EE2 Circuits and Systems

This module builds on the first-year modules relating to analogue and digital circuits, computer architecture, and programming, to teach students how to analyse and design electronic circuits with a system level perspective. The aim of this module is to provide students with the theoretical foundations, the design techniques and hands-on experiences of acquiring physical analogue signals, pre-processing them, converting into digital form, then process these in a digital programmable hardware on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Unlike last year's module on circuits, year students will learn to process signals that have noise and electronic hardware that are non-ideal.

This course is supported by 6 Laboratory Experiments based a Lab-in-a-Box to enable students to conduct all the experiments in-person and at home.

Date

Topics

Resources

7 Oct

Lecture 1 - Introduction to Circuits & Systems

        1st half

Lecture 2 - Amplification & Single-Rail Op-amp

         2nd half

Problem Sheet 1    (solutions)

MCP601 datasheet

Course Planning Document

Year 1 Introduction to LTSPICE

Keysight Scope Documents
(user's manual)

Tenma multimeter manual

13 Oct

Lab 1 - Amplification

LTSPICE hotkeys

Guidelines on Logbook

MCP6001/2 data & model

AP431i data & model

PAM8302 datasheet

PAM8302 module

14 Oct

Lecture 3 - Understanding Op-amp Specifications

1st half

Lecture 4 - Understanding Op-amp Models

2nd half

LTspice essential tutorials

LTspice wiki

20 Oct

Lab 2- Op-amp Applications

Microphone datasheet

IN5817 schottky diode data

21 Oct

Lecture 5 - Op-amp Applications

         1st half

Lecture 6 - Active Filters

         2nd half

Problem Sheet 2    (solutions)

TI's Op-amp Cookbook

Understand Op-amp Specifications

Analog Devices Electronics wiki

Analog Devices Op-Amp Applications

Analog Pocket Reference Guide

27 Oct

For those who finished Lab 2 early:

Lab 3 - Introducing DE10-Lite

Lab 3 Task 1 solution (zipped)

Pin Assignment File

Updated USB Blaster Driver

Intel Quartus Prime Lite Download

28 Oct

Lecture 7 - Digital Designing with FPGA

1st half

Lecture 8 - SystemVerilog HDL

2nd half

Altera FPGA Support Resources

MAX10 Device Architectures

DE10-Lite Resource Centre

3-4 Nov

Mid-term Lab Oral - Guidelines and Schedule

Lab Oral Schedule

Lab Oral Marksheet

10 Nov

Lab 4 - Sequential Circuits

Lab4 Task1 solution (zipped)

Lab4 Task2 solution (zipped)

Lab4 Task3 solution (zipped)

bin2bcd_16.sv

clktick.sv

Updated USB Blaster Driver

11 Nov

Lecture 9 - Counters and Shift Registers

Problem Sheet 3 (solutions)

SystemVerilog Cheatsheet

17 Nov

Lab 5 - DAC and Function Generator

pwm.sv & spi2dac.sv

MCP4921 datasheet

Lab5 solutions

18 Nov

Lecture 10 - Digital to Analogue Conversion

           1st half

Lecture 11 - Finite State Machines

           2nd half

Problem Sheet 4    (solutions)

Data Converter Handbook

24 Nov

Lab 6 - ADC and echo synthesizer

Lab 6 codes to download

MCP3201 ADC datasheet

Lab 6 solutions

Audio files: clapping.mp3, hello.mp3, hg2g.mp3 , hg2g(short).mp3

25 Nov

Lecture 12 - A-to-D Conversion

         2nd half

Lecture 13 - Lab 6 & Challenges explained

         2nd half

The Challenges

Problem Sheet 5    (solutions)

Sinewave Generator in Matlab

Rom data file

2 Dec

Lecture 14 - Timing Constraints

         1st half

Lecture 15 - memories

         2nd half

Problem Sheet 6    (solutions)

Problem Sheet 7    (solutions)

Bonus Lecture
SPI to DAC module explained

9 -10 Dec

End-of-Term Lab Oral - Guidelines and Schedule

Module Evaluation Survey