Oberseminar Schaltungstechnik
Contact: Dr. Ronny Henker
Assistance: Dipl.-Ing. Lautaro Petrauskas
Location: Room BAR 218
Time: Winter-semester 2022/2023; Thursdays, 4.DS (13:00-14:30)
Amount: 2 hours per week seminar and self-study; 2 PL
Course language: English
Type: Research oriented elective module
Target groups: Diploma students in the 7th to 10th semester (ideally 9th semester)
Registration: Please register bindingly to the course via OPAL until 13 October 2022! The first seminar will give an overview about the content and the structure of this Oberseminar course. The regstration will be closed afterwards. To finally obtain the grade, each participant has to register to the course assessment in HISQIS separately!
Prelininary course schedule: can be found here.
Course objectives and scope: In this course you will learn about the technical aspects related to the design of analog circuits and being capable of solving a given task independently and individually. In addition, you will master to document, publish, present and discuss your work to foster your scientific and project-based working methods. The course consists of:
- Around five weeks of tutorials (one per week) at the beginning of semester
- A practical work in which you will design a circuit using LTspice, which is a freeware circuit simulator widely-used in the industry and can be easily installed on your laptop or PC
- You will make a presentation (~20 min) about your practical work
- You will deliver a final written report about the topic of your practical circuit design work in the form of a scientific publication
The module assessement and grade consists of the report (2/3) and the presentaion (1/3). There will be no written exam.
Tutotial contents:
- Introduction to the topics of audio amplifiers, dc/dc converters and RFID energy harvesting circuits
- Introduction to the LTSpice circuit design and simulation software
- Different types/frequency-responses/materials/applications of commercially existing capacitors, diodes, loudspeakers, etc.
- Examples of different commercially-available op-amp ICs; and designing circuits with them
- Pulse circuits, switching power converters, and rectifier circuits
- Examples of widely-used signal transistors and power transistors, their electrical characteristics and datasheets
- How to write a scientific publication and how to present the research results
Topics for practical works: You will choose one topic from the options below. Please contact the supervisors if you like to suggest an own topics. The specific tasks will be provied during the course.
- Design of an audio filter and amplifier for compensating the imperfections in the frequency response of a piezoelectric loudspeaker
- Design of a RFID energy harvesting circuit, including a coil and a rectifier circuit, for AC/DC energy conversion from a magnetic field at 13.56 MHz
- Design of an energy-efficient switching DC/DC converter, e.g. 12 V to 5 V for automotive applicaions