Introduction.
o Introduction to electronic engineering.
o Review of fundamental concepts (signals, systems, circuits and passive components).
Fundamentals of analog electronics:
Introduction to semiconductor-based devices.
o Introduction to the use of semiconductors in electronics.
o The diode.
o Circuits with diodes.
Active components. Amplification.
o Introduction to amplification and feedback.
o The bipolar junction transistor. Amplification.
o The MOSFET transistor. Amplification and applications.
o The operational amplifier. Comparators and amplifiers.
Electronic signal filtering.
o Review of frequency response.
o Design and implementation of passive and active filters.
o Filtering in electronic instrumentation
Electronic power supplies.
o Introduction to the design of power supplies.
o Basic topologies.
Fundamentals of digital electronics:
Fundamentals of Digital Systems:
o Binary digits, logic levels and digital waveforms
o Combinational and sequential logic functions: Basic arithmetic and logic functions. Storage functions. Counting function.
Introduction to microcontrollers:
o Microprocessor architecture.
o System architecture. Interrupts.
o GPIOs.
o Timers
o Introduction to microcontroller programming