Course content

Electronic circuit elements: Passive circuits. Semiconductors. Active circuits, with amplifiers. Digital circuits. Laboratory in circuit techniques: Construction and testing of selected circuits. Computer laboratory: Simulation and testing of circuits with computer programs (PSpice).

Learning outcome

The course will prepare students to use and design electronic curcuits, primarily oriented towards measurements and solving measurement problems.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures and associated mandatory exercises. Mandatory laboratory exercises. Portfolio assessment is the basis for the grade in the course. The portfolio includes a final written exam (60%) and exercises (40%). The results for the parts are given in %-scores, while the entire portfolio is assigned passed or fail. A re-sit examination may be changed from written to oral.

Compulsory assignments

• Exercises

Recommended previous knowledge

The two first years of the program for physics and mathematics at NTNU, or equivalent.

Course materials

Electronics, A systems approach, Neil Storey, Pearson Education Limited 1998, 2006, ISBN 0-13-129396-6.