Entry requirements

PC-Board Construction with ECAD-tools. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student should be able to

• handle production and testing of smaller electronic designs,
• assess how to fulfil disturbance and reflection restrictions on signal lines between components on a printed circuit board (PCB).

Content

Exercises:

Using simulation program (SPICE type), Network analyser and Oscilloscope where cross-talk "ringing", transmission times, skew etc.etera is measured to give deeper understanding about the influence from line-drawings and different termination methods for single and differential lines.

Production and testing:

Be involved in the production phase with placement of components using so called dispenser. Soldering of components using simple methods (soldering iron) and more elaborate with oven. Unsoldering with simpler method (soldering iron) and special heater and vacuum- suction tool. Finally testing of a design using logic-analyser and oscilloscope and eventually using programs on a PC.

Instruction

Lectures, laboratory exercises and computer exercises.

Assessment

Construction and tests of PC-boards and extended EMC-exercise . Optional written examination.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the disability coordinator of the university.

Other directives

The course cannot be included in a degree together with 1TE748 Design of Wireless Interfaces for Embedded Systems.