Week 1 Jan 11-15 |
System Design and System Components.
The design process. Power and energy. Transducers. Reading: Cogdell Section 1.5 & Chapter 13. |
Week 2 Jan 20,22 |
Semiconductor devices
(Holiday Jan 18) Diodes, transistors, and optoelectronics. Reading: Cogdell Section 17.1 and Chapter 7 Lab 1: Transducers I |
Week 3 Jan 25, 29 |
Transistor Circuits.
Linear voltage and current amplifiers. Reading: Cogdell Chapter 7. Lab 2: Transducers II |
Week 4 Feb 1 - 5 |
Op Amp Circuits.
Introduction to feedback. Amplifiers and functional circuits. Reading: Cogdell Section 9.4. Lab 3: Linear Electronics I |
Week 5 Feb 8 - 12 |
Exam I Equations of Dynamic Systems. Formulation and solution of dynamic equations. Solving linear systems in the frequency domain. Reading: Cogdell Chapter 3. Lab 4: Linear Electronics II |
Week 6 Feb 15 - 19 |
Response of Dynamic Systems.
Steady state and transient response. Generalized impedance. Reading: Cogdell Chapter 12. Lab 5: Dynamics I |
Week 7 Feb 22 - 26 |
System Transfer Function.
Laplace transform techniques. Transfer functions: first, second, and higher order. Frequency Response. Reading: Cogdell Chapter 12. Lab 6: Dynamics II |
Week 8 Mar 1 - 5 |
SPRING BREAK |
Week 9 Mar 8 - 12 |
Feedback and Control.
Behavior of linear systems with feedback. Notions of loop gain, steady-state error, and stability. Reading: Cogdell Chapter 12 & Section 9.3. Lab 7: Control I |
Week 10 Mar 15 - 19 |
Exam II Pulse and Timing Circuits. Discrete valued signals. Representing information by time intervals. Generating pulse signals. Lab 8: Control II |
Week 11 Mar 22 - 26 |
Gates and Digital Circuits.
Discrete valued circuits. Representing information by bits. Lab 9: Television System I |
Week 12 Mar 29 - 31 |
Image Systems
Reading: Cogdell Chapter 8. (Recess Apr 2) |
Week 13 Apr 5 - 9 |
Synchronization.
Lab 10: Television System II |
Week 14 Apr 12 - 16 |
Exam III Phase-locked loops. Lab 10: Television System II |
Week 15 Apr 19 - 23 |
Video Systems.
Course overview. |