GE1354Introduction to Electronic Design

What you will study

Course overview and aims

Since the invention of first electronic transistor in 1947, there is a tremendous development of electronic technology over the past 70 years. Nowadays, electronic technology has been penetrating almost every aspect of our life and creating huge impact in our community. A few examples are mobile phones, TV, and Octopus card which are all popular electronic products used by everyone. In fact, our ways of living are greatly influenced by these technologies. All these products consist of a key electronic component ‒ a tiny computer chip for executing all the desired functions of the devices or appliances. Attributed to the years of efforts by different scientists and engineers, these computer chips are now much faster, smaller, cheaper and easier for users even without much technical background. Regardless of your science or arts background, have you ever thought about building an electronic product to control a system or to measure signals such as heart pulses? In fact, there are endless ideas in applying these fascinating computer chips in project design relevant to your specific needs. The course teaches the basic electronic systems, signals and basic computing theory. The aim of this course is to develop students from different disciplines on their fundamental understanding of simple electronic systems, in order to allow students to turn their ideas into a simple design work, supplemented by lectures and hands-on training. At the final four weeks of the course, students from different majors will form multi-disciplinary project groups for exploring real problems and their possible electronic and computing design. Each project group will be provided with a low-cost and easy-to- use tiny computer board (unit) with some build-in features for sensing body movements, displaying texts and graphics, informing the environmental temperature, etc., that allow the students to realize their own functional products.

Keyword syllabus

Waves and Acoustic Waves: vibrations, simple harmonic motions, the relationship among wavelength, period, frequency and speed, interactions of two or more waves, the Doppler effect; Acoustic: amplitude and loudness, frequency and pitch, interference and beats, fundamental frequency and harmonics. Basic Signal Processing Introduction to Signals (e.g. heart pulses), time and frequency domains, bandwidth, noise and gain in dB, continuous-time and discrete-time signal, analogue to digital signal conversion, audio systems, basic difference equations, simple digital low pass filtering. Computation implementation Introduction to basic Python, implementation on simple microprocessor platform. Basics of Electronic Design Four weeks of laboratory work to implement a mini project, for example, voice filtering, heart pulse waveform measurement and walking steps measurement, using basic signal processing and electronic circuit techniques.

Official PDF, page 5 · Keyword Syllabus

Intended learning outcomes

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CILO	Intended learning outcome	Weight	DEC
1	Identify recent technology developments for modern electronic applications	—	DEC-A1
2	Describe the fundamental and basic principles of electronic systems and signal processing applications.	—	DEC-A1, DEC-A2, DEC-A3
3	Apply programming techniques and integrate electronic components and units for simple product design	—	DEC-A1, DEC-A2, DEC-A3
4	Demonstrate processes from design idea to product realization	—	DEC-A1, DEC-A2
5	Demonstrate presentation skills to describe design idea and product	—	DEC-A1, DEC-A2, DEC-A3

Official PDF, page 2 · Course Intended Learning Outcomes (CILOs)

Before you take this course

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Prerequisites

Nil

Precursors

Nil

Corequisites

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Additional course requirements

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Equivalent courses and conditions

EE1003 Introduction to Electronic Design and Workshop

Exclusive courses and conditions

Nil

Assessment and passing the course

Assessment

Continuous assessment: 50%; Examination: 50%; Examination duration: 2 hours

Assessment breakdown

Assessment task	Weight	Generative AI	Remarks and restrictions
Project: demo, presentation, report. laboratoriesCILO 1, 2, 3, 4, 5	20%	Yes	-
Tests (min.: 2) & quizzesCILO 1, 2, 3, 4	30%	No	-

Official PDF, page 3 · Assessment Tasks / Activities (ATs)

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Project: demo, presentation, report, laboratories | CILO No. 1,2,3,4,5 | 20% | - | Yes
Tests (min.: 2) & quizzes | CILO No. 1,2,3,4 | 30% | - | No

Passing requirements

Remark: To pass the course, 75% laboratory attendance rate must be obtained.