Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Electronics (17.E222A)

Native organizations units: Department of Power, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Electronics
ECTS	8

The course syllabus is divided between two topics. In the first part of this course, the objective is to teach students, who have no previous knowledge of electronics, to understand the phenomena which happen in semiconductor materials, the basic principles of semiconductor component operation and how these components are employed in the design and production of basic amplifier and digital electronic circuits which make the hardware component of modern computer systems. The second topic covers the basics of microcontroller architecture. The different ways of connecting various peripheral units to a microcontroller are studied in parallel with writing the software to support such interconnections (firmware).

Students who successfully complete the course and the prescribed assignments will be able to: - understand the basic principles of operation of semiconductors and semiconductor components, - demonstrate understanding of the basic principles of operation of amplifier circuits and signal conditioning circuits, - demonstrate understanding of the principles and parameters of digital electronic circuits, - connect a microcontroller to peripheral units within a simple embedded system, - write a firmware for such a system

Semiconductor phenomena and semiconductor components: diode, bipolar transistor, MOSFET, basic characteristics and operations. How basic electronic components are used. Fundamentals of integrated circuit technology. Fundamentals of amplifier circuits. Basic characteristics of digital signals and basics of logic circuit realization. Architecture, instruction set and memory organization of a typical microcontroller. Connecting peripherals to GPIO ports. Interrupts and timers. Serial communication.

Theoretical basics are taught at lectures by the course teacher. Auditory practice classes are used for illustration of the course material. At laboratory practice classes students use specially prepared models where they apply in practice their knowledge of design and measurement methods which they acquired at lectures and auditory practice classes.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Manuel Jiménez, Rogelio Palomera, Isidoro Couvertier	Introduction to Embedded Systems Using Microcontrollers and the MSP430	2014	Springer	English
Sedra, A. S., Kenneth C.	Microelectronic Circuits	2004	Oxford University Press, New York	English