300

EE 301 Electromagnetic Fields

Lumped vs. distributed electrical circuits. Transient response of lossless transmission lines. Sinusoidal steady-state waves on lossless transmission lines. Smith chart and impedance matching techniques and networks. Review of vector calculus. Maxwell's equations and solution of wave equations. Uniform plane electromagnetic waves in a simple unbounded lossless medium.

3

Prerequisites

EE 261, MTH 301, PHY 205

EE 331 Embedded Systems Design

Computer systems evolution. Processor to memory interface. Introduction to microcontrollers. Microcontroller instruction set architecture and assembly language programming. Parallel input/output device interfacing. Timers and interrupt handling. UART and Inter-IC (12C) serial communications. Analog-to-digital converter interface. Implementation of a microcontroller-based embedded system.
3

Prerequisites

EE 231

EE 332 Digital Systems Design

Introduction to digital systems. TTL and CMOS 74-series logic families. Register-transfer level (RTL) combinational and sequential circuit design principles and practices using 74-series devices. Programmable logic device (PLD) architectures. Combinational and sequential circuit designs using ABEL hardware description language.

3

Prerequisites

EE 231

Corequisites

EE 373

EE 333 Computer Organization

Introduction to computer system hardware including Arithmetic and Logic Unit (ALU), main memory, cache memory, I/O devices, busses and interfaces, control unit, addressing techniques, micro-computer architecture.
3

Prerequisites

EE 231

EE 351 Electronic Circuits I

Basic concepts of electronic circuit analysis and design. Physical operation and modeling of diodes, Bipolar Junction Transistors and MOSFETs. Small-signal analysis of electronic circuits. Amplifier biasing and bias-point stability. Use of SPICE as a design tool.

3

Prerequisites

EE 261, MTH 321

EE 352 Electronic Circuits II

EE 352 is a continuation of EE 351. It includes advanced analog circuit theory, analysis, and simulation using PSPICE. Topics include 1)BJT and MOS transistor amplifiers, 2) frequency response, 3) feedback and, 4) opamp active filters. EE 352 provides the theoretical foundation for the companion electronics laboratory course, EE 371.

3

Prerequisites

EE 351

Corequisites

EE 371

EE 371 Electronic Circuits Laboratory

Companion laboratory course to the EE 352 Electronics Circuits II lecture course. Students analyze, assemble, and test various electronic circuits. Students perform rigorous AC and DC measurements using state-of-the-art instrumentation and correlate results to theoretical analysis. Rigorous written reporting of laboratory results is required. Fee: $40.

1

Corequisites

EE 352

EE 373 Digital Logic Laboratory

Familiarization with the laboratory equipment. Basic gate operations. Combinational logic design using SSI, MSI, and LSI logic devices. Logic design with programmable logic devices. Sequential logic circuits. MSI counters. Fee: $40.

1

Corequisites

EE 332