Unit 1 Operational Amplifier Fundamentals

6 lecture hours

• Circuits With Resistive Feedback
• Static Op Amp Limitations
• Dynamic Op-Amp Limitations

Unit 2 Active filters

6 lecture hours

• The transfer function
• first-order active filters
• audio filter applications
• standard second-order responses
• KRC filters
• multiple-feedback filters
• filter approximations
• cascade design
• generalized impedance converters
• direct design
• the switched capacitor
• the switched-capacitor filters

Unit 3 Instrumentation and Medical Isolation Amplifiers

6 lecture hours

• Instrumentation Amps
• Medical Isolation Amps
• Safety Standards in Medical Electronic Amplifiers
• Medical-Grade Power Supplies
• Electrical safety issues in medical devices

Unit 4 Noise and the Design of Low-Noise Amplifiers for Biomedical

6 lecture hours

• Applications: Noise Properties
• Noise Dynamics
• Sources of Noise
• Propagation of Noise through LTI Filters
• Noise Factor and Figure of Amplifiers
• Noise in Differential Amplifiers
• Effect of Feedback on Noise
• Examples of Noise-Limited Resolution of Certain Signal Conditioning Systems
• Low-Noise Amplifiers
• The Art of Low-Noise Signal Conditioning System Design

Unit 5 Special Analog Circuits and Systems in Biomedical 10 20

• Instrumentation: The Phase-Sensitive Rectifier
• Phase Detectors
• Voltage and Current-Controlled Oscillators
• Phase-Locked Loops
• IC Thermometers
• Instrumentation Systems
• Voltage Comparators
• Sample-and-Hold Circuits
• V-F and F-V Converters
• Voltage References and Regulators

Unit 6 Digital Interfaces

8 lecture hours

• Aliasing and the Sampling Theorem
• Digital-to- Analog Converters (DACs)
• Hold Circuits
• Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs)
• Quantization Noise
• Modulation and Demodulation of Biomedical Signals