Electronics and Microcontroller Techniques (5 cr)

Objectives (course unit)

The student understands the importance of sustainable development when designing embedded systems for machine automation applications.
The student has a basic knowledge of analogue and digital electronics as well as micro-computers.
The student understands the significance of cost-effectiveness, quality and safety in the electronics design for automation systems.
The student is able to design and apply cost-effective and high quality embedded systems for simple machine automation applications
The student is able to take into account the safety aspects in electronics design.
The student is able to program a micro-computer for a typical machine automation application.

Content (course unit)

In the course, the main principles of cost-effective, high quality and safe electronics design for machine automation applications.
They learn the structure of embedded systems, main components, programming and applying to automation.

Analogue electronics: Resistor, capacitor, coil, diode, thyristor, operational amplifier, optocoupler, electrical drawings. Applying of analogue electronic circuits for machine automation applications e.g. amplifier circuits, filtering circuits, transistors in the control of electric motor.

Digital electronics: port circuits, latches, digital message, shift register, counters. Boolean algebra and Karnaugh map. The use of digital electronics as a logic circuit for automation applications.

The basic structure, use and programmin of micro-computers.
Simulation of electronic circuits.
Laboratory exercises.

Further information

Literature:
Vesa Volotinen: Analoginen elektroniikka.
Vesa Volotinen: Digitaalitekniikka, perusteet ja sovellukset.