Overview

This unit of study aims to provide you with analysis and design skills for a wide range of analogue systems.

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
26-February-2024
26-May-2024
Last self-enrolment date
10-March-2024
Census date
31-March-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
12-April-2024
Results released date
02-July-2024

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Apply physics and electric circuit laws to the analysis of transistor and operational amplifier circuits (K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3)
  • Appreciate the differences in analogue circuits implemented in discrete and in integrated forms (K3, S1, S2, S3)
  • Analyse and design analogue building blocks such as oscillators, filters and instrumentation amplifiers using operational amplifiers (K1, K3, S1, S2, S3)
  • Appreciate various types of amplifier classes, SCR-based circuits, and operation of heat sinks (K3, S1, S2, S3)
  • Design, simulation and implementation of analogue building blocks of different applications (K2, K3, S1, S2, S3)

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Lecture
3.33 12 weeks 40
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Tutorial
0.83 12 weeks 10
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Laboratory
0.83 12 weeks 10
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Independent Learning
7.50 12 weeks 90
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
ExaminationIndividual 50% 1,2,3,4 
Laboratory PracticalsIndividual/Group 40% 3,5 
Test 1Individual 5% 1,2,3 
Test 2Individual 5% 1,2,3 

Hurdle

As the minimum requirements of assessment to pass a unit and meet all ULOs to a minimum standard, an undergraduate student must have achieved:

(i) an aggregate mark of 50% or more, and(ii) at least 40% in the final exam.Students who do not successfully achieve hurdle requirement (ii) will receive a maximum of 45% as the total mark for the unit.

Content

  • Review of multi-transistor amplifiers
  • Differential pair and current sources
  • Implementation of an amplifier in integrated form
  • Operational amplifier – models, applications, ideal and non-ideal behaviour
  • Negative and positive feedback
  • Wave shaping and waveform generators – oscillators, Schmitt triggers, and multi-vibrator circuits
  • Filters and their realisations
  • Analogue to digital converters and digital to analogue converters
  • Output power stages and heat sinks
  • Four-layer pnpn devices and applications

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.