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ECE4500/5950: Digital Electronics The purpose of this course is to develop techniques for analyzing and designing digital integrated circuits. For circuit implementations 0.25 micron CMOS technology is being used. The course will start with a brief review of the state-of-the-art technology, followed by fundamental device models. Next, a detailed description and analysis of the core digital design block, being the inverter, will be given. It will be followed by the design of more complex logic gates, such as NAND, NOR, and EXOR, looking at optimizing the speed, area, or power. The learned techniques will be applied on designing MSI level building blocks. Substantial attention will be devoted to the discussion of sequential circuits, clocking approaches, and memories. The course will be concluded with the discussion of the impact of interconnect parasitics on the design performance and approaches to cope with them. Major emphasis will be placed on the use of Mentor Graphics Electronic Design Automation tools (Design Manager, Design Architect, Eldo, Xelga, IcStation, Calibre Xrc) for labs, homework assignments, and projects.  ECE3550: Digital Design The objective of the ECE 3550 is to develop systematic techniques for large-scale digital logic design and analysis. We will primarily be concerned with the design of multi-input, multi-output system controllers, which provide the central control signals that orchestrate the collection of hardware devices found in a digital system. This being the case, much of the work in this course will center upon the synchronous state machine design of system controllers using various implementations, the main emphasis being on Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs). In addition, the design of asynchronous sequential machines and the transient behavior of logic circuits will be examined. The two design projects and some of the homework assignments will be based upon Complex PLDs (CPLDs) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Students will be designing their circuits in VHDL using CAD tools by Mentor Graphics (HDL Designer, ModelSim, and LeonardoSpectrum) along with Xilinx CAD tools to program their designs into chips. ECE4510/5530: Microcontroller Applications The primary emphasis of the course will be microcontroller architecture, firmware and embedded software design but hardware interface design issues will also be extensively covered. Students are expected to show expertise in both areas. Currently, the Motorola MC9S12DP512 Microcontroller is being used as the hardware platform. Software development is done using the ICC12 IDE by ImageCraft along with the microBDM12SX+ Backgroung Debug Module by Technological Arts. Application programs are developed in C. Interface designs include the CAN Bus, the SPI Bus, analog I/O and PWM. Programs are downloaded into the Flash Memory of the Microcontroller. ECE6050: Advanced Microprocessor Applications The objective of this course is to survey current microprocessors and to discuss various aspects of memory system design and bus interfacing. Though some software will be covered, the primary emphasis will be on internal architecture and hardware system design. Most of the course work is based upon designing a bridge between the local bus of a powerful 32-bit Microprocessor and some industry standard multi-processor bus such as the VME bus or the PCI bus. For hardware design and simulation, Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) will be used along with CAD tools by Mentor Graphics (HDS Designer, ModelSim, and LeonardoSpectrum) and Xilinx CAD tools to design, simulate, and program their designs into chips. ECE6720: Fuzzy Control Systems Among the various paradigmatic changes in science and mathematics, one such change concerns the concept of uncertainty. The driving force behind this paradigm shift is the realization that traditional two-valued logical decision systems, crisp set theory and crisp probability theory are inadequate for dealing with imprecision, uncertainty and complexity of the real world. It is this realization that motivates the evolution of fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic. One of the most successful fields of application of fuzzy set theory has been in control systems. This course is designed to address the theoretical aspects of fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic, fuzzy control, the implementation issues of fuzzy controllers, and application of fuzzy logic in supervisory control. |
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