Skip to main content
Disciplines
Automotive Business IT + Informatics Construction + Real Estate Electrical Engineering + Electronics Energy + Sustainability Insurance + Risk Finance + Banking Management + Leadership Marketing + Sales Mechanical Engineering + Materials
Events
DE
EN
Books
Journals
Topic Page
Marketing
Start single access now
Access for companies
EXTENDED SEARCH
Log in
Top

2017 | Book

Fundamentals of Passive Circuit Analysis Read chapter Read first chapter

Electronics for Embedded Systems

Author: Ahmet Bindal

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Part of: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik"

Login to get access
insite
SEARCH

About this book

This book provides semester-length coverage of electronics for embedded systems, covering most common analog and digital circuit-related issues encountered while designing embedded system hardware. It is written for students and young professionals who have basic circuit theory background and want to learn more about passive circuits, diode and bipolar transistor circuits, the state-of-the-art CMOS logic family and its interface with older logic families such as TTL, sensors and sensor physics, operational amplifier circuits to condition sensor signals, data converters and various circuits used in electro-mechanical device control in embedded systems. The book also provides numerous hardware design examples by integrating the topics learned in earlier chapters. The last chapter extensively reviews the combinational and sequential logic design principles to be able to design the digital part of embedded system hardware.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Chapter 1. Fundamentals of Passive Circuit Analysis
Abstract
This chapter analyzes the first-order passive RC and RL circuits and the second-order passive RLC circuits encountered in all Printed Circuit Boards (PCB). The general understanding of passive circuits in time and frequency domains also establishes a vital background for more complex circuits that contain active elements such as diodes and transistors.
Ahmet Bindal
Chapter 2. Diode and Bipolar Transistor Circuits
Abstract
This chapter reviews rectifier diodes, light emitting diodes, Zener diodes and explains simple circuits incorporating them. The chapter also includes a complete review of bipolar transistors, circuit behavior and the conditions that lead to the bipolar transistor to operate in cut-off, active and saturation regions.
Ahmet Bindal
Chapter 3. MOS Transistors and CMOS Circuits
Abstract
The third chapter explains the N-channel and the P-channel MOS transistors, their current-voltage characteristics and CMOS gates. It explains the proper circuit design techniques that lead to transistor sizing to meet design requirements prior to simulation. The estimation of rise and fall times, rise and fall delays are also given in this chapter as a function of load capacitance or gate fan-out.
Ahmet Bindal
Chapter 4. TTL Logic and CMOS-TTL Interface
Abstract
This chapter starts with Transistor-Transistor-Logic (TTL), explains the circuit operation of a TTL inverter, TTL NAND and NOR gates, their logic levels and fan-out limit. However, the emphasis of this chapter is more about the CMOS-TTL interface and the various circuits used at the interface for successful logic translation.
Ahmet Bindal
Chapter 5. Physics of Sensors
Abstract
Sensors and preliminary sensor physics are discussed in this chapter. The most common sensors such as thermocouple, photo-diode and photo-detector, Hall-effect device and piezoelectric sensors are examined with examples.
Ahmet Bindal
Chapter 6. Operational Amplifiers and Circuits
Abstract
This chapter examines the operational amplifiers and low-frequency operation amplifier circuits used for sensor amplification and conditioning. Voltage and trans-resistance amplifiers, analog comparators, Schmitt triggers, square waveform generators are included in this chapter.
Ahmet Bindal
Chapter 7. Data Converters
Abstract
This chapter reviews the theory behind data converters such as analog-to-digital converters (ADC) and digital-to-analog converters (DAC). Many different types of ADC designs, such as flash, ramp and successive approximation are explained in this chapter with numerical examples. The weighted adder-type and ladder-type DAC designs are also shown in this chapter.
Ahmet Bindal
Chapter 8. Front-End Electronics for Embedded Systems
Abstract
This chapter combines most of the sensors studied in the previous chapters to explain the electromechanical control circuits. The usage of relay switch, opto-isolator, Hall-effect device, pulse-width-modulation (PWM) circuits to operate electromechanical devices, such as DC motors, are also discussed. In the last part of this chapter, several full-scale, front-end electronics projects are presented. In each project, sensor characteristics are discussed, signal conditioning stage is designed to clean up the amplified sensor signal to prepare the unit for analog-to-digital conversion, and finally a proper ADC is selected to interface with the microcontroller.
Ahmet Bindal
Chapter 9. Review of Combinational and Sequential Logic Circuits and Design
Abstract
In order to provide a reference material for all the past eight chapters, a brief review of combinational and sequential logic design principles is presented in this chapter. A complete design does not only contain a sensor, analog signal conditioning circuits and data converters. Combinational and sequential logic blocks, in the form of “glue logic”, support various parts of the analog data-path, and therefore they constitute the major part of the design. Some of the analog front-end projects presented at the end of chapter eight prove that both analog and digital components must be integrated in a design in order to achieve complete functionality. Therefore, a solid understanding in digital logic design becomes a requirement to be able to build the entire analog front-end electronics for a sensor array prior to interfacing with a microcontroller.
Ahmet Bindal
Backmatter
Metadata
Title
Electronics for Embedded Systems
Author
Ahmet Bindal
Copyright Year
2017
Electronic ISBN
978-3-319-39439-8
Print ISBN
978-3-319-39437-4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39439-8