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EE456 Electrical Design
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisites: EE384 Electrical Power and
Machines, EE386 Electronics
Instruction: lectures
Assessment: assignment
A fourth-year subject in the electrical power and control
engineering stream of the degree of Bachelor of Engineering
(Electrical- unstreamed).
Subject aims
To give practice in the application of the design process in
particular aspects of electrical power and control
engineering. To allow each student to select a topic for a
design project.
Subject description
W r electronics circuitry: trigger circuits, for power semiconductor
devices. EM1 from power switching circuits,
regulations.
Illumination: lighting fundamentals and photometric units.
Light Sources: interior and office lighting.
Floodlighting: Australian Standards and lighting codes.
Electric machine design procedures: specific magnetic and
electric loading of materials, losses, thermal and mechanical
stress limitations. Similitude and scaling. Basic design
procedures. Examples of transformer or induction motor
design.
Electrical materials: mechanical and electrical properties of
conductors and insultors.
Design topic selection: each student is to select a topic and
gain approval of it by a staff member. The staff member
becomes the design supervisor. Students are expected to
carry out the preliminary design procedures up to the stage
of detailed calculations in the fourth year of the course, and
to complete the construction, testing and evaluation stages
of the process as their final year Design Project. Students are
to be given guidance in the use of computer and manual
methods of literature searching.
TextlReferences
To be advised
~E458 Electrical Design
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisites: completion of the third year of the
degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical -
unstreamed)
Instruction: lectures
Assessment: assignmentlposter
A fourth-year subject in the communications and electronics
stream of the degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical
- unstreamed).
Subject aims
To introduce the student to selected design considerations in
the communications and electronics stream of the course;
and to allow the student to elect a topic for the major
design and project activities of the fifth year of the course.
Subject description
The process of design, functional partitioning, hardware
description languages, basic features of VHDL, design
entities, architectural bodies, block statements, processes,
data types, packages, control statements, basic modelling
techniques for combinational and sequential logic, chip level
modelling, system modelling, application of VHDL in the
areas of chip-level modelling and test generation, chip level
emulation in parallel, human engineering, reliability
considerations, maintainability, documentation. Preparation of
a research project and a technical poster.
TextlReferences
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EE459 Electrical Design
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisites: EE363 Computer Systems
Engineering
Instruction: lectures
Assessment: testlassignment
A fourth-year subject in the computer systems engineering
stream of the degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical
- unstreamed).
Subject aims
For students to develop and demonstrate a sound
understanding of the various aspects of digital system
design.
Subject description
Aspects of digital system design including a formal treatment
of design for testability including observability and
controllability, generation of test sequences including self
test and automatic fault isolation to smallest replaceable
component. Redundancy schemes, ECC in memory systems.
Algorithms for, simulation, partitioning, placement and
routing. An introduction to hardware description languages
and automatic synthesis.
Students select a design topic and carry out a formal design
study which may be completed in the fifth year of the
course as their design project.
TextsIReferences
Computer Aided Design Journal, Butterworth & Co.
Dillinger, T.E. VLSI Engineering. Prentice-Hall, 1988
IEEE Design and Test of Computers Magazine
IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Proceedings of Design Automation Conferences
EE465 Engineering Systems Software
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisites: EE363 Computer Systems
Engineering
Instruction: ledureslcomputer laboratory tutorials
Assessment: examinationlassignments
A fourth-year subject in all streams in the degree of
Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical- unstreamed).
Subject aims
The aim of the subject is for students to dwelop a sound
understanding of advanced software engineering principles
and techniques applicable to computer based systems in
engineering, and to introduce the fundamental elements of
operating systems as a base for advanced studies in real-time
systems.
Subject description
Principles of software engineering including requirement
analysis, specifications, design, verification and quality
assurance.
Operating systems including the internal structure and
operation, using UNlX and MSDOS as case studies.
References
IEEE Software Magazine and Transactions on Software Engineering
Jones, G. Software Engineering. New York: Wilqr, 1990
Kelly, A. and Pohl, I. /A Book on C. 2nd ed. Benjamin Curnmings
Publishing Company, 1990
Silberschatz. A. and Peterson, J.L. Operating System Concepti
Addison Wesley, 1991
Stone, H.S. Structured Computer Organisation. PrenticeHall, 1990
Tanenbaum, A.S. Operating Systems. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-
Hall, 1987