undergrad2014

Undergraduate Catalog Academic Year 2014
ECS382 Microprocessors
3(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: Have earned credits of ECS371 or consent
of Head of School
Microprocessor architecture, instruction sets assembly
language programming, microprocessor interfacing,
applications, introduction to DSP processors, practical
projects and assignments.
ECS386 Introduction to Embedded
System
3(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: Have earned credits of ECS370 or consent
of Head of School
Concepts of timing and clocks; task-modeling and realtime
operating system; processors; signal digitization
and conditioning; memory; interfacing; state-machine
and concurrent processes; encoding and flow control;
formal verification.
ECS396 Project Development
1(0-3-0)
Prerequisite: Senior standing or consent of Head of School
Practical projects or problems in communications for
individual students or groups of students under
supervision of faculty members. Students are required
to submit and present the project proposal to their
project committee appointed by the program.
ECS398 Senior Project
6(0-18-0)
Prerequisite: Have earned credits of ECS396 or consent
of Head of School
The continuation of ECS396 to the completion stage of
the project. Students are required to submit complete
project reports and present project results to their
project committee.
ECS399 Extended Electronics and 6(0-40-0)
Communication Engineering Training
Prerequisite: Senior Standing or consent of Head of
School
Full-time research or practical training under close
supervision of faculty members and assigned supervisors
from the Electronics and/or Communication Engineeringrelated
company for at least 17 weeks. Evaluation based
on the project achievement, project report, and final
oral presentation.
ECS424 Analog Integrated Circuits
3(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: Have earned credits of ECS322 or consent
of Head of School
Output stages and power amplifiers. BJT and MOS circuits
of operational amplifiers. Advanced current mirrors and
op-amps. Comparators. Voltage references. Data
conversion, sample and holds, Nyquist-rate digital-toanalog
converter circuits, Nyquist-rate analog-to-digital
converter circuits, Oversampling converters. Translinear
principles. Analog multipliers and dividers. Phase-locked
loops (PLL). Precision rectification.
ECS425 Digital Integrated Circuits
3(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: Have earned credits of ECS322 or consent
of Head of School
Design principles of digital integrated circuits. NMOS
inverters, pseudo NMOS, pass transistors, CMOS inverters,
transmission gates. Logic families and their characteristics.
Sources of propagation delay. Noise margins. Dynamic
loads. Crosstalk. Transmission line effects. Advanced
design concepts, Programmable gate arrays (PLAs).
ECS427 Introduction to VLSI Design
3(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: Have earned credits of (ECS371 and
ECS322) or consent of Head of School
Introduction to design and fabrication of very large scale
integrated systems using NMOS and CMOS technologies.
CAD tools and computer-aided design. Use of state-ofthe-art
design methodologies and tools. Testing and
design for testability. Modularity, parallelism, local
communications, fault tolerance.
ECS441 Communication Electronics
3(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: Have earned credits of ECS322 or consent
of Head of School
RF and power amplifiers, oscillators, phase-locked loops,
filters, carrier modulators and demodulators, analog-todigital
and digital-to-analog converters, examples of
commercially available integrated circuits for communication
systems.
ECS442 Microwave Principles
3(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: Have earned credits of ECS233 or consent
of Head of School
Problem-based learning; Maxwell’s equations and
boundary conditions, transmission-line theory, s-parameters,
using Smith charts, impedance matching, microwave
transmission line and waveguides, microwave resonators
and filters, microwave network analysis, power dividers
and directional couplers, microwave measurement and
applications.
ECS450 Signal Processing and
Communication Laboratory
1(0-3-0)
Prerequisite: Have earned credits of ECS281 or consent
of Head of School
Sampling and reconstruction of signals, digital filter design
and hardware implementation, real-time filtering, AM-FM
modulation/demodulation, basic digital communication
technique, spectrum analysis, power measurement, DSP
system simulation.
ECS451 Data Communications and
Networks
Prerequisite: None
3(3-0-6)
Network models, OSI layers and protocols, TCP/IP, VOIP,
wide-area and local-area networks, routing algorithms
and switching techniques, networking equipment, such
as ATM, router, and bridge.
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