Fall 2018
Electronic Aids to Measurement

Contact Information:

Victor Brar
Office: 5332 Chamberlin Hall
Phone: 262-1139
E-mail: vbrar@wisc.edu
Office hours:     1:30-2:30 pm Mondays in 5332 Chamberlin, and by appointment

Dan McCammon
Office: 6207 Chamberlin Hall
Phone: 262-5916
E-mail: mccammon@physics.wisc.edu
Office hours: 9:30 - 10:30 Thursdays, and by appointment or catch-me-as-you-can.

Lectures in 2223 Chamberlin on Tues. and Thurs. from 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm
Labs in 4128 Chamberlin on Wednesdays  10 am – 1 pm,   3 pm – 6 pm

Text: Horowitz & Hill The Art of Electronics, 3rd ed.
     updated index

Syllabus  (23 Aug 2018)

Pre-Lab Worksheets
   (complete before lab and turn in at beginning of lab session)

1. Transmission Lines
2. Bipolar Transistor Amplifier
3. Difference Amplifier (Worksheet questions are in Lab Writeup)
4. Operational Amplifier I
5. Johnson Noise (Worksheet questions are in Lab Writeup)
6. Phase Detector (Worksheet questions are in Lab Writeup)
7. Oscillators (Worksheet questions are in Lab Writeup)
8. Digital Circuit
9. Phase Locked Loop
10. DAC and ADC
11. Circuit Simulation: download and look over MultiSim lab hints below - bring to lab with you.  You can also get a copy of the timing diagram for the successive approximation A/D converter.
12. FPGA: look over the experiment writeup and optionally some of the reference material under "Altera" below.  If you want, you can get your own copy of the software from http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&No=593&PartNo=4 (download the CD-rom) and the Quartus II Web Edition FPGA system here: http://dl.altera.com/?edition=web
    

Lecture Handouts

Homework Assignments

• Transmission Lines
• Fourier Transform cheatsheet
• Negative Feedback
• P/N Junctions
• Bi-Polar Transistors
• Differential Equations Tutorial
• On-line introductory circuits textbook
  (pretty good, lots of diagrams):   "All About Circuits"
• Crummy pdf of AoE 2^nd Edition
  
• *Miscellaneous Electronic Tips*   Some useful articles
  
• Digital Circuits (NEW 2015)
• Combinational Logic
• Sequential Logic
• Finite State Machines
• Programmable Logic Devices
• Analog and Mixed-Signal Simulation with LT SPICE (NEW 2015)

LABORATORY

General Lab Handouts

• Lab Instructions
• Breadboard Instructions
• Lab notebook comments

Laboratory Equipment

• MSO2014B oscilloscope tutorials
• MSO2014B oscilloscope manuals
• Other instrument manuals
  

Software Documentation (PDF format)

• MultiSim
• Altera FPGA
  

Experiments (PDF format)

1. Transmission Lines
2. Transistor Amplifier
3. Differential Amplifier
4. Operational Amplifiers
5. Johnson Noise
6. Phase Detector
7. Oscillators
8. Digital Circuits
9. Phase Locked Loop
10. Digital to Analog and Analog to Digital Conversion
11. Analog and Digital Circuit Simulation
12. FPGA I
13. FPGA II

Data Sheets (PDF format)

Get the ones you need for an experiment.
You may be able to share with your lab partner.

• 2N1480 npn Transistor
• 2N3904 npn Transistor
• NTE 326 p Channel JFET
• 74HC164
• 74LS00
• 74LS04
• 74LS112
• 74LS193
• 74LS221
• 74LS283
• 74LS85
• DG419 analog-switch
• LF357 opamp
• LM311 comparator
• LM741 opamp-new
• LM741 opamp-old
• MC14046 phase locked loop
• MC1408 dac
• OP27 opamp
• TIL-311 hexadecimal display

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