EE 410/510 Electronic Instrumentation & Design M.

Safiuddin
Fall Semester 2010 314B Bonner Hall
e-mail: safium@buffalo.edu

TEXT BOOKS:
nd
Darold Wobschall; “Circuit Design for Electronic Instrumentation”; 2 Edition, McGraw-Hill Book
Company; 1987. [Available on CD from Great Lakes Graphics & Printing, UB Commons]
nd
Robert A. Witte; “Electronic Test Instruments”; 2 Edition; Prentice Hall PTR; 2002
G.W.A. Dummer, et.al; An Elementary Guide to Reliability, 5th edition, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997.

LECTURE TOPICS Dates Description

1. Design Fundamentals 08/31 & 02 Course Orientation, Product Design Process,

Instrumentation & Sensor Properties

2. Measurement Fundamentals: 09/07 & 14 Types of Measurements, International

Standards, Noise & Errors, Mathematical
Techniques, Product Design Specification
Preparation

3. Analog Circuits: 09/16 & 21 Op-Amp fundamentals, Active Filters, Multipliers,

Signal Conditioners

4. Digital Circuits: 09/23 & 28 Digital logic circuits, Timers, Pulse Shaping Circuits

5. Digital Signal Processors: 09/30 & 10/05 Microcontrollers, DSP Chips, ROMs & EPROMs

6. Signal Communications: 10/07 Communication Networks, Wireless

Communications
Examination 1 10/12

7. Input Interface Design I 10/14 & 19 Electro-mechanical Transducers, Isolated & Non-
isolated Interface Design Techniques

8. Input Interface Design II: 10/21 & 26 A/D Conversion, Sample-Hold Circuits, Signal
Multiplexing Techniques

9. Output Interface Design I: 11/02 & 04 D/A Conversion, LED/LCD Displays

10. Output Interface Design II: 11/09 & 11 Industry interface standards [IEEE, IEC, Modbus]

11. Power Supply & Packaging: 11/16 Power management, Environment protection

Examination 2 11/18

12. Design Review: 11/23 & 30 Design evaluation, MTBF Calculations

13. Design Presentations 12/02 & 07 Student project presentations

EE 410/510 Electronic Instrumentation & Design M. Safiuddin

A. Objectives:

• To introduce students to the principles and concepts employed in design of industrial

electronic instruments & sensors

• To teach the students "How to learn" to keep abreast of new developments in industry
standards and practices through current literature.

• To develop skills in students so that they are better equipped in the design of electronic
circuits and systems through Hands-on laboratory and bread-boarding experiences.

B. Required student activities:

• Twenty four class lecture sessions and five laboratory assignments

• One library tutorial with "hands-on" training for introduction to manual and computer based
literature search techniques.

• A team of 2 to 3 students for an electronic system design project.

C. Basis of grading:

• Homework and laboratory assignments....20%

• Examination I ..................... 15%

• Examination II .................. 15%

• Design Project & Presentation…… 50%

D. Summary Description

Design of electronic instruments, with emphasis on the use of integrated circuits, both analog
and digital. Topics include power supplies; signal conditioning, and active filters; frequency counters
and micro-controllers; measurement of temperature, displacement, light, and other physical
quantities. Individual or group projects required. The design project is demonstrated and a report is
written.