Skip to content
September 2026 qualifier: applications close Sun 27 Sep · Week 1 starts Fri 2 Oct
Qualifier Hub

IIT Madras ESTC Lectures: Electronic Systems Thinking and Circuits

EE110190 lectures12 weeks

Weeks

  1. Week 19 lecturesIntroduction · Miniaturization of electronic packaging · Mobile teardown · How small can a mobile phone get? · The battery · The charger · Back of the envelope calculations · The resistor · The Theory
  2. Week 211 lecturesIntroduction to "Voltage" · Introduction to "Current" and Ohms Law · Series and parallel connection of voltage and current sources · I-V characteristics of Resistors, voltage and current sources · Nodal Analysis and KCL · Mesh Analysis and KVL · Measurement of simple resistive circuit · Series and parallel connection of resistors · Introduction to capacitors · Introduction to inductors · Capacitance and Inductance measurement
  3. Week 37 lecturesDial, Talk and Hear · The Microphone · Motor and Generator · The Sinusoid · Energy of time varying signals · Harmonics · Electricity consumption at home
  4. Week 46 lecturesProblem Solving - Getting Started · Problem Solving - Lower and upper bounds · Problem Solving - More Complex Problems · Problem Solving - Resistive Ladder · Problem Solving - Wheatstone's bridge · Problem Solving - Resistive Cube
  5. Week 58 lecturesAnalog Mixer · Resistive Analog Mixer · Analog Mixer : Simulation · Superposition principle · Analog Mixer using superposition · Linear electrical components · Series and parallel resistive networks · Numerical examples on superposition
  6. Week 65 lecturesThe Non-Inverting Amplifier · The Inverting Amplifier · Power Conventions · The RC Step Response - Experiment · The RC Step Response - Theory
  7. Week 77 lecturesLow Pass Filter - Experiment · Low Pass Filter - Theory · High Pass Filter - Analysis · High Pass Filter - Experiment · Band Pass Filter -Design · Band Pass Filter -Experiment · First order analysis: Limitations
  8. Week 87 lecturesProblem Solving - Resistive Analog Mixer · Problem Solving - Resistive Analog Mixer using superposition · Problem Solving - Superposition - Voltage sources · Problem Solving - Homogeneity Principle · Problem Solving - Power absorbed by circuit elements · Problem Solving- Superposition - Current / Voltage sources -1 · Problem Solving- Superposition - Current / Voltage sources - 2
  9. Week 98 lecturesAnalog vs Digital Audio Representations · Time Quantization · Amplitude Quantization · Sample and Hold Circuit · Flash ADC · Charge Sharing · Switched Capacitors · Capacitive Mixer
  10. Week 106 lecturesLaptop Teardown · Binary Number System · Decimal to Binary Number Conversion · Calculating Wave File Size · Analog vs Digital Computing · Digital Compute Blocks
  11. Week 118 lecturesWired Communication - The Experiment · Wired Communication - Inductive Ringing · Wired Communication - Summary · Wireless Communication - The Radio · Wireless Communication - Modulation Techniques · Wireless Communication - Amplitude Modulation · Wireless Communication - Frequency Modulation · Wireless Communication - The Antenna
  12. Week 127 lecturesProblem Solving - LPF Energy · Problem Solving - Current Source and Capacitors · Problem Solving - Current Source, Capacitors, and Resistors · Problem Solving - Switched Capacitors · Problem Solving - Voltage source and Capacitor · Problem Solving - Voltage source, Current source, and Capacitor · Problem Solving - Current sources and Capacitor

More lectures

Video 1 · 33:03

Course summary with sensing computing & communication recap

Watch on YouTube (opens in a new tab)

ESTC previous year papersWeek-by-week help for ESTC