Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School : Electronics and Communications Engineering

Course Description :

Introduction to CMOS IC technology and Layout, Basic Building Blocks of CMOS Analog ICs: current sources and sinks, voltage and current references; Single and multistage Amplifiers, Frequency response, Cascode Amplifiers, differential and operational amplifiers; switched capacitor circuits.

Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School : Electronics and Communications Engineering

Course Description :

Digital Design Flow and Tools; Introduction to Digital System Platforms and Architectures; Circuit and System-Level Design of CMOS Digital ICs; RTL Design And Verification Using HDLs; General VLSI System Components: Multiplexers, Decoders, Shifters and Rotators, Counters, Comparators, Adders, Multipliers; Memories: SRAM, DRAM, ROM; Hierarchical Design of Combinational and Sequential Logic Circuits; Floor Plan Organization, and Routing; Extraction of Circuit From Layout; Design Rules Check; Design for Testability.

Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School : Electronics and Communications Engineering

Course Description :

MOS Transistor Theory; CMOS Technology: Crystal Growth, Oxidation, Diffusion, Lithography, Contacts and Interconnections, MOS Layers; Basic VLSI Circuit Concepts: Layer Sheet Resistance, Layer Area Capacitance, Delay Unit, Propagation Delays, Wiring Capacitances; Layout And Stick Diagrams; Switching Characteristics of Semiconductor Devices; Performance Parameters: Frequency , Noise Margins, and Power Dissipation; CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits: CMOS Inverter, Basic CMOS Combinational, Sequential Circuits; Pseudo-NMOS Circuits; Dynamic Logic Circuits and Pass Transistor Logic; BiCMOS Logic Circuits; Multivibrators: Astable, Monostable, and Bistable; Semiconductor Memories; Fundamentals of Low-Power and High-Speed CMOS Circuits.

Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School : Electronics and Communications Engineering

Course Description :

Embedded Systems Design; Embedded Systems Programming in C; C Language Pointers and Bitwise Operators; embedded processor selection; hardware/firmware partitioning; glue logic; circuit design; circuit layout; circuit debugging; development tools; firmware architecture; firmware design; firmware debugging; Real-time operating systems; Low-power computing; input/output synchronization; I/O Interfacing via Data/Address busses; Connecting external chips to microcontrollers; Serial Port communications; System Interrupts; Analog/Digital Conversion Techniques; FPGA applications in system design.

Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School : Electronics and Communications Engineering

Course Description :

Fading channels and channel impairments. Effects of fading on the system performance and capacity. Introduction to MIMO communication systems: diversity and multiplexing techniques, Code division multiplexing, spread spectrum communications.