TLT-8017 Basic Communication Circuits - 1

General Information

Duration: 27.8. 21.11.2008

Course lecturer: Kim stman
Contact info: kim@cs.tut.fi, Room TH106
Exams: 27.11.2008 at 17:00 20:00
+ 2 more
Book: Allan R. Hambley, Electronics, 2nd edition (Prentice Hall, 2000).
Information: Sign up for the course page in Moodle (http://moodle.tut.fi)
for news, lecture slides and exercise materials.

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Timetable Autumn 2008

Lectures:
Period 1: Wednesdays 1417 in TB111
Period 2: Wednesdays 1416 in TB111
Exercises: (mandatory)
Period 1: 3 h/w in TC171
Period 2: 2 h/w in TC171
Lab Exercises: (optional, +1 cr.)
4 x 3 hours, after 22.9.2008

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Course Contents

1. Basic concepts: Analog and digital signals, Ohm law, amplifiers, etc.
2. Signals in time and frequency domain
3. Operational amplifiers
4. Diodes and diode circuits
5. Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT)
6. Field Effect Transistors (FET)
7. Frequency response
8. Feedback and oscillators
9. Active filters and tuned circuits
Lecture slides will be available in Moodle.

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Exercises

Mandatory
Room TC171
The purpose of the
exercises is to make the
theoretical concepts and
circuits more
understandable through
computer simulations
Software: PSpice
Student version is
downloadable from
http://www.cadencepcb.com

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Exercises - Schedule

Group 1: Monday 14-17 (Period 2: 14-16)

Group 2: Tuesday 8-11 (8-10)
Group 3: Tuesday 16-19 (16-18)
Group 4: Wednesday 10-13 (10-12)
Group 5: Thursday 9-12 (10-12)

Sign up through POP, the system opens today at 17:00.

(Studies -> My Sign-Ups -> TLT-8017 -> Exercise group #)
If you miss your group time on some week, try to attend another
group during that week.
Exercise material will be available in Moodle.

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Laboratory Exercises

Give one extra credit point

4 x 3 hours after 22.9.2008
Make an electronic oscillator
circuit
Simulation
Assembly
Measurement

Recommended especially for

those planning to continue
their studies in the field of
communication circuits

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Further Studies in Communication Circuits

B.Sc. Level
TLT-8107 Basic Communication Circuits - 2 (7 cr.)
TLT-8207 Communication Circuits and Modules - 1 (8 cr.)
TLT-8307 RF-ASIC Design Project - 1 (8 cr., B.Sc. Graduation)

M.Sc. Level
TLT-8507 Communication Circuits and Modules - 2 (9 cr.)
TLT-8607 RF-ASIC Design Project - 2 (9 cr.)
M.Sc. Thesis and Graduation

Ph.D. Level
TLT-8807 Advanced RF Communication Circuits Seminar (9 cr.)

See http://www.cs.tut.fi/tlt/rfasic
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