ELEC6210
10 units
6000 level
Course handbook
Description
The construction of medical and industrial electronic products requires the ability to sense physical quantities, communicate signals, and generate stimuli for organisms and transducers, which are the main topics of this course. This course will introduce the principles required to build high resolution instrumentation systems for biomedical, industrial, and commercial applications. This includes electrochemical sensors, gas detection, pressure and flow rate sensors, and optical sensors. The principles for designing and analysing these circuits will be combined with practical skills for fabricating and testing these devices. Commonly used analogue circuit building blocks will be discussed, including high-order active filters, passive filters, biopotential amplifiers, and signal conditioning for data acquisition. To communicate between devices and measurement systems, the course will cover topics on isolation, serial data transmission, and RF circuit design. Drive and controller circuits will also be investigated for medical and industrial actuators such as valves, pumps, and small motors. A basic introduction to feedback control is provided to demonstrate the regulation of variables such as pressure, flow, and temperature. By the end of the course, students will be able to design and build industrial and medical electronic products that optimize a given set of design objectives, such as size, power requirements, accuracy, resolution, and cost.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Callaghan
- Semester 1 - 2024
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Design optimal analog interface circuits for physical sensors and devices.
2. Construct electronic systems that meet electrical and medical safety requirements.
3. Design power management circuits for low-power electronics.
4. Design safety critical communications links between devices and other systems.
Content
• Noise in electronic circuits, interference, and shielding
• Analogue amplifier and filter design, signal conditioning, data conversion
• RF electronics design principles, transmission lines, impedance matching
• Isolation, electrical and medical device safety
• Drive circuits, power management, battery management
Assumed knowledge
ELEC2430, ELEC3240
Assessment items
Project: Project
Report: Laboratory Reports
Written Assignment: Assignments
Contact hours
Semester 1 - 2024 - Callaghan
Laboratory-1
- Face to Face On Campus 3 hour(s) per week(s) for 10 week(s) starting in week 1
Lecture-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
- 2 separate session per week.
Lecture-2
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
- 2 separate session per week.
Course outline
- ELEC6210 - Semester 1, 2024 (Callaghan) (PDF, 338.2 KB)
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