Analog Integrated Circuit Design
Undergraduate, 4th Year, Technical Elective, W16
This course provides an introduction to CMOS Mixed Signal Circuit Design techniques. Familiarity with analog, digital CMOS designs, and fundamentals of signal processing is required. The course covers basic signals, filters, and tools, Introduction to sampling and aliasing, decimation and interpolation commonly used in digital signal processing, circuits used for sampling, analog filters, digital filters, and data converters.
Text Books:
CMOS Mixed-Signal Circuit Design, Second Edition, by Jacob Baker, Wiley, ISBN: 978047029262
Computer Aided Analysis
Undergraduate, 2ndYear, Core Course, F07, F08
Object oriented programming in C++ covering most of the basic concepts. Development of Classes for matrix operations, complex numbers, etc. The rest of the course covers class development for a set of numerical schemes that include: Gauss-Jordan Method for solving Linear Simultaneous Algebraic Equations; Matrix inversion; Root finding using the Newton-Raphson and the half-interval methods; Lin-Bairstow method for Roots of Polynomials; Least-squares fitting; Numerical Integration using the Trapezoidal and Simpson’s 1/3 rule; Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations of any order using Euler, Improved Euler and the fourth-order Runge-Kutta methods.
Digital Signal Precessing
Undergraduate, 4thYear, Core Course, W08-W12
Discrete time signals and systems models and analysis; Z-transform; discrete Fourier transform (DFT); FFT algorithms; FIR filter design; IIR filter design; stability; realization; hardware and software implementations; digital signal processing applications.
Electronics I
Undergraduate, 2nd Year, Core Course, W13-W17
Classification of signals; introduction to diodes; rectifier circuits, Zener diode, limiting and clamping circuits; Op amp amplifier configurations, Op amp distortion, non ideal op amp performance; active filters, Tow-Thomas Biquad; Introduction to data converters; oscillators; super-diodes; pulse generation, MOS field effect transistors, Bipolar Transistors, transistor Amplifier
Text Book:
Microelectronics Circuits, Sedra and Smith, 7th edition, Oxford Publishing, ISBN: 9780199339136
Electronics II
Undergraduate, 3rd Year, Core Course, F14, F16-F17
Analog amplification; small-signal modeling of analog circuits; differential amplifier topology; BJT, MOSFET, and JFET differential amplifiers; frequency response and time-dependent circuit behavior; feedback and stability; multistage and power amplifiers; active filters and oscillators; use of CAD in modern transistor circuit design.
Text Book:
Microelectronics Circuits, Sedra and Smith, 7th edition, Oxford Publishing, ISBN: 9780199339136
EM Waves and Radiating Systems
Undergraduate, 2nd Year, Core Course, W10-W14
Static electric fields; Coulomb’s law, Gauss’s law and its applications; electric potential; dielectrics; boundary conditions; capacitance; resistance; steady electric currents, current density, boundary condition for current density, equation of continuity and Kirchhoff’s law; power dissipation; static magnetic fields; Biot-Savart’s law, Ampere’s law; vector magnetic potential; magnetic dipole; magnetic circuits; boundary conditions for magnetic fields; magnetic forces and torque; induction current.
Physical Electronics
Undergraduate, 2ndYear, Core Course, W10
Free electron theory of metals; Fermi level, work function; resistivity; band theory of solids, Fermi-Dirac distribution, density of states; semiconductors, donor and acceptor states; Hall effect; semiconductor devices, Field-Effect Transistors; dielectric materials and devices; semiconductor devices; P-N junction diodes, Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors (MOSFET), and Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT).