Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca
Facultatea de Matematică şi Informatică
Ciclul de studii: Licenţă
Domeniul: Informatică
Programul de studii: Informatică - în limba engleză
Limba de predare: Engleză

SYLLABUS

I. General data
Code	Subject	
MMF0002	Electronics	

Semester	Hours: C+S+L+P	Category	Status	
4	2+0+2+0	speciality	optional	

II. Full status faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Didactic	Department	Type of activity	
surname	title	title		C	S	L	
LIBAL Andras	Ph.D.	Lect.	Mathematics and Computer Science of the Hungarian Line	*			

Associated faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Institution	Type of	Type of activity	
surname	title		position	C	S	L	

III. Course objectives
The objective of the course is to introduce students to the world of electronics, and show them the basic building blocks of electrical and electronic circuitry. The course presents these devices, how they work, what they are used for, the most frequent problems found in electronics that are solved using these devices and the circuits and concepts used to solve them. After completing this course, a student should be able to understand how simple circuits work, recognize the building blocks present in the circuits and he or she should be capable of building a circuit from a circuit diagram either on a breadboard or with soldiering on a printed circuit board. The student will learn the basics and become familiar with the most frequently used solutions for standard problems in electronics, and in turn, this will enable him or her to develop towards hardware design and building. This course is a prerequisite course for the microcontrollers and the virtual instrumentation course that follow it.	

IV. Course contents
The course begins with the review of the basics from electricity and magnetism. The definitions for electric charge, electric current and electric resistance are given and then Ohm's law is presented, Kirchoff's laws, network analysis, Norton and Thevenin equivalences, capacitance and inductance, AC circuits (RL, RC, RLC), transients and resonance, and filter design is discussed. After this we study the p-n junction, diodes, transistors, amplifiers and operational amplifiers. We look into battery technology, current and voltage sources and stepper engines. We switch to digital electronics, oscillators, astable, bistable and monostable circuits, JK flip-flops, counter circuits and logical gates and sequential logical networks and registers. 	

V. Bibliography
1. Tony R. Kuphaldt: Lessons in Electric Circuits 
2. John Bird: Electrical Circuit Theory and Technology	

VI. Thematic of didactic activities per weeks
1. Basic concepts of electricity, Electric charge, electric current, insulators, semiconductors, conductors
2. Electric potential, energy, Resistors, Ohm’s law, electric measuring devices
3. Kirchoff’s laws, electric network analysis
4. Norton and Thevenin equivalences
5. Battery technology, current and voltage sources
6. Capacitors, Review of magnetism, Inductances, RC, RL circuits
7. Review of waves, AC circuits, RLC circuits, resonance, high frequency effects
8. Review of acoustics, electric signals, oscilloscope
9. Filters and electric signal processing
10. Electric transformers, stepper motors
11. Review of solid state physics, diode, transistor (from bipolar to MOSFET), optical elements in electric circuits (photodiode, photoresist) 
12. Operational amplifiers and applications
13. Operational amplifiers and applications
14. Counter and timer circuits	

VII. Didactic methods used
Presentation, quiz writing (every course, to facilitate continuous learning and understanding of the topics covered), individual laboratory exercises (emphasis on individual effort) 	

VIII. Assessment
60% on the activities during the year (quizzes, laboratory reports)
40% final exam (written, problem solving)	

IX. Additional references
1. Bezhad Razavi: Fundamentals of Microelectronics
2. Buzás Gábor, Simon Alpár: Az analóg és digitális elektronika alapai (in hungarian)	

	Dean,							Department head,

	Date,							Course responsible,
								Lect. LIBAL Andras, Ph.D.