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SYLLABUS: (M.Sc. in Applied Electronics 2008)
Part
I
1. MEL 5101 Analogue and Digital ICs, and their Applications
(30 hours, 2 credits)
General features and handling of IC packages; Applications
in analogue electronics: amplifiers, drivers, interfaces,
frequency control, optoelectronics& displays, power supply
& control, signal generation, conditioning &conversion,
analogue switching; Applications in digital electronics: encoders/decoders,
multiplexers/demultiplexers, counters, timers, memory, interlaces
and drivers.
2.
MEL 5151 Circuit Analysis, Simulations and Modeling (30 hours,
2 credits)
Basic Elements and Laws; Introduction to Circuit Concepts
and Analysis Techniques; First-order and Second-order Circuits;
Sinusoidal Analysis (Time domain and Frequency domain); Important
power concepts, Power measurements, Frequency response, Bode
plots, Resonance, Complex frequency, Poles and zeros.
Introduction to circuit simulation and modeling; modeling
the diode forward characteristics (exponential model, graphical
& Iterative analysis using the exponential model, piecewise-linear
model, constant-voltage-drop model, ideal-diode model, small-signal
model); modeling reverse characteristics; specifying and modeling
the Zener diode, SPICE diode model and simulation; BJT transistors
and amplifier circuits, (Ebers-Moll (EM) model, hybrid-Model,
T model, and high-frequency hybrid-model), SPICE BJT model
and simulation; SPICE MOSFET model and simulation; amplifiers
(circuit models for amplifiers, relationship between four
Amplifier models, practical op-amp characteristics and modeling,
SPICE op-amp model and simulation).
3.
MEL 5110 Electronics Laboratory (60 hours, 2 credits)
Experiments covering topics that include applications of various
analog ICs, ADC and DAC circuits, applications of various
Digital IC’s, designing programmable logic devices (SPLD,
CLPD and FPGA) and use of various sensors and transducers.
4.
MEL 5251 Sensors, Transducers and Data Acquisition Techniques
(30 hours, 2 credits)
Sensors for the measurements of physical parameters; Pressure,
force and position sensing, Temperature sensing, Flow, velocity
and volume sensing; Piezoelectric sensors; Hall effect sensors;
optical sensors; Different types of chemical sensors and bio-sensors;
Applications of sensors in, chemical, agricultural, medical
industries, environmental monitoring, and industrial safety.
Elements of a data acquisition system; Signal conversion techniques;
A/D and D/A converters, sampling concepts; reconstruction
of signals, aliasing, discrete-time processing of continuous-time
signals, Device interfacing; serial interfacing, parallel
interfacing, IrDA, Bluetooth, GPIB, USB, I2C, Signal conditioning;
noise sources, spectral density and circuit calculations,
signal to noise ratio, interference control and selectivity,
Computer controlled electronics; examples of data acquisition
systems, filtering and averaging, isolation, input, output
and timing characteristics, data transfer and interrupts,
Pulse signal processing, terminology and standards, signal
transmission, impedance matching, pulse distortion and shaping,
instrumentation for pulse signal processing, Instrumentation
techniques, timing methods, coincidence techniques, triggers,
electronic logic for experiments.
5.
MEL 5204 Microcontrollers and Programmable Logic Devices (30
hours, 2 credits)
Basics of microprocessors, Von Neumann and Harvard architectures;
assembly language and machine language; 6809 and 8088 architectures;
PIC Microcontroller: overview, structure and hardware concepts,
OP codes, hardware programming tools, software programming,
low level language MPASM, high level languages; FPGA and CPLD
architecture; physical design for PLDs: hardware description
languages, placement and routing; logic design with VHDL:
structural design, data flow design, behavioral design, model
organization, packages and libraries; Design methodologies;
design verification.
6.
MEL 5210 Automation Laboratory (60 hours, 2 credits)
Practical exercises that include building and programming
of 8051 and PIC microcontroller based systems, interfacing
sensors and transducers to microcontrollers, interfacing to
PCs and PC based data acquisition and control.
7.
MEL 5351 Data Communication Techniques and Digital Signal
Processing (30 hours, 2 credit)
Data communication concepts; Pulse and digital modulation;
pulse code modulation (PCM), coding, signaling (Baud) rate,
bandwidth considerations, power in digital signals, PCM system
analysis, error detection, data errors and error control,
serial transmission and interfacing, carrier systems and modems,
synchronous communication techniques, ISDN, OSI model, Ethernet,
TCPIP, fibre-optics communication systems. Analogue to digital
conversion; linear and non-linear systems, signal superposition
and decomposition, convolution and impulse response; correlation;
discrete Fourier transform and its applications; Fast Fourier
Transform, continuous signal processing; Digital filters–recursive
filters, Chebyshev filters etc.; Applications in audio processing
and data compression.
8.
MEL 5352 Engineering Mathematics and Statistics (30 hours,
2 credits)
Laplace transforms; properties, inversion problem, convolution
theorem, applications. Complex variables; Cauchy-Riemann condition,
transformations, Cauchy theorem and integral formula, theory
of residues and its applications, branch points and branch
cuts, Cauchy principle value integral. Fourier series; Dirichlet
conditions, convergence theorem, convergence in the mean.
Parseval’s theorem, spectrum analysis, parity properties,
cosine and sine series, applications, differentiation and
integration. Fourier analysis; integral theorem, cosine and
sine transforms, derivation of Dirac delta functions, basic
theorems, analysis of transient waveforms, applications, convolution
theorem, physical interpretation, auto-correlation, cross-correlation,
linear response functions, transfer functions.
Probability review (definition of probability, conditional
probability etc.),discrete continuous and mixed random variables,
CDFs and PDFs, example random variables (Bernoulli, Indicator,
Binomial, Poisson, Exponential Gaussian and Gamma distributions),
probability integral information, function of random variables,
moments, characteristic functions, moment theorem, multiple
random variables, independence of random variables, joint
moments, correlation coefficient, multivariate Gaussian PDFs,
conditional PDFs, central limit theorem, autocorrelation function,
power spectral density, continuous time random processes,
Gaussian random processes, Poisson random processes.
9.
MEL 5305 Guided Reading (60 hours, 2 credits)
This course focuses on improving the self-learning and presentation
skills of students. Students are guided by a senior lecturer
to study a specific process in the area of Industrial Electronics
and present their work at a seminar.
10.
MEL 5310 Computational and Simulation Laboratory (60 hours,
2 credits)
Practical exercises that include circuit simulation using
SPICE, use of VHDL for simulation, CPLD and FPGA programming
with VHDL, Fourier spectra and LPC spectra of signals using
FFT and design of digital filters.
Part II
11. MEL 5401 Project Management (15 hours, 1 credit)
Definition of project, project life cycle, identification
of needs, project formulation and selection, Project manager,
organizational structures, coordination and integration management,
conflict and resolution, Project planning, budgeting and cost
estimation, scheduling and resource allocation, Project monitoring,
information systems, control, Performance evaluation, audit,
termination of projects
12. MEL 5402 Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory
(30 hours, 1 credit)
Laboratory exercises for designing, building and testing of
circuits to perform various tasks including data acquisition
and controlling. The exercises will be of semi open-ended
type. The students may be given circuit diagrams, but will
be expected to design some parts or modify them to suit the
applications concerned. They will then be expected to construct
the circuits, test them and produce a finished product complete
with enclosures and user manuals.
Optional: 8 Credits
13. MEL 5410 Research project (8 credits)
Individual students will be assigned a research project of
six months duration. It is expected that this training will
help the students to expose them selves to modern design techniques
in electronics. After the given time period, each student
is expected to submit a dissertation and to give an oral presentation
of the research work.
14. MEL 5403 Automation and Monitoring (120
hours, 4 credits)
In this course, students are expected to apply and demonstrate
the knowledge they gained by designing and constructing electronic
circuits for automating and monitoring a specified process,
with the aid of microcontrollers and/or FPGAs. Each student
will be assigned one automation project and he/she is expected
to complete it within a three month time period. Construction
of the circuit is expected to be completed within the first
month and data collection and monitoring is expected to be
continued during the next two months. Laboratory facilities,
electronic components and other required materials to construct
the electronic circuits will be provided by the department.
Assessment: Presentation and thesis.
15. MEL 5404 – Industrial Electronic
Processes (120 hours, 4 credits)
In this course, individual students will be expected to visit
an institution where electronic equipment are used for automating
or controlling an industrial process, study the techniques
and principles used in the chosen system and write a detailed
technical report. Students will be allowed to choose an institution
of their choice, subject to the approval by the department.
The work is expected to be completed within 3 months. Assessment:
Presentation and report.
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