1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

SP553 Introduction to lnstrumentation
Electronics
12. 5 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: practical work, continuing assessment
A subject in the Master of Applied Science/Graduate
Diploma of Applied Science (Biomedical Instrumentation)
0 b jectives
To be familiar with the basic digital building blocks
(such as gates, flip/flops, counters etc.)
To analyse and synthesise digital circuits of moderate
complexity.
To be familiar with the basic analog building blocks
(such as amplifiers, filters, non-linear circuits, etc.)
To analyse and synthesise analog circuits using
operational amplifiers.
To have a basic understanding of discrete electronic
components (such as diodes and transistors).
Content
Digital Electronics:Combinational logic: Review of Boolean
algebra analysis and synthesis, Kmaps; SSI and MSI Building
Blocks: Adders, Subtractors, ALU s, Multiplexers,
Demultiplexers, Encoders, Decoders; Sequential Logic;
Latches and Flip-flops; MSI building blocks (counters,
registers, shift registers); State Machines; Logic Devices and
Family Characteristics: Fan out, loading, propagation delays,
power dissipation; Logic levels and compatibility; Threestate
and open collector outputs; Programmable Devices:
ROMs, PLAs, PALS.
Analog Electronics: Amplifiers: Input and output
Impedance, Loading Effects, Voltage Gain, Current Gain,
Power Gain, Frequency Response Classifications, Bode
Diagrams; Ideal Operational Amplifiers: Ideal Model, Unity
Gain Buffer, Inverting, Non-Inverting configurations,
Summing and Differential Amplifiers, Integrators and
Differentiators; Filters: Second Order Active Filters, LP,
HP, BP Filter examples; Non Ideal OP-Amps: Effect of
finite OP-amp gain, Bandwidth, Input Offset Voltage, Input
Bias Current, Bias Current; CMRR; Instrumentation
Amplifiers; Introduction to Discrete Devices: Diode: VI
Characteristics, Lumped Linear Models; Transistors: Large
and Small Signal Models
Non Linear Op-Amp Applications: Clipping and Clamping
Circuits, Precision Diode, Peak Detector; Comparators.
Recommended Reading
Maddock R.J. Calcutt D.M. Electronics for Engineers , Longman
Scientific and Technical, 2nd Edn., 1994.
Mano M.M. Digital Design , Prentic-Hall, 2nd Edition 1991.
Millman I. and Grabel A., Microelectronics , McGraw Hill, Ed.
2nd 1987"
SE210 Electronics Laboratory Notes, Swinburne
Sedra A.S. and Smith K.C., Microelectronic Circuits , Holt,
Rinehart and Winston, 3rd Edn., 1992.
SP555 lntroduction to Biophysical Sy- :ems
12.5 credit points 0 4 hours per week Hawthorn
~rerequisit~s: Must satisfy course entry requirements
Assessment: Examination and Laboratory work
A subject in the Graduate Diploma of Applied Science
(Biomedical Instrumentation) and the Master of Engineering
by coursework (Biomedical Engineering)
Objectives
To introduce students with an existing background in the
physical sciences to physical aspects of biological systems.
Content
Cell physiology Structure and function of the cell and subcellular
organelles. Physical state of cell water. The
membrane concept.
Membranes and Excitability Electrochemical potential,
Nernst and Donnan equilibrium. Hodgkin-Huxley
equations; impulse propagation; electronic spread.
Nerves and Muscles Synaptic transmission; energy
transduction by receptors; the contraction mechanism;
excitation-contraction coupling.
Bioenergetic Nature of energy flow in living systems.
Energetics of biochemical processes: e.g. oxidative
phosphorylation, Krebs cycle, glycolysis, cytochrome chain,
photosynthesis, protein synthesis. Quantitative
measurement.
Flow and Pressure Nature of flow and pressure in biological
fluids: blood, c.s.f., respiratory gases, lymph, renal
ultrafiltrate. Bernoulli and Navier-Stokes equations.
Viscosity. Fluid impedance and impedance of branching
networks.
Control Systems Control engineering concepts. The nature
and features of biological control mechanisms
Recommended reading
Guyton A.C., Textbook of Medical Physiology, Philadelphia, W.B.
Saunders, 1991
Plonsey R.and Barr R.C., Bioelectric Phenomena, New York,
Plenum, 1988
SP601
Stand Alone Instrumentation
4 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisites:
Assessment: rreports and examinations
A final year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
(Computing and Instrumentation)
0 bjectives
To introduce students to embedded system programming.
Content
The Forth language and the design of time critical turn key
instrument systems. Implementing a program in Forth
incremental compilation, stack maintenance, multiple
vocabularies, interrupts, multi-tasking, special features of the
language. Optimised target compilation.
Recommended reading
Hendtlass, T., Real Time Forth, Mountain View Press, 1994
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