Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory

Learning objectives
The course aims to provide students with skills in the realization of simple electrical circuits and in their characterization with professional Electronic Instrumentation. After reviewing the operating principles of passive and active components, many electronic circuits will be studied, realized and characterized by using arbitrary waveform generators, digital oscilloscopes, and digital multi-meters.

At the end of the course, students will be able to
1. Properly use Electronic Instrumentation, including digital oscilloscopes, arbitrary waveform generators, and digital multi-meters
2. Analyze and characterize voltage/current dividers, and RC/RL/RLC circuits
3. Describe and derive the impedance of passive components and component networks
4. Use operational amplifiers (opamps) and understand their principal specifications
5. Derive the transfer function of a simple electronic circuit and describe the physical meaning of its poles
6. Design and characterize inverting/non-inverting negative-feedback amplifiers based on opamps, as well as measure their bandwidth
7. Describe and realize positive-feedback amplifiers (Schmitt triggers), and their applications in analog and digital circuits
8. Describe and realize basic digital and analog circuits able to implement simple logical-mathematical relations