Circuit simulator is a tool that helps engineers saving resources such as time, material, and money, during the circuit development. It also helps to understand circuits better. There is a number of circuit simulators available on the market, some are free to use and yet other cost several 100k€ for…
1st Laboratory Session ~4 meetings Integrated MOS amplifiers are probably the most common and highly important devices in majority of analog- or mixed-signal integrated circuits. Wherever analog signals are in place, an OPAMP (OPerational AMPlifier) plays key rule in amplifying, filtering, and further signal processing. In this session, you will…
NAND gate (NOT-AND) is a logical gate which outputs false only if both inputs are true: * NAND LOGICAL TABLE * * a b * out *********** * 0 0 * 1 * * 0 1 * 1 * * 1 0 * 1 * * 1 1 * 0 * *********** We can implement a NAND gate using the following schematics. Please use models from the previous…
3rd Laboratory Session ~1 meeting A thermistor is a special type of resistor whose resistance is very temperature dependent (THERMal - resISTOR). Thermistors are used in various ways such as temperature sensors, inrush current limiters and self-resetting overcurrent protectors. Electrical power dissipated on thermistor heats up the device and thus…
4rd Laboratory Session ~1 meeting Oscillator is an electronic circuit that produces an oscillating electronic signal. Oscillators are widely used in radio and television signal broadcasting, regulating computer clocks and sound producing. In this session we will simulate a behaviour of an oscillator, based on tunnel diode (additional source). This…
5th Laboratory Session ~3 meetings In the final laboratory session we will learn how to setup and use some sort of artificial intelligence to optimize the performance of a circuit. PyOPUS is one of Python libraries for simulation, performance aggregation and optimization. It was written particularly for circuit optimization, but…