The DESIGN EXPERIENCE
Welcome to EE409/449 - The DESIGN EXPERIENCE (Part 3 - most of you completed parts 1 & 2 in 307/347 and 308/348). In this course, you will be exposed to design of electronic circuits. Two basic types of design are: TYPE 1, where the circuit is basically known and the circuit components need to be determined to meet specific performance criteria; TYPE 2 where the performance of the system (or sub-system) is known but the circuit is as yet undetermined. Under TYPE 1 we have the simple case where the circuit and circuit values are both known, but a slightly different performance is desired and we have to redesign the circuit; as well as the case where the circuit is known and we have to determine all the component values from scratch to meet some performance criteria.
You will do your design homework in the lab; you will also prove-out your designs in the lab. Once you have a design functioning and written up in your design notebook, you need to get a professor to sign your notebook verifying that your circuit does indeed do what you claim.
You will receive a written design specification for each Design Project in the Lab Manual. These design projects are to be Designed, Built and have to be Tested (DBT) in Lab. Prior to actually testing them in the lab, run a simulation using some version of Spice (PSpice or microcap have free student versions) to gain some confidence in your design. You will also be assigned homework throughout the quarter. The homework design projects should also be Lab tested, but do not need to be signed off nor do you need to turn in the write-up.
In the schedule below, you will see a list of topics for each week, lab activity as well as when specific Design Projects are assigned (these are shown in parenthesis and indicate that which design projects relate to this material). In addition, the reading for the week is also shown. You should carefully go over all examples (and solutions) for the Chapter and Sections assigned; you should do all the Exercises for the Chapter and Sections assigned.
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