ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.2 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.45
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Electronics and Computing
Areas: Electronics
Center Faculty of Physics
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
Learning outcomes:
Objectives
Understanding and analysis of conditioning circuits
Understanding and analysis of conditioning and data acquisition systems
Ability to use hardware and software for data acquisition
Chapter 0. Electronics Instrumentation in Physics
Chapter 1. Amplification
Fundamentals
Taxonomy of amplifiers
The operational amplifier. Circuits with the operational amplifier
The instrumentation amplifier
Chapter 2. Filtering
Taxonomy of filters
Filters with operational amplifiers
Chapter 3. Data Conversion
The sampling theorem
Sample and hold circuits
A/D conversion. Static and dynamic characteristics
D/A conversion
Data Acquisition Cards and their Software
How to select a data acquisition card
Data acquisition through LabVIEW
Lab
Design of Howland pump (4- 20 mA protocol)
Filter design with operational amplifiers
Characterization of an A/D circuit
Circuit Simulation with OrCAD (SPICE)
Basic Bibliography
Miguel A. Pérez García y otros, Instrumentación Electrónica, Thomson 2004.
Adel S. Sedra y Kenneth C. Smith, Circuitos Microelectrónicos, McGraw-Hill 1998.
Sergio Franco. Diseño con Amplificadores Operacionales y Circuitos Integrados Analógicos, McGraw-Hill 2002.
Complementary Bibliography
Ramón Pallás Areny, Sensores y Acondicionadores de Señal, Marcombo 1998.
Charles K. Alexander and Matthew N.O. Sadiku. Fundamentals of electric circuits. 6th edition. McGraw-hill Education, New York, 2017.
Basic skills
CB1 - students have to show secondary school-based skills to start with to further develop them from the start-of-the-art
CB2 - students have to know how to be professionals with elaborate arguments and problem-solving techniques of the field under study
CB3 - students have to be able to convey and get the meaning of relevant data to include judgments with reflections on social, scientific and ethical issues
CB4 - Students have to transmit information, ideas to specialized and the public
CG2 - Ability to convey and get the meaning of data, information, and relevant results, draw conclusions and write reports about scientifc problems, technological or from other fields which require Physics knowledge
CG3 - Theory and practical knowledge and capability of analysis and abstraction during the definition of problems and the finding of solutions for both academic and professional contexts
Vertical skills
CT1 - Analysis and synthesis skills
CT2 -Organizationa and planification
CT4 - Team work
CT5 - Critical reasoning
CT6 - Creativity and entrepreneurship
Specific skills
CE2 - Ability to manage orders of magnitude and appropriate estimates to find solutions to new problems for similar, although physically different, situations
CE5 - Ability to understand the basics of a process and come up with a work model, as well as to simplify the problem down to a manageable level. Reasoning to build up physical models
CE6 - Understand and use the most common mathematical and physical models used in Physics
CE7 - Ability to use software tools and write software code
CE8 - Ability to find and read bibliography, or any other information sources and used them for a scientific field or any other type of project
The teacher will give the majority of the lectures. Every lecture will start with a brief summary of what has been given in former lectures. It will continue with the contents explanation of the current lecture, and it will finish with a brief outlook of what's coming ahead. Blackboard lectures for a small number of students, where problems will be solved, will force the pupils to be more involved and concerned with the lecture. Besides, the students will give a speech on a team work. The students will design and implement the circuits in the lab lectures.
Class and lab hours are assessed. Class hours are assessed with a written test. Lab classes are assessed through a problem of a circuit that should also be tested in the lab. Lab exam is personal; not in pairs.
It is compulsory to do all lab lectures to pass the subject.
Written test
80%
Lab test- 20%
Problem of a circuit on paper and its experimental characterization in the lab. All students are obliged to do such an exam, except those who have extra lab from previous years. Students from previous years without extra lab have to do this exam in the lab too. Lab grading remains through the June call and next years.
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the regulations on "evaluation of the academic performance of students and review of grades" will apply.
Students will have 24 classroom hours, 18 lab and exercises hours, and 67.5 of personal work, and 3 more of office hours. This time distribution would be enough for average students to have the highest possible grading.
No secrets with this subject. Lecture attendance, involvement, commitment, office hours attendance and daily study.
The concepts studied in this subject are quite useful in any field of Experimental Physics with data acquisition through electronics instrumentation.
Language: Spanish/Galician; 50/50%.
Diego Cabello Ferrer
- Department
- Electronics and Computing
- Area
- Electronics
- Phone
- 881816423
- diego.cabello [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
David López Vilariño
- Department
- Electronics and Computing
- Area
- Electronics
- david.vilarino [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Victor Manuel Brea Sanchez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Electronics and Computing
- Area
- Electronics
- Phone
- 881816436
- victor.brea [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
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| 19:00-21:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Spanish | Classroom 0 |
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