Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Understand and interpret technical literature and data sheets.
- Undertake small-scale mechanical, electrical and/or electronic construction.
- Demonstrate familiarity with the advanced use of test and measurement equipment.
- Design integrated systems, combining both hardware and software systems, and appreciate problems that occur when hardware/software domains are combined.
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Analyse technologies and solutions considering technical aspects, commercial realities, social, ethical and legal obligations.
- Demonstrate an awareness of team structure and dynamics, together with an appreciation of individual roles and responsibilities working in different team sizes and structures.
- Present and explain both professional and technical work.
- Demonstrate continual recording and development of self-study and learning across a complex set of both general professional matters and specific technical information.
- Apply appropriate professional, ethical and legal practices to your work.
- Address problems associated with personal and group time management in a problem-solving environment.
- Write formal reports in a clear, technical style.
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- The problems associated with designing practical systems.
- Defining the specification of an artefact that needs to be designed, tested and commissioned.
- General design approaches and the processes involved in project management.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Develop a plan for the implementation of the design and the undertake those activities.
- Undertake an evaluation of the complete design and prepare a critical analysis.
- Analyse the design as it evolves, and deduce problems with the subsequent rectification.
- Appreciate the problems in dealing with uncertain and possibly ambiguous specifications.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Lecture | 24 |
Wider reading or practice | 26 |
Completion of assessment task | 50 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 20 |
Specialist Laboratory | 30 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Laboratory space and equipment required. IC fabrication facilities
Online documents. Lecture notes and details of assignments and assessment schemes will be provided on line.
Software requirements. The student version of Orcad/PSpice and LTSpice
Textbooks
Sedra A S & Smith K C (2004). Microelectronic Circuits. OUP.
Spencer R R & Ghausi M S (2003). Introduction to Electronic Circuit Design. Prentice Hall.
Lidwell W, Holden K and Butler J (2010). Universal Principles of Design. Rockport Publishers Inc.
Williams T (2005). The Circuit Designer's Companion. Newnes,.
Assessment
Assessment strategy
This module is assessed entirely by a combination of coursework exercises, presentations and reports, along with demonstrations. There is no referral opportunity for this module. There is no external repeat opportunity for this module.Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Design | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal