Application and use of integrated circuits for experimental measurement and control. Topics include digital electronics, digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital conversion, mini and microcomputers, power supplies, active filters and oscillators.
Prerequisite: PHYS 375 - Laboratory Electronics I
The lecture will cover the theory and application of electronic circuits as found in laboratory equipment.
- Rectifiers and power supplies
- Sensors and signal processing
- Sequential logic
- Analog-digital interfaces
The laboratory will cover techniques of building and debugging circuits and follows the lectures
- Building circuits with multiple active components
- Simultaneously comparing signals at different parts of a circuit
- Testing sequential behavior in circuits
- Building interfaces between electronic systems