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Analogue systems lab
Lectures
Additionally: library, computing facilities, internet.

- Class attendance
- Directed reading and learning
- Use of software packages (OrCAD, Matlab, LabView, etc.)
- Lecturers (24 hours) Laboratory/Tutorial (12 hours)
- Student centred learning

This module provides topics for the advanced study of analogue system design techniques at the forefront of the discipline. These include:

1) Circuit design for IC implementation.
2) High speed analogue circuit design techniques.
3) RF analogue front-end design and system integration.
4) RF measurement techniques.
5) Real time instrumentation.
6) Measurement and test strategies.

1) The content of two comprehensive formal reports detailing two different pieces of in-course work. They will present work carried out during supervised laboratory sessions and will use a range of diverse tools to demonstrate that the module experimental work has been carried out satisfactorily and that appropriate conclusions have been drawn. This will assess aspects of learning outcomes 1, 2, 4 and 5. The total mark allocated for these two pieces of coursework is 50%.

2) A 2 hour written examination at the end of the module. The total mark allocated for this examination is 50%. This will assess aspects of learning outcomes 1-5.

Analogue Filter Design, M E Van Valenburg, HRW, ISBN: 483380913, 1982
The Art of Simulation Using PSPICE, B M Al-Hashami, CRC Press, ISBN: 0849378958, 1995
RF Technologies for Low-Power Wireless Communications, Tatsuo Itoh, et al., Wiley, ISBN: 0471382671, Sept 2001
RF Circuit Design, Christopher Bowick, Newnes, March 1997, ISBN: 0750699469