Foundation Level

Electronic Systems Thinking and Circuits

The course is intended to provide an insight into electronics systems that are commonly encountered in daily life centered around sense-compute-communicate. The course will begin with a tear down of a laptop and/ or a mobile phone and looking at the various components. The standout component on the board is the battery which naturally leads to an introduction to voltage and finite energy sources. The course will then go on to identify a couple of ICs on the board like the processor, the RF components all connected to the same power source, each drawing its own current which can be used to motivate the idea of KCL. Basic network analysis will be covered as part of the theory to go hand in hand with these topics. Simple experiments will be conducted on a breadboard to demonstrate the theory where applicable. The idea of a microprocessor and memory will be explained with the help of analogies in an abstract manner.

Taught by Prof. Sankaran Aniruddhan , Prof. Boby George , Prof. Janakiraman Viraraghavan

Code EE1101

Credits 4 Credits

Type Foundation

Prerequisites None

Core Competencies

What You'll Learn

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Perform basic network analysis and analyse circuits using KCL, KVL, Thevinin’s theorem, Norton’s theorem, Simplifying resistor and capacitor networks
Perform time domain analysis of first order RC networks
Explain the idea of microprocessor and a memory
Explain the idea of a program stored in a memory

12-Week Roadmap

Course Structure & Syllabus

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WEEK 1

Introduction,Miniaturization of electronic packaging,Mobile teardown,How small can a mobile phone get?,The battery,The charger,Back of the envelope calculations,The resistor,The Theory.

WEEK 2

Introduction to "Voltage",Introduction to "Current" and Ohms Law,Series and parallel connection of voltage and current sources,I-V characteristics of Resistors, voltage and current sources,Nodal Analysis and KCL,Mesh Analysis and KVL,Measurement of simple resistive circuit,Series and parallel connection of resistors,Introduction to capacitors, Introduction to inductors,Capacitance and Inductance measurement

WEEK 3

Dial, Talk and Hear,The Microphone,Motor and Generator,The Sinusoid,Energy of time varying signals,Harmonics,Electricity consumption at home

WEEK 4

Problem Solving - Getting Started,Problem Solving - Lower and upper bounds ,Problem Solving - More Complex Problems,Problem Solving - Resistive Ladder,Problem Solving - Wheatstone's bridge,Problem Solving - Resistive Cube

Reading List

Prescribed Books & References

William Hayt, Jack Kemerly, and Steven Durbin. Engineering Circuit Analysis. 8th ed. McGraw Hill Education Pvt. Ltd: Mc Graw Hill Education; August 2013. a. Chapters 1-5 b. Chapters 7-8
Digital Logic and Computer Design, M. Mano, 2004 a. Chapter 1
Horowitz P Hill W. The Art of Electronics. 2nd ed. Cambridge England: Cambridge University Press; 1989. Note: Laboratory manual will be provided for the SPICE Lab.

Faculty & Experts

About the Instructors

Prof. Sankaran Aniruddhan

Associate Professor , Department of Electrical Engineering , IIT Madras

Faculty Webpage

Dr Sankaran Aniruddhan is Associate Professor in the VLSI group of the department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He obtained his B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras in 2000, and Ph.D. degree from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2006. Between 2006 and 2011, he worked in the RF-Analog group at Qualcomm Inc., San Diego where he designed integrated circuits for Cellular RF applications. His research primarily focuses on CMOS RF Integrated Circuits for Wireless Communications.

Prof. Boby George

Professor , Department of Electrical Engineering , IIT Madras

LinkedIn Faculty Webpage

Dr. Boby George received the M. Tech. and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras. He is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras. His research areas include Sensor Interface Electronics, Electric and Magnetic field Based Sensors and their Applications, Sensor Systems for Water Quality and Quantity Monitoring, and Biomedical Instrumentation. He also serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

Other Courses by Instructor:

EE3103 • Sensors and Applications EE3104 • Electromagnetic Fields and Transmission Lines

Prof. Janakiraman Viraraghavan

Assistant Professor , Department of Electrical Engineering , IIT Madras

Faculty Webpage

Prof. Janakiraman Viraraghavan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras and is part of the Integrated Circuits and Systems (iCS) group. His research interests include porting machine-learning algorithms on to hardware and statistical analysis in VLSI. He also has a keen interest in Microprocessors and Programming in general.

Other Courses by Instructor:

EE2103 • Digital System Design

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