Dr. Atanas Tanushevski, Professor
Course content:
Circuit design: Electric circuit simulation, PCB CAD software package, Circuit design methods, Photolithography, Fabrication of semiconductor elements and integrated circuits, Soldering technique.
Voltage sources: Transformer, Voltage filters, Voltage stabilizer and regulator, Cascade voltage multiplier made with semiconductor diodes and capacitors, DC voltage converter, Inductor design, Different types of inductors.
Electrical Transducers: Classification of Transducers, Capacitive Transducers, Inductive Transducers, Electromagnetic Transducers, Resistive Transducers, Piezoelectric Transducers, Hall Effect Transducers, Thermodynamic Transducers, Photonic Transducers, Electroacoustic Transducers, Electrodynamic Transducers.
Audio frequency signals and reproduction: Audio amplifiers, Signal distortion, Negative feedback in audio amplifiers, Sound signal sources.
Operational Amplifiers: Introduction to operational amplifiers, Ideal operational amplifier, Model of real operational amplifier, Non-linear signals obtained with operational amplifiers.
Logic circuits: Logic functions, Digital values of measured quantity, Logic circuit AND, Logic circuit OR, Logic gates, Combinational logic circuits, Flip-flops, Multiplexers, Encoder, Demultiplexers, Decoder. Basic principles of electrical measurement instruments: Signal conditioning, Digital-analog and analog-digital conversion, Analog multimeters, Digital multimeters, Oscilloscope, Computer controlled measuring instruments.
Representation of the data on the screen and their recording: Display of the measured signals on the screen, Recording of the measurement data, Representation of the data.
Automatic process control: Basics of automatic process control, Process control modes, Performance of electrical circuits for process control, Digital process controllers.