Undergraduate Course: Electronics Project Laboratory 2C (ELEE08018)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering | 
College | College of Science and Engineering | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) | 
Availability | Available to all students | 
 
| SCQF Credits | 10 | 
ECTS Credits | 5 | 
 
 
| Summary | The students will design and analyse the analogue and digital 
sampling components for a speech digitiser circuit. 
 
The fundamental characteristics of the digital signal abstraction 
are investigated along with the properties of basic logic 
function gates. Using a progressive modular approach, simple 
arithmetic and control function hardware is constructed and its 
performance measured and analysed. 
 
The laboratory lays the foundation for measurement, analysis 
and interpretation of the performance of digital systems 
studied in later years. The content is directly linked to the 
course Digital System Design 2. | 
 
| Course description | 
    
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Information for Visiting Students 
| Pre-requisites | None | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1) 
  
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Quota:  None | 
 
| Course Start | 
Full Year | 
 
| Course Start Date | 
21/09/2015 | 
 
Timetable  | 
	
Timetable | 
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) | 
 
 Total Hours:
100
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 Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 60,
 Formative Assessment Hours 1,
 Summative Assessment Hours 10,
 Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
27 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) | 
 
  Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
0 %,
Practical Exam
100 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) | 
100% coursework | 
 
| Feedback | 
Not entered | 
 
| No Exam Information | 
 
Learning Outcomes 
    Be familiar with the design and testing of analogue electronic 
circuits. 
 
Understand the use of analogue-to-digital converters to sample 
analogue signals. 
 
Development of skill in the recording of laboratory 
investigations and the use of records in the inference of knowledge. 
 
Understanding of key features of the digital signal and its 
fundamental interactions with combinational and sequential 
gates. 
 
Understanding of the meaning and significance of worst-case 
performance specifications. 
 
Ability to measure and recognise circuit-level failures resulting 
from incorrect use of design constraints. 
 
Ability to diagnose abstraction-level design errors from analysis 
of circuit-level measurements. 
 
Appreciation of the significance of modularity and iterative 
structure in digital design. 
 
Appreciation of the significance of alternate abstraction-layer 
design choices on the physical properties of resulting 
hardware.
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Reading List 
Digital Design: An Embedded Systems Approach Using Verilog 
Peter J. Ashenden Morgan Kaufmann (Elsevier), 2008 
ISBN 978-0-12-369527-7 |   
 
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills | 
Not entered | 
 
| Keywords | Analogue Circuits, Sampling, Digital Logic, State Machine. | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Dr John Thompson 
Tel: (0131 6)50 5585 
Email: John.Thompson@ed.ac.uk | 
Course secretary | Miss Lucy Davie 
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687 
Email: Lucy.Davie@ed.ac.uk | 
   
 
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