Training Course: Introduction to Electronic Signal Processing

course objective
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course objective

Insight into the complexity of designing electronic information processing systems; making designers:

Become productive earlier
Take up less time of experienced colleagues
Use an identical and effective design approach

target group

This course is primarily intended for designers with little experience in analog electronic design.

starting level

BSc in physics or electrical engineering
or
Secondary education in electrical engineering with some years of experience in design and engineering of simple electronic circuits

target level

At the end of this course the participants will have:

Knowledge of the structure of information processing systems
Knowledge of the most important design aspects of such systems:
- Functionality and operation
- Available technology
- Quality of signal processing
- Reliability and safety
- Design verification, qualification and validation
- Development costs, price and time to market
- Knowledge of operation and modeling of commonly used transducers

final assignment

The final assignment consists of drawing up an initial specification of an information processing system including sensors and/or actuators.

duration

The total duration of this course is five days:

Four days with theory and practice
One day for participants’ final presentations

description

Novice designers are confronted with the complexity of the design process in an industrial environment, derived from:

The large number of characteristics that need to be realized
The many ways this can be achieved
The large number of constraints that have to be considered

Guided by experienced designers, who often work intuitively, inexperienced designers are often left to find their own way.

This introductionary course is meant to structurize and speed up this process.

course contents

Introduction analog signal processing
1. Architecture of information processing systems
2. Processing capacity and fundamental limitations thereof
3. Manifestation of signal processing errors and error reduction techniques
Implementation aspects of electronic systems
1. Signal integrity and system construction, signal transmission methods and standards, interconnection of subsystems and minimization of influence of interference signals
2. Signal integrity and PCB design
Other design aspects
1. Product life cycle and ‘lifecycle design’
2. Reliability and safety of electronic systems
3. Aspects of multidisciplinary design
4. Validation and qualification
Components and technology
1. Discrete passive components, technology and modeling
2. Overview semiconductor devices, technology and modeling
3. IC building blocks
4. PCA manufacturing and testing
Sensors and actuators, functioning, modeling and interfacing A selection from below mentioned lists is discussed:
1. Optical transducers
  1. Pin diode and photo transistor
  2. LDR
  3. PSD
  4. LED, optocoupler, photo MOS
  5. LCD
  6. Laser
2. Mechanical transducers
  1. Solenoid, voice coil, stepper motor, AC and DC motors
  2. Piezo motors and sensors
  3. Inductive and capacitive displacement sensors
  4. Strain gauges
  5. MEMS
3. Thermal transducers
  1. Thermal actuators
  2. PTC, PT100, NTC and thermocouple
4. Magnetic field transducers
5. Hall elements
6. Magnetoresistive elements
7. Inductive transducers
Acoustic transducers
1. Microphones
2. Loudspeakers
Sensor and actuator subsystems
1. CCD cameras
2. LCD displays

Training Course: Introduction to Electronic Signal Processing

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