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Teaching the Teachers (A Concepts Workshop): Electronic Circuits for Instrumentation and Measurement
LUMS School of Science and Engineering | Department of Electrical Engineering
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Department of Electrical Engineering, SSE LUMS
Presents
Teaching the Teachers (A Concepts Workshop):
Electronic Circuits for Instrumentation & Measurement
Dates: 4th
to 7th
June, 2012
Venue: School of Science and Engineering, LUMS, Lahore
Instructor: Prof. Dr.Asad Abidi
Electrical Engineering Department
University of California, Los Angeles
About the Workshop:
Much of the art of analog circuits has developed around the wide-ranging needs of instrumentation and
measurement, whether for industry, for sensor interfaces used in environment monitoring or medical applications, or
for a broad range of uses in laboratories for R&D or higher education. This workshop will use case studies of recent
and classic circuits to demonstrate a curriculum for an Electronics III course, that would follow the standard
sequence of two semester-long sequence which introduces analysis (though seldom design) of single stage and
multistage amplifiers and oscillators. Electronics III will take the student, who may be in the 4th year of a BS degree
or in an MS degree, from cell-level analysis to practical subsystem design. It is not a cookbook course consisting of
recipes of purportedly useful circuits; nor is it the collection of lectures that might accompany a teaching laboratory.
Rather, it is a theory-based design-oriented course on fundamental circuit concepts in instrumentation, measurement,
and interfacing that have remained largely unchanged for more than 50 years, but when using integrated circuits
enriched by digital signal processing they do what they are intended to more accurately, with smaller size and at
lower cost. Apart from circuits that compute, these analog circuits underpin the electronics age.
Participants must have a strong background in basic circuit theory and in signal processing. Attendees of the
previous two teach-the-teachers workshops taught at LUMS should be particularly well prepared.
Workshop Syllabus:
A unique syllabus is now under development for this four-day long workshop. Roughly it will contain these
topics:
Waveform probing, display, and analysis using oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers, with focus on system
principles and key circuits
Impedance, and the simultaneous measurement of RLC
Fundamentals of noise and dynamic range in electronic circuits
Sensor interface amplifiers with very low noise, offset, and drift
Low voltage, low power circuits capable of operating from a single cell
Stable clock circuits, quartz crystal resonators
Modeling A/D and D/A converters and their associated interface circuits
Problems of high frequency circuit design and measurement
PC board design for high frequencies: art and science
The registration fee will cover the nominal cost of a textbook, “The Art of Electronics” by Horowitz and Hill,
which may be used to teach this material in the classroom, and a voluminous collection of printed material compiled
by the presenter to be distributed to attendees as a bound volume. As in past workshops, attendees will have to take
detailed notes if they are to capture many insights, analysis methods and practical tricks not to be found elsewhere.
Teaching the Teachers (A Concepts Workshop): Electronic Circuits for Instrumentation and Measurement
LUMS School of Science and Engineering | Department of Electrical Engineering
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About the Instructor:
Dr. Asad A. Abidi received the B.Sc.(Hon.) degree from Imperial College, London in 1976 and the M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978 and 1981. He was at Bell
Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ from 1981 to 1984 as a Member of Technical Staff in the Advanced LSI Development
Laboratory. Since 1985, he has been at the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of California, Los
Angeles where he is Professor. He was a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Hewlett Packard Laboratories during 1989.
His research interests are in the design of CMOS RF integrated circuits, high-speed analog circuits, and data
converters.
Dr. Abidi served as the Program Secretary for the International Solid-State Circuits Conference from 1984 to 1990
and as General Chairman of the Symposium on VLSI Circuits in 1992. He was Secretary of the IEEE Solid-State
Circuits Council from 1990 to 1991, and from 1992 to 1995 he was Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State
Circuits. He has received the 1988 TRW Award for Innovative Teaching and the 1997 IEEE Donald G. Fink Award,
and is co-recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 1995 European Solid-State Circuits Conference, the Jack Kilby
Best Student Paper Award at the 1996 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the Jack Raper Award
for Outstanding Technology Directions Paper at the 1997 ISSCC, and the Design Contest Award at the 1998 Design
Automation Conference, and the 2001 ISLPED Low Power Design Contest Award. In 2007, the UCLA School of
Engineering and Applied Science recognized him with the Lockheed-Martin Award for Excellence in Teaching.
He has received an IEEE Millennium Medal, is a Fellow of the IEEE, and was named one of the top ten contributors
to the ISSCC. He is the recipient of the 2008 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits. Dr. Abidi is a
member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
Registration Procedure:
Interested applicants should send their CVs latest by Monday, 14th
May 2012 to:
Mr. Ahmad Mahmood Tahir
Assistant Manager, Electrical Engineering, SSE, LUMS
Email: [email protected]
CVs should include the applicant’s Designation and Work/Teaching Experience in the area of Electronic Circuits
and Signal Processing. Limited accommodation space is available at HEC Hostel, Lahore at additional cost. Please
mention if you would require accommodation or not at the time of applying to the workshop.
Applicants will be shortlisted according to their qualifications and experience. Preference will be given to:
Candidates who have a strong background in basic circuit theory and in signal processing.
Candidates who have attended previous workshops by Prof Asad A. Abidi.
Faculty members who have taught courses related to Electronic Circuits at least once.
Candidates from industry who have at least two years professional experience in Electronic Circuit design.
Registration Fee:
Each workshop participant will be required to pay a nominal registration fee which will be used to cover part of the
expenses of the workshop such as photocopied material, refreshments, etc. Registration fee is as follows:
Rs 1000/- for workshop participants belonging to academia.
Rs 5000/- for workshop participants belonging to industry.
For further information please contact:
Dr. Shahid Masud
Dept. Chair, Electrical Engineering, SSE LUMS
Email: [email protected]
Shahrukh Athar
Teaching Fellow, Electrical Engineering, SSE LUMS
Email: [email protected]
