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422012-2014 <strong>General</strong> <strong>Catalog</strong> Course Supplement and Policies and Requirements Addendum150A. Introduction to Signals and Systems I(4)Lecture—4 hours. Prerequisite: Engineering 6 orMathematics 22AL (may be taken concurrently);course 100. Characterization and analysis of continuous-timelinear systems. Fourier series and transformswith applications. Introduction tocommunication systems. Transfer functions and blockdiagrams. Elements of feedback systems. Stability oflinear systems. GE credit: SciEng | QL, SE.—II. (II.)Abdel-Ghaffar, Chang, Levy, Zhao(change in existing course—eff. fall 13)150B. Introduction to Signals and SystemsII (4)Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:course 150A. Characterization and analysis of discretetime systems. Difference equation models.Ztransform analysis methods. Discrete and fast Fouriertransforms. Introduction to digital filter design.GE credit: SciEng | QL, SE.—I. (I.)(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)151. Instrumentation Interfacing, Signalsand Systems (4)Lecture—2 hours; laboratory—4 hours. Prerequisite:courses 100, 150A and 180A. Study of instrumentationinterfacing systems, including software development,hardware interfacing, transducers, dynamicresponse, signal conditioning, A/D conversion, anddata transmission. Offered irregularly. GE credit:SciEng | SE.—II. (II.) Chang, Yankelevich(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)152. Digital Signal Processing (4)Lecture—2 hours; laboratory—6 hours. Prerequisite:courses 70 and 150B. Theory and practice of realtimedigital signal processing. Fundamentals of realtimesystems. Programmable architectures includingI/O, memory, peripherals, interrupts, DMA. Interfacingissues with A/D and D/A converters to a programmableDSP. Specification driven design andimplementation of simple DSP applications. GEcredit: SciEng | SE.—III. (III.) Ding(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)157A. Control Systems (4)Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite:course 100. Analysis and design of feedback controlsystems. Examples are drawn from electrical andmechanical systems as well as other engineeringfields. Mathematical modeling of systems, stabilitycriteria, root-locus and frequency domain designmethods. GE credit: SciEng | SE.—I. (I.)(change in existing course—eff. fall 13)157B. Control Systems (4)Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite:course 157A. Control system design; transfer-functionand state-space methods; sampled-data implementation,digital control. Laboratory includesfeedback system experiments and simulation studies.GE credit: SciEng | SE.—II. (II.) Gundes(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)158. Control System Design Methods (4)Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:course 157A. Design methods for feedback controlsystems, including quantitative feedback theory andlinear quadratic regulators. GE credit:SciEng | SE.—III. (III.) Chang(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)160. Signal Analysis and Communications(4)Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:course 150A. Signal analysis based on Fouriermethods. Fourier series and transforms; time-sampling,convolution, and filtering; spectral density;modulation: carrier-amplitude, carrier-frequency, andpulse-amplitude. GE credit: SE.—I. (I.) Ding(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)161. Probabilistic Analysis of Electrical &Computer Systems (4)Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:Mathematics 21C. Probabilistic and statistical analysisof electrical and computer systems. Discrete andcontinuous random variables, expectation andmoments. Transformation of random variables. Jointand conditional densities. Limit theorems and statistics.Noise models, system reliability and testing. GEcredit: SciEng | QL, SE.—I, III. (I, III.) Abdel-Ghaffar,Ding, Levy, Scaglione, Zhao(change in existing course—eff. fall 13)165. Statistical and Digital Communication(4)Lecture—3 hours; project—3 hours. Prerequisite:course 160, 161. Introduction to random processmodels of modulated signals and noise, and analysisof receiver performance. Analog and digitallymodulated signals. Signal-to-noise ratio, probabilityof error, matched filters. Intersymbol interference,pulse shaping and equalization. Carrier and clocksynchronization. GE credit: SciEng | SE.—II. (II.)Abdel-Ghaffar, Ding, Ford, Levy(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)170. Introduction to Computer Architecture(4)Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:course 180A; course 70 or Computer Science Engineering50. Introduces basic aspects of computerarchitecture, including computer performance measurement,instruction set design, computer arithmetic,pipelined/non-pipelined implementation, and memoryhierarchies (cache and virtual memory). Presentsa simplified Reduced Instruction Set Computer usinglogic design methods from the prerequisite course.GE credit: SciEng | SE.—I. (I.) Owens, Wilken(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)171. Parallel Computer Architecture (4)Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:course 170. Organization and design of parallelprocessors including sharedmemory multiprocessors,cache coherence, memory consistency, snoopingprotocols, synchronization, scalable multiprocessors,message passing protocols, distributed shared memoryand interconnection networks. GE credit:SciEng | SE.—III. (III.) Akella, Wilken(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)172. Embedded Systems (4)Lecture—2 hours; laboratory—6 hours. Prerequisite:course 170 or Computer Science Engineering154A. Introduction to embedded-system hardwareand software. Topics include: embedded processorand memory architecture; input/output hardwareand software, including interrupts and direct memoryaccess; interfacing with sensors and actuators;wired and wireless embedded networking. GEcredit: SciEng | SE.—II, III. (II, III.) Akella, Ghiasi,Wilken(change in existing course—eff. fall 13)173A. Computer Networks (4)Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:Computer Science Engineering 60; Computer Scienceand Engineering 132 or Electrical and ComputerEngineering 161 or Mathematics 135A orStatistics 131A, or Statistics 120 or Statistics 32.Overview of computer networks, TCP/IP protocolsuite, computer-networking applications and protocols,transport-layer protocols, network architectures,Internet Protocol (IP), routing, link-layer protocols,local area and wireless networks, medium accesscontrol, physical aspects of data transmission, andnetwork-performance analysis. Only 2 units of creditfor students who have taken course 157. (Samecourse as Computer Science Engineering 152A.) GEcredit: SciEng | SE.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.) Chuah, Ghosal,Liu, Matloff, Mohapatra, Mukherjee(change in existing course—eff. fall 13)173B. Design Projects in CommunicationNetworks (4)Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:course 173A or Computer Science and Engineering152A. Advanced topics and design projects in communicationnetworks. Example topics include wirelessnetworks, multimedia networking, networkdesign and management, traffic analysis and modeling,network simulations and performance analysis.Offered in alternate years. (Same course as ComputerScience Engineering 152C.) GE credit:SciEng | SE.—III. (III.) Chuah(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)180A. Digital Systems I (5)Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—6 hours. Prerequisite:Physics 9C. Introduction to digital system designincluding combinational logic design, sequentialand asynchronous circuits, computer arithmetic,memory systems and algorithmic state machinedesign; computer aided design (CAD) methodologiesand tools. GE credit: SciEng | SE.—I, II. (I, II.)Akella, Al-Asaad, Amirtharajah, Baas, Ghiasi,Owens(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)180B. Digital Systems II (5)Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—6 hours. Prerequisite:course 180A. Computer-aided design of digital systemswith emphasis on hardware description languages(VHDL), logic synthesis, and fieldprogrammablegate arrays (FPGA). May coveradvanced topics in digital system design such asstatic timing analysis, pipelining, memory systemdesign, testing digital circuits. GE credit:SciEng | SE.—III. (III.)(change in existing course—eff. fall 13)181A. Digital Systems Design Project (2)Workshop—1 hour; laboratory—4 hours. Prerequisite:courses 180B and either course 170 or ComputerScience 122A. Digital-system and computerengineeringdesign course involving architecture,design, implementation and testing of a prototypeapplication-specific processor under given designconstraints. This is a team project that includes afinal presentation and report. (Deferred gradingonly, pending completion of sequence.) GE credit:SciEng | SE.—I. (I.) Ghiasi(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)181B. Digital Systems Design Project (2)Workshop—1 hour; laboratory—4 hours. Prerequisite:courses 180B and either course 170 or ComputerScience 122A. Digital-system and computerengineeringdesign course involving architecture,design, implementation and testing of a prototypeapplication-specific processor under given designconstraints. This is a team project that includes afinal presentation and report. (Deferred gradingonly, pending completion of sequence.) GE credit:SciEng | SE.—II. (II.) Ghiasi(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)183. Testing and Verification of DigitalSystems (5)Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—4 hours. Prerequisite:courses 170 and 180B. Computer aided-testing anddesign verification techniques for digital systems;physical fault testing; simulation-based design verification;formal verification; timing analysis. GEcredit: SciEng | SE.—II. (II.) Al-Asaad(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)189A-V. Special Topics in ElectricalEngineering and Computer Science (1-5)Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Special Topics in(A) Computer Science; (B) Programming Systems; (C)Digital Systems; (D) Communications; (E) SignalTransmission; (F) Digital Communication; (G) ControlSystems; (H) Robotics; (I) Signal Processing; (J)Image Processing; (K) High-Frequency Phenomenaand Devices; (L) Solid-State Devices and PhysicalElectronics, (M) Systems Theory, (N) Active and Pas-Quarter Offered: I=Fall, II=Winter, III=Spring, IV=Summer; 2013-2014 offering in parenthesesPre-Fall 2011 <strong>General</strong> Education (GE): ArtHum=Arts and Humanities; SciEng=Science and Engineering; SocSci=Social Sciences; Div=Domestic Diversity; Wrt=Writing ExperienceFall 2011 and on <strong>General</strong> Education (GE): AH=Arts and Humanities; SE=Science and Engineering; SS=Social Sciences;ACGH=American Cultures; DD=Domestic Diversity; OL=Oral Skills; QL=Quantitative; SL=Scientific; VL=Visual; WC=World Cultures; WE=Writing Experience

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