The course is aimed to acquaint students with components of electronic system and their main connections. Learning is based on design of real devices on solderless breadboard.
The main subject areas: resistance for circuits containing resistors connected in parallel, series and mixture connection; time delay by RC circuit; bipolar transistor as a switch; bipolar transistor as an amplifier; biasing of bipolar transistors; amplifier circuits; MSP 430 microcontroller, microcontroller pin programming as input, output, masks, programming several MSP430 integrated peripherals. The volume of subject areas may be varied according to the background and interest of specific groups.