1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

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EE530 Analogue Electronic
Instrumentation and Techniques
12.5 credit points 4 hours per week average Hawthorn
Prerequisites: must satisfv course entv requirements
Corequisites: nil Assessment: exam, assignment and
laboratov work.
A subject in the Masters of Engineering by coursework
(Telecommunications, Computer Systems Engineering and
Biomedical Instrumentation)
Objectives
To develop expertise in the use of electronic circuits.
Content
Instrumentation transducers;
negative feedback techniques and applications;
non-ideal and high performance operational amplifiers;
reduction of noise and interference, isolation;
phase locked loops;
analogue to digital and digital to analogue conversion.
Recommended reading
Millman, J. and Grabel, A., Microelectronics, 2nd edn, N.Y,
McGraw Hill, 1987.
EE544 Electronic Communication Systems
7 credit points 3 hours per week Prerequisites: EE388,
,
EE482 Corequisites: nil Assessment: laboratory/
examination/assignment
A final year subject in the communications and electronics
stream of the degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical)
Objectives
To broaden students understanding of modern electronic
communications systems, and provide students with skills to
evaluate the performance of those systems.
Content
Two of the following three modules:
Module 1 - Satellite Comunications
Orbital and Geostationary satellites, orbital patterns, look
angles, orbital spacing and frequency allocation, radiation
patterns, satellite system link equations, nonideal system
parameters, multiple access arrangement.
Module 2 - Mobile Communications
Cellular concepts, system operation, handover, AMPS:
propagation and c apacity considerations, DAMPS, GSM
and CDMA technologies, personal communications
techniques.
Module 3 - Spectral Analysis & Estimation
Spectral analysis ~roblems and applications, approaches of
spectrum estimation, random processes, array processing
resolutions, computer simulation, spectrum estimators.
Recommended reading
Advised in class, depending on the modules offered.
EE545 Electronics
9 credit points 4 hoursper week Hawthorn
Prerequisites: EE483 Corequisites: nil Assessment:
examination/assignment
A final year subject in the communications and electronics
stream of the degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical)
Objectives
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,
block statements, guarded assignments, structural
description, overloading, chip level and finite state machine
modelling, system synthesis from behavioural models,
algorithmic level design, data flow design, algorithmic
synthesis.
VLSI: Overview of processes used in IC fabrication, theory
of MOS technologies, models of MOS transistors, MOS
logic structures and device sizing, pass transistor logic,
layout and design rules, extraction of parameters from
layout, circuit characterisation and performance estimation,
clocking schemes and various design rules, system design,
the IC design flow.
Recommended reading
Bhasker, J., A VHDL Primer, Prentice Hall, 1992
Douglas, P., WDL, McGraw-Hill
Gajski, D., & Dutt, N., High Level Synthesis: Introduction to Chip
and System Design, Kluwer Academic Publishers
IEEE Design and Test of Computer Magazine
IEEE Transaction on Computer-Aided Design
Schoel, J., Pe$onnance and Fault Modeling with WDL, Prentice
Hall
Tuinenga, P. W., Spice - A Guide to Circuit Simulation &Analysis
Using PSPICE, 2nd edn, Englewood, Cliffs, N.J. Prentice Hall,
1992
Weste, N and Eshraglan, K., Principles of CMOS VLSI Design: A
Systems Pmpective, Reading, Mass, Addison-Wesley, 1985
EE548 Communications
13 credit points 6 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisites: EE482 Corequisites: nil Assessment:
examination/assignment/laboratory
A final year subject in the communications and electronics
stream of the degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical)
0 biectives
To gain insight into the behaviour of telecommunication
and computer networks, with particular emphasis on
performance analysis and optimisation.
Content
Teletraffic engineering - random processes, traffic, the
Erlang loss function, simulation methods;