Syllabus

EE 446 Instrumentation

Spring 2008

Catalog Description: EE 446 Instrumentation R-3, C-3

Prerequisite: EE 221 (Linear Circuits) and EE 341 (Microelectronics)

Analysis and design of measurement circuits. Transducers. Nonideal op amps. Measurements errors. Noise. Filter circuits. D/A and A/D converters. (Spring)

Textbook: Op Amps for Everyone edited by Ron Mancini, NEWNES, ISBN 978-0-7506-7701-1.

(Go to http://www.ti.com/, search using keyword: op amps for everyone, the 2^nd entry in the search results is the pdf file containing Op Amps for Everyone.)

Software: PSpice, MATLAB

Instructor: Jim Svoboda, (Office Hours: 1-3 PM MWF , CAMP 156, 268-6551, svoboda@clarkson.edu.)

Objectives: Students will be able to

1. analyze and design resistive op amp circuits.
2. analyze and design active filters.
3. account for op amp nonidealities in the analysis and design of op amp circuits.
4. analyze and design measurement circuits using a variety of transducers.
5. use PSpice to analyze measurement circuits.
6. write a "3 level" report
   

Evaluation methods: Homework will be assigned, collected and graded…