COURSE – AUTOMOTIVE 2: ELECTRONICS AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN VEHICLES
- 1 Experiment card with diode circuits (Si, Ge and Zener diodes)
- 1 Experiment card with transistors for building various circuit configurations (common emitter, common collector, with or without feedback)
- 1 Experiment card with logic gates (NOT, AND, OR, NAND, NOR, EXOR, EXNOR) and a sequence of gates
- 1 Experiment card with JK flip-flop
- CD-ROM with Labsoft browser and course software
- Introduction to common designs ad properties of diodes
- Identifying typical diode applications
- Determining the valve and rectifier actions of diodes
- Recording static and dynamic characteristics for various diodes
- Determining diode parameters by measurement
- Investigation of limiting circuits using Zener diodes (with and without load)
- Introduction to basic transistor circuits
- Design and investigation of a transistor switch
- Experiment to set the operating point of a transistor
- Measurement of gain and input/output resistances in common emitter and common collector circuits
- Investigating the effect of resistive and capacitive feedback in a common emitter circuit
- Introduction to basic logic circuits
- Introduction to truth tables and symbols, logic equations and timing diagrams for each of the basic gates
- Experimental derivation of Boolean functions and laws
- Design of basic logic circuits using NAND gates and NOR-gates
- Minimisation of logic circuits with the aid of Karnaugh maps with experimental testing
- Introduction to the principle of a flip-flop
- Investigating the operation of a JK flip flop by measurement (static and dynamic input signal/single-pulse operation)
- Investigation of a counter circuit
- Fault simulation (16 simulated faults activated by relay)
- Course duration 9.5 h approx. (fault finding 2.5 h approx.)