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ENGS 128 Advanced Digital System Design
Offered alternate years: 11S: arrange
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have become a major fabric for implementing
digital systems, rivaling application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and microprocessors/microcontrollers,
particularly in applications requiring special architectures
or high data throughput, such as digital signal processing. Hardware description
languages (HDLs) have become the dominant method for digital system design. This
course will advance the student’s understanding of FPGA design flow and ability to
perform HDL-based design and implementation on FPGAs. Topics include: FPGA
architectures, digital arithmetic, pipelining and parallelism, efficient design using
register transfer level coding and IP cores, computer-aided tools for simulation,
synthesis, and debugging. The course is graded on a series of laboratory exercises
and a final project.
Prerequisites: ENGS 31 and either ENGS 62 or COSC 37
Instructor: Hansen
ENGG 129 Instrumentation and Measurements
(Can be used by undergraduates for A.B. course count only)
Offered 11S, 12S: 11, laboratory
A very significant part of designing electronic instruments involves selecting the
appropriate physical devices to translate quantities to be measured into voltages or
currents that can be sensed with electronic circuits. The range of sensors and transducers
available will be studied with examples from industry and medical instrumentation.
The course will explore in some detail the use of analog to digital (A/D) and
digital to analog (D/A) converters and their applications. Students will also learn
to use complete A/D-microprocessor-D/A systems since these are part of nearly all
instruments now. In this course students will learn to build a complete instrument
by combining analog and digital components and using advanced algorithms. We
will review the basic concepts from analog electronics and real-time event driven
programming one needs to understand in order to construct such instruments and
experiment through a series of labs. The course will culminate with group projects to
induce the students to go through the design process on a problem of their choice.
Prerequisites: ENGS 31 and ENGS 61, or equivalent
Instructor: Hartov
ENGS 130 Mechanical Behavior of Materials
Offered: 10F, 11F: 9L
A study of the mechanical properties of engineering materials and the influence of
these properties on the design process. Topics include: tensorial description of stress
and strain; elasticity; plastic yielding under multiaxial loading; flow rules for large
plastic strains; microscopic basis for plasticity; viscoelastic deformation of polymers;
creep; fatigue; and fracture.
Prerequisites: ENGS 24 and ENGS 33, or equivalent
Instructor: Schulson
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