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Simulation of Electronic Circuit for Design and Technology Subject in Secondary Schools

International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences

In education, the use of simulation of electronic circuit is very helpful in the process of teaching and learning. Therefore, majority of engineering colleges, universities, and technical institutions are undertaking all initiatives to stay competitive. Effort are exerted to continuously improve the curriculum standard in order to provide quality and relevant education for the students in response the global call for Outcomes-Based Education (OBE). This paper presents the simulation of electronic circuit for Design and Technology Subject in Secondary Schools. Livewire Designer Software is a schematic capture, simulation, and PCB design software, dedicated to analyzing electronic circuit which is based on interconnected icons of electronic component. The approach makes it easier for the students to visualize the system they are attempting to design, model and study.

The Educational Aspects of Electronic Components and Their Related Circuits

ARID International Journal for Science and Technology , 2021

In the modern age, it’s almost impossible to imagine a world without electronic items and devices. We take it for granted at the forefront of practical technology, improving daily-based used devices and systems from individual electronic components to the smallest circuit boards for new smartphone systems, with innovation to meet society's communication, technology and energy needs. Therefore, thousands of students, each year, are required to gain in-depth knowledge and experience of basic and high skills of electronic equipment and devices. But the fear and apprehension of the use of electronic pieces, particularly during the online teaching with the difficulties of accessing the laboratories due to the COVID-19 situation, maybe one of the problems of students as they feel that the use of these pieces is difficult and needs external expertise to do them. Nevertheless, nowadays teaching electronics and providing informative sources to a wide spectrum of students from high school, college, and university levels at different departments became an important need for capacity building and training programs. In this article, an informative review of the electronics components and devices supported with simulation results using the Proteus design suite is provided that is useful for both high-level secondary school and the wide level of undergraduate and postgraduate university students. The research paper has referred, as much as possible, to the hierarchy and the cognitive sequence of using these electronic components such as resistors, capacitors, diode, transistors etc. It is also referred to some electronic circuits and devices such as electronic generator, switching, amplifier that are designed and implemented using the Proteus software which taking into account the learning outcomes and most important physical parameters that can be obtained from each electronic circuit.

Effectiveness of Instruction using Electronic Circuit Simulation Software

2008

Traditional teaching (lecturing) method on the design of electronic circuit provides learners with little satisfaction, because they cannot check and confirm the validity of electronic circuit they have designed. A better way to acquire design skills is to actually make the designed electronic circuit and test the validity of design. In spite of the usefulness of such a practical approach, it has a disadvantage that there is only limited time for teaching (lecturing) and it is difficult to fabricate electronic circuit, perform electronic measurement, and test the validity of design in the limited lecture period. An alternative to overcome these disadvantages is to use simulation software that enables learners (students) to operate functionally the designed electronic circuit and verify the appropriateness of design. The aim of this study was to examine the usefulness of simulation approach and clarify some problems related to such an approach. In this study, effectiveness of Instruc...

Circuit Simulators : a Revolutionary E-Learning Platform

2016

In present era the field of Electronics and Telecommunication plays an important role in almost every sphere of our life. It has penetrated in every field of our existence. The technology of Electronics and Telecommunication helps us to see, hear and communicate over vast distances and do things faster. It mainly deals with the communication technologies along with the basic electronic components, design of circuits and systems. This paper deals with a brief of various circuit simulators like MATLAB, TINA, NCTUns and CADENCE which are presently the most acclaimed simulators. Computer Circuit simulators are software’s that help analyze an electronic circuit and determine much of its performance without physically constructing it using hardware components. It makes analysis of the system quite effectively with easyto-use technology with speed and accuracy. In this way computer simulation which in simple words is a virtual way of emulating the behavior of a circuit, engages the student...

DigiSlim: A learning tool for supplementing introductory courses in digital electronics

Citeseer

Students studying undergraduate courses in digital electronics often lose interest in the subject, due to the short comings of learning tools that are commonly used to supplement such courses. Ideally learning tools increase student participation in the learning process and help in overcoming difficulties inherent to the subject. Comparisons have been drawn between the existing learning tools. DigiSlim, the tool discussed in this paper provides a user friendly environment which empowers novices to create and simulate combinational as well as sequential circuits. Circuit simulations are facilitated through a novel combination of integrated progressive timing diagrams, dynamic value updates of selected circuit points, and dynamic circuit visualization. Existing circuits can also be encapsulated into smaller digital components to enable creation of more complex circuits. It has several other ancillary utilities such as a circuit / IC database and error handling.

SSCSSC: a tool for the teaching of digital circuits

IEEE Transactions on Education, 1991

This paper presents a computer program to support the teaching of digital circuits. The program is used to describe, synthesize, and simulate combinational and synchronous sequential circuits, and to help students in their first contact with automatic synthesis tools. The program runs on both MS-DOS and UNIX machines, and it can be given freely to students for home use to significantly reduce the crowding in laboratories. Care has been taken to provide a friendly interface, so that the user can immediately concentrate on the study of circuits instead of having to learn a new program. The software described in this paper is currently used as a support tool in the course on Digital Circuits for Electronic Engineers at the University of Pisa.

A Novel CAD Tool for Electric Educational Diagrams

Applied Sciences, 2019

Computer-aided design (CAD) is a technological revolution, very powerful and with large applicability to problem solving. It is essential in many different disciplines ranging from architecture to education, medicine, physics, or gaming. In this work, we propose a novel CAD tool, called CADDi, to assist in the design of electric diagrams in the educational context. We are applying the theory of formal languages to create WDLang, an easy-to-use, highly expressive, unequivocal, and correct programming language for designing electric circuits. This programming language is the cornerstone of CADDi, which automatically generates the equivalent ladder diagram (explains the circuit operation) to the programmed circuit, offering additional features that allow analysis of its functionality in an interactive way. It also offers a graphical interface to directly design ladder diagrams, or to modify the automatically generated ones. The existing electrical CAD tools are either very simple, e.g....

GEEC: Graphic editor of electrical circuits

2017 International Conference on Applied Electronics (AE), 2017

This paper presents web-based graphical schematic editor for analysis of electric and electronic circuits. It is a JavaScript application that uses Spice OPUS and Maple with PraCAn package as a computation engine. In case of linear circuits, results can be obtained in symbolic form. Continuous-time linear and nonlinear circuits as well as periodically switched linear (PSL) circuits can be analyzed. All created circuits can be exported to various file formats for greater compatibility with documentation formats and other simulation programs. The whole system is developed at the Department of Circuit Theory, for teaching support and research.

Experiences in Digital Circuit Design Courses: A Self-Study Platform for Learning Support

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2014

The synthesis of digital circuits is a basic skill in all the bachelor programmes around the ICT area of knowledge, such as Computer Science, Telecommunication Engineering or Electrical Engineering. An important hindrance in the learning process of this skill is that the existing educational tools for the design of circuits do not allow the student to validate if his design satisfies the specification. Furthermore, an automatic feedback is essential in order to help students to fix incorrect designs. In this paper, we propose an online platform where the students can design and verify their circuits with an individual and automatic feedback. The technical aspects of the platform and the designed verification tool are presented. The impact of the platform on the learning process of the students is illustrated by analyzing the student performance on the course where the platform has been used. Results on the utilization of the platform versus the success rate and marks in the final exam are presented and compared with previous semesters. Index Terms-Digital circuit design, automatic assessment, e-learning, formal verification, model checking 1. In the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), the skills a student should learn are defined as competences. From now on, we will use the terms competence and skill interchangeably.