The design of an audio power amplifier as a class project for undergraduate students

Author

Paulino, Nuno ; Oliveira, Joao P. ; Santos-Tavares, Rui

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. (DEE), Univ. Nova de Lisboa (UNL), Caparica, Portugal

fYear

2013

fDate

19-23 May 2013

Firstpage

2565

Lastpage

2568

Abstract

This paper presents the design of an audio power amplifier as a class project for undergraduate students of electrical engineering. This project is part of an electronics introduction class for undergraduate students and it has two main objectives: first to teach basic electronic circuit design concepts and second to motivate the students into choosing to learn more about analog circuit design. One of the main reasons for the creation of this project was the realization that most students considered analog design uninteresting. This project allows the students to design and build a circuit that actually has a practical application: at the end of the project the students can use the circuit that they designed to listen to music from an mp3 player through a loudspeaker.

Keywords

analogue integrated circuits; audio-frequency amplifiers; electrical engineering education; integrated circuit design; power amplifiers; analog circuit design; audio power amplifier; basic electronic circuit design concepts; class project; electrical engineering; undergraduate students; Digital audio players; Electronic circuits; Impedance; Laboratories; Music; Resistors; Transistors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2013 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Beijing

ISSN

0271-4302

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5760-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2013.6572402

Filename

6572402