B013319 - GENERAL ELECTRONICS II

italian

Analog feedback circuits – Stability conditions – Non linear devices – Modulation and frequency conversion – Applications to electronic instrumentation – Numerical methods for linear and non linear circuits analysis – Power circuits with high energetic efficiency – signal generation.

R.C. Jaeger - Microelectronic circuit design – McGraw-Hill.
P. Horowitz & W. Hill - The Art of Electronics - Cambridge University Pres.
J. Millman & A. Grabel – Microelectronics – Mc Graw-Hill.
S. Franco – Design with Operational Amplifiers and Analog Integrated Circuits - McGraw-Hill.

Electronics laboratory

6 CFU – 60 hours (36 classroom lectures + 24 laboratory)

Office hours: every day by arrangement (email: carla@fi.infn.it – tel. 055 457 2055)

website: studenti.fisica.unifi.it/~carla

Oral test

Linear and non-linear active networks – stable and stationary operating condition for linear networks – frequency conversion and its use in radiotechnics and in the scientific instruments: working principles of heterodyne spectrum analyzer and lock-in amplifier – signal generation – stability and spectral purity – Phase Lock Loop (PLL) and Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS) generation techniques – base elements of high efficiency high power circuits.
Laboratory activity: Applications of positive and negative feedback: assembling of example circuits and measurements of their operating characteristics.