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School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications
UNSW Engineering
ELEC2133
Analogue Electronics
Term 2, 2023
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Course Overview
Staff Contact Details
Convenors
Name Email Availability Location Phone
Aron Michael a.michael@unsw.edu.au Monday 4:00pm -
5:00pm ( online or
face to face) and
Friday
5:00pm-6:00pm
G17, 316 93855663
School Contact Information
Consultations: Lecturer consultation times will be advised during the first lecture.
You are welcome to email the tutor or laboratory demonstrator, who can answer
your questions on this course and can also provide you with consultation times.
ALL email enquiries should be made from your student email address with
ELEC/TELExxxx in the subject line; otherwise they will not be answered.
Keeping Informed: Announcements may be made during classes, via email (to
your student email address) and/or via online learning and teaching platforms – in
this course, we will use Moodle https://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au/login/index.php.
Please note that you will be deemed to have received this information, so you
should take careful note of all announcements.
Student Support Enquiries
For enrolment and progression enquiries please contact Student Services
Web
Electrical Engineering Homepage
Engineering Student Support Services
Engineering Industrial Training
UNSW Study Abroad and Exchange (for inbound students)
UNSW Future Students
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Phone
(+61 2) 9385 8500 – Nucleus Student Hub
(+61 2) 9385 7661 – Engineering Industrial Training
(+61 2) 9385 3179 – UNSW Study Abroad and UNSW Exchange (for inbound students)
Email
Engineering Student Support Services – current student enquiries
e.g. enrolment, progression, clash requests, course issues or program-related queries
Engineering Industrial Training – Industrial training questions
UNSW Study Abroad – study abroad student enquiries (for inbound students)
UNSW Exchange – student exchange enquiries (for inbound students)
UNSW Future Students – potential student enquiries
e.g. admissions, fees, programs, credit transfer
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Course Details
Units of Credit 6
Summary of the Course
Contact Hours
The course consists of a total of 4 hrs of lectures, a 1-hr of tutorial (odd week), a 2-hrs tutorial (even
week), and a 3-hrs laboratory each week. Lecture will begin in week 1. Tutorials will start in week 2.
Laboratory sessions will also start in week 2 for those students who are enrolled in the online lab slots
and be an hour-long remote lab trial, which are intended to familiarize students with the online remote
lab environment before the real laboratory sessions begin in week 3.
Syllabus
Device physics of diodes, BJTs and MOSFETs. Nonlinear transistor models: Ebers-Moll, transport. Full
and simplified models of BJTs and MOSFETs (inc. small-signal models). Zener and Schottky diodes. DC
biasing, biasing using current sources, operating point, large-signal analysis. Linearisation, small-signal
analysis. Input- and output impedances, power gain. Two-ports. Feed-back, effects of feed-back; stability
and compensation techniques. Circuits with non-ideal op-amps. Common base, emitter and collector
amplifiers; differential pairs. Multistage amplifiers, cascades, cascodes. AC response of 1-stage
amplifiers, Miller effect. Non-linear circuits: oscillator, Schmitt trigger. A-D and D-A converter principles.
Course Aims
Analogue circuits are integral parts of any electronic system. They are used to realize important signal
processing and conditioning functions such as amplification, comparison, waveform generation,
analogue to digital and digital to analogue conversions. Analogue circuits consist of active circuit
elements such as transistors and diodes in addition to resistors, capacitors, and inductors passive circuit
elements often in an integrated circuit form. In previous courses, students were introduced to circuit
analysis and synthesis techniques involving passive circuit elements. This course endeavours to build on
this knowledge and further expand students’ skill in analysing and designing analogue circuits involving
transistors and diodes. The first half of the course covers: (i) the basic principle operations and device
characteristics of diodes, Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT), and Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field
Effect Transistors (MOSFET) that underpin the analysis, design and implementation of analogue circuits;
(ii) multi-stage linear amplifiers, operational amplifiers, effects of feedback on the performance and
stability of amplifiers. The second half of the course deals with nonlinear circuits such as Schmitt
triggers, waveform generators, comparators, A/D, and D/A converters. Therefore, the aims of the course
are:
To develop skill and knowledge in analysis and design of analogue circuits such as amplifiers,
operational amplifiers, comparators, and wave form generators.
To introduce the basic principle operations, device and circuit characteristics of diodes and BJT
and MOSFET transistors.
To develop a more thorough understanding of why analogue circuits behave in a certain way and
how performances can be improved when feedback is applied.
To develop intuitive feel for circuit analysis and design.
To introduce various A/D and D/A conversion techniques and their limitations
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Course Learning Outcomes
After successfully completing this course, you should be able to:
Learning Outcome EA Stage 1 Competencies
1. Analyse and design operational amplifier-based analogue
electronic circuits.
PE1.1, PE1.2, PE1.3, PE1.5,
PE2.1, PE2.2
2. Apply the circuit models of transistors (BJT and MOSFET) in
the analysis and design of linear multistage amplifier circuits.
PE1.1, PE1.3, PE1.5, PE1.2,
PE2.2
3. Apply feedback concept in analyzing and improving
performances of linear amplifier circuits including stability and
frequency compensation techniques.
PE1.1, PE1.3, PE1.5, PE1.2,
PE2.1, PE2.2
4. Develop an understanding of non-linear amplifier circuits in
realizing waveform generators and oscillators.
PE1.1, PE1.2, PE1.3, PE1.5,
PE2.1, PE2.2
5. Describe the operation of and identify various types of D-A and
A-D converter circuits including analysis and designing
techniques.
PE1.1, PE1.5, PE3.2, PE1.2,
PE2.1, PE2.2
6. Implement and measure a range of analogue circuits including
operational amplifiers, multistage amplifiers and waveform
generators.
PE2.1, PE2.2, PE3.2, PE3.3,
PE3.4
This course is designed to provide the above learning outcomes which arise from targeted graduate
capabilities listed in below. The targeted graduate capabilities broadly support the UNSW and Faculty of
Engineering graduate capabilities (also listed below). This course also addresses the Engineers
Australia (National Accreditation Body) Stage I competency standard as outlined in Appendix.
Targeted Graduate Capabilities
Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications programs are designed to address the following targeted
capabilities which were developed by the school in conjunction with the requirements of professional and
industry bodies:
The ability to apply knowledge of basic science and fundamental technologies;
The skills to communicate effectively, not only with engineers but also with the wider community;
The capability to undertake challenging analysis and design problems and find optimal solutions;
Expertise in decomposing a problem into its constituent parts, and in defining the scope of each
part;
A working knowledge of how to locate required information and use information resources to their
maximum advantage;
Proficiency in developing and implementing project plans, investigating alternative solutions, and
critically evaluating differing strategies;
An understanding of the social, cultural and global responsibilities of the professional engineer;
The ability to work effectively as an individual or in a team;
An understanding of professional and ethical responsibilities;
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The ability to engage in lifelong independent and reflective learning
UNSW Graduate Capabilities
The course delivery methods and course content directly or indirectly addresses a number of core
UNSW graduate capabilities, as follows:
Developing scholars who have a deep understanding of their discipline, through lectures and
solution of analytical problems in tutorials and assessed by assignments and written
examinations.
Developing rigorous analysis, critique, and reflection, and ability to apply knowledge and skills to
solving problems. These will be achieved by the laboratory experiments and interactive
checkpoint assessments and lab exams during the labs.
Developing capable independent and collaborative enquiry, through a series of tutorials spanning
the duration of the course.
Developing independent, self-directed professionals who are enterprising, innovative, creative
and responsive to change, through challenging design and project tasks.
Developing citizens who can apply their discipline in other contexts, are culturally aware and
environmentally responsible, through interdisciplinary tasks, seminars and group activities
Teaching Strategies
Delivery Mode
The teaching in this course aims at establishing a good fundamental understanding of the areas covered
using:
Online lectures on MS Teams, which provide students with a focus on the core analytical material
in the course, together with qualitative, alternative explanations to aid your understanding. The
lectures will be recorded and available on MS Teams for the students to watch them at the time
and place of your convenience.
Face-to-face or online tutorials on MS Teams, which allow you to apply concepts introduced in
lecture in solving analytical and design-based problems.
Face-to-face or remote laboratory sessions on MS Teams, which support the formal lecture
material and provide you with Pspice circuit simulation, and measurement skills. Students will
have access to web-based oscilloscope, signal generator and multi-meter through MS Teams.
They will be able to perform measurement remotely and analyse the results which will give them
practical understanding of the theoretical concepts covered in the lectures.
Tutorial and summary videos, which support the formal tutorial and lecture sessions by allowing
students to revise recorded videos of complete tutorial problem solutions and summary of
important concepts in the course at the time and place of your convenience.
Online quizzes and stack questions, which allow students to assess themselves and get
feedback to support their self-direct learning and understanding of materials covered in the
course.
Learning in this course
You are expected to attend all the online lectures, tutorials and labs in order to maximize learning. You
must prepare well for your laboratory classes and your lab work will be assessed. In addition to the
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lecture notes/videos, you should read relevant sections of the recommended text. Reading additional
texts will further enhance your learning experience. Group learning is also encouraged. UNSW assumes
that self-directed study of this kind is undertaken in addition to attending online classes throughout the
course.
Lecture classes
The lectures form the core of this subject. Topics presented in lectures will generally be followed by
detailed examples to provide students with the real-life applications. Detailed explanations of the topics
will be available to students in the form of lecture slides, lecture videos and notes which will be uploaded
on Moodle and the prescribed textbook. The online lectures will be recorded and made available to
students to watch them.
Tutorial classes
The tutorial problems provide students with in-depth quantitative understanding of the topics covered in
lectures. The problems will be posted on Moodle prior to the tutorial classes. Students are encouraged to
attempt them before coming to the tutorial. Discussion forum for the tutorial problems will be made
available on Moodle for students to post their solutions and discuss. During the tutorial session, solutions
for the problems will be covered focusing on the challenges and issues raised by students in the
discussion forum. Since there will not be enough time to cover all problems during the tutorial class, the
tutorial will focus on selected problems and high-level discussion.
Laboratory program
The laboratory schedule is deliberately designed to provide practical exposure to the concepts conveyed
in lectures. The laboratories are running in hybrid: face-to face and online. Students will be able to
operate web-based instruments that are connected to the laboratory experiments remotely if they are
enrolled into the online sessions. There will be three laboratory experiments in the course, each of which
consisting of either two or three parts. The experiments are supported with detailed theoretical
background in addition to concepts introduced in lectures and design guidelines that they are required to
step through to complete preliminary preparatory problems. Students must attend the laboratory having
read the laboratory notes and completed the preliminary laboratory problems. Laboratory demonstrator
will mark the students’ preliminary preparatory solutions. They will not be marked and lose points if they
are attending the remote laboratory session without completing the preliminary preparatory design tasks.
Based on the design, the lab demonstrator will set up their designed circuit on the ELEC2133 PCB board
by simply plugging-in resistors and capacitors with the designed values. The students can then remotely
reconfigure the electrical connections and perform measurement. They will be able to monitor the
component values plugged onto the board remotely through remotely webconnected cam and will be
able to operate the laboratory equipment remotely as if they are working in the lab in-person. To help
them with monitoring the set up and conducting measurement, manuals have also been prepared for
them to refer in the laboratory manual.
Laboratory Exemption
There is no laboratory exemption for this course. Regardless of whether equivalent labs have been
completed in previous courses, all students enrolled in this course must take the labs. If, for medical
reasons, (note that a valid medical certificate must be provided) you are unable to attend a lab, you will
need to apply for a catch-up lab during another lab time, as agreed by the laboratory coordinator.
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Additional Course Information
COURSE DETAILS
Credits
This is a 6 UoC course and the expected workload is 15 hours per week throughout the 10-week term.
Relationship to Other Courses
This is a 2nd year course in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications. It is a core
course for students following a BE (Electrical) or (Telecommunications) program and other combined
degree programs. It is a pre-requisite course for ELEC3106, ELEC3117, and ELEC4603.
Pre-requisites and Assumed Knowledge
The pre-requisite for this course is ELEC2134, Circuits and Signals. It is essential that you are familiar
with fundamentals of circuit analysis techniques those concepts covered in ELEC1111 in addition to
advanced techniques introduced in ELEC2134 before this course is attempted. You are strongly advised
to revise those circuit analysis techniques from ELEC1111 and ELEC2134 in your own time to get
yourself ready for this course. It is also further assumed that you are familiar with use of laboratory
equipment such as oscilloscope, signal generator, power supply and multi-meters and have a good
computer literacy.
Following Courses
The course is a pre-requisite for ELEC3106 (Electronics), ELEC3117 (Electrical Engineering Design)
and ELEC4603 (Solid State Electronics).
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Assessment
Fortnightly quizzes
There will be fortnightly quizzes throughout the term. The purpose of the quizzes is to keep students up
to date with the lecture material and to test their basic understanding of the course concepts. The
fortnightly quizzes will not contribute to the overall mark. However, the quizzes are mandatory
component of the overall assessment and students must attempt all quizzes to pass this subject.
Moreover, for each quiz not attempted within the due date, you may lose one mark. Each quiz will
consist of a number of multiple-choice questions and will be marked according to the number of correct
answers. Each quiz will be available for a period of two weeks and the results per quiz will be published
at the end of the period.
The quizzes will be delivered through Moodle and will each be made available for a period of two weeks
from Saturday 9:00am to the following Saturday at the same time after which a new quiz will become
available. The first quiz will be released at end of week 1.
Practical projects
Practical projects are relatively challenging analogue electronics type projects that involve design,
simulation, implementation, and report tasks. Students who opt for this option can propose project(s) or
take up one of the projects which will be released early in week 2. The projects proposed by the students
need to be submitted by the end of week 1 on Moodle and must be approved by the course convener.
Once approved or signed up for one of the practical projects, students will have till week 10 to complete
the project and submit a report on the project. The report can be written document showing all the
design, analytical, simulation and implementation of the project. The report can also be submitted in the
form of recording video which may clearly cover all design, analytical and simulation and implementation
tasks. The key assessment criteria here is the connections students can make between their practical
work and the topics covered in the course. It assesses the application of knowledge acquired in the
course in executing the practical project. The maximum mark for the practical project will be capped to
20% depending on the quality of work undertaken. For example, students who go extra mile to design
and get PCB made will be given more marks as compared to those who implement their design on a
breadboard. Note that this is an individual project, and any form plagiarism would have serious
consequences. The students who would sign up for the practical projects can use the project mark to
replace any assessment in the course except the laboratory. For example, if a student receives the full
20% for the project, then they can request the final exam to weight only 35% or the assignment to weigh
0% and final exam 50%. Many other combinations are possible.
Assessment task Weight Due Date Course Learning
Outcomes Assessed
1. Assignment 15% Week 3, Week 9 1, 2, 3, 4
2. Laboratory assessment 25% Week 5, Week 8, Week 10 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
3. Midterm exam 10% Week 7 1, 2
4. Final exam 50% Not Applicable 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Assessment 1: Assignment
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Due date: Week 3, Week 9
The assignments, which will consist of analysis and design problems, form 15% of the overall mark.
There will be two assignments for this course. They will be released on Moodle at the end of week 1 and
6. The assignments are to be submitted online on Moodle and due at the end of week 3 and 9,
respectively. Late submission will attract a penalty of 5% per day (including weekends). The
assignments will consist of one or more analytical and design problems. Students are required to provide
a complete solution and expected to work independently and be able to justify any unique design
choices along the way.
Assessment 2: Laboratory assessment
Start date: Week 3
Due date: Week 5, Week 8, Week 10
The laboratory work will contribute to 25% of the overall mark. It is essential that you complete the
laboratory preparation before coming to the lab. Your laboratory preparation will be marked and
checked. Each lab exercise will have three checkpoints. Each checkpoint is expected to be completed in
one week or less. It will be marked and signed off by your dedicated laboratory demonstrators. Although
there is only one check point for each week, there are a number of results that you are required to
demonstrate when marked for the check point. Therefore, you are strongly advised to: (i) record results
in spaces provided in the laboratory manual; (ii) save the data plotted on the laboratory PC.
Demonstrators will be available to help students with any questions or difficulties.
Upon completion of a checkpoint, you will be required to fill in an online Microsoft form (the link of which
will be provided later) in which you can enter your details including bench numbers to be on the marking
queue sheet and wait for the laboratory assessor to mark your work. You may continue working on the
subsequent lab design tasks while waiting to be assessed. You will be required to show the
measurements you took and answer questions asked by the assessor to demonstrate your
understanding of the ideas addressed within each task. The marking guidelines are provided in the
laboratory manual.
There will be online prelab quizzes for the labs ( 2 for Lab I, 3 for Lab II and 1 for Lab III). The pre-lab
quizzes will have 20% weighting of the overall lab mark - 5% of the total course mark. So, it is important
that you come to the lab completing the preliminary problems, have read the lab manual and undertood
the lab.To support you with this, additional classes that focus on the content of the lab topics will be
organised by the course convenor on Teams and will be recorded. You are encouraged to attend those
extra classes in week 2, week 3, week 4, week 5 and week 8.
Students will work in pair but be marked individually. Each student will be asked a couple questions for
individual marking. There will also be a group mark for demonstrating the required lab tasks in pair.
Laboratory work is also another way for collecting bonus marks. How? (a) Every lab has pre-lab
simulation tasks. If you undertake the simulation task, you may collect a maximum of 1 bonus mark ( Lab
1 (2 bonus mark); Lab II (2 bonus mark) and Lab III ( 1 bonus mark)); (b) If you design and implement
PCB for lab II or III, then you will receive a maximum of 10 bonus marks. To help you with LTSpice and
PCB design, we will be running two workshops in week 1 or 2 on Teams. The workshop will be
recorded.
Your final lab mark will be L+ B1 + B2, where L is the lab mark (out of 25%), B1 is bonus mark for
LTSpice or PSpice simulations and B2 is bonus mark for PCB design,
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Assessment 3: Midterm exam
Start date: week 3
Due date: Week 7
The mid-term examination in this course is assignment type test (home take exam) based on a
challenging design problem that requires rigorous anaytical and simulations. Students will be given
sufficient time to work on the home take exam. It will contribute 10% to the overall mark in the course.
Assessment 4: Final exam
Assessment length: 2 hrs + 10 mins reading time
The final examination in this course is a standard closed-book 2-hour written examination, comprising
three compulsory questions. It is worth 50% of the overall mark. University approved calculators are
allowed. The examination tests analytical and critical thinking and general understanding of the course
material in a controlled fashion. Questions may be drawn from any aspect of the
course (including laboratory), unless specifically indicated otherwise by the lecturer. Marks will be
assigned according to the correctness of the responses. Please note that you must pass the final
exam in order to pass the course.
Although the final exam has a weighting of 50%, this weighting may reduce depending on the bonus
marks collected. The final weighting of the final exam is calculated as (1 - B/50), where B = B1 + B2 + B3
+B4. B1 is bonus mark from lab simulation tasks (5%); B2 is bonus mark from PCB desig (10%)n; B3 is
bonus mark from fortnightly quizzes (5%); and B4 is bonus mark from practical projects (15%). The
maximum bonus mark that may be collected in the course is 35%, which will bring the final exam
contribution to 25%.
The final result for the course will be calculated as 0.25L + 0.15A +0.1 M + B + (1-B/50)F, where L is
laboratory mark (scaled to 100), A is assignment mark for assignment I and II ( scaled to 100), M is the
midterm exam (scaled to 100), B is the total bonus mark and calculated as B1+B2 +B3 +B4 ( see above
for B1, B2 , B3 and B4).
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Attendance Requirements
Students are strongly encouraged to attend all classes and review lecture recordings.
Course Schedule
Indicative Lecture Schedule
Period Summary of Lecture Program
Week 1
Introduction and revision (recorded video)
Operational amplifiers
Assignment I released, Fortnightly quiz 1 -
released
Week 2
Semiconductor Devices for Electronics
LTspice and PCB design workshops (a separate
online session to introduce you to the tools)
Lab I theory explained (a separate online
session to give extra support with lab I
concepts and will be recorded)
Week 3
Transistor Amplifieres (BJT and MOSFET): DC and
small signal
Assignment I due, Fortnightly quiz 1 due
Midterm released, Fortnightly quiz 2 - released
Week 4 Frequency Response of Amplifiers
Week 5
Feedback in Amplifiers (Part I)
Fortnightly quiz 2 due, Fortnightly quiz 3 -
released
Week 6 Flexibility Week
Week 7
Feedback in Amplifiers (Part II)
Midterm due, Fortnightly quiz 3 due
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Period Summary of Lecture Program
Assignment II released, Fortnightly quiz 4 -
released
Week 8 Stability and Compensation in Feedback amplifiers
Week 9
Non-linear Circuits - Waveform generation
Fortnightly quiz 4 due, Fortnightly quiz 5 -
released
Week 10
Digital-analogue interface
Assignment II due
Indicative Tutorial Schedule
Period Summary of Tutorial Program
Week 2 Revision - circuit analysis for analogue electronics
(Tut 0)
Week 3 Operational amplifiers (Tut 1)
Week 4 Transistor amplifiers - DC and small signal (Tut 2)
Week 5 BJT Transistor amplifiers - Frequency response
(Tut 3)
Week 6 Extra tutorial to help with midterm on-line
session and recorded
Week 7 MOSFET Transistor amplifiers - Frequency
response (Tut 3A)
Week 8 Feedbacl amplifiers (Tut 4)
Week 9 Feedback amplifiers (Tut 4)
Week 10
Waveform generators, DAC and ADC (Tut 5)
Extra tutorial to help with final exam on-line
session and recorded
Indicative Laboratory Schedule
Period Summary of Laboratory Program
Week 3
Lab I: Operational amplifier - Design (should be
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Period Summary of Laboratory Program
finished outside lab)
Lab I: Operational amplifier - Gain and frequency
response.
Week 4
Lab I: Operational amplifier - Frequency
compensation
Lab II theory explained (a separate online
session to give extra support with lab II
concepts and will be recorded)
Week 5
Lab II : Two stage amplifier - Design
Week 6
Catch up lab
Lab II theory explained (a separate online
session to give extra support with lab II
concepts and will be recorded)
Week 7 Lab II: Feedback amplifier (open loop) - gain,
bandwidth, input impedance, and output
impedance.
Week 8
Lab II: Feedback amplifier: two stage amplifiers
(close-loop): gain, bandwidth, input impendance
and output impedance with various feedbacl
factors.
Lab III theory explained (a separate online
session to give extra support with lab III
concepts and will be recorded)
Week 9 Lab III: Waveform generators -Schmitt Trigger
Week 10 Lab III: Waveform generators - VCO
View class timetable
Timetable
Date Type Content
Week 3: 12 June - 16
June
Assessment Assignment
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Week 5: 26 June - 30
June
Assessment Laboratory assessment
Week 7: 10 July - 14
July
Assessment Midterm exam
Week 8: 17 July - 21
July
Assessment Laboratory assessment
Week 9: 24 July - 28
July
Assessment Assignment
Week 10: 31 July - 4
August
Assessment Laboratory assessment
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Resources
Prescribed Resources
On-line resources
Moodle
The course web page is hosted on the UNSW’s Moodle server, which can be accessed at:
https://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au/login/index.php. All lectures, tutorial, lab, video and any other notes will
be available on this page, as well as access to the fortnightly quizzes, student marks, and official course
announcements. It is a requirement of the course that students check this page for new announcements
on a daily basis.
MS Teams
The course has MS Teams group for lecture, tutorial and laboratory. The group
name is CLS-ELEC2133_T2_2023. All lecture videos will be recorded and made available on this
Teams group for students to watch them at time and place of their convenience. The MS Teams
group will also be used to make announcements and students are required to check messages on daily
basis.
ED Forum
The course wil also use ED forum for all discussions in the course.
Textbooks
Prescribed textbook
Sedra & Smith, Microelectronic Circuits, 8th ed, Oxford University Press, 2011
Richard C. Jaeger, Microelectronic Circuit Design, 6th Edition.
Recommended Resources
Reference books
Millman & Grabel, Microelectronics, McGraw Hill, 2nded., NY
Burns & Bond, Principles of Electronic Circuits, PWS, 2nd ed, 1997
Higgins, Electronics with digital and Analog Integrated Circuits, 1983.
Bogart, Electronic Devices and Circuits, 3rd ed, Merril, 1993.
Horowitz & Hull, The Art of Electronics, 2nd ed, Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Course Evaluation and Development
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This course is under constant revision in order to improve the learning outcomes for all students. Please
forward any feedback (positive or negative) on the course to the course convener or via the Course and
Teaching Evaluation and Improvement Process. You can also provide feedback to ELSOC who will raise
your concerns at student focus group meetings. As a result of previous feedback obtained for this course
and in our efforts to provide a rich and meaningful learning experience, we have continued to evaluate
and modify our delivery and assessment methods. The following modifications are incorporated into the
course
The course has gone through Digital uplift. The purpose of the digital uplift is to enhance student
experience in the course and support student learning. The uplift includes
Computer typed tutorial solutions: the previous tutorial solutions were hand-written, and
they were problems with legibility. There were also errors in the solutions. These
problems are now addressed in the new computer typed solutions.
Recorded tutorial solution videos: the benefit of tutorials has been reiterated strongly by
students. With 1 hour of tutorial, it is often not possible to cover all tutorial problems. In
order to address both the benefit of tutorial and coverage of tutorial problems, the tutorial
solutions are now video recorded as they are being solved to provide additional virtual
tutorial experience. Moreover, students will be able to watch the tutorial videos at their
time of convenience.
Recorded summary videos: summary videos for each tutorial topic have been recorded.
Students can watch those videos before coming to tutorial or attempting tutorial problems.
In addition to supporting tutorial, the summary video will also help students with quick
revision on important concepts in the course. Students are strongly advised to watch
these videos (summary and tutorial videos) to get themselves ready exams in a short
time possible.
Animations: In order to better illustrate the operational principle of diodes, BJT transistors,
MOSFETs, Schmitt trigger and waveform generators, a number of animations have been
created. Most of the animations are interactive and allow students to change parameters
and variables to observe effect in a system.
Online assignment and reflection submission: in previous year assignment and reflection
submissions were made in person by handing over a hard copy. This year, assignments
and reflections will be submitted online on the Moodle web page of the course.
Peer assessment (marking): assignment marking will be peer based this year. Each
assignment submission will be randomly allocated to three students and each student will
be allocated to mark three submissions. Peer assessment allows students to learn from
the assessment experience as it requires them to first understand the problem and its
solution and then apply it when marking. It will also allow them to learn from other peers
and more importantly allow them to reflect on their submission from their peer’s point of
view.
STACK questions: the questions will allow students to have the same problem but with
different parameters and variables and thus conduct individual assessment. Students will
be able to solve large problem in step-by-step manner and thus facilitate self-direct study.
Remote laboratory: Laboratory will be conducted remotely through Microsoft Teams.
Students will be given access to laboratory PC which is interfaced to web-based
measurement equipment (oscilloscope, signal generator, multimeter) that are in turn
connected to the laboratory experiments which are already implemented on the
ELEC2133 PCB platform. The platform is especially designed to allow designed
components to be easily plugged in and circuits to be reconfigured using jumpers. Once
students provide their design values to the lab demo. The lab demo will set-up the
desired circuit by simply plugging in those values on the board and give the students
remote control to the laboratory PC through Microsoft Teams so that they can perform
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measurements.
Laboratory Workshop Information
Tutorial classes
Complete worked out solutions in the forms of text and videos will be uploaded on Moodle after the
tutorial so that students can go through them at their time of convenience. To further support the tutorial,
summary videos on important concepts related to materials covered in each tutorial have been prepared
and will be made available before the tutorial. Students can watch the summary video before attempting
the tutorial problems. They can also use the videos for quick revision on important topics to prepare
themselves for formative and summative assessments in the course. The importance of adequate
preparation prior to each tutorial cannot be overemphasized, as the effectiveness and usefulness of the
tutorial depends to a large extent on this preparation.
Laboratory program
Regular laboratory sessions will run from week 3 to week 10 every week. To help students familiarize
with the remote lab environment and settings, there will be a trial laboratory session in week 2.
Laboratory attendance WILL be kept, and you MUST attend at least 80% of the labs in order to pass
the course.
The laboratory manual will be printed, bound and made available for sale from UNSW book store. All
data and marks will be recorded in spaces provided in the laboratory manual. The student will marked
and signed off for each check point.
Laboratory Exemption
There is no laboratory exemption for this course. Regardless of whether equivalent labs have been
completed in previous courses, all students enrolled in this course must take the labs. If, for medical
reasons, (note that a valid medical certificate must be provided) you are unable to attend a lab, you will
need to apply for a catch-up lab during another lab time, as agreed by the laboratory coordinator.
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Academic Honesty and Plagiarism
Academic Honesty and Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the unacknowledged use of other people’s work, including the copying of assignment works
and laboratory results from other students. Plagiarism is considered a form of academic misconduct, and
the University has very strict rules that include some severe penalties. For UNSW policies, penalties and
information to help you avoid plagiarism, see https://student.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism. To find out if you
understand plagiarism correctly, try this short quiz: https://student.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism-quiz.
General Conduct and Behaviour
Consideration and respect for the needs of your fellow students and teaching staff is an expectation.
Conduct which unduly disrupts or interferes with a class is not acceptable and students may be asked to
leave the class.
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Academic Information
COVID19 - Important Health Related Notice
Your health and the health of those in your class is critically important. You must stay at home if you are
sick or have been advised to self-isolate by NSW health or government authorities. You will not be
penalised for missing a face-to-face activity due to illness or a requirement to self-isolate. We will
work with you to ensure continuity of learning during your isolation and have plans in place for you to
catch up on any content or learning activities you may miss. Where this might not be possible, an
application for fee remission may be discussed.
If you are required to self-isolate and/or need emotional or financial support, please contact the Nucleus:
Student Hub. If you are unable to complete an assessment, or attend a class with an attendance or
participation requirement, please let your teacher know and apply for special consideration through the
Special Consideration portal. To advise the University of a positive COVID-19 test result or if you
suspect you have COVID-19 and are being tested, please fill in this form.
UNSW requires all staff and students to follow NSW Health advice. Any failure to act in accordance with
that advice may amount to a breach of the Student Code of Conduct. Please refer to the Safe Return to
Campus guide for students for more information on safe practices.
Dates to note
Important Dates available at: https://student.unsw.edu.au/dates
Student Responsibilities and Conduct
Students are expected to be familiar with and adhere to all UNSW policies (see
https://student.unsw.edu.au/policy), and particular attention is drawn to the following:
Workload
It is expected that you will spend at least 15 hours per week studying a 6 UoC course, from Week 1
until the final assessment, including both formal classes and independent, self-directed study. In periods
where you need to complete assignments or prepare for examinations, the workload may be greater.
Over-commitment has been a common source of failure for many students. You should take the required
workload into account when planning how to balance study with employment and other activities.
Attendance
Regular and punctual attendance at all classes is expected. UNSW regulations state that if students
attend less than 80% of scheduled classes they may be refused final assessment.
Work Health and Safety
UNSW policy requires each person to work safely and responsibly, in order to avoid personal injury and
to protect the safety of others.
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Special Consideration and Supplementary Examinations
You must submit all assignments and attend all examinations scheduled for your course. You can apply
for special consideration when illness or other circumstances beyond your control interfere with an
assessment performance. If you need to submit an application for special consideration for an exam or
assessment, you must submit the application prior to the start of the exam or before the assessment is
submitted, except where illness or misadventure prevent you from doing so. Be aware of the “fit to
sit/submit” rule which means that if you sit an exam or submit an assignment, you are declaring yourself
well enough to do so and cannot later apply for Special Consideration. For more information and how to
apply, see https://student.unsw.edu.au/special-consideration.
Administrative Matters
On issues and procedures regarding such matters as special needs, equity and diversity, occupational
health and safety, enrolment, rights, and general expectations of students, please refer to the School
and UNSW policies:
https://student.unsw.edu.au/guide
https://www.unsw.edu.au/engineering/our-schools/electrical-engineering-telecommunications/student-
life/resources
Disclaimer
This Course Outline sets out description of classes at the date the Course Outline is published. The
nature of classes may change during the Term after the Course Outline is published. Moodle should be
consulted for the up-to-date class descriptions. If there is any inconsistency in the description of activities
between the University timetable and the Course Outline (as updated in Moodle), the description in the
Course Outline/Moodle applies.
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Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge the Bedegal people who are the traditional custodians of the lands on which UNSW
Kensington campus is located.
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Appendix: Engineers Australia (EA) Professional Engineer Competency
Standard
Program Intended Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and skill base
PE1.1 Comprehensive, theory based understanding of the underpinning natural and
physical sciences and the engineering fundamentals applicable to the engineering discipline
✔
PE1.2 Conceptual understanding of the mathematics, numerical analysis, statistics, and
computer and information sciences which underpin the engineering discipline
✔
PE1.3 In-depth understanding of specialist bodies of knowledge within the engineering
discipline
✔
PE1.4 Discernment of knowledge development and research directions within the
engineering discipline
PE1.5 Knowledge of engineering design practice and contextual factors impacting the
engineering discipline
✔
PE1.6 Understanding of the scope, principles, norms, accountabilities and bounds of
sustainable engineering practice in the specific discipline
Engineering application ability
PE2.1 Application of established engineering methods to complex engineering problem
solving
✔
PE2.2 Fluent application of engineering techniques, tools and resources ✔
PE2.3 Application of systematic engineering synthesis and design processes
PE2.4 Application of systematic approaches to the conduct and management of engineering
projects
Professional and personal attributes
PE3.1 Ethical conduct and professional accountability
PE3.2 Effective oral and written communication in professional and lay domains ✔
PE3.3 Creative, innovative and pro-active demeanour ✔
PE3.4 Professional use and management of information ✔
PE3.5 Orderly management of self, and professional conduct
PE3.6 Effective team membership and team leadership
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ELEC2133
Analogue Electronics
Term 2, 2023
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Course Overview
Staff Contact Details
Convenors
Name Email Availability Location Phone
Aron Michael a.michael@unsw.edu.au Monday 4:00pm -
5:00pm ( online or
face to face) and
Friday
5:00pm-6:00pm
G17, 316 93855663
School Contact Information
Consultations: Lecturer consultation times will be advised during the first lecture.
You are welcome to email the tutor or laboratory demonstrator, who can answer
your questions on this course and can also provide you with consultation times.
ALL email enquiries should be made from your student email address with
ELEC/TELExxxx in the subject line; otherwise they will not be answered.
Keeping Informed: Announcements may be made during classes, via email (to
your student email address) and/or via online learning and teaching platforms – in
this course, we will use Moodle https://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au/login/index.php.
Please note that you will be deemed to have received this information, so you
should take careful note of all announcements.
Student Support Enquiries
For enrolment and progression enquiries please contact Student Services
Web
Electrical Engineering Homepage
Engineering Student Support Services
Engineering Industrial Training
UNSW Study Abroad and Exchange (for inbound students)
UNSW Future Students
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Phone
(+61 2) 9385 8500 – Nucleus Student Hub
(+61 2) 9385 7661 – Engineering Industrial Training
(+61 2) 9385 3179 – UNSW Study Abroad and UNSW Exchange (for inbound students)
Engineering Student Support Services – current student enquiries
e.g. enrolment, progression, clash requests, course issues or program-related queries
Engineering Industrial Training – Industrial training questions
UNSW Study Abroad – study abroad student enquiries (for inbound students)
UNSW Exchange – student exchange enquiries (for inbound students)
UNSW Future Students – potential student enquiries
e.g. admissions, fees, programs, credit transfer
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Course Details
Units of Credit 6
Summary of the Course
Contact Hours
The course consists of a total of 4 hrs of lectures, a 1-hr of tutorial (odd week), a 2-hrs tutorial (even
week), and a 3-hrs laboratory each week. Lecture will begin in week 1. Tutorials will start in week 2.
Laboratory sessions will also start in week 2 for those students who are enrolled in the online lab slots
and be an hour-long remote lab trial, which are intended to familiarize students with the online remote
lab environment before the real laboratory sessions begin in week 3.
Syllabus
Device physics of diodes, BJTs and MOSFETs. Nonlinear transistor models: Ebers-Moll, transport. Full
and simplified models of BJTs and MOSFETs (inc. small-signal models). Zener and Schottky diodes. DC
biasing, biasing using current sources, operating point, large-signal analysis. Linearisation, small-signal
analysis. Input- and output impedances, power gain. Two-ports. Feed-back, effects of feed-back; stability
and compensation techniques. Circuits with non-ideal op-amps. Common base, emitter and collector
amplifiers; differential pairs. Multistage amplifiers, cascades, cascodes. AC response of 1-stage
amplifiers, Miller effect. Non-linear circuits: oscillator, Schmitt trigger. A-D and D-A converter principles.
Course Aims
Analogue circuits are integral parts of any electronic system. They are used to realize important signal
processing and conditioning functions such as amplification, comparison, waveform generation,
analogue to digital and digital to analogue conversions. Analogue circuits consist of active circuit
elements such as transistors and diodes in addition to resistors, capacitors, and inductors passive circuit
elements often in an integrated circuit form. In previous courses, students were introduced to circuit
analysis and synthesis techniques involving passive circuit elements. This course endeavours to build on
this knowledge and further expand students’ skill in analysing and designing analogue circuits involving
transistors and diodes. The first half of the course covers: (i) the basic principle operations and device
characteristics of diodes, Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT), and Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field
Effect Transistors (MOSFET) that underpin the analysis, design and implementation of analogue circuits;
(ii) multi-stage linear amplifiers, operational amplifiers, effects of feedback on the performance and
stability of amplifiers. The second half of the course deals with nonlinear circuits such as Schmitt
triggers, waveform generators, comparators, A/D, and D/A converters. Therefore, the aims of the course
are:
To develop skill and knowledge in analysis and design of analogue circuits such as amplifiers,
operational amplifiers, comparators, and wave form generators.
To introduce the basic principle operations, device and circuit characteristics of diodes and BJT
and MOSFET transistors.
To develop a more thorough understanding of why analogue circuits behave in a certain way and
how performances can be improved when feedback is applied.
To develop intuitive feel for circuit analysis and design.
To introduce various A/D and D/A conversion techniques and their limitations
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Course Learning Outcomes
After successfully completing this course, you should be able to:
Learning Outcome EA Stage 1 Competencies
1. Analyse and design operational amplifier-based analogue
electronic circuits.
PE1.1, PE1.2, PE1.3, PE1.5,
PE2.1, PE2.2
2. Apply the circuit models of transistors (BJT and MOSFET) in
the analysis and design of linear multistage amplifier circuits.
PE1.1, PE1.3, PE1.5, PE1.2,
PE2.2
3. Apply feedback concept in analyzing and improving
performances of linear amplifier circuits including stability and
frequency compensation techniques.
PE1.1, PE1.3, PE1.5, PE1.2,
PE2.1, PE2.2
4. Develop an understanding of non-linear amplifier circuits in
realizing waveform generators and oscillators.
PE1.1, PE1.2, PE1.3, PE1.5,
PE2.1, PE2.2
5. Describe the operation of and identify various types of D-A and
A-D converter circuits including analysis and designing
techniques.
PE1.1, PE1.5, PE3.2, PE1.2,
PE2.1, PE2.2
6. Implement and measure a range of analogue circuits including
operational amplifiers, multistage amplifiers and waveform
generators.
PE2.1, PE2.2, PE3.2, PE3.3,
PE3.4
This course is designed to provide the above learning outcomes which arise from targeted graduate
capabilities listed in below. The targeted graduate capabilities broadly support the UNSW and Faculty of
Engineering graduate capabilities (also listed below). This course also addresses the Engineers
Australia (National Accreditation Body) Stage I competency standard as outlined in Appendix.
Targeted Graduate Capabilities
Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications programs are designed to address the following targeted
capabilities which were developed by the school in conjunction with the requirements of professional and
industry bodies:
The ability to apply knowledge of basic science and fundamental technologies;
The skills to communicate effectively, not only with engineers but also with the wider community;
The capability to undertake challenging analysis and design problems and find optimal solutions;
Expertise in decomposing a problem into its constituent parts, and in defining the scope of each
part;
A working knowledge of how to locate required information and use information resources to their
maximum advantage;
Proficiency in developing and implementing project plans, investigating alternative solutions, and
critically evaluating differing strategies;
An understanding of the social, cultural and global responsibilities of the professional engineer;
The ability to work effectively as an individual or in a team;
An understanding of professional and ethical responsibilities;
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The ability to engage in lifelong independent and reflective learning
UNSW Graduate Capabilities
The course delivery methods and course content directly or indirectly addresses a number of core
UNSW graduate capabilities, as follows:
Developing scholars who have a deep understanding of their discipline, through lectures and
solution of analytical problems in tutorials and assessed by assignments and written
examinations.
Developing rigorous analysis, critique, and reflection, and ability to apply knowledge and skills to
solving problems. These will be achieved by the laboratory experiments and interactive
checkpoint assessments and lab exams during the labs.
Developing capable independent and collaborative enquiry, through a series of tutorials spanning
the duration of the course.
Developing independent, self-directed professionals who are enterprising, innovative, creative
and responsive to change, through challenging design and project tasks.
Developing citizens who can apply their discipline in other contexts, are culturally aware and
environmentally responsible, through interdisciplinary tasks, seminars and group activities
Teaching Strategies
Delivery Mode
The teaching in this course aims at establishing a good fundamental understanding of the areas covered
using:
Online lectures on MS Teams, which provide students with a focus on the core analytical material
in the course, together with qualitative, alternative explanations to aid your understanding. The
lectures will be recorded and available on MS Teams for the students to watch them at the time
and place of your convenience.
Face-to-face or online tutorials on MS Teams, which allow you to apply concepts introduced in
lecture in solving analytical and design-based problems.
Face-to-face or remote laboratory sessions on MS Teams, which support the formal lecture
material and provide you with Pspice circuit simulation, and measurement skills. Students will
have access to web-based oscilloscope, signal generator and multi-meter through MS Teams.
They will be able to perform measurement remotely and analyse the results which will give them
practical understanding of the theoretical concepts covered in the lectures.
Tutorial and summary videos, which support the formal tutorial and lecture sessions by allowing
students to revise recorded videos of complete tutorial problem solutions and summary of
important concepts in the course at the time and place of your convenience.
Online quizzes and stack questions, which allow students to assess themselves and get
feedback to support their self-direct learning and understanding of materials covered in the
course.
Learning in this course
You are expected to attend all the online lectures, tutorials and labs in order to maximize learning. You
must prepare well for your laboratory classes and your lab work will be assessed. In addition to the
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lecture notes/videos, you should read relevant sections of the recommended text. Reading additional
texts will further enhance your learning experience. Group learning is also encouraged. UNSW assumes
that self-directed study of this kind is undertaken in addition to attending online classes throughout the
course.
Lecture classes
The lectures form the core of this subject. Topics presented in lectures will generally be followed by
detailed examples to provide students with the real-life applications. Detailed explanations of the topics
will be available to students in the form of lecture slides, lecture videos and notes which will be uploaded
on Moodle and the prescribed textbook. The online lectures will be recorded and made available to
students to watch them.
Tutorial classes
The tutorial problems provide students with in-depth quantitative understanding of the topics covered in
lectures. The problems will be posted on Moodle prior to the tutorial classes. Students are encouraged to
attempt them before coming to the tutorial. Discussion forum for the tutorial problems will be made
available on Moodle for students to post their solutions and discuss. During the tutorial session, solutions
for the problems will be covered focusing on the challenges and issues raised by students in the
discussion forum. Since there will not be enough time to cover all problems during the tutorial class, the
tutorial will focus on selected problems and high-level discussion.
Laboratory program
The laboratory schedule is deliberately designed to provide practical exposure to the concepts conveyed
in lectures. The laboratories are running in hybrid: face-to face and online. Students will be able to
operate web-based instruments that are connected to the laboratory experiments remotely if they are
enrolled into the online sessions. There will be three laboratory experiments in the course, each of which
consisting of either two or three parts. The experiments are supported with detailed theoretical
background in addition to concepts introduced in lectures and design guidelines that they are required to
step through to complete preliminary preparatory problems. Students must attend the laboratory having
read the laboratory notes and completed the preliminary laboratory problems. Laboratory demonstrator
will mark the students’ preliminary preparatory solutions. They will not be marked and lose points if they
are attending the remote laboratory session without completing the preliminary preparatory design tasks.
Based on the design, the lab demonstrator will set up their designed circuit on the ELEC2133 PCB board
by simply plugging-in resistors and capacitors with the designed values. The students can then remotely
reconfigure the electrical connections and perform measurement. They will be able to monitor the
component values plugged onto the board remotely through remotely webconnected cam and will be
able to operate the laboratory equipment remotely as if they are working in the lab in-person. To help
them with monitoring the set up and conducting measurement, manuals have also been prepared for
them to refer in the laboratory manual.
Laboratory Exemption
There is no laboratory exemption for this course. Regardless of whether equivalent labs have been
completed in previous courses, all students enrolled in this course must take the labs. If, for medical
reasons, (note that a valid medical certificate must be provided) you are unable to attend a lab, you will
need to apply for a catch-up lab during another lab time, as agreed by the laboratory coordinator.
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Additional Course Information
COURSE DETAILS
Credits
This is a 6 UoC course and the expected workload is 15 hours per week throughout the 10-week term.
Relationship to Other Courses
This is a 2nd year course in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications. It is a core
course for students following a BE (Electrical) or (Telecommunications) program and other combined
degree programs. It is a pre-requisite course for ELEC3106, ELEC3117, and ELEC4603.
Pre-requisites and Assumed Knowledge
The pre-requisite for this course is ELEC2134, Circuits and Signals. It is essential that you are familiar
with fundamentals of circuit analysis techniques those concepts covered in ELEC1111 in addition to
advanced techniques introduced in ELEC2134 before this course is attempted. You are strongly advised
to revise those circuit analysis techniques from ELEC1111 and ELEC2134 in your own time to get
yourself ready for this course. It is also further assumed that you are familiar with use of laboratory
equipment such as oscilloscope, signal generator, power supply and multi-meters and have a good
computer literacy.
Following Courses
The course is a pre-requisite for ELEC3106 (Electronics), ELEC3117 (Electrical Engineering Design)
and ELEC4603 (Solid State Electronics).
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Assessment
Fortnightly quizzes
There will be fortnightly quizzes throughout the term. The purpose of the quizzes is to keep students up
to date with the lecture material and to test their basic understanding of the course concepts. The
fortnightly quizzes will not contribute to the overall mark. However, the quizzes are mandatory
component of the overall assessment and students must attempt all quizzes to pass this subject.
Moreover, for each quiz not attempted within the due date, you may lose one mark. Each quiz will
consist of a number of multiple-choice questions and will be marked according to the number of correct
answers. Each quiz will be available for a period of two weeks and the results per quiz will be published
at the end of the period.
The quizzes will be delivered through Moodle and will each be made available for a period of two weeks
from Saturday 9:00am to the following Saturday at the same time after which a new quiz will become
available. The first quiz will be released at end of week 1.
Practical projects
Practical projects are relatively challenging analogue electronics type projects that involve design,
simulation, implementation, and report tasks. Students who opt for this option can propose project(s) or
take up one of the projects which will be released early in week 2. The projects proposed by the students
need to be submitted by the end of week 1 on Moodle and must be approved by the course convener.
Once approved or signed up for one of the practical projects, students will have till week 10 to complete
the project and submit a report on the project. The report can be written document showing all the
design, analytical, simulation and implementation of the project. The report can also be submitted in the
form of recording video which may clearly cover all design, analytical and simulation and implementation
tasks. The key assessment criteria here is the connections students can make between their practical
work and the topics covered in the course. It assesses the application of knowledge acquired in the
course in executing the practical project. The maximum mark for the practical project will be capped to
20% depending on the quality of work undertaken. For example, students who go extra mile to design
and get PCB made will be given more marks as compared to those who implement their design on a
breadboard. Note that this is an individual project, and any form plagiarism would have serious
consequences. The students who would sign up for the practical projects can use the project mark to
replace any assessment in the course except the laboratory. For example, if a student receives the full
20% for the project, then they can request the final exam to weight only 35% or the assignment to weigh
0% and final exam 50%. Many other combinations are possible.
Assessment task Weight Due Date Course Learning
Outcomes Assessed
1. Assignment 15% Week 3, Week 9 1, 2, 3, 4
2. Laboratory assessment 25% Week 5, Week 8, Week 10 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
3. Midterm exam 10% Week 7 1, 2
4. Final exam 50% Not Applicable 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Assessment 1: Assignment
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Due date: Week 3, Week 9
The assignments, which will consist of analysis and design problems, form 15% of the overall mark.
There will be two assignments for this course. They will be released on Moodle at the end of week 1 and
6. The assignments are to be submitted online on Moodle and due at the end of week 3 and 9,
respectively. Late submission will attract a penalty of 5% per day (including weekends). The
assignments will consist of one or more analytical and design problems. Students are required to provide
a complete solution and expected to work independently and be able to justify any unique design
choices along the way.
Assessment 2: Laboratory assessment
Start date: Week 3
Due date: Week 5, Week 8, Week 10
The laboratory work will contribute to 25% of the overall mark. It is essential that you complete the
laboratory preparation before coming to the lab. Your laboratory preparation will be marked and
checked. Each lab exercise will have three checkpoints. Each checkpoint is expected to be completed in
one week or less. It will be marked and signed off by your dedicated laboratory demonstrators. Although
there is only one check point for each week, there are a number of results that you are required to
demonstrate when marked for the check point. Therefore, you are strongly advised to: (i) record results
in spaces provided in the laboratory manual; (ii) save the data plotted on the laboratory PC.
Demonstrators will be available to help students with any questions or difficulties.
Upon completion of a checkpoint, you will be required to fill in an online Microsoft form (the link of which
will be provided later) in which you can enter your details including bench numbers to be on the marking
queue sheet and wait for the laboratory assessor to mark your work. You may continue working on the
subsequent lab design tasks while waiting to be assessed. You will be required to show the
measurements you took and answer questions asked by the assessor to demonstrate your
understanding of the ideas addressed within each task. The marking guidelines are provided in the
laboratory manual.
There will be online prelab quizzes for the labs ( 2 for Lab I, 3 for Lab II and 1 for Lab III). The pre-lab
quizzes will have 20% weighting of the overall lab mark - 5% of the total course mark. So, it is important
that you come to the lab completing the preliminary problems, have read the lab manual and undertood
the lab.To support you with this, additional classes that focus on the content of the lab topics will be
organised by the course convenor on Teams and will be recorded. You are encouraged to attend those
extra classes in week 2, week 3, week 4, week 5 and week 8.
Students will work in pair but be marked individually. Each student will be asked a couple questions for
individual marking. There will also be a group mark for demonstrating the required lab tasks in pair.
Laboratory work is also another way for collecting bonus marks. How? (a) Every lab has pre-lab
simulation tasks. If you undertake the simulation task, you may collect a maximum of 1 bonus mark ( Lab
1 (2 bonus mark); Lab II (2 bonus mark) and Lab III ( 1 bonus mark)); (b) If you design and implement
PCB for lab II or III, then you will receive a maximum of 10 bonus marks. To help you with LTSpice and
PCB design, we will be running two workshops in week 1 or 2 on Teams. The workshop will be
recorded.
Your final lab mark will be L+ B1 + B2, where L is the lab mark (out of 25%), B1 is bonus mark for
LTSpice or PSpice simulations and B2 is bonus mark for PCB design,
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Assessment 3: Midterm exam
Start date: week 3
Due date: Week 7
The mid-term examination in this course is assignment type test (home take exam) based on a
challenging design problem that requires rigorous anaytical and simulations. Students will be given
sufficient time to work on the home take exam. It will contribute 10% to the overall mark in the course.
Assessment 4: Final exam
Assessment length: 2 hrs + 10 mins reading time
The final examination in this course is a standard closed-book 2-hour written examination, comprising
three compulsory questions. It is worth 50% of the overall mark. University approved calculators are
allowed. The examination tests analytical and critical thinking and general understanding of the course
material in a controlled fashion. Questions may be drawn from any aspect of the
course (including laboratory), unless specifically indicated otherwise by the lecturer. Marks will be
assigned according to the correctness of the responses. Please note that you must pass the final
exam in order to pass the course.
Although the final exam has a weighting of 50%, this weighting may reduce depending on the bonus
marks collected. The final weighting of the final exam is calculated as (1 - B/50), where B = B1 + B2 + B3
+B4. B1 is bonus mark from lab simulation tasks (5%); B2 is bonus mark from PCB desig (10%)n; B3 is
bonus mark from fortnightly quizzes (5%); and B4 is bonus mark from practical projects (15%). The
maximum bonus mark that may be collected in the course is 35%, which will bring the final exam
contribution to 25%.
The final result for the course will be calculated as 0.25L + 0.15A +0.1 M + B + (1-B/50)F, where L is
laboratory mark (scaled to 100), A is assignment mark for assignment I and II ( scaled to 100), M is the
midterm exam (scaled to 100), B is the total bonus mark and calculated as B1+B2 +B3 +B4 ( see above
for B1, B2 , B3 and B4).
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Attendance Requirements
Students are strongly encouraged to attend all classes and review lecture recordings.
Course Schedule
Indicative Lecture Schedule
Period Summary of Lecture Program
Week 1
Introduction and revision (recorded video)
Operational amplifiers
Assignment I released, Fortnightly quiz 1 -
released
Week 2
Semiconductor Devices for Electronics
LTspice and PCB design workshops (a separate
online session to introduce you to the tools)
Lab I theory explained (a separate online
session to give extra support with lab I
concepts and will be recorded)
Week 3
Transistor Amplifieres (BJT and MOSFET): DC and
small signal
Assignment I due, Fortnightly quiz 1 due
Midterm released, Fortnightly quiz 2 - released
Week 4 Frequency Response of Amplifiers
Week 5
Feedback in Amplifiers (Part I)
Fortnightly quiz 2 due, Fortnightly quiz 3 -
released
Week 6 Flexibility Week
Week 7
Feedback in Amplifiers (Part II)
Midterm due, Fortnightly quiz 3 due
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Period Summary of Lecture Program
Assignment II released, Fortnightly quiz 4 -
released
Week 8 Stability and Compensation in Feedback amplifiers
Week 9
Non-linear Circuits - Waveform generation
Fortnightly quiz 4 due, Fortnightly quiz 5 -
released
Week 10
Digital-analogue interface
Assignment II due
Indicative Tutorial Schedule
Period Summary of Tutorial Program
Week 2 Revision - circuit analysis for analogue electronics
(Tut 0)
Week 3 Operational amplifiers (Tut 1)
Week 4 Transistor amplifiers - DC and small signal (Tut 2)
Week 5 BJT Transistor amplifiers - Frequency response
(Tut 3)
Week 6 Extra tutorial to help with midterm on-line
session and recorded
Week 7 MOSFET Transistor amplifiers - Frequency
response (Tut 3A)
Week 8 Feedbacl amplifiers (Tut 4)
Week 9 Feedback amplifiers (Tut 4)
Week 10
Waveform generators, DAC and ADC (Tut 5)
Extra tutorial to help with final exam on-line
session and recorded
Indicative Laboratory Schedule
Period Summary of Laboratory Program
Week 3
Lab I: Operational amplifier - Design (should be
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Period Summary of Laboratory Program
finished outside lab)
Lab I: Operational amplifier - Gain and frequency
response.
Week 4
Lab I: Operational amplifier - Frequency
compensation
Lab II theory explained (a separate online
session to give extra support with lab II
concepts and will be recorded)
Week 5
Lab II : Two stage amplifier - Design
Week 6
Catch up lab
Lab II theory explained (a separate online
session to give extra support with lab II
concepts and will be recorded)
Week 7 Lab II: Feedback amplifier (open loop) - gain,
bandwidth, input impedance, and output
impedance.
Week 8
Lab II: Feedback amplifier: two stage amplifiers
(close-loop): gain, bandwidth, input impendance
and output impedance with various feedbacl
factors.
Lab III theory explained (a separate online
session to give extra support with lab III
concepts and will be recorded)
Week 9 Lab III: Waveform generators -Schmitt Trigger
Week 10 Lab III: Waveform generators - VCO
View class timetable
Timetable
Date Type Content
Week 3: 12 June - 16
June
Assessment Assignment
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Week 5: 26 June - 30
June
Assessment Laboratory assessment
Week 7: 10 July - 14
July
Assessment Midterm exam
Week 8: 17 July - 21
July
Assessment Laboratory assessment
Week 9: 24 July - 28
July
Assessment Assignment
Week 10: 31 July - 4
August
Assessment Laboratory assessment
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Resources
Prescribed Resources
On-line resources
Moodle
The course web page is hosted on the UNSW’s Moodle server, which can be accessed at:
https://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au/login/index.php. All lectures, tutorial, lab, video and any other notes will
be available on this page, as well as access to the fortnightly quizzes, student marks, and official course
announcements. It is a requirement of the course that students check this page for new announcements
on a daily basis.
MS Teams
The course has MS Teams group for lecture, tutorial and laboratory. The group
name is CLS-ELEC2133_T2_2023. All lecture videos will be recorded and made available on this
Teams group for students to watch them at time and place of their convenience. The MS Teams
group will also be used to make announcements and students are required to check messages on daily
basis.
ED Forum
The course wil also use ED forum for all discussions in the course.
Textbooks
Prescribed textbook
Sedra & Smith, Microelectronic Circuits, 8th ed, Oxford University Press, 2011
Richard C. Jaeger, Microelectronic Circuit Design, 6th Edition.
Recommended Resources
Reference books
Millman & Grabel, Microelectronics, McGraw Hill, 2nded., NY
Burns & Bond, Principles of Electronic Circuits, PWS, 2nd ed, 1997
Higgins, Electronics with digital and Analog Integrated Circuits, 1983.
Bogart, Electronic Devices and Circuits, 3rd ed, Merril, 1993.
Horowitz & Hull, The Art of Electronics, 2nd ed, Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Course Evaluation and Development
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This course is under constant revision in order to improve the learning outcomes for all students. Please
forward any feedback (positive or negative) on the course to the course convener or via the Course and
Teaching Evaluation and Improvement Process. You can also provide feedback to ELSOC who will raise
your concerns at student focus group meetings. As a result of previous feedback obtained for this course
and in our efforts to provide a rich and meaningful learning experience, we have continued to evaluate
and modify our delivery and assessment methods. The following modifications are incorporated into the
course
The course has gone through Digital uplift. The purpose of the digital uplift is to enhance student
experience in the course and support student learning. The uplift includes
Computer typed tutorial solutions: the previous tutorial solutions were hand-written, and
they were problems with legibility. There were also errors in the solutions. These
problems are now addressed in the new computer typed solutions.
Recorded tutorial solution videos: the benefit of tutorials has been reiterated strongly by
students. With 1 hour of tutorial, it is often not possible to cover all tutorial problems. In
order to address both the benefit of tutorial and coverage of tutorial problems, the tutorial
solutions are now video recorded as they are being solved to provide additional virtual
tutorial experience. Moreover, students will be able to watch the tutorial videos at their
time of convenience.
Recorded summary videos: summary videos for each tutorial topic have been recorded.
Students can watch those videos before coming to tutorial or attempting tutorial problems.
In addition to supporting tutorial, the summary video will also help students with quick
revision on important concepts in the course. Students are strongly advised to watch
these videos (summary and tutorial videos) to get themselves ready exams in a short
time possible.
Animations: In order to better illustrate the operational principle of diodes, BJT transistors,
MOSFETs, Schmitt trigger and waveform generators, a number of animations have been
created. Most of the animations are interactive and allow students to change parameters
and variables to observe effect in a system.
Online assignment and reflection submission: in previous year assignment and reflection
submissions were made in person by handing over a hard copy. This year, assignments
and reflections will be submitted online on the Moodle web page of the course.
Peer assessment (marking): assignment marking will be peer based this year. Each
assignment submission will be randomly allocated to three students and each student will
be allocated to mark three submissions. Peer assessment allows students to learn from
the assessment experience as it requires them to first understand the problem and its
solution and then apply it when marking. It will also allow them to learn from other peers
and more importantly allow them to reflect on their submission from their peer’s point of
view.
STACK questions: the questions will allow students to have the same problem but with
different parameters and variables and thus conduct individual assessment. Students will
be able to solve large problem in step-by-step manner and thus facilitate self-direct study.
Remote laboratory: Laboratory will be conducted remotely through Microsoft Teams.
Students will be given access to laboratory PC which is interfaced to web-based
measurement equipment (oscilloscope, signal generator, multimeter) that are in turn
connected to the laboratory experiments which are already implemented on the
ELEC2133 PCB platform. The platform is especially designed to allow designed
components to be easily plugged in and circuits to be reconfigured using jumpers. Once
students provide their design values to the lab demo. The lab demo will set-up the
desired circuit by simply plugging in those values on the board and give the students
remote control to the laboratory PC through Microsoft Teams so that they can perform
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measurements.
Laboratory Workshop Information
Tutorial classes
Complete worked out solutions in the forms of text and videos will be uploaded on Moodle after the
tutorial so that students can go through them at their time of convenience. To further support the tutorial,
summary videos on important concepts related to materials covered in each tutorial have been prepared
and will be made available before the tutorial. Students can watch the summary video before attempting
the tutorial problems. They can also use the videos for quick revision on important topics to prepare
themselves for formative and summative assessments in the course. The importance of adequate
preparation prior to each tutorial cannot be overemphasized, as the effectiveness and usefulness of the
tutorial depends to a large extent on this preparation.
Laboratory program
Regular laboratory sessions will run from week 3 to week 10 every week. To help students familiarize
with the remote lab environment and settings, there will be a trial laboratory session in week 2.
Laboratory attendance WILL be kept, and you MUST attend at least 80% of the labs in order to pass
the course.
The laboratory manual will be printed, bound and made available for sale from UNSW book store. All
data and marks will be recorded in spaces provided in the laboratory manual. The student will marked
and signed off for each check point.
Laboratory Exemption
There is no laboratory exemption for this course. Regardless of whether equivalent labs have been
completed in previous courses, all students enrolled in this course must take the labs. If, for medical
reasons, (note that a valid medical certificate must be provided) you are unable to attend a lab, you will
need to apply for a catch-up lab during another lab time, as agreed by the laboratory coordinator.
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Academic Honesty and Plagiarism
Academic Honesty and Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the unacknowledged use of other people’s work, including the copying of assignment works
and laboratory results from other students. Plagiarism is considered a form of academic misconduct, and
the University has very strict rules that include some severe penalties. For UNSW policies, penalties and
information to help you avoid plagiarism, see https://student.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism. To find out if you
understand plagiarism correctly, try this short quiz: https://student.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism-quiz.
General Conduct and Behaviour
Consideration and respect for the needs of your fellow students and teaching staff is an expectation.
Conduct which unduly disrupts or interferes with a class is not acceptable and students may be asked to
leave the class.
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Academic Information
COVID19 - Important Health Related Notice
Your health and the health of those in your class is critically important. You must stay at home if you are
sick or have been advised to self-isolate by NSW health or government authorities. You will not be
penalised for missing a face-to-face activity due to illness or a requirement to self-isolate. We will
work with you to ensure continuity of learning during your isolation and have plans in place for you to
catch up on any content or learning activities you may miss. Where this might not be possible, an
application for fee remission may be discussed.
If you are required to self-isolate and/or need emotional or financial support, please contact the Nucleus:
Student Hub. If you are unable to complete an assessment, or attend a class with an attendance or
participation requirement, please let your teacher know and apply for special consideration through the
Special Consideration portal. To advise the University of a positive COVID-19 test result or if you
suspect you have COVID-19 and are being tested, please fill in this form.
UNSW requires all staff and students to follow NSW Health advice. Any failure to act in accordance with
that advice may amount to a breach of the Student Code of Conduct. Please refer to the Safe Return to
Campus guide for students for more information on safe practices.
Dates to note
Important Dates available at: https://student.unsw.edu.au/dates
Student Responsibilities and Conduct
Students are expected to be familiar with and adhere to all UNSW policies (see
https://student.unsw.edu.au/policy), and particular attention is drawn to the following:
Workload
It is expected that you will spend at least 15 hours per week studying a 6 UoC course, from Week 1
until the final assessment, including both formal classes and independent, self-directed study. In periods
where you need to complete assignments or prepare for examinations, the workload may be greater.
Over-commitment has been a common source of failure for many students. You should take the required
workload into account when planning how to balance study with employment and other activities.
Attendance
Regular and punctual attendance at all classes is expected. UNSW regulations state that if students
attend less than 80% of scheduled classes they may be refused final assessment.
Work Health and Safety
UNSW policy requires each person to work safely and responsibly, in order to avoid personal injury and
to protect the safety of others.
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Special Consideration and Supplementary Examinations
You must submit all assignments and attend all examinations scheduled for your course. You can apply
for special consideration when illness or other circumstances beyond your control interfere with an
assessment performance. If you need to submit an application for special consideration for an exam or
assessment, you must submit the application prior to the start of the exam or before the assessment is
submitted, except where illness or misadventure prevent you from doing so. Be aware of the “fit to
sit/submit” rule which means that if you sit an exam or submit an assignment, you are declaring yourself
well enough to do so and cannot later apply for Special Consideration. For more information and how to
apply, see https://student.unsw.edu.au/special-consideration.
Administrative Matters
On issues and procedures regarding such matters as special needs, equity and diversity, occupational
health and safety, enrolment, rights, and general expectations of students, please refer to the School
and UNSW policies:
https://student.unsw.edu.au/guide
https://www.unsw.edu.au/engineering/our-schools/electrical-engineering-telecommunications/student-
life/resources
Disclaimer
This Course Outline sets out description of classes at the date the Course Outline is published. The
nature of classes may change during the Term after the Course Outline is published. Moodle should be
consulted for the up-to-date class descriptions. If there is any inconsistency in the description of activities
between the University timetable and the Course Outline (as updated in Moodle), the description in the
Course Outline/Moodle applies.
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Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge the Bedegal people who are the traditional custodians of the lands on which UNSW
Kensington campus is located.
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Appendix: Engineers Australia (EA) Professional Engineer Competency
Standard
Program Intended Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and skill base
PE1.1 Comprehensive, theory based understanding of the underpinning natural and
physical sciences and the engineering fundamentals applicable to the engineering discipline
✔
PE1.2 Conceptual understanding of the mathematics, numerical analysis, statistics, and
computer and information sciences which underpin the engineering discipline
✔
PE1.3 In-depth understanding of specialist bodies of knowledge within the engineering
discipline
✔
PE1.4 Discernment of knowledge development and research directions within the
engineering discipline
PE1.5 Knowledge of engineering design practice and contextual factors impacting the
engineering discipline
✔
PE1.6 Understanding of the scope, principles, norms, accountabilities and bounds of
sustainable engineering practice in the specific discipline
Engineering application ability
PE2.1 Application of established engineering methods to complex engineering problem
solving
✔
PE2.2 Fluent application of engineering techniques, tools and resources ✔
PE2.3 Application of systematic engineering synthesis and design processes
PE2.4 Application of systematic approaches to the conduct and management of engineering
projects
Professional and personal attributes
PE3.1 Ethical conduct and professional accountability
PE3.2 Effective oral and written communication in professional and lay domains ✔
PE3.3 Creative, innovative and pro-active demeanour ✔
PE3.4 Professional use and management of information ✔
PE3.5 Orderly management of self, and professional conduct
PE3.6 Effective team membership and team leadership
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