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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Course Overview

Circuit Analysis for Analog Designers Certification program is designed to cover the circuit analysis areas that a working analog designer needs to know. Aspiring analog designers are introduced to more complex concepts including inter-reciprocal networks, analog filters, and circuit noise analysis.

Transmission lines, distributed circuits, and the analysis of circuits with modest nonlinearities are all covered in detail in the Circuit Analysis for Analog Designers classes. 

All students get a Circuit Analysis for Analog Designers Certification from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) under the Swayam Initiative by the Government of India. 

The Highlights

  • Provided by IIT Madras
  • Online course
  • 12 weeks course
  • Shareable Certificate
  • Expert Lectures

Programme Offerings

  • video lectures
  • Study Materials

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 1000yesIIT Madras (IITM)

If you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam in person at any of the exam centers. The exam is optional for a fee of Rs. 1,000 and only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Circuit Analysis for Analog Designers Certification Fees

The Circuit Analysis for Analog Designers Certification Fees is nil. It's open to all interested candidates.

Description

Amount in INR

Course Fees

Free

Course Fees (with certification)

INR 1000/-


Eligibility Criteria

Educational Qualification

  • Candidates appearing or appeared for qualifying exams 
  • Open to all candidates having basic knowledge of engineering mathematics, signals and systems.

Certificate Qualifying Details

  • E-certificates will be issued to all such participants who have attended the program with minimum 90% attendance and only if the average assignment score is greater than or equal to 10/25 and the exam score is greater than or equal to 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the final score is greater than or equal to 40/100.

Work experience

  • Work Experience is not required to get enrolled in this certificate course.

What you will learn

Knowledge of electronics

Students enrolling for the Circuit Analysis for Analog Designers Certification Course learn the background of circuits such as signals usually beginning in analog form and it is important to understand the various tradeoffs of analog and digital signal representations. 

Circuit Analysis for Analog Designers Training is about creating a versatile designer who will be able to work in both analog and digital domains. Be a design engineer by learning more courses at Designing Engineering Certification Courses

After completion of this Circuit Analysis for Analog Designers Certification, the learning outcomes include:

  • Understand the basic working of communication system
  • Design a common source FET amplifier and its frequency response. 
  • Analysis of behavior of noise in an amplifier.
  • Design and analysis of negative feedback amplifiers 
  • Design and analysis of negative feedback oscillators.

Who it is for

There shall be good job opportunities for these roles below if the relevant students apply for Circuit Analysis for Analog Designers Online Course:


Admission Details

The admission for the certificate course in Circuit Analysis for Analog Designers Certification starts soon. Interested students are requested to enroll as soon as possible by following the steps mentioned below:

Step 1: Visit the official website

Step 2: Fill up the form on the website

Step 3: Upload all necessary documents

Step 4: Pay the required fee online (if applicable)

The Syllabus

  • Motivation for the topics covered in the course
  • Review of linearity and time-variance
  • Review of electrical network basics
  • Incidence matrix
  • Tellegen's theorem
  • Tellegen's theorem (cntd)
  • Its use to prove reciprocity in bilatera

  • Reciprocity in networks with controlled sources (contd)
  • Inter-reciprocal networks
  • Modified Nodal Analysis (MNA) formulation to write network equations

  • MNA formulation (contd)
  • MNA stamps of circuit elements
  • Reciprocity and inter-reciprocity revisited
  • Reciprocity and inter-reciprocity (contd)
  • The adjoint network
  • Introduction to analog filtering
  • the Butterworth approximation

  • Butterworth filters (continued)
  • Opamp-RC realization of filters
  • Biquadratic sections using opamp-RC integrators
  • frequency and impedance scaling

  • Cascade of biquads realization of high-order filters
  • Dynamic-range scaling 
  • Effect of non-ideal opamps on integrator behaviour
  • Q-enhancement in biquads due to finite opamp gain-bandwidth product

  • Transconductance-capacitance filters
  • Introduction to noise in electronic circuits
  • Noise in RLC circuits
  • Nyquist's theorem
  • Bode's Noise Theorem

  • Bode's noise theorem (contd)
  • Input referred noise sources in networks
  • Input-referred noise sources (contd) - equivalent noise voltage and current sources
  • Equivalent noise sources
  • Noise factor

  • Introduction to distributed networks
  • The ideal transmission line and Telegrapher's equations
  • Transmission line circuit analysis
  • The reflection coefficient
  • Open- and short-circuited lines

  • The Smith chart (introduction)
  • The need for scattering parameters
  • Scattering matrices of simple elements
  • Scattering matrices properties
  • Measurement of a one-port

  • Scattering matrices (contd)
  • The vector network analyzer
  • Principle behind calibration
  • Weak nonlinearity in electronic circuits
  • Harmonic distortion
  • HD2 and IM2

  • Harmonic distortion (contd)
  • Third-order distortion and intermodulation
  • Analysis of weak nonlinearities in circuits using the method of current injection
  • Method of current-injection (contd
  • Application to analysis of distortion in a negative feedback system

  • Course summary and recap

Evaluation process

An exam will be conducted at the end of course and if you get the required marks about 75/100, you are eligible to get an e-certificate. 

Instructors

IIT Madras (IITM) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)

1: How is analog circuit design?

The circuit stimuli is viewed as a continually changing signal in analogue design, and the circuit's behaviour is modelled with attention in both the time and frequency domains.

2: How are the classes for Circuit Analysis for Analog Designers Online Course being held?

The classes for this course under Swayam initiative are conducted in online mode via recorded video lectures.

3: What is analog layout design?

Analog design literally means circuit design and involves converting specifications into transistor-level circuits, simulating, as well as verifying the design's functionality, and ensuring that it works on silicon. 

4: Who is the instructor for this course?

Prof. Shanthi Pavan from IIT Madras is the instructor for this course.

5: Who is providing this course?

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), one of the prominent institutions in India, is providing this certificate course.

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