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Electronic Experiences in a Virtual Lab

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Authors:
  1. Roberto Gastaldi

    1. Milan, Italy

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  2. Giovanni Campardo

    1. Bergamo, Italy

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  • Introduces readers to electronic circuits, how to design them in the lab, and how to simulate them
  • Shows in detail how to simulate electronic circuits using OrCad
  • Offers several examples such as a clock circuit, amplifiers and a shift register

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Review of Some Basic Concepts

    • Roberto Gastaldi, Giovanni Campardo
    Pages 1-18

  3. Power Supplies

    • Roberto Gastaldi, Giovanni Campardo
    Pages 19-44

  4. Linear Amplifiers

    • Roberto Gastaldi, Giovanni Campardo
    Pages 45-63

  5. Sound Equalizer Using Operational Amplifiers

    • Roberto Gastaldi, Giovanni Campardo
    Pages 65-82

  6. Digital Circuits

    • Roberto Gastaldi, Giovanni Campardo
    Pages 83-103

  7. Oscillators

    • Roberto Gastaldi, Giovanni Campardo
    Pages 105-122

  8. Some Examples

    • Roberto Gastaldi, Giovanni Campardo
    Pages 123-154

  9. Simulation of Device Characteristics

    • Roberto Gastaldi, Giovanni Campardo
    Pages 155-178

  10. Virtual Prototyping Using PSpice

    • Roberto Gastaldi, Giovanni Campardo
    Pages 179-211

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 213-218
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About this book

This book presents a collection of “lessons” on various topics commonly encountered in electronic circuit design, including some basic circuits and some complex electronic circuits, which it uses as vehicles to explain the basic circuits they are composed of. The circuits considered include a linear amplifier, oscillators, counters, a digital clock, power supplies, a heartbeat detector, a sound equalizer, an audio power amplifier and a radio. The theoretical analysis has been deliberately kept to a minimum, in order to dedicate more time to a “learning by doing” approach, which, after a brief review of the theory, readers are encouraged to use directly with a simulator tool to examine the operation of circuits in a “virtual laboratory.” Though the book is not a theory textbook, readers should be familiar with the basic principles of electronic design, and with spice-like simulation tools. To help with the latter aspect, one chapter is dedicated to the basic functions and commands of the OrCad P-spice simulator used for the experiments described in the book.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Milan, Italy

    Roberto Gastaldi

  • Bergamo, Italy

    Giovanni Campardo

About the authors

Giovanni Campardo was born in Bergamo, Italy, in 1958. He received the Laurea degree in Nuclear Engineering from the Politecnico of Milan in 1984. In 1997 he graduated in Physics from the Università Statale di Milano. He deals with microelectronics, today in an Italian-French company, in particular in the field of non-volatile solid state memories. He is author-co-author of many publications and some books and hold more than 100 patents. He is married with two children and enjoys painting and reading. He collects ethnic masks from the entire world and practice Chinese martial arts. 

Roberto Gastaldi holds a Master degree in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano Italy. He has been working for over thirty years in a semiconductor manufacturing corporation as a non-volatile memory designer. During his career he led the design of many successful memory chips as well as first prototypes for leading edge memory technologies. Mr. Gastaldi holds several papers and patents related to VLSI memory design and technology, he is a member of IEEE.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Electronic Experiences in a Virtual Lab

  • Authors: Roberto Gastaldi, Giovanni Campardo

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45179-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45178-3Published: 12 May 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45181-3Published: 12 May 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45179-0Published: 11 May 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 218

  • Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 239 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Circuits and Systems, Electronic Circuits and Devices, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation

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