BioNB 440

Electronics for Neurobiology
Cornell University
BioNB 440
Fall 2005

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Last modified, Dec 2005

This is the home page for BioNB 440 which deals with electronic aspects of biological research. The course is currently taught by Bruce Land, who is a staff member in Neurobiology and Behavior and Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Contents

Reading

Week of August 28:
- Class overview and policy
- Introduction to Electronics Workbench (U. Delaware)
- DC circuits (Physics Dept, U. Guelph)
- AC Circuits (Physics, U. Alberta) Ignore the references to inductors for now.
- AC circuit applet (Walter Fendt) animation of voltage and current.
- Introduction to Neurobiology Weeks 1 to 3 (UIUC)
- The Nerve Impulse. (UCLA)
Week of Sept 8:
- Spend an hour brousing the links at the bottom of this page
- AC analysis (Physics, U. New South Wales) Cool animation0
Week of Sept 15
- Fourier synthesis
- Fourier series approximation
- National OpAmp Guide
- TI operational Amplifiers sections 3.1 to 3.4 and 3.8
- Introduction to active filters
- TI operational Amplifiers sections 16.1 to 16.3.2.1 active filters
Week of Sept 22
- The 555 timer
- 555 timer basics
Week of Sept 29
- Text Chapter 8 sections 8.01-8.05, 8.08-8.12
- Digital logic
- more digital logic
- Logic ic's
Week of Oct 6
- TI operational Amplifiers sections 10.1 to 10.5 Noise and op amps.
- Noise: A literature survey

Suggested lab questions

Some questions I could reasonably ask you in lab.

1. Lab 1 questions

2. Lab 2 questions

3. Lab 3 questions

4. Lab 4 questions

5. Lab 5 questions

6. Lab 6 questions

7. Lab 7 questions

Laboratory assignments

1. Introduction to the hardware and software.; 2. Voltage, current, and frequency.; 3. Operational Amplifier applications.; 4. More Operational Amplifier applications.; 5. Designing Filters; 6. Timing and signal generation; 7. Sine/triangle/squarewave generator and chirp generator; 8. Digital and analog noise sources; 9. Final project

Course Schedule

Lectures:: Tues/Thurs 8:40- 9:55 am, Kennedy 105
Lab:: Wednesday afternoon 1:25-4:25 pm, 1124 Comstock
or
Thursday afternoon 1:30-4:30 pm, 1124 Comstock

Staff

Bruce Land,
246 Mudd Hall, 254-4346, BRL4@cornell.edu

Useful links:

Course related information
- Final Projects
- Electronics Worbench to MatLab data conversion
- Electronic Workbench circuits
- Model Neurons
- Useful integrated circuits for neurobiology
- Useful sensors for neurobiology
- Nanotechnology in neurobiology
Electronics
- Design Information
  - National Semiconductor
  - Texas Instruments
  - Dallas Semiconductor/Maxim
    - EEducation
    - Tutorials
    - Application notes
    - OpAmp design guide (glossy)
  - Packages and breadboarding (Cornell EE215)
  - Animated Electronics (NC State)
  - Internet Electronics Guide
  - Electronic Instrumentation (RPI)
  - Resistor decoder (U. Delaware)
  - ARRL Technical Info
  - Practical Analog Design (from Circuit Cellar)
  - Scot's Guide to Electronics.
- Other Courses
  - Electronics for Engineers (U. Delaware)
  - Electrical Science (Clarkson)
  - Electronics (U Alberta, Physics 395)
  - Sensors (Stanford ME117)
- Software
  - Circuit Shop (Cherrywoods systems)
  - 5Spice
  - Electronic design software
  - TINA (DesignSoft)
  - Visual Spice
  - Electronics Workbench
- Circuits
  - Discover Circuits
  - Circuits
  - EE circuits archive (U. Washington)
  - Circuits (U. Guelph)
  - Single power supply opamp circuits (TI)
  - Guide to instrumentation amplifiers (analog devices)
- Surface Mount Technology
  - PCBs with SMT Components
  - Prototyping with Surface Mount Devices
  - Prototyping SMD (Pegasus Systems)
  - SMT Magazine
  - SMT prototype kits
  - ARRL SMT
  - Conductive Adhesive (Master Bond)
- Electronics link pages
- Sensors
  - Sonar range finder
  - Useful Sensors for biology labs
  - Tilt switch
  - tilt sensors
  - robot sensors
  - robot sensors
  - robot sensors
  - gyros
  - flex sensor
  - stretch sensor
  - digital compass
  - Automotive sensors
- Communication
  - USB interface (ActiveWire)
  - Tiny web server (Siteplayer)
  - RF transmitter/receiver (Laipac)
  - RF trans/rec (Abacom)
  - Tranceivers (Aerocomm)
  - Packet radios and trans/rec (Radiometrix)
- Noise Generation
- Specific ICs
  - 555 timer
    - basics
    - circuits
    - circuits
    - theory
  - Maxim ICs
Neurobiology
- Explore the Brain and Spinal Cord (From NeuroScience for Kids)
- Brain Briefings (from Soc for Neuroscience)
- Brain Backgrounders (from Soc for Neuroscience)
- The Nerve Impulse. (UCLA)
- Introduction to Neurobiology (UIUC)
- Neurons and Glia (UTO)
- Neurons and Glia -- membrane potential (UTO)
- MBC-4420 Lectures (UTO)
- Introduction to Neuroscience (Williams)
- Neural Simulations in Java
- Hodgkin-Huxley model (caltech)
Math
- Matlab
  - A MatLab Tutorial (Cornell EE215)
  - BioNB 441
- Fourier analysis
  - Fourier synthesis (Gustavus Adolphus College)
  - Fourier series analysis (Johns Hopkins)
  - Fourier series approximation (Johns Hopkins)
  - Signals, Systems and Control (Johns Hopkins)
- Complex numbers
- Chaos
  - Build a Lorenz attractor

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This page is no longer maintained. Last modified, Dec 2005

This page is no longer maintained.
Last modified, Dec 2005