Course coordinator: Professor Andres Cuevas

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Welcome to ENGN2211Electronic Circuits Devices

• Course coordinator Professor Andres Cuevas
• Andres.Cuevas_at_anu.edu.au
• 6125 3702
• Ian Ross Bldg R227
• http//engnet.anu.edu.au/DEcourses/engn2211/
• Tutors Dr Pietro Altermatt, Evan Franklin,
• Anindita Saha, Jaunty Ho
• Laboratory Manager Mr Padma Chakma

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Summary/assessment

• 8 Computer Lab/Tutorials (8 x 2 hour sessions)
• 8 Hardware Labs (8 x 2.5 hour sessions)
• No Lab reports/assignments to hand in
• Lab/Tut preparation/participation/completion
  marks, 30
• 2 written tests, 30
• Final exam, 40

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Computer Labs/Tutorials

• 4 CLAB groups
• CLAB-G1 Mon 9-11 CHEM G51B (building 34)
• CLAB-G2 Tue 9-11 COP G025
• CLAB-G3 Wed 9-11 COP G025
• CLAB-G4 Thu 9-11 CHEM G51B

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Hardware Labs

• 4 HLAB groups
• HLAB-G1 Tue 2-4.30
• HLAB-G2 Wed 2-4.30
• HLAB-G3 Thu 2-4.30
• HLAB-G4 Fri 2-4.30
• Ian Ross R103

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Why study electronics?
Electronic and electrical systems, both analog
and digital, are pervasive in the modern world.

• EGN2211 Electronic Circuits and Devices is
  integral part of several Engineering Majors
• Telecommunications
• Electronics
• Robotics
• Sustainable Energies

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What is an electronic system? Examples?
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Electricity (Oxford Dictionary)

• In early use, the distinctive property of
  electric bodies, like amber, glass, etc., i.e.,
  their power when excited by friction to attract
  light bodies placed near them also, the state of
  excitation produced in such bodies by friction.
• Subsequently the name was given to the cause of
  this phenomenon and of many others which were
  discovered to be of common origin with it, e.g.
  the electric spark, lightning, the galvanic
  current, etc.
• Franklin considered electric phenomena to be due
  to a subtle fluid diffused through all bodies,
  the excess of which above its normal quantity
  constituted positive electricity, and its
  deficiency below the normal quantity negative
  electricity but he also used electricity as a
  name for the fluid itself.

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Electronics (Oxford Dictionary)

• That branch of physics and technology which is
  concerned with the study and application of
  phenomena associated with the movement of
  electrons in a vacuum, a gas, a semi-conductor,
  etc., as in thermionic valves, X-ray tubes, etc.

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Electronics

• Electronics, in the strictest sense, is the
  science and technology of the motion of charges
  in a gas, vacuum or semiconductor. Note that
  charge motion confined to a metal is not
  considered electronics. (J. Millman and A.
  Grabel, Microelectronics, McGraw-Hill, 1988).
• Electronics is an art, a combination of a few
  basic laws, rules of thumb, and a big bag full of
  tricks (P. Horowitz and W. Hill, The Art of
  Electronics)

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering

• According to Millman and Grabel
• Electrical engineering energy processing
  devices, circuits and systems used for the
  generation, distribution and conversion of
  electric energy
• Electronic engineering information processing
  systems to communicate with each other,
  manipulate vast quantities of data, automate
  complex manufacturing processes. It comprises the
  4 Cs communication, computation, control and
  components.

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How would you analyse or design an electronic
system?
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First acquire a sound knowledge of the
basics theory computer simulations laboratory
practice
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This course will cover Circuit theory Analog
electronics Digital electronics