BME 4390

Circuits, Signals and Sensors: Instrumentation Laboratory

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2026-2027 Catalog.

This class provides students with the basic skills needed to design and fabricate biomedical and bioanalytical instrumentation. Lectures cover analog and digital electronics, microcontrollers, microcontroller interfacing and firmware programming (in C). Circuit simulation (using CircuitLab) is covered as is an instruction to schematic capture and printed circuit board layout software (Eagle). Emphasis is on designing and building analog circuitry for sensors, analog to digital conversion and microcontroller/device and microcontroller/PC interfacing. Lab exercises involve the design and construction of a number of biomedically related circuits.

Prerequisites CS 1110 or CS 1112, PHYS 1112 and PHYS 2213, MATH 1910, 1920 and 2930.

Enrollment Priority Enrollment limited to: BME seniors, or permission of instructor.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025FA, 2024FA, 2023FA, 2022FA

Learning Outcomes

• Become proficient with analog electronics and analog circuit design at the level required to design and build a various biomedical devices.
• Become proficient with digital electronics and digital circuit design at the level required to digitize signals and collect data from a biomedical device.
• Become proficient at programming of microcontrollers in C to implement microcontroller/peripheral device interfacing and microcontroller/PC communications and data transfer.

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