Analog Electronics for Embedded System Designers
Aim:
The training course Analog Electronics for Embedded System Designers is intended for designers who's daily tasks are mainly digital hardware design and software design, but who need additional knowledge on design of analog signal conditioning circuits such as amplifiers, filters and single-bit and AD and D/A converter interfaces.
The course consists of two parts of four days each.
Topics:
- Introduction to analog information processing, circuit design and analysis
- Modeling and simulation of electronic circuits
- Design of application-specific amplifiers using OpAmps
- Design of passive and active and filters
- Design of single-bit interfaces, relation between SNR and BER
- Design issues related to PCB lay-out and high-speed signal integrity.
- Prototyping and design verification.
Summary info:
- End level: Participants can design, analyse, verify and implement high-quality analog signal conditioning circuits for embedded systems.
- Required entry level: Bsc. in electrical or physical engineering
- Duration: about 8 weeks one day per week; 50% lectures, 50% individual training on design exercises
- Location: in-company: groups from 6 to 8 participants; individual participants: on request
- Please contact us for available dates and price
Included is a demo version of the SPICE-like circuit simulator SIMetrix and a full version of the report and math-tool Scientific Notebook.
Contents:
- Introduction to signal processing and analog electronics
- Passive filters
- Introduction
- Performance aspects and modeling
- Filter types and families
- Design from low-pass prototypes
- Network and pole-zero transformations
- Aspects of implementation
- Amplifier design (OpAmp applications only)
- Introduction
- Performance aspects and modeling
- Opamp types and modeling
- Design considerations w.r.t. noise performance and temperature stability
- Design of negative-feedback amplifier configurations (nullor based)
- Negative feedback modeling
- Design considerations w.r.t. bandwidth
- High-frequency compensation
- Design considerations w.r.t. linearity
- Design considerations w.r.t. PSRR and CMRR
- Active filters
- Performance aspects and modeling
- Design approaches
- Desing with GICs
- Biquads
- Second order sections for high and low Q
- Aspects of amplifier design or selection
- Signal integrity
- S/N ratio versus bit-error-rate
- Cable termination, dual networks and design of Zobel correction networks
- Modeling of passive devices
- Modeling of lay-out parasitics
- Design (lay-out) conflicts
- Power supply filtering
- Aspects of high-speed A/D and D/A interfacing
- Prototyping, test and design evaluation
- Design documentation