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General information

Subject type: Mandatory

Coordinator: Joan Triadó Aymerich

Trimester: First term

Credits: 4

Teaching staff: 

Adrian Arias Abreu

Academic year: 2025

Teaching course: 2

Languages ​​of instruction

  • Spanish

Classes are taught in Spanish. However, exams and practical reports can be written in Catalan or English. Public questions in the classroom, and private questions to the teacher, can also be asked in Catalan or English. There is material in Catalan and Spanish.

Competencies / Learning Outcomes

Specific skills

  • K11. Identify the fundamentals and components of electronics that are applied in the general operation of electronic circuits.

  • S10. Apply the principles of circuit theory and electrical machines in solving electrical circuits.

  • S12. Use the principles of electronic components and circuits.

  • S40. Detect the best sources of information according to their needs and use information technologies to share and generate information.

  • C15. Carry out the assigned work based on basic guidelines, deciding how much time to dedicate to each section, including personal contributions and expanding the sources of information indicated.

  • C27. Evaluate solutions in the field of industrial technical engineering from a gender perspective, also considering the inequalities derived from any other diversity existing in our society and being sensitive to this reality.

Presentation of the subject

Introduction to Electronics, based on the general structure of an electronic system at the block level.

As an example, the amplifier block is studied, which is the most important and common in electronic systems.

The components with which electronic systems are built are also presented, studying in more detail diodes, bipolar transistors and operational amplifiers.

This subject is based on the electrical systems subject. Other blocks and other components will be studied in later subjects.

Contents

1. Electronic systems.

Description

Signals and systems. Analog and digital quantities.

Block diagrams. Amplifiers and filters. Components.

Measurement systems and control systems.

Distortion and noise.

Technologies for electronic design.

Measurement, sensors and actuators.

Related activities

First partial test.

Exercise resolution.

Laboratory practices.

 

2. Components.

Description

Overview of electronic components.

Diodes. Zener diodes. Approximate models and calculation of circuits.

Graphic calculations with load lines.

Rectifying circuits. Voltage multiplier. AM demodulator. Cutting circuits. Protector of an inductive circuit.

Transistors. Characteristic curves.

Polarization circuits.

Amplifier circuits.

Voltage, current and power gains.

Input and output resistors.

Parameters h in small signal.

Related activities

First partial test.

Second partial test.

Exercise resolution.

Laboratory practices.

 

3. Amplifiers.

Description

Mechanical and electronic amplifiers.

Voltage, current and power gains.

Input and output resistors.

Equivalent circuit.

Impedance adaptation.

Frequency response. Bode diagrams. Bandwidth.

Signal to noise ratio.

Cascading amplifiers.

Operational amplifiers. Ideal model, Real parameters.

Negative feedback.

Amplifiers inverter, non-inverter, follower, adder, subtractor, differential, integrator, differentiator.

Positive feedback.

Related activities

Second partial test.

Exercise resolution.

Laboratory practices.

 

Activities and evaluation system

The final grade will be the weighted average of the grades of the assessable activities:

First partial test: 35%

Second partial test: 35%

Laboratory practices: 30%

Recovery exam: 70%

There will be a first partial test in the middle of the course and a second partial test at the end of the course.

For students who do not pass the assessment during the course, 30% of the internship grade will be maintained, and an overall retake exam will be held which will be worth 70% of the grade.

The make-up exam can be used to pass the subject with a final grade of 5, but not to obtain a grade higher than 5. Laboratory activities cannot be made up.

 

Important: 

Any form of academic fraud will be sanctioned in accordance with the regulations
evaluation of the center. In the event that signs of fraud are detected, including the improper use
of generative artificial intelligence tools, the subject's teachers will be able to
call the student for an individual interview with the aim of verifying
the authorship.

Bibliography

Basic

Electronics, principles and applications, 10th edition, Charles A. Schuler, McGraw Hill 2024

Marcos Faundez Zanuy. Subject transparencies [pdf], 2024 Tecnocampus

Storey. Electronics, from systems to components. Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-62572-5.

Complementary

Cogdell. Fundamentals of electronics. Pearson, 2000. ISBN 978-968-444-470-6.

Hambley. Electronics. Pearson, 2001. ISBN 84-205-2999-0.

Malvina. Principles of electronics. McGraw-Hill, 1994. ISBN 84-481-1999-1.

Quintáns Graña, Camilo "Simulation of electronic circuits with ORCAD PSPICE. 2nd Edition Editorial Marcombo 2022

Savant, Roden, Carpenter. Electronic design, circuits and systems. Addison-Wesley, 1992. ISBN 0-201-62925-9.