Electronics Design

Electrical components. Noise analysis and modeling. EMC. Grounding strategies, transmission line and signal integrity. Heat conduction and dissipation. Power supplies and voltage converters. Electrical/mechanical construction and manufacturing of printed circuit boards (PCB). Schematics, simulation, layout, soldering, testing and troubleshooting. System characteristics. Lumped modelling and SPICE-simulation. Project planning, project work, data presentation and reporting.

A. Knowledge.

The student shall have:

• Insight into the development process and production of electronic equipment.
• Knowledge about circuit design, layout, PCB, assembly, soldering and testing.
• Overview of components used for electronics construction.
• Know of noise and EMC, and principles to reduce the effect of this in electronic systems.
• Basic knowledge of electrical and mechanical construction for electronic circuits.

B. Skills

The student will be able to:

• Analyze, model and simulate electronic circuits with SPICE.
• Use CAD tools for drawing and layout for circuit design.
• Make PCB and assemble components on it.
• Test and verify a produced electronic circuit design.
• Model signal and noise and calculate expected target accuracy in a measurement system
• Program data acquisition and data presentation
• Document experiments and measurement data.

C. General competence

• The student shall be able to develop, make and test electronic equipment - from idea to final product.

Lectures. Exercises. Laboratory work. Project work.