Department of Electrical & Electronic Eng.  (EEE)   BEng & MEng 2nd Year ELEC50001 Circuits and Systems (Oct - Dec 2025) Professor Peter Y. K. Cheung

Aims & Objectives

This module builds on the first-year modules relating to analogue and digital circuits, computer architecture, and programming, to teach students how to analyse and design electronic circuits with a system level perspective. The aim of this module is to provide students with the theoretical foundations, the design techniques and hands-on experiences of acquiring physical analogue signals, pre-processing them, converting into digital form, then process these in a digital programmable hardware on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Unlike last year's module on circuits, year students will learn to process signals that have noise and electronic hardware that are non-ideal.

• build working amplifer circuits with real-life op-amps
• analyse and predict behaviour of active filters
• explain limitations of op-amp from datasheets
• analyse the operation of synchronous digital systems
• synthesize a synchronous digital system to meet a specification
• determine the worst-case propagation delay of a combinational circuit
• evaluate the performance of A/D and D/A conversion circuits
• design arithmetic circuits to meet a specification and determine the propagation delay
• design of finite state machines
• design using Verilog HDL

This course is supported by 6 Laboratory Experiments based a Lab-in-a-Box to enable students to conduct all the experiments in-person and at home.

RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOKS

Practical Electronics for Inventors (~£30)

COURSE SCHEDULE AND CONTENTS

LECTURE NOTES 

Lecture 1 - Introduction to circuits & systems (notes)

Lecture 2 - Amplification and Single-Rail Op-amp (notes)

LAB INSTRUCTIONS (Group Pairing)

Lab 1- Amplification & Single-rail Op-Amp

PROBLEM SHEETS

Problem Sheet 1 (solutions)