Objective

Syllabus
This course is designed to give students the basic concepts that are required in system level design of a communication system. The course starts from the fundamental properties of electromagnetic waves travelling in free space. Maxwell’s equations are explained in a plain language although some simplified mathematic expression for electromagnetic waves are derived. Based on the properties, the basic propagation mechanisms of electromagnetic waves, such as reflection, refraction, diffraction, Huygen’s principle, Fresnel zones and geometrical optics, are discussed. To provide students with some hands-on design experience, after the study of basic antenna design concepts and wave propagation models, a practical antenna design project and a WLAN communication system simulation project will be carried out with assistance of experienced tutors. These two projects are part of the course requirement.
The advanced topics covered in this course include mobile channel models; statistical characterization of the narrowband fast-fading effects in macrocells, which affect the quality of individual links between mobiles and macrocell base stations; empirical models of propagations for indoor propagation; the Rayleigh distribution for non-line-of-sight channels; the Rice distribution for line-of-sight channels; diversity technologies and their combining methods for effectively overcoming the channel fading.

Learning Outcome

Laboratory
The laboratory work includes experiments and CAD practice. A complete wireless transceiver need to be built in Advanced Design System (ADS), the most sophisticated wireless system CAD software package.

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Objective
Variation of different circuit implementation methods; conventional design flow; rapid-prototyping;
VHDL and Verilog; deep submicron design flow; high-level synthesis;
IC testing, test pattern generation; scan design and built-in self-test; introduction to packaging technology.

(Original Course Code: ELE7260)

Syllabus
Variation of different circuit implementation methods; conventional design flow; rapid-prototyping;
VHDL and Verilog; deep submicron design flow; high-level synthesis;
IC testing, test pattern generation; scan design and built-in self-test; introduction to packaging technology.

(Original Course Code: ELE7260)

Learning Outcome

Laboratory
The laboratory works include experiments on image analysis, enhancement, restoration and coding.

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Objective
This course is designed for students to gain an understanding of technological development of power-management IC design. Through this course, students will learn the essentials of voltage-regulator design. Recent advances in selected topics will also be discussed.

Syllabus
Design, simulation and measurement methods of power management integrated circuits. Bandgap voltage references, linear regulators, low-dropout regulators and switching-mode regulators. Circuit layout design and floor planning.

Learning Outcome
By the end of the course, students should be able to

• Have an overall picture of the history, progress, and importance of power-management circuits.
• Understand the principle of operation of typical voltage regulators
• Perform circuit designs of voltage reference, linear regulator and switching-mode power converter.
• Understand the design tradeoffs of the specifications.

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Objective
This course covers the design of analog integrated circuits using modern CMOS technology. Extensive circuit simulations will be made using Cadence/SPECTRE in the homework problems and the course project. Contents include: Review of fundamentals; analog circuit building blocks: operational amplifier, comparator, voltage and current references; switched-capacitor circuits; current mode circuits; continuous-time filters; A/D and D/A converters: parallel, serial, algorithmic and over-sampling converters.

Syllabus
After finishing this course, students are expected to

• Be able to analyze and design CMOS analog IC building blocks, like operational transconductance amplifiers and comparators.
• Be able to analyze, design and characterize basic CMOS data converters of different type, including flash, successive approximation, pipeline, and oversampling types.

Learning Outcome
We will be using intensive computer simulations in the homework. Matlab is used to design and verify the system performance.

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