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Texas Instruments' Analog System Lab Starter Kit now in India
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 24 February 2011, 00:42 IST
Bangalore: Texas Instruments (TI) announces the launch of a new Analog System Lab Starter Kit. This lab course will provide students an exposure to analog and mixed-signal processing. This course can be added for both an undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum. Through this course students will learn to build analog systems using analog ICS and study their macro models, characteristics, benefits and limitations so that the right IC can be selected to optimize system-level parameters.
This course comprises of ten experiments, that can be carried out either individually or a group of two three students. The experiments are conducted in two phases. The first phase includes Operational Amplifiers and Analog Multipliers. In the second phase students learn how larger analog systems, such as integrators, differentiators, filters, function generators, VCO, PLL, DC-DC convertors and regulators can be constructed using the basic building blocks. Each experiment comprises of a comprehensive theoretical background, reference to literature, the specification of the design experiment, measurements to be taken, and the report formats required to be submitted at the end of the experiment.
A lab manual written by Dr. K. Radkhakrishna Rao and Dr. C.P. Ravikumar of TI India comes with the kit,which is published by Wiley India.
Dr. C.P. Ravikumar, Technical Director, University Relations, Texas Instruments India said "This is the first educational product from Texas Instruments, India. We are emphasizing on system-level design using ICs and recommending that circuit-level design be taught at a later stage. This is a fundamentally different way of teaching Analog Design. The product has already attracted wide attention from Indian Universities as well as several European Universities and Universities from South Asia. Our plan is to establish several TI Analog Labs this year to underline the importance of Analog System Design".
