UC Davis 2008-2010 General Catalog - General Catalog - UC Davis

258 Engineering: Electrical and Computer Engineering
189A-V. Special Topics in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science (1-5)
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Special Topics in
(A) Computer Science; (B) Programming Systems; (C)
Digital Systems; (D) Communications; (E) Signal
Transmission; (F) Digital Communication; (G) Control
Systems; (H) Robotics; (I) Signal Processing; (J)
Image Processing; (K) High-Frequency Phenomena
and Devices; (L) Solid-State Devices and Physical
Electronics, (M) Systems Theory, (N) Active and Passive
Circuits; (O) Integrated Circuits; (P) Computer
Software; (Q) Computer Engineering; (R) Microprocessing;
(S) Electronics; (T) Electromagnetics; (U)
Opt-Electronics; (V) Computer Networks. May be
repeated for credit when topic differs.—I, II, III. (I, II,
III.)
190C. Research Group Conferences in
Electrical and Computer Engineering (1)
Discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: upper division
standing in Electrical and Computer Engineering;
consent of instructor. Research group conferences.
May be repeated for credit. (P/NP grading only.)—
I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
192. Internship in Electrical and Computer
Engineering (1-5)
Internship—3-15 hours. Prerequisite: completion of a
minimum of 84 units; project approval before period
of internship; consent of instructor. Supervised work
experience in electrical and computer engineering.
May be repeated for credit if project is different. (P/
NP grading only.)—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
193A. Senior Design Project (2)
Project—6 hours. Prerequisite: senior standing in
Electrical or Computer Engineering; course 196
(may be taken concurrently); consent of instructor.
Team design project for seniors in Electrical or Computer
Engineering. Project involves analysis, design,
implementation and evaluation of an Electrical Engineering
or Computer Engineering system. Project is
supervised by a faculty member. (Deferred grading
only, pending completion of sequence.)—I, II. (I, II.)
193B. Senior Design Project (2)
Project—6 hours. Prerequisite: course 193A. Team
design project for seniors in Electrical Engineering or
Computer Engineering. Project involves analysis,
design, implementation and evaluation of an Electrical
Engineering or Computer Engineering system.
Project is supervised by a faculty member. (Deferred
grading only, pending completion of sequence.)—II,
III. (II, III.)
194A. Micromouse Design Project (2)
Discussion—1 hour; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite:
Course 70 or Computer Science Engineering
50; Engineering 17 and course 196 (may be taken
concurrently); course 100 or Engineering 100 recommended
(may be taken concurrently); course
180A recommended (may be taken concurrently).
Design of robotic mouse for the IEEE Micromouse
competition. May be repeated once for credit.
(Deferred grading only, pending completion of
sequence.)—I. (I.)
194B. Micromouse Design Project (2)
Discussion—1 hour; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite:
course 70 or Computer Science Engineering
50, Engineering 17 (may be taken concurrently);
course 100 or Engineering 100 recommended (may
be taken concurrently), course 180A recommended
(may be taken concurrently). Design of robotic
mouse for the IEEE Micromouse competition. Limited
enrollment. May be repeated once for credit.
(Deferred grading only, pending completion of
sequence.)—II. (II.)
194C. Micromouse Design Project (1)
Discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: course 70 or Computer
Science Engineering 50, Engineering 17 (may
be taken concurrently); course 100 or Engineering
100 recommended (may be taken concurrently),
course 180A recommended (may be taken concurrently).
Design of robotic mouse for the IEEE Micromouse
competition. Limited enrollment. May be
repeated once for credit. (Deferred grading only,
pending completion of sequence.)—III (III.)
195A. NATCAR Design Project (3)
Lecture—1 hour; laboratory—6 hours. Prerequisite:
courses 110A, 110B or 157A (can be taken concurrently);
170 recommended (taken concurrently) if student
intends to complete project with digital circuits.
Design and construct an autonomous race car. Students
work in groups to design, build and test speed
control circuits, track sensing circuits, and a steering
control loop. Limited enrollment. (Deferred grading
only pending completion of sequence.)—I. (I.)
195B. NATCAR Design Project (2)
Laboratory—6 hours. Prerequisite: course 195A.
Design and construct an autonomous race car. Students
work in groups to design, build and test speed
control circuits, track sensing circuits, and a steering
control loop. (Deferred grading only pending completion
of sequence.)—II. (II.)
196A. Senior Design Project (1)
Lecture/discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: English
101, 102, or 104, or successful completion of English
Composition Examination; senior standing in
Electrical or Computer Engineering; restricted to the
Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering
majors. Integration of principles and capstone
design project for Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Project incorporates engineering standards and
realistic constraints including economic, manufacturability,
sustainability, ethical, health and safety, environmental,
social, and political. Completion of
portfolio of upper division course work. (Deferred
grading only, pending completion of sequence.)—I.
(I.)
197T. Tutoring in Electrical and Computer
Engineering (1-3)
Discussion—1 hour; discussion/laboratory—2-8
hours. Prerequisite: upper division standing; consent
of instructor. Tutoring in Electrical and Computer
Engineering courses, especially introductory circuits.
For upper-division undergraduate students who will
provide tutorial assistance. (P/NP grading only.)—I,
II, III. (I, II, III.)
198. Directed Group Study (1-5)
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. May be repeated
three times for credit. (P/NP grading only.)
199. Special Study for Advanced
Undergraduates (1-5)
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (P/NP grading
only.)
Graduate Courses
201. Digital Signal Processing (4)
Lecture—4 hours. Prerequisite: course 150B; Statistics
120 or Mathematics 131 or Mathematics 167
recommended. Theory and design of digital filters.
Classification of digital filters, linear phase systems,
all-pass functions, FIR and IIR filter design methods
and optimality measures, numerically robust structures
for digital filters.—II. (II.)
202. Advanced Digital Signal Processing (4)
Lecture—4 hours. Prerequisite: courses 201, 260,
and 265, and Mathematics 167 are recommended.
Multirate DSP theory and wavelets, optimal transform
and subband coders in data compressions,
advanced sampling theory and oversampled A/D
converters, transmultiplexers and precoders in digital
communication systems, genomic signal processing.
Offered in alternate years.—(III.)
206. Digital Image Processing (4)
Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite:
course 150B. Two-dimensional systems theory,
image perception, sampling and quantization, transform
theory and applications, enhancement, filtering
and restoration, image analysis, and image processing
systems.—(II.)
207. Pattern Recognition and Classification
(3)
Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: Statistics 120. Topics
in statistical pattern recognition and classification:
linear decision functions and minimum distance classification,
Bayes decision theory, clustering algorithms,
the generalized perceptron, multi-layer neural
networks, and feature extraction. Offered in alternate
years.—(III.)
208. Image Analysis and Computer Vision
(3)
Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 150B. Geometry
of two-dimensional objects. Edge detection and
image segmentation. Image formation and fundamental
principles of computer vision. Recovery of
three-dimensional structure from shading or stereo
information. Analysis of motion and estimation of
motion parameters. Geometry and representation of
three-dimensional objects. Offered in alternate
years.—(III.)
210. MOS Analog Circuit Design (3)
Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: courses 110B, 111B
and 140B. Analysis and design of MOS amplifiers,
bias circuits, voltage references and other analog
circuits. Stability and compensation of feedback
amplifiers. Introduction to noise analysis in MOS circuits.—I.
(I.)
211. Advanced Analog Circuit Design (3)
Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 210; Statistics
131A and course 112 recommended. Noise and
distortion in electronic circuits and systems. Application
to communication circuits. Specific applications
include mixers, low-noise amplifiers, power amplifiers,
phase-locked loops, oscillators and receiver
architectures.—II. (II.)
212. Analog MOS IC Design for Signal
Processing (3)
Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 210. Analysis
and design of analog MOS integrated circuits. Passive
components, single-ended and fully differential
op amps, sampled-data and continuous-time filters.—II.
(II.)
213. Data-Conversion Techniques and
Circuits (3)
Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 210. Digitalto-analog
and analog-to-digital conversion; component
characteristics and matching; sample-and-hold,
comparator, amplifier, and reference circuits.—III.
(III.)
214. Computer-Aided Circuit Analysis and
Design (3)
Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: courses 110A, 110B
and knowledge of FORTRAN or C. Network equation
formulations. Nonlinear DC, linear AC, timedomain
(both linear and nonlinear), steady-state
(nonlinear) and harmonic analysis. DC, AC, and
time-domain sensitivities of linear and nonlinear circuits.
Gradient-based design optimization. Behavioral
simulations. Extensive CAD project.—II. (II.)
215. Circuits for Digital Communications (3)
Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: courses 150B and
210 (may be taken concurrently); course 165, 166
or 265 recommended. Analog, digital, and mixedsignal
CMOS implementations of communication-circuit
blocks; gain control, adaptive equalizers, sampling
detectors, clock recovery. Offered in alternate
years.—III.
216. Low Power Digital Integrated Circuit
Design (3)
Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 118. IC
design for low power and energy consumption. Low
power architectures, logic styles and circuit design.
Variable supply and threshold voltages. Leakage
management. Power estimation. Energy sources,
power electronics, and energy recovery. Applications
in portable electronics and sensors. Thermodynamic
limits.—II. (II.)
218A. Introduction to VLSI Circuits (3)
Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: courses 110A and
110B. Theory and practice of VLSI circuit and system
design. Extensive use of VLSI computer-aided design
aids to undertake a VLSI design example.—I.
218B. Multiproject Chip Design (1)
Laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 218A.
CMOS and NMOS multiproject chip layouts of projects
begun in courses 218A, 212, and 219 are
assembled and submitted to the DARPA/NSF MOSIS
program for fabrication.—II.
Quarter Offered: I=Fall, II=Winter, III=Spring, IV=Summer; 2009-2010 offering in parentheses
General Education (GE) credit: ArtHum=Arts and Humanities; SciEng=Science and Engineering; SocSci=Social Sciences; Div=Social-Cultural Diversity; Wrt=Writing Experience