ENEL372-20S2 (C) Semester Two 2020

Power and Analogue Electronics

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 13 July 2020
End Date: Sunday, 8 November 2020
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 24 July 2020
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 25 September 2020

Description

Analogue electronics is necessary for signal sensing, amplification and filtering before digital techniques can be applied. Power electronics is necessary where efficient manipulation of electrical energy is required, for power supply, motion control and other applications. This course covers the basic principles of both analogue and digital electronic circuits, and the constraints that real components and devices place on these circuits. Emphasis is placed on circuit analysis and design skills.

In general semiconductor devices can be used in two ways – either in their linear operating regions, or as on/off switches. Instrumentation, amplification and filtering applications tend to use devices in their linear regions as amplifiers. In applications where high power or long battery life is necessary (or in digital systems), they are used as switches. Modern electronic circuits depend heavily on semiconductor switching-based power electronics for safety, stability and control, and on analogue electronics for sensing and signal conditioning.

This course aims to equip students with in depth knowledge and fundamental design and analysis skills relating to
• Power or switching circuit and component design, including dc to dc, dc to ac, and ac to dc conversion circuits.
• Linear electronic circuit design, including noise, instrumentation, amplification and filtering.

Topics covered:
Power Electronics
• PWM generation
• Buck, boost, buck-boost and fly-back converters
• Magnetics and energy recovery
• Forward converters
• Sinusoidal PWM
• Motion control
• Single and three phase rectifiers
• Brushless DC motor control

Analogue Electronics
• Noise
• OP-Amp circuit design
• Instrumentation amplifiers
• Filter Design
• A/D conversion

Learning Outcomes

  • At the end of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Understand  and analyse common dc and ac sourced power electronic circuits
  • Understand the use of inductors and capacitors in power electronic circuits
  • Understand and implement the basics of magnetic circuit design
  • Understand how real circuits and components differ from idealised circuits and components
  • Design a converter and motor control system
  • Understand sources of noise and interference
  • Understand design methods to minimise noise and interference
  • Determine analogue filter parameters and implement them in a circuit
  • Understand A/D converter operation.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

ENEL370 and ENEL371

Course Coordinator

Alan Wood

Lecturer

Christopher Hann

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Test 35%
Project Inspection 10%
Project Report 15%
Exam 40%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $975.00

International fee $5,500.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Electrical and Computer Engineering .

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