Spring 2009: Week 1 Week 6 Week 10

Week
Topics — Activity
Reading (Text & Connexions)

1

1/5

Instrumentation & Measurement.
Course structure & administration.
Analog & digital signals; discrete time signals.

Lab 0: Choose teams, Pick up tools.

8.3, 8.4, 8.7
Signals Represent Information, Discrete-Time Signals.

 

2

1/12

Systems & transfer functions; linearity & superposition; elemental signals; phasors and complex signals.

Problem Set 1: Due 1/15
Lab 1: Safety & Basic Measurements

 4.1-4.3
Introduction to Systems; Simple Systems, The Fundamental Signal, Elemental Signals.
Background: The Complex Plane, Exercises with Complex Numbers, More Complex Numbers.

3

1/19

Signal composition & decomposition; Exponential Fourier series; frequency response; representation of information.

Problem Set 2: Due 1/22
Lab 2: Intermediate Measurements

 4.13
Signal Decomposition; Time & Frequency Domains.

4

1/26

Introduction to LabView; Sampling & aliasing; Analog-digital conversion.

Problem Set 3: Due 1/29
Lab 3: Computer measurements I

8.6.1
The Sampling Theorem, Amplitude Quantization

5

2/2

Exam 1

Dependent sources & active devices; Operational amplifiers: basic models; principle of virtual null.

Prepare for Exam 1
Lab 4: Computer measurements II

1.2.10, 9.1-9.6
Dependent Sources, Operational Amplifiers.

6

2/9

Applications of operational amplifiers and example circuits; real limitations; associated circuits.

Problem Set 4: Due 2/12
Lab 5: Op Amps I

 9.7-9.11

7

2/16

Nonlinear devices: diodes: models and reality; wave shaping circuits. Zener diodes and LEDs; digital logic & circuits .

Problem Set 5: Due 2/19
Lab 6:

10.5; 10.8-10.10; 14.1; 14.2
The Diode

 

8

2/23

AC steady state; impedance; analyzing passive, linear circuits in the frequency domain.

Lab 7: Signal Processing I
Problem Set 6: Due 2/26

4.1-4.5; 4.7-10
The Impedance Concept,

3/2
Midterm Recess

9

3/9

Exam 2

Time & frequency domain calculations; basic filter concepts and circuits, transfer functions again.

Prepare for Exam 2
Lab 8: Op-Amps II

 7.1-7.4
Transfer Functions, Designing Transfer Functions.

10

3/16

Basic power concepts and calculations; equivalent circuits; impedance matching.
Lab projects.

Problem Set 7: Due 3/19
Lab 9:

5.1-5.4; 4.11; 4.12
Equivalent Circuits: Resistors and Sources, Equivalent Circuits: Impedances and Sources;

 

11

3/23

Discrete-Time signals & systems; smoothing data.

Problem Set 8: Due 3/26
Lab 10: Project

Discrete-Time Systems, Discrete Time Signals & Systems, Moving Averages, Median Filter I, Median Filter II

12

3/30

Discrete Fourier transform; periodic signals & spectra. Digital signal processing.

Problem Set 9: Due 4/2
Lab 11: Project
Spring Recess: Thursday-Friday, 4/2-3

 Discrete Fourier Transform, Filtering in the Frequency Domain

13

4/6

Exam 3

Digital signal processing: filtering.

Prepare for Exam 3
Lab 12: Project

 Discrete-Time Filtering of Analog Signals

14

4/13

Special Topics & Techniques in Signal Collection; Review


Lab: Project Demos

 Phase Locking, Weak Signals, Boxcar Averaging