Analog and Digital Integrated Circuits Lab

The Analog and Digital Integrated circuits course has been taught as a required course for electronics and instrumentation engineering students since the program‟s inception. It splits into two labs namely Analog Integrated Circuits lab andDigital Principles and System Design Lab which learnt in second year.  The Analog Integrated Circuits course introduces the concept and application of operational amplifiers. Without a sufficient amount of laboratory experiments, students are left with rather vague concepts regardless of the instructor‟s effectiveness. Laboratory assignments clarify textbook formulas and examples, as well as help to close the gap between theory and real-life problems. An efficient laboratory experiment should: a) clearly relate to textbook materials, b) relate to real life situations, c) challenge students‟ ability to design and test, and d) encourage the student to analyze the design and draw conclusion. With these considerations in mind a laboratory workbook has been developed for the analog and digital Integrated Circuits course. The usage of amplifier, application of amplifiers, filters, oscillators using op-amp, A-D Converter, PLL etc are made familiar to the students. In Digital lab, logic gates, Flip flop, multiplexer and demultiplexer, code converter, sequential circuits and specific trainer kits are made familiar to the students.