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Courses Structured Electronic Design - 1
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    :description: Training courses and workshops analog electronics, design of application-specific amplifiers with operational amplifiers, with discrete components or in IC technology
    :keywords: Training courses, workshops, seminars, analog electronics, amplifiers, application of operational amplifiers, opamps, embedded systems, application-specific amplifier design, analog IC design, amplifier design

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    “High level (academic), very knowledgeable teacher, very useful, especially methodology.” Rob Fonville - NXP Semiconductors

    “Very good course. Interaction between teacher and students is very good.” Chen Chen - NXP Semiconductors

BSc-level 9-day introduction to structured electronic design. This course discusses the theory and the application of basic structured design techniques to the design of application-specific amplifiers with operational amplifiers, such as:

#. General-purpose low-noise, wide-band pre-amplifiers
#. Photo diode amplifiers
#. PSD amplifiers
#. High-performance audio pre-amplifiers
#. Active antennas
#. Low-noise buffers and level shifts
#. Sensor signal conditioning amplifiers
#. Charge amplifiers
#. ADC pre-amplifiers
#. DAC output amplifiers
#. etc.

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Intended for
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Designers with at least BSc in physics or electrical engineering:

#. Interested in structured design of analog electronics
#. Interested in the design of application-specific amplifiers
#. Designing signal-conditioning electronics in embedded systems
#. Designing analog integrated circuits

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Course material
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#. Free PDF course book `Structured Electronics Design - 3rd edition <https://textbooks.open.tudelft.nl/textbooks/catalog/book/62>`_
#. `SLiCAP <https://github.com/SLiCAP/SLiCAP_python>`_: a free Python based SYMBOLIC SPICE simulator for deriving and solving design equations. 
#. LTspice can be `downloaded and installed from here <https://www.analog.com/en/design-center/design-tools-and-calculators/ltspice-simulator.html>`_.

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Educational method
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At the beginning of the course, the application specification of an amplifier to be designed will be presented. 

Step-by-step design of this amplifier will be discussed during the course.

Motivation of the design steps, their underlying theory and application to other designs will be elucidated. 

Examples and exercises will help the participants to understand the design steps and their interaction.

At the end of the course, participants will receive an individual design assignment and present the results and the way in which they have been obtained.

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Enrollment
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Please mail anton@montagne.nl if you are interested.

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Detailed course information
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#. `What you will know at the end of this course <structuredDesign-1-EndTerms.html>`_