Course: Telecommunication credits: 3
- Course code
- ELVH17GTC
- Name
- Telecommunication
- Study year
- 2022-2023
- ECTS credits
- 3
- Language
- Dutch, with parts in English
- Coordinator
- G.J. Geertsma
- Modes of delivery
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- Lecture
- Practical / Training
- Tutorial
- Assessments
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- Telecommunication - Written, organised by STAD examinations
Learning outcomes
The student can:
- design a simple mains power supply;
- calculate simple RC and LC filters
- do simple calculations related to superheterodyne radio receivers and radio transmitters;
- calculate the parameters of a VCO;
- calculate the most important parameters of an antenna system
- motivate their choice for a certain type of filter in a high-frequency circuit
- calculate the amplification of several types of amplifiers;
- choose which type of amplifier is most suitable for a certain application;
- distinguish differences between AM, FM, and SSB.
Content
- Mains power supplies, transformers, rectifiers, filtering, stabilisation of power
- Diodes, types and applications
- Amplifiers (Audio and RF), OP-AMPs, Efficiency (class, A, AB, B, C, D)
- Amplification, damping, level, decibels
- Oscillators, AF, RF, crystal
- Radio transmitters, modulation, AM, FM, SSB
- Crystal receiver, TRF-receiver, super-heterodyne receiver
- RF-filters: low pass, high pass, band pass
- Application of Fourier analysis in simple situations
- Detection methods: AM, CW, SSB, FM
- Antennas
Included in programme(s)
School(s)
- Institute of Engineering