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This document is an exam paper for an Advanced Analogue Electronics course. It contains 4 questions testing students' knowledge of topics like boost converters, H-bridge converters, digital to analog converters, and modeling resistors at high frequencies. Students are asked to calculate values like duty cycles, output voltages, power delivered to loads, effective impedances and how resistance changes with skin effect. They must also discuss causes of diode failure and types of physical resistors.

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School of Engineering & Physical Sciences

This document is an exam paper for an Advanced Analogue Electronics course. It contains 4 questions testing students' knowledge of topics like boost converters, H-bridge converters, digital to analog converters, and modeling resistors at high frequencies. Students are asked to calculate values like duty cycles, output voltages, power delivered to loads, effective impedances and how resistance changes with skin effect. They must also discuss causes of diode failure and types of physical resistors.

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SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering

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B30EI

Advanced Analogue Electronics

Semester 1 2014/15

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Monday, 8 December 2014

Duration: 2 Hours

ATTEMPT THREE QUESTIONS

Answer each question in a separate script book

(A breakdown of marks is provided as a guide within each question)

Additional Information:
Exam Data Booklet - supplied
B30EI

1. (a) Draw a basic circuit diagram for a Boost converter. What is the
inductor voltage when switch is ON and OFF?
(6 Marks)

(b) For the boost converter with the following parameters:

Vin = 10 V and Vout = 20 V

What is the required duty ratio, D, of the switch? Ignore the diode
voltage drop.
(5 Marks)

(c) Draw a basic circuit diagram for a Buck boost converter.


(4 Marks)

(d) For the Buck boost converter with the following parameters:

L = 100 H, C = 220 F, Vg = 15 V, R = 20 , vout = 10 V, fsw = 66 kHz

Calculate the duty ratio of the switch assuming a lossless converter.


What changes must occur if the input drops to 5 V?
(10 Marks)

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2. (a) Discuss potential causes of diode failure.


(5 Marks)

(b) The H-bridge converter is modulated with varying modulation depths:

m1 = 0.5 + m.sin(t)
m2 = 0.5 m.sin(t)

where m<0.5 and <<2fsw

(i) What is the output voltage that the load sees, ignoring switching
frequency harmonics?
(5 Marks)

(ii) What is the maximum Root Mean Square (RMS) voltage that
can be applied to the load if the input voltage Vdc is 330 V?
(5 Marks)

(c) (i) If an H-bridge has a resistive load, R, draw a graph showing the
variation of load current over a switching period.
(5 Marks)

(ii) Assume that m1 = 0.7 and m2 = 0.3, a dc link voltage of Vdc, and
ideal switches and diodes. Calculate the average power
delivered to the load.
(5 Marks)

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3. The circuit below, Figure 3, describes a current summing, digital to analogue


converter. Note the resistors R1 and R2 have the same value and there is a
bleed current via R1 of 1 quantised step to ground. With all the switches in 1
15
position the total current summed at the virtual earth terminal is 16
x 5 mA so

full scale deflection will never equal -5 V at Vout.

Figure 3 R-2R resistor ladder digital to analogue converter. Each bit,


b3..b0 is switched to virtual earth terminal for digital input
high or ground for digital input low. All lines are shown
high in the schematic. B3 is MSB. The E source is
modelling an ideal operational amplifier.

(a) The E source, in Figure 3 models a perfect operational amplifier. The


Switches are set according to the binary input i.e. logic high implies the
connected resistor is switched to the virtual earth terminal, logic 0
implies the resistor is switched to ground. B3 is the most significant bit.
Derive the output voltage in terms of an input 4 bit word.
(12 Marks)

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(b) What is the gain error and non-linearity if the resistor switched in by b0
(least significant bit, LSB) is 1.5R instead of 2R, R = 1k.
(8 Marks)

(c) If the output is to be set at 5 V (full scale deflection), state which


resistor has to be changed and calculate a suitable value of its
resistance.
(5 Marks)

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4. (a) Name 3 types of physical resistors.


(3 Marks)

(b) Draw an equivalent circuit representing the resistor at high frequencies.


Describe what each circuit element represents.
(5 Marks)

(c) Given that the external inductance of a wire is given by

0 2
= 1
2

0 = 4 X 10-7 Hm1

Where l is the wire length a is the wire radius, both in metres. The
stray capacitance around the resistor is 5 pF and the manufactured
resistance is 2000 .

Calculate the effective impedance at 100 MHz for a = 0.203mm and l.


is 25 mm either side of the resistor.
(8 Marks)

(d) At what frequency does the impedance drop to a minimum using the
values calculated in 2c?
(6 Marks)

(e) Using the skin effect concept what happens to the resistance of a
conductor as the frequency increases?
(3 Marks)

END OF PAPER

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