PROCESO DE COORDINACIÓN DE ENSEÑANZAS DE LA
FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA UEx (P/CL009_FC)
Asunto:
Plan Docente Asignatura:
Laboratory of Electronics
Academic year 2015-16
Código:
P/CL009_D002_FIS
Fecha:
20/07/15
COURSE SYLLABUS
Academic year: 2015-16
Identification and course description
Course
Degree program
Faculty/School
500801 – Laboratory of Electronics
Bachelor Degree in Physics
Faculty of Science
Semester
7th
Module
Field of study
Obligatory
Experimental Techniques
Instructor
Name
Fernando J. Álvarez Franco
Area
Department
Type of
subject
Office
B108
Credits (ECTS)
6
Obligatory
E-mail
[email protected]
Web
http://nernet.unex.es/~fernando/ingles.htm
Electronics
Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Automation
PROCESO DE COORDINACIÓN DE ENSEÑANZAS DE LA
FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA UEx (P/CL009_FC)
Asunto:
Plan Docente Asignatura:
Laboratory of Electronics
Academic year 2015-16
Código:
P/CL009_D002_FIS
Fecha:
20/07/15
Competences
Basic competences
CB3: Students should be able to show that they are capable of collecting and interpreting the
relevant data (normally within their area of study) needed for formulating judgments which require
critical thought on social, scientific and ethical topics of relevance.
CB4: Students should be able to show that they are able to transmit information, ideas, problems
and solutions both to specialized and non-specialized publics.
CB5: Students should be able to show that they have developed the learning skills required to
perform further studies with a high degree of self-dependence.
General competences
CG1- Student would obtain a highly positive and encouraging experience from physics learning
process, serving as a way to sustain academic eagerness.
CG4 - Experimental and technology skills in their field of study.
CG5 - Students should have the ability to check and appropriately correct (if discrepancies were
observed) their own models.
CG6 - Ability to apply learnings to their professional career.
CG8 - Ability for identification of the ethical issues in scientific research. Ability to identify ethical
needs in their professional work.
Transversal competences
CT1 - Communication skills for efficient performance of scientific reports and oral presentations.
CT2 - Skills for work in groups
CT9 - Foreign language foundations (English preferred).
Specific competences
CE3 - Ability to identify key aspects of a complex physical system with the aim of implementation of
simple but sufficiently descriptive models.
CE6 - Handling of experimental tools and devices in physics.
CE7 - Student will get the ability of use of experimental methods for independent planning,
designing and performing physics experiments.
CE8 - Experimental results analysis, evaluation, and comparison with theoretical predictions, while
obtaining conclusions from it.
CE9 - Ability for software development by means of programming languages. Use of software
packages for document preparation, information search, numeric calculus and data presentation.
PROCESO DE COORDINACIÓN DE ENSEÑANZAS DE LA
FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA UEx (P/CL009_FC)
Asunto:
Plan Docente Asignatura:
Laboratory of Electronics
Academic year 2015-16
Código:
P/CL009_D002_FIS
Fecha:
20/07/15
Contents
Summary
Hardware description languages. Microcontrollers. Experimentation in Analog and Digital Electronics.
Units
Unit 1 –Analog electronics basic modules
Electronic Instrumentation. Amplifiers. Filters. Unit 2 – Digital electronics basic modules
Combinational logic. Sequential logic. Memories. Unit 3 – Data Acquisition Systems (DAQs)
DAQs architecture. The sampling theorem. Digital signal processing. Unit 4 – Programmable logic design
Introduction to programmable logic. Programmable logic design flow. Hardware description languages. Unit 5 – Microprocessor-based systems
Microcontrollers and DSPs. Development boards. HW/SW codesign. PROCESO DE COORDINACIÓN DE ENSEÑANZAS DE LA
FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA UEx (P/CL009_FC)
Asunto:
Plan Docente Asignatura:
Laboratory of Electronics
Academic year 2015-16
Código:
P/CL009_D002_FIS
Fecha:
20/07/15
Learning plan
Student workload (hours)
Lectures &
seminars
GG
SL
6
6
4
6
3
13
16
3
7
50
Unit
Total
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Evaluation
3
Total
150
GG: Lectures + exams
SL: Seminars + computer lessons
TP: Tutorials.
EP: Homework + exam preparation (self-study).
Tutorials
TP
Homework & exams
preparation
EP
4
4
9
13
50
13
0
93
Assessment
Ordinary Grading
Three evaluation tools will be used, as detailed in the next table:
Evaluation tool
Guided sessions in the laboratory
Weight in the final grading
40% (NR)
Practical design assignment
30%
Final exam
30%
The first of these tools consists in 13 guided sessions in the laboratory that will be
assessed through the delivery of two documents: a pre-lab working plan and a final results
sheet. The attendance to these sessions is mandatory, and their weight in the final grading
will be 40%.
The second evaluation tool consists in a practical design assignment on the topic covered
by Units 4 or 5. These assignments will be assessed by means of a personal interview with
PROCESO DE COORDINACIÓN DE ENSEÑANZAS DE LA
FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA UEx (P/CL009_FC)
Asunto:
Plan Docente Asignatura:
Laboratory of Electronics
Academic year 2015-16
Código:
P/CL009_D002_FIS
Fecha:
20/07/15
the instructor, and their weight in the final grading will be 30%.
The third and last evaluation tool consists in a final written exam about all the theoretical
and practical contents covered in the course. The weight of the exam in the final grading
will be 30%.
A minimum grading of 4 out of 10 will be necessary in all the three evaluation tools
described above in order to pass the course.
Extraordinary Grading Two evaluation tools will be used in the extraordinary grading, with a total weight of 60%
in the final grading of the course, as detailed in the following table:
Evaluation tool
Weight in the final grading
Practical design assignment
30%
Final exam
30%
These tools will be similar to those used in the ordinary grading. The remaining 40% of
the final grading will be obtained from the qualification obtained in the guided sessions
during the course, provided this qualification is equal or greater than 4 out of 10.
Otherwise, a practical exam in the laboratory will be mandatory.
As in the ordinary grading, a minimum grading of 4 out of 10 will be necessary in all the
evaluation tools in order to pass the course.
PROCESO DE COORDINACIÓN DE ENSEÑANZAS DE LA
FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA UEx (P/CL009_FC)
Asunto:
Plan Docente Asignatura:
Laboratory of Electronics
Academic year 2015-16
Código:
P/CL009_D002_FIS
Fecha:
20/07/15
Bibliography and other resources
BASIC
! Allan R. Hambley. Electronics. Prentice Hall, 2nd Edition, 1999.
! Thomas L. Floyd. Digital fundamentals, 11th Edition, 2015.
! William Stallings. Computer Organization and Architecture, 9th Edition. PrenticeHall, 2012
! David Johns and Ken Martin. Analog Integrated Circuit Design. John Wiley &
Sons, 1997.
COMPLEMENTARY
! National Instruments, NI USB-6009 User Guide and Specifications, February
2012.
! Pong P. Chu. FPGA Prototyping by Verilog/VHDL Examples, Wiley, 2008.
! Digilent Inc. Atlys Board Reference Manual, February 2011.
! L.H. Crockett, R. A. Elliot, M. A. Enderwitz and R. W. Stewart. The Zynq Book,
University of Strathclyde, 2014.
Tutorials
The instructor’s tutorial timetable for the academic year 2015/16 can be seen in the
Faculty of Science website:
http://www.unex.es/conoce-la-uex/centros/ciencias/centro/profesores
Recommendations
Students are advised to study all the theoretical contents covered by each guided session
prior to attending to this session. The time slot assigned to these sessions in the learning
plan DO NOT include the time required to prepare these sessions.