Curriculum Information

The module introduces advanced Digital and Analogue electronics design principles and practice.

The contents such as.

Digital Electronics

• Advanced digital systems design principles and practice:
An Introduction to Asynchronous and Synchronous Design principles tailored for high speed and high-performance of digital systems (FPGA, ASIC) design.
Complex CMOS VLSI design challenges

• Hardware Description Language (HDL):
The basic structure and the syntax of an HDL language and implementation of synthesizable HDL is introduced.
The use of CAD tools to manage design complexity and their roles developing such complex systems for test and evaluation are taught.

• System on Chip :
The introductions to the System on Chip (SoC) and its components such as AMBA and AHB High/Low speed bus architecture used to evaluate complex solutions which are addressed by the environmental and commercial matters.

• Test and evaluation of a complex design:
Importance of test, Controllability and Observability, Boundary scan, Fault models, Fault simulation, Automatic Test Pattern Generation (ATPG), Built in Self Test (BIST)

Analogue Electronics

• Analogue Building Blocks:
The use of Precision Rectifiers, Logarithmic Amplifiers, Level Converter, Instrumentation Amplifiers, Active filters, Low-noise Amplifiers and PLL systems to applied on a complex analogue system design.

• Analogue Conversion:
Design and analysis of ADC, DAC, and Comparators for a broadly defiled analogue engineering applications.
Signal Conditioning and analogue circuit Partitioning: Sensor Basics and Sensor interfacing.

• The application of the use of thermal Management of electronic systems, such as Heat-Transfer, Thermal Resistance and Heat-sinking, and analysis of its effects on environmental and social impact

• Power Supplies:
The use of the Switch-mode power supplies, and its applications to battery powered devices.