- Course Overview
- Instrumentation, measurement (& control): The Big Picture
- Course structure and administration (see the Syllabus)
- Relationship to the areas of electrical engineering
- Signals Represent Information
- Elemental signals: what & why
- Signal decomposition & superposition
- Analog vs. Digital signals and systems
- Discrete time signals
- Systems and transfer functions
- Time vs. Frequency domain
- Representation of information
- Signal Conditioning I: Passive, Linear
- Passive, linear circuit components in the AC steady state
- Circuit analysis; impedance; phasors
- Basic power: dc, instaneous, average rms
- Equivalent circuits; impedance matching
- Exponential Fourier series
- Network response; basic filter concepts & circuits; transfer functions
again; FIR
- Signal Conditioning II: Active, Nonlinear
- Dependent sources & active devices
- Simple model for conduction in solids
- Nonlinear elements: diodes, models and reality; zener diodes, light
emitting diodes; wave shaping circuits
- Sensors: types and examples
- Operational amplifiers: basic model, PVN
- Op Amp applications\
- Digital logic & circuits
- TTL logic family and applications
- Analog IC circuits & applications
- Signal Processing
- Sampling & aliasing
- Analog-Digital conversion
- Discrete signals; discrete Fourier transform; periodic signals &
spectra
- Digital signal processing: filtering, averaging
- Basic feedback and control
- Special Topics
- Noise: sources and remedies
- Fast, pulsed events: gates, boxcar averaging
- Low signal levels: counting, phase locking
- Transient, rare events
