EE2 Circuits and Systems - Peter Cheung

Department of Electrical & Electronic Eng. (EEE) BEng & MEng 2nd Year

ELEC50001 Circuits and Systems (Oct - Dec 2025)
Professor Peter Y. K. Cheung

Aims & Objectives

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.

By the end of the course, you should be able to:

build working amplifer circuits with real-life op-amps
analyse and predict behaviour of active filters
explain limitations of op-amp from datasheets
analyse the operation of synchronous digital systems
synthesize a synchronous digital system to meet a specification
determine the worst-case propagation delay of a combinational circuit
evaluate the performance of A/D and D/A conversion circuits
design arithmetic circuits to meet a specification and determine the propagation delay
design of finite state machines
design using Verilog HDL

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.

RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOKS

Practical Electronics for Inventors (~£30)

COURSE SCHEDULE AND CONTENTS

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

LECTURE NOTES

Lecture 1 - Introduction to circuits & systems (notes)

Lecture 2 - Amplification and Single-Rail Op-amp (notes)

Lecture 3 - Understanding Op-amp Specification (notes)

Lecture 4 - Understanding Op-amp Models (notes)

Lecture 5 - Op-amp Applications (notes)

Lecture 6 - Active Filters (notes)

Lecture 7 - Digital Design with FPGAs (notes)

Lecture 8 - SystemVerilog HDL (notes)

LAB INSTRUCTIONS

Lab 1- Amplification & Single-rail Op-Amp

Lab 2 - Op-amp Applications

Lab 3 - Introduction to Quartus & DE10-Lite

PROBLEM SHEETS

Problem Sheet 1 (solutions)

Problem Sheet 2 (solutions)

Problem Sheet 3 (solutions)

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Last updated 28 Oct 2025