Portale di Ateneo - En.Unibs.it

1) Active filters. Criteria for the design of active filters of order higher than the second, Chebyshew and Butterworth functions, introduction to Bessel and elliptic functions, generalized impedance converters and their use for the synthesis of RLC filters.

2) switched capacitor circuits. Operation of the switched capacitor for the simulation of resistive components; compensation of the stray capacitance; mention of first and second order switched capacitor filters.

3) Voltage and current references. Electrical characteristics of voltage and current generators; Zener references; bandgap references.

4) Analog switches. Electrical characteristics of analog switches, use of electronic devices, such as BJT, JFET and MOSFET as switches, control circuits.

5) Non-linear circuits. Precision rectifier circuits, peak detectors, sample and hold circuits.

6) Waveforms and signals generators. Sine wave generators with variable frequency; triangular and square wave generators; sawtooth generators, voltage to frequency and frequency to voltage converters.

7) Special Operational Amplifiers. Programmable gain amplifiers, transconductance amplifiers, current feedback amplifiers.

8) Logarithmic amplifiers and analog multipliers. Electrical characteristics of logarithmic and antilogaritmic amplifiers; transdiode configurations, circuits with non-linear functions, analog multipliers.

9) Electronic circuit noise. Noise sources, noise models for electronic components; operational amplifiers noise.

10) Phase locked loop (PLL) circuits.