ELT 262 Linear IC Applications

Lecture Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 3
Credits: 3

Covers design and industrial applications using the integrated circuit amplifier and special function IC devices to study basic circuits. Includes laboratory evaluation of selected basic circuit designs. Promotes and supports sustainable and green technologies.

Prerequisite: ELT 161 and ELT 244, each with a grade of C or better; or consent of instructor.
Student Learning Outcomes:

Design, construct, and test the operation of selected basic industrial circuits.
Apply test equipment to analyze and evaluate the designed circuits.
Gather and organize experimental data for presentation in written technical report.

Content Outline

Review of Basic Operational Amplifier Circuits
- Inverting amplifier
- Non-inverting amplifier
- Voltage follower
- Summing amplifiers
- Difference amplifier
Instrumentation Amplifier Applications
- Differential bridge amplifiers
- Ground-loop currents and common mode rejection ratio
- Designing an instrumentation amplifier with Op amps
- Instrumentation amplifier buffered inputs
- Instrumentation amplifier with gain setting resistor
- Isolated instrumentation amplifiers
- Chopper stabilized instrumentation amplifiers
- Applications
Filter Circuits
- Active low-pass filter
- Active high-pass filter
- Active band-pass filter/multiple-feedback
- Active notch filter/twin-T
- All-pass filter
- State-variable filter, Switched Capacitor Filter
- Filter frequency response characteristics by filter type
- Applications
Pulse Shaping Circuits
- Active differentiator
- High frequency noise gain compensation
- Active integrator
- Low frequency gain compensation
- Applications
Converters
- Current-to-voltage
- Voltage-to-current
- DAC converters
- ADC converters
- Sample and hold circuits
- Applications
Voltage Comparators
- Zero crossing detector
- Comparator with hysteresis-loop
- Comparator with input offset reference voltage
- Schmitt trigger
- Applications
Oscillators
- Hartley oscillator
- Colpitts oscillator
- Wien-Bridge oscillator
- Phase-shift oscillator
- Voltage-controlled oscillator
- The 566 single chip VCO
- Applications
Wave Generators
- Square wave generator
- Function generators
- IC timer circuits
- Applications
Data Communications Circuits
- Phase-locked loops
- the LM560-565 series
- Frequency synthesizers
- Applications
Relation to Sustainable and Green Technologies