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 remotely or in-person.

Starting

Topics

Resources

10 Oct

Lecture 1 - Introduction to Circuits & Systems
(slides, notes)

Course Planning Document
PicoScope Documents
(quick guide, user's manual)
Tenma multimeter manual
Component Stores Sheets

17 Oct

Lecture 2 - Amplification and Single-Rail Op-amp
(slides, notes, recordings 1 2)

Problem Sheet 1, MCP601 datasheet, (solutions)

Lab 1 - Amplification

Use of electronic logbook
MCP6001/2/4 datasheet
AP431i voltage reference
LM386 datasheet
8 ohm speaker datasheet

25 Oct

Lecture 3 - Anatomy of an op-amp
(slides, notes, recording )

Lecture 4 - Op-amp Applications
(slides, notes, recording 1, 2))

Problem Sheet 2 (solutions)

Lab 2 - Op-amp Applications

Supplementary notes on LM386
Microphone datasheet

Analog Devices Electronics wiki
Analog Devices Op-Amp Applications
Tutorial on op-amp (Hard!)

1 Nov

Lecture 5 - Digital Design with FPGAs
(slides, notes, recording 1 2 )

Intel FPGA Resource Centre
MAX10 Device Architecture
DE10-Lite Resource Centre
Intel Quartus Prime Lite (PC)

7 Nov

Revision Lecture
(slides)

Mid-Term Lab Oral Guidelines and Schedule

14 Nov

Lecture 6 - SystemVerilog HDL
(slides, notes, recordings 1, 2)

Problem Sheet 3 (solutions)

Lab 3 - Introduction to Quartus & DE10-Lite

Lab 4 - Sequential Circuits

Lab 3 Task 1 solution (zipped)

Pin Assignment File

USB Blaster Driver

Lab4 Task1 solution (zipped)
Lab4 Task2 solution (zipped)
Lab4 Task3 solution (zipped)
bin2bcd_16.sv (zipped)
clktick.sv (zipped)

21 Nov

Lecture 7 - Counter & Shift Register
(slides, notes, recording)

Lecture 8 - DAC Conversion
(slides, notes, recording)

Problem Sheet 4 (solutions)

Lab 5 - DAC & Function Generator

pwm.sv & spi2dac.sv (zipped)
MCP4921 datasheet
Lab5 Task1 solution (zipped )
Lab5 Task2 solution (zipped )
Lab5 Task3 solution (zipped )
Lab5 Task3x solution (zipped)
Analog Devices - Data Conversion Handbook

28 Nov

Lecture 9 - Finite State Machines
(slides , notes, recording 1, 2)

Lecture 10 - A-to-D Conversion
(slides, notes, recording)

Problem Sheet 5 (solutions)
Problem Sheet 6 (solutions)

Lab 6 - ADC & Echo Synthesizer

Lab 6 code to download (zipped)
MCP3201 datasheet
Lab6 Task1 solution (zipped)
Lab6 Task2 solution (zipped)
Lab6 Task2x solution (zipped)
Lab6 Task3 solution (zipped)
Lab6 Task4a solution (zipped)
Lab6 Task4b solution (zipped)
Audio files: clapping.mp3, hello.mp3, hg2g.mp3
task3 files to download (zipped)

5 Dec

Lecture 11 - Echo Synthesizer - Lab 6 Explained
(slides, notes, recording)

Lecture 12 - Timing Constraints
(slides, notes, recording)

Lecture 13 - Memories
(slides, notes, recording)

Challenges

spi2dac Explained
Scripts to generate ROM contents
(Matlab, Python)
ROM content file rom_data.mif (zipped)

14-15 Dec

Final Lab Oral - Guidelines