UC Davis General Catalog, 2006-2008 - General Catalog - UC Davis

240 Engineering: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Upper Division Courses
100. Circuits II (5)
Laboratory—3 hours; lecture—3 hours; discussion—
1 hour. Prerequisite: Engineering 17, course 101
(may be taken concurrently). Theory, application,
and design of analog circuits. Methods of analysis
including frequency response, SPICE simulation, and
Laplace transform. Operational amplifiers and
design of active filters. Only 3.5 units of credit to students
who have completed Engineering 100.—I, II.
(I, II.)
106. Introduction to Image Processing and
Computer Vision (4)
Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite:
course 150B. Imaging geometry; transforms and
sampling; enhancement, restoration, and conversion;
image compression; time-varying image analysis;
elementary pattern recognition; segmentation;
multi-resolution analysis.—III. (III.)
110A. Electronic Circuits I (4)
Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:
course 100, 140A (may be taken concurrently).
Operation of bipolar and field-effect transistors. Use
and modeling of nonlinear solid-state electronic
devices in basic analog and digital circuits. Introduction
to the design of transistor amplifiers and logic
gates.—II, III. (II, III.)
110B. Electronic Circuits II (4)
Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:
course 110A. Frequency response of amplifiers
using open-and short-circuit time constraints. Analysis
and design of multistage and feedback amplifiers.
Stability and compensation of feedback systems.
Introduction to oscillators and data converters (analog-to-digital
and digital-to-analog converters).—III.
(III.)
112. Communication Electronics (4)
Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite:
courses 110B and 150A. Electronic circuits for analog
and digital communication, including oscillators,
mixers, tuned amplifiers, modulators, demodulators,
and phase-locked loops. Circuits for amplitude modulation
(AM) and frequency modulation (FM) are
emphasized.—II. (II.)
114. Analog Integrated Circuits (3)
Lecture—2 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite:
courses 110B and 140B. Analysis and design of
analog integrated circuits. Emphasis on bipolar transistor
circuits. Single-stage amplifiers, cascaded
amplifier stages, current sources, differential pair,
frequency response, and feedback amplifiers.—I. (I.)
116. VLSI Design (4)
Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite:
courses 110A and 180A. CMOS devices, layout,
circuits, and functional units; VLSI fabrication and
design methodologies.—III. (III.)
118. Digital Integrated Circuits (3)
Lecture—2 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite:
courses 110A, 180A. Analysis and design of digital
integrated circuits. Emphasis on MOS logic circuit
families. Logic gate construction, voltage transfer
characteristics, and propagation delay. Regenerative
circuits, RAMs, ROMs, and PLAs.—III. (III.)
130A. Electromagnetics I (4)
Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:
Mathematics 21D, Physics 9D, Engineering 17,
course 101 (may be taken concurrently). Basics of
static electric and magnetic fields and fields in materials.
Work and scalar potential. Maxwell’s equations
in integral and differential form. Plan waves in
lossless media. Lossless transmission lines.—I, II. (I,
II.)
130B. Introductory Electromagnetics II (4)
Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:
course 130A. Plane wave propagation in lossy
media, reflections, guided waves, simple modulated
waves and dispersion, and basic antennas.—III. (III.)
132A. High Frequency Systems, Circuits
and Devices (5)
Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours; discussion—
1 hour. Prerequisite: course 110B, 130B, 140B.
Application of electromagnetic theory to analysis
and design of practical devices, circuits, and systems
operating at radio frequencies. Energy transfers
at high-frequencies, transmission lines, microwave
integrated circuits, circuit analysis of electromagnetic
energy transfer systems, the scattering parameters.—
I. (I.)
132B. High Frequency Systems Circuits and
Devices (5)
Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours; discussion—
1 hour. Prerequisite: course 132A. Passive high frequency
device analysis, design, fabrication, and
testing. Microwave filter and coupler design. Introductory
analysis and design of microwave transistor
amplifiers.—II. (II.)
132C. RF Amplifiers, Oscillators and Mixers
(5)
Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours; discussion—
1 hour. Prerequisite: course 132B. Microwave amplifier
theory and design, including transistor circuit
models, stability considerations, noise models and
low noise design. Theory and design of microwave
transistor oscillators and mixers.—III. (III.)
133. Electromagnetic Radiation and
Antenna Analysis (4)
Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisites:
course 130B. Properties of electromagnetic radiation;
analysis and design of antennas: ideal cylindrical,
small loop, aperture, and arrays; antenna field
measurements.—I. (I.)
135. Optical Communications I: Fibers (3)
Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 130B. Principles
of optical communication systems. Dispersion
broadening of pulses. Planar dielectric guides. Optical
fibers: single-mode, multi-mode, step and graded
index. Attenuation and dispersion limitations. Design
of zero dispersion fibers.—II. (II.)
136. Opto-Electronics and Fiber Optics
Laboratory (3)
Lecture—1 hours; discussion—1 hour; laboratory—3
hours. Prerequisite: courses 135 and 150A. Characteristics
and applications of state-of-the-art opto-electronic
components (semiconductor detectors, optical
modulators and optical fibers), and fiber optic communication
systems.—III. (III.)
140A. Principles of Device Physics I (4)
Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:
Engineering 17, Physics 9D, course 101 (may be
taken concurrently). Semiconductor device fundamentals,
equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical
mechanics, conductivity, diffusion, density of states,
electrons and holes, p-n junctions, Schottky junctions,
and junction field effect transistors.—I, II. (I, II.)
140B. Principles of Device Physics II (4)
Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:
course 140A. Electrical properties, design, and
models for Bipolar and MOS devices.—III. (III.)
146A. Integrated Circuits Fabrication (3)
Lecture—2 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite:
course 140B. Restricted to Electrical, Computer, and
Electrical/Materials Science majors and Electrical
Engineering graduate students. Non-majors accommodated
when space available. Basic fabrication
processes for metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) integrated
circuits. Laboratory assignments covering oxidation,
photolithography, impurity diffusion,
metallization, wet chemical etching, and characterization
work together in producing metal-gate PMOS
test chips which will undergo parametric and functional
testing.—I. (I.)
146B. Advanced Integrated Circuits
Fabrication (3)
Lecture—2 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite:
course 146A. Restricted to Electrical, Computer, and
Electrical/Materials Science majors and Electrical
Engineering graduate students. Non-majors accommodated
when space available. Fabrication processes
for CMOS VLSI. Laboratory projects examine
deposition of thin films, ion implantation, process
simulation, anisotropic plasma etching, sputter metallization,
and C-V analysis. Topics include isolation,
projection alignment, epilayer growth, thin gate oxidation,
and rapid thermal annealing.—II. (II.)
150A. Introduction to Signals and Systems I
(4)
Lecture—4 hours. Prerequisite: Engineering 6 (may
be taken concurrently), course 100. Characterization
and analysis of continuous-time linear systems.
Fourier series and transforms with applications. Introduction
to communication systems. Transfer functions
and block diagrams. Elements of feedback systems.
Stability of linear systems.—II, III. (II, III.)
150B. Introduction to Signals and Systems
II (4)
Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:
course 150A. Characterization and analysis of discrete
time systems. Difference equation models. Z-
transform analysis methods. Discrete and fast Fourier
transforms. Introduction to digital filter design.—I. (I.)
151. Instrumentation Interfacing, Signals
and Systems (4)
Lecture—2 hours; laboratory—4 hours. Prerequisite:
courses 100, 150A, 180A. Study of instrumentation
interfacing systems, including software development,
hardware interfacing, transducers, dynamic
response, signal conditioning, A/D conversion, and
data transmission.—II. (II.)
152. Digital Signal Processing (4)
Lecture—2 hours; laboratory—6 hours. Prerequisite:
courses 70 and 150B. Theory and practice of realtime
digital signal processing. Fundamentals of realtime
systems. Programmable architectures including
I/O, memory, peripherals, interrupts, DMA. Interfacing
issues with A/D and D/A converters to a programmable
DSP. Specification driven design and
implementation of simple DSP applications.—III. (III.)
157A. Control Systems (4)
Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite:
course 150A. Analysis and design of feedback control
systems. Examples are drawn from electrical and
mechanical systems as well as other engineering
fields. Mathematical modeling of systems, stability
criteria, root-locus and frequency domain design
methods.—I. (I.)
157B. Control Systems (4)
Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite:
course 157A. Control system design; transfer-function
and state-space methods; sampled-data implementation,
digital control. Laboratory includes
feedback system experiments and simulation studies.—II.
(II.)
158. Control System Design Methods (4)
Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:
course 157A. Design methods for feedback control
systems, including quantitative feedback theory and
linear quadratic regulators.—III. (III.)
160. Signal Analysis and Communications
(4)
Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:
course 150A. Signal analysis based on Fourier
methods. Fourier series and transforms; time-sampling,
convolution, and filtering; spectral density;
modulation: carrier-amplitude, carrier-frequency, and
pulse-amplitude.—I. (I.)
165. Statistical and Digital Communication
(4)
Lecture—3 hours; project—3 hours. Prerequisite:
course 160, Statistics 120. Random process models
of modulated signals and noise, and analysis of
receiver performance. Analog and digitally modulated
signals. Signal-to-noise ratio, probability of
error, matched filters. Intersymbol interference, pulse
shaping and equalization. Carrier and clock synchronization.—II.
166. Digital Communication Design
Techniques (4)
Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:
course 160. Baseband digital signal processing for
digital MODEMS (modulators-demodulators). Digital
modulation techniques including BPSK, QPSK,
MSK and QAM. Spread spectrum, TDMA and
FDMA access methods. Satellite, cellular-mobile,
micro-wave and personal communications systems
(PCS) applications. Computer-aided and hardware
design projects.—II. (II.)
Quarter Offered: I=Fall, II=Winter, III=Spring, IV=Summer; 2007-2008 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