Dear students,
On Tuesdays from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Research Assistant Murat SERTTAŞ will be leading the “Electronics – Fundamentals and Beyond” Workshop in the Circuits Laboratory.
As part of these sessions, the necessary theoretical instruction will be provided to enable the experiments, followed by the actual experiments.
The workshop is open to all students in our department.
Module 1 – Measurement Discipline & Passive Circuits
| Week | Experiment & Objective | Preparation | Main Materials | Due Date |
| 1 | Lab Introduction – DMM, power supply, oscilloscope; LED current limiting | Basic safety, passive component codes | 9 V battery, potentiometer, LED, 330 Ω resistor | Measurement table & error calculation |
| 2 | RC Time Constant – Step Response with a Square Wave | Capacitor discharge equation, Ln graph | 1 µF capacitor, 10 kΩ resistor, signal generator | ln(V)–t graph |
| 3 | RL and Simple Resonance | Inductance, f_r = 1/(2π√LC) | 100 mH coil, 100 nF capacitor | Resonance Frequency Report |
| 4 | Diode Rectifier & Voltage Clipper | PN junction, voltage drop | 1N4148/1N4007, 470 µF capacitor | Waveform Screenshots |
Module 2 – Semiconductor Fundamentals
| Week | Experiment & Objective | Preliminary Preparation | Main Materials | Due Date |
| 5 | BJT Characteristics | IB-IC Curves, β Calculation | BC547, 1 kΩ/10 kΩ resistors | IV Curves |
| 6–7 (2 weeks) | Common-Emitter Amplifier Design | Small-signal model, bias point | ±12 V supply, electrolytic capacitor, 100 Ω load | Simulation–Breadboard Comparison |
| 8 | MOSFET Switching & Amplifier | VGS(th), RDSON | 2N7000, IRLZ44N | Switching Speed Measurement |
Module 3 – Op-Amp and Active Analog Design
| Week | Experiment & Objective | Preparation | Main Materials | Due Date |
| 9 | Op-Amp Rules – Buffer, Inverting | Virtual Short, Negative Feedback | LM358/OPA2134, ±5 V/±15 V supply | Gain Verification |
| 10 | Active Low-Pass & High-Pass Filters | 2nd-order Butterworth | LM324, 10 nF/100 nF capacitors | –3 dB frequency response |
| 11 | Instrumentation Amplifier & CMRR | 3-op-amp configuration, bridge | INA128 or discrete | CMRR measurement table |
| 12 | Wien Bridge Oscillator | Barkhausen, automatic amplitude | NTC/bulb or LED regulator | Oscillation amplitude-frequency |
Module 4 – Power Electronics & Drivers
| Week | Experiment & Objective | Preliminary Preparation | Main Materials | Due Date |
| 13 | Rectifier + 7805 Linear Regulator | Ripple, dropout, heat | Bridge diode, 470 µF, 7805 | Efficiency graph |
| 14 | Simple Step-Down (LM2596) | PWM, diode feedback | LM2596 module, shunt resistor | Efficiency–Load Current |
| 15–16 (2 weeks) | H-Bridge DC Motor Driver & PWM | MOSFET half-bridge, delay | Based on L298N or IRF3205 | Motor Speed–Noise Analysis |
Module 5 – Digital Logic
| Week | Experiment & Objective | Preliminary Preparation | Main Materials | Due |
| 17 | CMOS Gates & Delay | Noise margin, fan-out | 74HC00 series, RC load | VIL/VIH table |
| 18 | Flip-Flops & Asynchronous Counters | JK-T conversion | 74HC112, 7-segment | Timing Diagram |
| 19 | 555 Timer – Astable & Monostable | RC-Controlled Frequency | NE555, 10 µF, potentiometer | Frequency–duty cycle measurement |
| 20 | Arduino Basics – Digital I/O, debounce | IDE setup, pin map | Arduino Uno, LED, button | Source code |
| 21 | Analog Sensors & LCD Display | ADC, I²C LCD | LM35 / NTC, 16×2 I²C LCD | Temperature graph |
| 22 | I²C–SPI Protocol Practice | Pull-up, clock signal | MPU6050, SD card adapter | I²C analyzer output |
Module 6 – Embedded Computing & Basic Artificial Intelligence
| Week | Experiment & Objective | Preliminary Preparation | Main Materials | Due Date |
| 23 | ADC Sampling & Serial Plot | Nyquist, sample-hold | Arduino + Serial Plotter | Time-Voltage Plot |
| 24 | Finite State Machine – Traffic Light | FSM diagram, edge detection | LED Trio, Push-Button | State table & code |
| 25 | SD Card Data Log | FAT32, timestamp | RTC module (DS3231) | CSV file example |
| 26–27 (2 weeks) | Simple ML Classifier on Arduino | Approximate sigmoid, quantization | 2 potentiometers (inputs), LED | Training & test accuracy report |