Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences
School : Electronics and Communications Engineering
Prerequisit Course : No Pre-Requisit Courses
Credit Hours : 3.00
Offered For : Post Graduate
Course Description :
Introduction to Analog Design Fundamentals, Basic MOS Device Physics, single stage CMOS amplifiers, CMOS differential Amplifiers, Passive and Active Current Mirrors, Frequency Response of Amplifiers, Noise in CMOS Circuits, CMOS Operational Amplifiers, Stability and Frequency Compensation, Band gap References, Switched-Capacitor Circuits, CMOS Oscillators, Phase-Locked Loops Use of SPICE and other computer aids.
ECE502 - Advanced Digital and Data Communications
Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences
School : Electronics and Communications Engineering
Prerequisit Course : No Pre-Requisit Courses
Credit Hours : 3.00
Offered For : Post Graduate
Course Description :
Fundamentals of wireless communications. Modeling of the wireless multipath fading channel and its basic physical parameters. Coherent and non-coherent reception. Diversity techniques over time, frequency, and space. Spread spectrum communication. Multiple access and interference management in wireless networks. Frequency reuses sectorization. Multiple access techniques: TDMA, CDMA, OFDM. Capacity of wireless channels. Opportunistic communication. Multiple antenna systems: spatial multiplexing, space-time codes. Examples from existing wireless standards.
ECE503 - Advanced Digital Integrated Circuits
Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences
School : Electronics and Communications Engineering
Prerequisit Course : No Pre-Requisit Courses
Credit Hours : 3.00
Offered For : Post Graduate
Course Description :
Architectural and circuit level design and analysis for digital System-on-a-Chip (SoC), in state of the art CMOS technologies. Fundamentals of high-speed and low-power CMOS circuits, microprocessor and DSP (digital signal processor) architectures, RTL (register transfer level) design with HDL (hardware description language), processor prototyping with FPGA (field programmable gate array).
ECE504 - Computer-Aided Verification of Electronic Circuits and Systems
Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences
School : Electronics and Communications Engineering
Prerequisit Course : No Pre-Requisit Courses
Credit Hours : 3.00
Offered For : Post Graduate
Course Description :
Techniques for the verification of correct behavior of complex electronic circuits and systems including algorithms and systems for the detailed simulation of integrated circuits at the transistor level in the time and frequency domain, discreteevent logic simulation, cycle-based logic simulation, RTL and behavioral simulation, equivalence checking, timing analysis, and power estimation.
ECE505 - Analysis and Design of VLSI Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits
Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences
School : Electronics and Communications Engineering
Prerequisit Course : No Pre-Requisit Courses
Credit Hours : 3.00
Offered For : Post Graduate
Course Description :
Architectural and circuit level design and analysis of integrated analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog interfaces in CMOS and BiCMOS VLSI technology. Analogdigital converters, digital-analog converters, sample/hold amplifiers, continuous and switched-capacitor filters. RF integrated electronics including synthesizers, LNA's, mixer, voltage controlled oscillator. Low power mixed signal design. VLSI design and analysis using CAD tools such as Agilent ADS (Advanced Design System), Momentum (EM-simulator) and Golden Gate tools. Layout optimization with Virtuoso (Layout editor and Schematic editor), Assura (Design Rule Checker, Layout Vs Schematic Verifier and Parasitic Extractor), and MMSIM (Spectre/RF/Ultra Sim/AMS Designer) tools.
