corrective examination.
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Verbal corrective examination is worth maximum 40 points. To pass the course, on this examination student must have minimum 20 points. Student which has less than 20 points on verbal corrective examination has to take the course again.
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Aditional notes