Laboratory of Electronics 2

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Laboratory exercises

Course Description

The purpose of this course is to give the students the practical knowledge about representative RF power circuits and applications and good understanding of methods and techniques in CMOS digital circuits design. The course offers a hands-on experience about the concepts that are taught in Radio-Frequency Electronics and Digital Microelectronic Circuits.

Study Programmes

University graduate
[FER2-HR] Electronics - profile
(2. semester)

General Competencies

The students get practical knowledge about common RF power circuits and oscillators, ability to analyse, model, design and implement adequate RF power amplifiers and oscillators. They should get acquainted with CAD tools for layout and electrical simulation of CMOS microelectronic circuit and should adopt the practical skills in layout design, circuit extraction and CMOS circuit verification needed for analysing and designing digital microelectronic circuits.

Learning Outcomes

  1. distinguish the role of individual layers of technological structure in the realization of CMOS circuits
  2. design the layout of CMOS digital circuit
  3. simulate circuits in a specific CMOS technology
  4. verify the operation of CMOS digital circuit
  5. experimental testing of oscillator circuits
  6. oscillator circuit tuning
  7. experimental testing of RF power amplifier circuits
  8. RF power amplifier circuits circuit tuning

Forms of Teaching

Lectures

lectures

Laboratory Work

laboratory exercises

Consultations

consultations

Grading Method

Continuous Assessment Exam
Type Threshold Percent of Grade Threshold Percent of Grade
Laboratory Exercises 0 % 90 % 0 % 0 %
Homeworks 0 % 10 % 0 % 0 %

Week by Week Schedule

  1. Computer aids for microelectronic circuit layout design
  2. CMOS layout drawing
  3. Computer aids for circuit analysis
  4. CMOS inverter
  5. Complementary NAND gate
  6. CMOS pass-transistor
  7. Static synchronous SR latch
  8. Midterm
  9. Static RAM cell
  10. Testing RF power amplifier using spectrum analyzer
  11. Testing RF power amplifier operating conditions
  12. Tunnel-diode oscillator
  13. Oscillator frequency stability
  14. Frequency shift keying
  15. Frequency multipliers

Literature

N. Majurec, R. Nađ, A. Šarolić, G. Šišul (2003.), Paradigme visokofrekvencijske elektronike, modulacija i modulatora, Graphis, Zagreb
J.M. Rabaey, A. Chandrakasan, B. Nikolić (2003.), Digital Integrated Circuits - A Design Perspective, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall

For students

General

ID 35235
  Summer semester
3 ECTS
L0 English Level
L1 e-Learning
15 Lectures
0 Seminar
0 Exercises
30 Laboratory exercises
0 Project laboratory
0 Physical education excercises

Grading System

87 Excellent
75 Very Good
62 Good
50 Sufficient