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Additional references will be provided by the lecturers for their
topics
EE530
Analogue Electronic Instrumentation
and Techniques
12.5 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisites: Assessment: practical work, assignments and
examination
A subject in the Masters of Engineering by Course
Work(Computer Systems Engineering) and (Biomedical
Engineering)
Objectives
The student should be familiar with the basic digital
building blocks (such as gates, flip/flops, counters etc.)
Be capable of analysing and synthesising digital circuits
of moderate complexity.
develop an understanding of the basic analog building
blocks (such as amplifiers, filters, non-linear circuits,
etc.)
to analyse and synthesise analog circuits using
operational amplifiers.
and have a basic understanding of discrete electronic
components (such as diodes and transistors).
Content
Digital Electronics: Combinational logic: Review of Boolean
algebra analysis and synthesis, Kmaps; SSI and MSI Building
Blocks: Adders, Subtractors, ALU s, Multiplexers,
Demultiplexers, Encoders, Decoders; Sequential Logic;
Latches and Flip-flops; MSI building blocks (counters,
registers, shift registers); State Machines; Logic Devices and
Family Characteristics: Fan out, loading, propagation delays,
power dissipation; Logic levels and compatibility; Threestate
and open collector outputs; Programmable Devices:
ROMs, PLAs, PALS.
Analog Electronics: Amplifiers: Input and output
Impedance, Loading Effects, Voltage Gain, Current Gain,
Power Gain, Frequency Response Classifications, Bode
Diagrams; Ideal Operational Amplifiers: Ideal Model, Unity
Gain Buffer, Inverting, Non-Inverting configurations,
8 Summing and Differential Amplifiers, Integrators and
0
3
Differentiators; Filters: Second Order Active Filters, LP,
P. - HP, BP Filter examples; Non Ideal OP-Amps: Effect of
finite OP-amp gain, Bandwidth, Input Offset Voltage, Input
Bias Current, Bias Current; CMRR; Instrumentation
Amplifiers; Introduction to Discrete Devices: Diode: VI
Characteristics, Lumped Linear Models; Transistors: Large
and Small Signal Models
Non Linear Op-Amp Applications: Clipping and Clamping
Circuits, Precision Diode, Peak Detector; Comparators.
Recommended Reading
Maddock R.J. Calcutt D.M. Electronics for Engineers, Scientific
and Technical, 2nd Edn., 1994.
Mano M.M. Digital Design, Prentic.Hal1, 2nd Edition 1991.
Millman J. and Grabel A.,Microelectronics, McGraw Hill, Ed. 2nd
1987
Sedra A.S. and Smith K.C., Microelectronic Circuits, Holt,
Rinehdrt and Winston, 3rd Edn., 1992.
EE544 Electronic Communication Systems
7 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisites: EE388, EE482 Assessment: laboratory,
examination, assignment
A final year subject in the communications and electronics
stream of the degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical)
0 biectives
Understand and use common mobile communications
terminology.
Explain the behaviour of mobile communications
systems and techniques.
Analyse and critically evaluate performance of systems.
Design systems to specified parameters, using analytical
and empirical rules.
Content
Mobile and Personal Communications Systems:
Introduction to mobile radio communications; Cellular
concepts, system operation, handover for analogue cellular
(AMPS); Mobile radio signal propagation; Small scale fading
and multipath; Modulation; Cellular systems standards:
AMPS, USDC, GSM and CDMA, and capacity
comparisons; Wireless networking and PCS.
Recommended Reading
Duff W.G., A handbook on mobile communications, Germantown,
Md, Don White consultants, 1976.
IEEE Personal Communications, IEEE, N.Y.
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE, N.Y.
Jakes, MobileRadio Communications, N.Y. Wiley, 1974.
Jakoda A. and De-Villepen M., Mobile Communications, Palaiseau,
France, M Mouly and M.B. Pautet, 1992.
Lee W.C.Y, Mobile Communications Engineering, McGraw Hill,
1992.
Mouly M. and Pautet M.B., lhe GSM system for Mobile
Communications, Palaiseau, France, M. Mouly and M.B. Pautet.
1992.
Parsons, J.D. and J.D. Gardiner, Mobile Communications Systems,
Glasgow, Blackie, 1989.
Steele, R. Mobile Radio Communications, London, Pentech, 1992.
EE545 Electronics
9 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisites: EE483 Assessment: examination, assignment
A final year subject in the communications and electronics
stream of the degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical)
0 bjectives
To introduce students to algorithmic state machine, the
design and synthesis of modern integrated digital systems
including VLSI design rules and performance estimation.
Content
VHDL and High Level Synthesis: High level systhesis,
functional models, HDL, VHDL, design entity declarations,
architectural body, behavioural modelling, transport and
inertial delays, signal assignments, drivers, data structures,