CreditPoints: 7.0
Prerequisite: 431-203 Control 2
Contact 26 lectures (2 units of 13 lectures each), 6 practice classes (Firstsemester)
Objective: On completion of this subject, students should:
• understand frequency domain based control system compensation techniques and methods for nonlinear system analysis;
• be able to design simple control system compensators and to analyse control systems with nonlinearities;
• understand the concept of state space in control systems;
• understand the principle of state estimation;
• be able to analyse and design controllers for simple control systems using state-space techniques.
Content Classical methods for control system compensation:
Introduction to control system compensation, lead compensation and design, lag compensation and design, lag-lead compensation, PID controller. Introduction to system optimisation: Perform- ance indexes, computation of performance indexes. Introduction to nonlinear systems: Perfonnance and properties of nonlinear systems, nonlinearities, linearisation of nonlinear systems. De- scribingfunction analysis and phase plane analysis: Describing functions, limit cycles, stability analysis. Phase plane trajectories, linear and nonlinear system analysis.
Linear Control Systems - A State Space Approach: State-space representation of dynamic systems. Derivation of state equations.
Solving the state equations. Transformation of state equations.
Properties of Unear systems: Controllability and observability.
Controller design methods. Obsener design methods.
Assessment: A 2-hour examination; practice classes, tests and assignments not exceeding 12 pages.
431-304 DIGITAL ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS 3
Credit points: 7.0
Prerequisite: 431 -204 Digital Electronics and Computer Systems 2.
Contact 26 lecmres and six practice classes. (First Semester) Objective: On completion of this subjeci, smdents should:
• understand the operation of CMOS, TTL, and ECL logic gates;
• have a working knowledge of design techniques for digital electronic circuits including control logic and sequential logic;
• know design techniques for interfacing microprocessors to peripheral devices;
• understand the architecmre and application of members of common microprocessor families;
• have a working knowledge of computer communications and computer networks.
Content TTL, ECL, and CMOS logic famihes. Analysis and design of sequential digital systems. Hardware aspects of DMA, serial and parallel commumcation, 16 and 32 bit processors, memory man- agement. Architecmre of high performance computers. Computer networks, and communications, IEEE 488 parallel communica- tions protocols, Ethernet, token ring, token bus.
Assessment: A 2-hour examination; practice classes, tests and assignments, not exceeding 12 pages.
431-305 ELECTRONICS 3 Credit pouits: 7.0
Prerequisite: 431-205 Electronics 2.
Contact: 26 lecmres and six practice classes. (First Semester) Objective: On completion of this subject, smdents should:
• have an understanding of the physical and modelling basis for the analysis of key devices in analog electronic circuits and the operation principles of a variety of subcircuits in integrated circuits;
• be able to analyse typical subcircuits and to design feedback amplifiers;
• be able to analyse both small-signal and large-signal circuit behaviour, and
• appreciate the use of the circuit simulation program SPICE.
Content rhgh-n*eauencydevicemodels,chargestorageand switch- ing, large signal device models. Switching perfonnance of devices, computer simulation. Analog integrated circuit technology, differ- ential amplifiers, asymmetry, drift, offset Current sources and active loads. Power amplifiers. Multistage frequency response.
Feed-back, frequency response and stabwtyoffeedbackamplifiers.
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Operatiorial amplifiers. Nonlinear analog circuits. Noise in devices and circuits. Bandpass amplifiers and oscillators.
Assessment A 2-hour examination; practice classes, tests and assignments not exceeding 12 pages.
431-306 FIELDS AND TRANSMISSION LINES 3 Credit points: 7.0
Prerequisite: 431-206 Fields and Transmission Lines 2.
Contact: 26 lectures and sLx practice classes. (Secondsemester) Objective: On completion of this subject stiidents should:
• understand the behaviour of transmission lines, waveguides, and free space propagation of electromagnetic fields when transmitting and processing high speed signals.
• be able to measure, analyse, and design a variety of electrical transmission networks in the frequency and time domains using combinations of transmission fines, lumped and active networks.
• be able to analyse the behaviour of waves propagating in dielectric waveguides and optical fibres.
• understand the fundamental characteristics of antennas and be able to design simple antennas for free space propaga- tion.
Content Plane wave propagation with multiple interfaces and oblique incidence. General lossy transmission hne in both time and frequency domains. Apphcations of distributed circuits. Matching techniques, Smith chart Scattering parameters. Coupled lines and directional couplers. Striphnes and microstrip. Waveguides and cavities. Dielectric waveguides, integrated optics and optical fibres.
Radiation and simple antennas. Propagation behveen antennas.
Assessment: A 2-hour examination; practice classes, tests and assignments not exceeding 12 pages.
431-307 LABORATORY 3A Credit points: 8.0
Prerequisite: 431-207 laboratory 2A.
Corequisite: Approved combination of units from tliird year Electrical Engineering subjects.
Contact: 32 x 3-hour laboratory sessions. (Allyear) Objective: On completion ofthis subject students should:
• have obtained a practical understanding which reinforces theoretical concepts learned in lectures associated wilh the third year Electrical Engineering stream subjects by performing laboratory experiments relevant to the lecture material;
• be famihar with experimental procedure in the Electrical Engineering laboratories;
• have an understanding of the engineering hardware leamed in associated lectures.
Content Topics from relevant sections of the third year Electrical Engineering course.
Assessment Laboratory reports of up to 1200 words each to be submitted for not more that 70% of scheduled laboratory' sessions.
Attendance and satisfactory performance in at least 75% of labora- tory classes is required to pass this subject
431-308 LABORATORY 3B Credit points: 6.0
Prerequisite: 431 -207 Laboratory 2A or 431 -208 Laboratory 2B.
Corequisite: .Approved combination of units from diird year Electrical Engineering subjects.
Contact: 24 x 3-hour laboratory sessions. (Allyear) Objective: On completion of this subject students should:
• have obtained a practical understanding which reinforces theoretical concepts learned in lectures associated with the third year Computer Engineering stream subjects by performing laboratory experiments relevant to the lecmre material;
• be familiar with experimental procedure in the Electrical Engineering Laboratories;
• have an understanding of the engineering hardware leamed in associated lecmres.
Content: Topics from relevant sections of the third year Computer Engineering course.
Assessment: Laboratory reports of up to 1200 words each to be submitted for not more that 70% of scheduled laboratory sessions.
Attendance and satisfactory performance in at least 75% of labora- tory classes is required to pass this subject
431-309 LABORATORY 3C Credit points: 4.0
Prerequisite: 431 -207 Laboratory 2A or 431 -208 Laboratory 2B or 431-209 laboratory 2C.
Corequisite: Approved combination of units from third year Electrical Engineering subjects.
Contact: 16 x 3-hour laboratory sessions. (Allyear) Objective: On completion of this subject smdents should:
• have obtained a practical understanding which reinforces theoretical concepts learned in lecmres associated with the ihird year Software Engineering stream subjects by perform- ing laboratory experiments relevant to the lecture material;
• be familiar with experimental procedure in the Electrical Engineering Laboratories;
• have an understanding of the engineering hardware leamed in associated lecmres.
Content: Topics from relevant sections of the third year Software Engineering course.
Assessment: Laboratory reports of up to 1200 words each to be submitted for not more lhat 70% of scheduled laboratory sessions.
Attendance and satisfactory perfonnance in at least 75% of labora- tory classes is required to pass this subject
431-310 NETWORKS 3 CreditPoints: 7.0
Prerequisites: 431-210 Networks 2, 400-203 Mathematics for Engineers 2A (or equivalent)
Contact: 26 lecmres and six practice classes. (First semester) Objective: On completion of this course, smdents should:
• be able to use Laplace and Z transform methods to deter- mine the response of circuits and systems to continuous or sampled data input signals;
• be able to calculate system outputs for impulse, step, sinewave and pulse sequence inputs;
• be able to design analogue and digital filters in order to modify' signals and circuit responses.
Content Impulse response, impulse response convolution, the convolution sum, the convolution integral. Discretisation of con- tinuous time signals, sampled data signals. The Z transform, Z transform analysis of sampled data systems and systems with both sampled data and analogue components. Signal Dow graphs. Y, Z, II, g matrix descriptions for multiport networks. Introduction to filters. Design of analogue and digital filters.
Assessment A two-hour examination; practice classes, tests and assignments, not exceeding 12 pages.
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431-317 POWER 3 Credit Points: 7.0
Prerequisite: 431-217 Power 2
Contact 26 lectures and 6 practice classes. (Second semester) Objective: On completion of this subject, students should:
• be able to construct models of electrical power components such as transformers, transmission lines, synchronous and dc machines and rectifying equipment;
• be able to apply the component models to a wide range of calculations concerning system and plant performance in the steady-state.
Content Power generation and transmission (13 lectures) - Synchronous machine theory and machine models. Introduction to power transmission networks and power system analysis. Power conversion and utilisation (13 lectures) - Power rectifier circuits, including source impedance, phase-control, and harmonics. DC machines, steady-state and dynamic models. Introduction to elec- trical drives.
Assessment A two4iour examination; practice classes, tests and assignments, not exceeding 12 pages.
431-320 COMPUTER CONTROL Credit Points: 3.5
Prerequisites: 431-303 Control 3
Contact 13 lectures and three practice classes (Secondsemes- ter)
Objective: On completion of diis subject, students should:
• appreciate the fundamental importance and scope of computer control for industrial automation;
• understand fundamental techniques for the analysis and design of computer control systems;
• be able to design simple digital controllers for the control of practical industrial processes such as chemical processes or metallurgical plants;
• appreciate problems arising in the practical implementation of digital controllers.
Content Sampling of continuous time systems, review of the Z- transform. Analysis of discrete-time systems. Digital redesign of controllers. Simulation of digital control systems. Relationship between continuous and discrete-time systems. Introduction to identification and adaptive control. Implementation of digital con- trollers.
Assessment A1 l/2hourexamination;practiceclasses,testsand assignments, not exceeding 12 pages.
431-321 CAD DESIGN OF VLSI Credit Points: 3.5
Prerequisites: 431-204 Digital Electronics and Computer Sys- tems 2 and 431-205 Electronics 2
Contact 13 lectures and three practice classes. (Secondsemes- ter)
Objective: On completion of this subject, students should:
• understand the design techniques developed by Mead and Conway for designing VLSI circuits;
• understand the computer aided design tools used to design VLSI circuits;
• be able to convert a circuit diagram to a mask layout via a stick diagram
• be able to lay out a VLSI mask using a CAD drafting tool such as Magic and extract from it a circuit suitable for simulation using a logic simulator or an analogue simulator such as Spice.
Content This is an introduction to the systematic design of VLSI circuits and its aim is to provide students with an understanding of the issues involved in VLSI design and the apphcation of CAD tools to the management of the complexity of such design. By the end of this cou rse, students will be able to design components such as shift registers, ALUs and FSMs using PLAs and will be able to use a range of tools which are typical ofthe CAD suites used in VLSI design. The course will use MOS as a typical technology but bipolar, CMOS and GaAs technologies will also be briefly touched upon.
AssessmentAl l/2hourexamination;practiceclasses,testsand assignments, not exceeding 12 pages.
431-322 VOICE AND DATA NETWORKS Credit Points: 3.5
Contact 13 lectures and three practice classes (Secondsemes- ter)
Objective: On completion of this subject, students should:
• understand of the basic methods of operation of modem communications networks used for voice transmission and for data transmission.
• appreciate me techniques necessary for die design of telecommunications and computer commumcations networks.
Content Data transmission - link level protocols. ISO/OSI model - the 7 layers. Examples of protocols. Network topologies: hierar- chical and non-hierarchical networks. Circuit switching and packet switching. Design of switching networks. Space division and time division switching. Practical switching systems. Call processing.
Common channel signalling.
Assessment: A1 l/2hourexamination;practiceclasses,tesLsand assignments, not exceeding 12 pages.
431-323 SOLID STATE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES Credit Points: 3-5
Prerequisites: 431-216 Physical Electronics
Contact: 13 lectures and three practice classes (Secondsemester 2)
Objective: On completion of this subject, students should:
• Have a working knowledge of the design, manufacture, and operating characteristics of important solid-state semicon- ductor devices.
• Have gained an understanding of how semiconductor physics may be apphed to the design of state-of-the-art microwave and photonic devices.
• Know how the basic characteristics of these devices relate to the materials from which they are manufactured.
Content: Review of semiconductor physics, energy bands carrier transport, optical properties, thermal properties. Material growth technologies, bandgap engineering; III-V compounds, and II-V1 compounds. Microwave devices; field effect transistors, high elec- tron mobmty'transistors,andomerheterojunctiondevices.Ph devices; radiative transitions, b'ghtenutting diodes, semiconductor laser physics, semiconductor laser diode operating characteristics.
Photodetectors; photoconductors, photodiodes, avalanche photodiodes, phototransistors.
AssessmentAl l/2hourexamination;practiceclasses,testsand assignments, not exceeding 12 pages.
431-413 THESIS Credit Points: 7.0
Contact No contact hours specified. (Allyear)
Objective: On completion of this subject, smdents should:
• have demonstrated skills in the preparation, writing and presentation of a hteramre review on a technical topic in electrical & electronic engineering.
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Content Students will be required to select a topic from a range offered by the department each year. The thesis is to be based on a library search and literature review and may extend to reporting on associated experimental work. The thesis will be prepared under foe siirxirvision of a member of me ar^
with relevant expertise. Students with particular interests are encouraged to submit their own thesis topics for consideration.
Assessment: Submission for examination of a thesis not exceeding 5000 words.
431-414 PROJECT WORK Credit Points: 20.0
Prerequisites: 431-307 Laboratory 3A or 431-308 Laboratory 3B.
Corequisite: Enrolment in least 50% of standard final year Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering course.
Contact One day per week for 24 weeks. (Allyear) Objective: On completion of diis subject, students should:
• have acquired practical design and research skills related to professional practice in electrical and electronic engineering and computing;
• have demonstrated the ability to work in a small team under broad project guideUnes, and to successfully achieve the agreed project goals.
Content: 192 hours through Semesters 1 and 2 of laboratory oriented projects selected from a list offered by the department each year. Projects will be undertaken under the supervision of a member of the academic staff of the department with relevant expertise. Projects will require activities related to design, implc- mentationandtestingof electrical, electronicorcomputingsystems with associated literature reviews, computing and workbench activities. Project management & reporting will comprise a signifi- cant part of all projects. Students with specific interests are encour- aged to submit dieirown project proposals for consideration by the department
Assessment: Submission for examination of project reports not exceeding 5000 words.
431-415 ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS Credit Points: 7.0
Prerequisite: 431-302 Communications 3,619-005 Probabibty and Stochastic Processes for Electrical Engineers.
Contact 26 lecmres and 6 practice classes. (First Semester) Objective: On completion ofthis subject, smdents should:
• have developed advanced skills in the analysis, design and evaluation of digital communications systems;
• understand state-of-the art and commercially available systems such as spread spectrum, satellite, and cellular mobile radio systems.
Content
Digital Communications: Review of random variables and stochastic processes, optimum detection of signals in noise, matched filtering, error probability calculations for digital modulation, spectral propertiesof digital signals, multilevel modulation schemes, signabng through band-limited channels, optimum transrm'tting and receiving filters, comparison of digital communications sys- tems. Radio signal fading models: Two-path fading, Rayleigh fading model for fading of radio signals. Diversity reception, switching diversity, combination diversity, frequency-selective fad- ing, tropospheric scatter.
Plus a selection of the following topics:
Digital Radio Systems: Bandwidth efficiency, fading models, receiver strucmres, synchronisation, radio system signatures for the calculation of system outages.
Spread spectrum techniques: General concepts, direct sequence systems, frequency hopping and time hopping systems, hybrid spread spectrum systems, application of spread spectrum to mul- tiple access systems and to secure communication systems.
SatelliteSystems: Channel modelling, multiple access techniques, modulation formats and basic link calculations.
Cellular mobile radio systems: Channel modelling (both narrow and wideband channels), concept of frequency reuse, cell splitting, spectrum efficiency, system quality, modulation formats and re- ceiver strucmres.
Topical areas: To be advised each year.
Assessment: One 2-hour examination; practice classes, tests, and assignments not exceeding 12 pages.
431-416 ADVANCED DIGITAL CONTROL AND IDENTIFICATION
Credit points: 7.0
Prerequisite: 431-320 Computer Control
Contact: 26 lecmres, 6 practice classes. (Secondsemester) Objective: On completion of diis subject, smdents should:
• understand the fundamental theory of modern control systems and system identification;
• have an understanding of the digital implementation of control and identification algorithms;
• be able to analyse properties of digital control and identifica- tion algorithms and to properly design these algorithms to achieve specified system performance.
Content: Introduction: Introduction to digital control, filtering, and system identification. Optimal control: Linear quadratic opti- mal control, finite time and infinite time problems, principle of optimality and dynamic programming, discrete Riccati equation and solution, prediction and filtering theory, the Kalman filter.
System identification: Models for identification, principle of Least Squares, recursive Least Squares algorithm, convergence proper- tis&.Adaptive control: Basic concept, adaptive controllers, stability and convergence properties.
Assessment: One 2-hour examination; practice classes, tests and assignments not exceeding 12 pages.
431-417 BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING Credit Points: 7.0
Prerequisites: A knowledge of analogue and digital electronics, control theory, computer software and hardware.
Contact: 26 lectures and six tutorial classes. (First semester) Objective: On completion of this subject smdents should:
• have an introductory understanding of the specialist field of Biomedical Engineering;
• understand the interdisciplinary namre of the Biomedical Engineering field;
• have a knowledge of basic physiology and instrumentation associated with clinical treatment of patients with cardiac and spinal problems;
• appreciate the importance of electrical safety in an industrial or hospital environment and know the precautions necessary to ensure patient safety at all times.
Content Introduction to cell physiology and associated bioelectric activity. Measurement of bioelectric signals, electroencephalo- grams, myoelectrograms. Bioelectric activity of the heart, electro- cardiograms, fibrillation, blocked heart, defibrillation, and pace- makers. The myoelectric hand. Computer applications in medi- cine, monitoring, display, closed loop control. Large scale clinical equipment and associated organisational strucmres, renal dialy- sis, the lithotripter. Basic biomechanics, levers, joint control. Basic physiology, membranes. Neural control systems, reflexes feedback control, inhibitory neurons, higher centres. Spinal chord injury
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Artificial stimulation. Stimulus parameters, pulse size, frequency, strength-duration curve, efferent, afferent stimulation.
Assessment- One 2-hour examination; practice classes, tests and assignments not exceeding 12 pages.
431-418 COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK PERFORMANCE
Credit Points: 7.0
Prerequisite: 619-005 Probability and Stochastic Processes for Elecuical Engineers.
Contact:26 lecmres and 6 practice classes. (Firstsemester) Objective: On completion ofthis subject, students should:
• understand the basic principles of queueing theory;
• be able to use queueing theory models to analyse the traffic performance of simple circuit-switched and packet-switched telecommunications and computer-communication
networks.
Content: Circuit switclxdnetworks: Erlang loss function, equiva- lent random melhod. Packet switcixd networks: M/G/l queue.
Heinrock independence assumption, capacity assignment and Dow assignment end to end delays, flow control. Simple networks of queues. Local area networks: Random access protocols - ALOHA, slotted ALOHA, and CSMA/CD. Controlled access protocols - token ring and token bus.Advancedcommunications networks: Cellu- lar mobde communication networks. Integrated voice and data - fast packet networks.
Assessment One 2-hourexamination; practice classes, tests, and assignments not exceeding 12 pages.
431-419 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING Credit Points: 7.0
Prerequisite: 431-302 Communications 3 and 431-303 Control 3
Contact 26 lectures and 6 practice classes. (First semester) Objective: On completion ofthis subject, smdents should:
• understand the fundamental principles of signal processing
• be able to derive and analyse signal processing techniques;
• appreciate of the interdisciplinary nature of this field, and an awareness of its wide applications.
Content: Sampling and quantisation. Discrete systems. Discrete Fourier transform (DFT). Fast Fourier transform (FFT). Discrete convolution. Discrete filter design. Power spectral estimation. High resolution techniques. Frequency estimation. Subspace decompo- sition. Adaptive filters. Image processing. Array processing. Cramer- Rao bound.
Assessment: One 2-hour examination; practice classes, tests, and assignments not exceeding 12 pages.
431-420 HIGH SPEED ELECTRONICS AND OPTOELECTRONICS
Credit points: 7.0
Prerequisites: 431 -323 Solid State Semiconductor Devices, 431 - 306 Fields and Transmission Lines 3.
Contact 26 lecmres, 6 practice classes and laboratoiywork. (First semester)
Objective: On completion of this subject, smdents should:
• have a working knowledge of state-of-the-art high speed electronic and optoelectronic devices,
• develop design skills in advanced high speed electronic and optoelectronic circuits,
• be able to analyse, model, design and measure microwave circuits using passive microstrip elements and active electronic devices,
• have developed skills in the analysis and design of high speed optoelectronic circuits and photonic integrated circuits.
Content: Properties of microstrip transmission line; passive microstrip signal processing components. Scattering parameters for passive and active two ports, microwave amplifier design and stability, microwave oscillator design, noisy two ports, conditions for minimum noise Application of high speed electronic devices such as MESFET's and IIEMT's. Use of computer aided design packages in microwave and optoelectronic circuit design.
Optoelectronic devices: lasers, rate equations, circuit models. PIN and avalanche photodiodes. Modern measurement techniques for high speed microwave and optoelectronic circuits: lightwave signal analysis. High speed optoelectronic circuit design examples. Inte- grated optoelectronics.
Assessment: One 2-hour examination; practice classes, tests, and assignments not exceeding 12 pages.
431-421 INFORMATION THEORY AND CODING Credit Points: 7.0
Prerequisites: 619-003 Statistics & Stochastic Processes, 431- 302 Communications 3
Contact: 26 lecmres and 6 practice classes. (Second semester) Objective: On completion of this subject, smdents should:
• have attained an insiglit into the fundamentals of information theory,
• understand the underlying principles of coding used in telecommunications systems;
• be able to analyse the performance of coded telecommunica- tions systems;
Content: Information. Entropy, channel capacity. Source Coding;
Shannon-Fano encoding, Huffman encoding, coding and redun- dancy, redundancy-reducing codes. Data transmission codes: Ham- ming code, codebook encoding and decoding, cyclic codes, con- volutional codes, sequential and Viterbi decoding. Applications of coding to digital data transmission and storage systems.
Assessment: One 2-hour examination; practice classes, tests, and assignments not exceeding 12 pages.
431-422 LINEAR MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL SYSTEMS
Credit pouits: 7.0
Prerequisite: 431-303 Control 3
Contact: 26 lecmres, 6 practice classes. (Secondsemester) Objective: On completion of this subject, smdents should:
• understand state-space and transfer function representations of multivariable systems;
• be able to analyse the controllability, and observability, and stability conditions for multivariable systems;
• be able to design controllers for multivariable systems;
• be able to design state estimation schemes for multivariable systems.
Content Introduction to linear multivariable systems. Properties of linear multivariable systems: controllability, observability, stabU- ity. State-feedback: design of state feedback controllers, design of state estimators (observers). Output feedback: design of output feedback controllers. Introduction to large-scale systems. Model reduction techniques: time- and frequency-based methods for model reduction.
Assessment A 2-hour examination; practice classes, tests and assignments not exceeding 12 pages.
431-423 NEURAL NETWORKS Credit points: 7.0
Prerequisite: 431-303 Control 3
Contact 26 lecmres, 6 practice classes. (First semester)
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