ECE Special Topic Courses & Seminars
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Fall 2009
ECE 507 - Seminar: GasP Research
Taught by Ivan Sutherland, PSU
Mondays 2:00-3:50 p.m.
This class will help students gain familiarity with circuit design as well as analysis. Because we will explore novel circuits the seminar will help students identify research projects worthy of further exploration. Each student will do a small project each week and report on it in class. Most projects will involve SPICE simulations of small circuits. More...
Email Dr. Sutherland: ivans@cecs.pdx.edu
ECE 510 - RFIC Design
Taught by Richard Campbell, PSU
Monday/Wednesday 5:00-6:50 p.m.
Held at the Capital Center in Beaverton: 18640 NW Walker Road
The class is a hands-on exploration of Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit design, using actual devices and circuits fabricated in TriQuint's TQPED 130 nm pHEMT process. Student projects will include design, critical design review, fabrication, and measurement of actual GaAs devices and ICs. ECE 531 and ECE 532 are prerequisites.
Email Dr. Campbell: campbell@ece.pdx.edu
Dr. Cambell's web site
ECE 510 - System Design with Programmable Logic
Taught by Roy Kravitz & Shiv Prakash
Thursdays 5:30-9:10 p.m.
Held at the Capital Center in Beaverton: 18640 NW Walker Road
Programmable logic devices such as field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are a major part of digital design. Advances in semiconductor technology have made it possible to implement a complex, high performance system on a single programmable chip. This course discusses tools and techniques for designing, verifying and implementing System-on-Chip (SoC) designs using programmable logic. The course has a both an academic and project orientation: Students take several projects from concept through synthesis and debug on an FPGA development board while exploring the techniques used to optimize the design to meet high speed timing requirements. Mentor Graphics and Xilinx design automation software tools are used. Students must be familiar with Verilog HDL or willing to adjust from VHDL. Knowledge of Assembly language programming would be helpful.
Email Dr. Kravitz: Roy.Kravitz@serveron.com
ECE 510 - State Space Tracking
Taught by James McNames, PSU
Tuesday/Thursday 12:00-1:50 p.m.
Survey of modern approaches to estimating the state of linear and nonlinear dynamic systems. Topics include linear systems theory, the Kalman filter, the extended Kalman filter, unscented Kalman filter, and the particle filter. Lectures and assignments will include theory, implementation, and applications of these methods. Designed to give a solid introduction and fundamental understanding of the advantages, limitations, and trade offs for each of these methods.
Dr. McNames' email: mcnames@ece.pdx.edu
Dr. McNames' website
Winter 2010
ECE 507 - Seminar: Electromagnetic Scattering
Led by Alla Timchenko
Fridays 1:00-2:50 p.m. FAB 150
This course is a special topics seminar that will introduce the aspects related to the volume and boundary scattering of electromagnetic waves. Based on the Maxwell’s Equations and Greens function as well as radiative transfer theory, the approaches are developed to solve the problem of finding the scattered electromagnetic field for the cases: single and multiple scattering, discrete and continuous media, as well as boundary scattering for various types of surface roughness. The course will provide the mathematical techniques applicable to basic scattering tasks. More...
Email Dr. Timchenko: timchenk@cecs.pdx.edu
ECE 507 - Seminar: Microelectronics
Led by Jim Morris & Richard Campbell, PSU
Thursdays 12:30-1:30 FAB 155
Weekly research seminars in microelectronic materials, devices, and design, and related technologies, by students, faculty, and visitors.
Email Dr. Morris: jmorris@cecs.pdx.edu
Dr. Morris' website
ECE 510 - Embedded System Design & Programming with Programmable Logic
Taught by Roy Kravitz
Tuesdays 5:30-9:10 p.m. CAP 1315
Held at the Capital Center in Beaverton: 18640 NW Walker Road
Microprocessor-based embedded systems are everywhere. The typical American household uses about 50 microprocessors, not counting personal computers, with the number rising every year. This course builds on the solid hardware-centric base for system-on-chip design gained in ECE 510 – System Design with Programmable Logic by teaching embedded system design and programming. The course has both an academic and project orientation; students take several embedded system projects from concept through debug on an FPGA development board while learning how to design and implement integrated hardware/software applications that interact with “real world” devices. Xilinx synthesis and embedded system software tools and the GNU tool chain are used. Programming is done in C.
Prerequisites
ECE 510 – System Design with Programmable Logic or consent of instructor. You should be comfortable programming in C and/or C++ and using Verilog or VHDL for synthesis.
Email Dr. Kravitz: Roy.Kravitz@serveron.com
ECE 510 - Statistical Optics
Taught by Donald Duncan, OHSU
Monday/Wednesday 2:00-3:50 p.m. OND 203
This is an advanced course in which we explore the field of Statistical Optics. Topics covered include such subjects as the statistical properties of natural (thermal) and laser light, spatial and temporal coherence, effects of partial coherence on optical imaging instruments, effects on imaging due to randomly inhomogeneous media, and a statistical treatment of the detection of light. Development of this more comprehensive model of the behavior of light draws upon the use of tools traditionally available to the electrical engineer, such as linear system theory and the theory of stochastic processes.
Prerequisites: Fourier Optics or permission of the instructor.
Email Dr. Duncan: donald.duncan@bme.ogi.edu
Dr. Duncan's website
ECE 510 - Wireless Communications
Taught by Fu Li, PSU
Monday/Wednesdays 5:00-6:50 p.m. CAP 1315
Held at the Capital Center in Beaverton: 18640 NW Walker Road
The course provides an overview of the latest developments and trends in wireless mobile communications, and addresses the impact of wireless transmission and user mobility on the design and management of wireless mobile systems. The coverage of the mobile communication foundementls includes, but not limited to, VHF and UHF communication in land-mobile communication. Channel characterization; fast and slow fading, frequency selectivity, delay and spread coherence bandwidth. Signal loss probability. Interference environments and its control. Frequency control. Diversity techniques for digital land mobile radio. Spatial distribution of offered traffic. Efficient spectral utilization. Capacity calculations and networking.
Email Dr. Li: fli@ece.pdx.edu
Dr. Li's website
Spring 2010
ECE 510 - Advanced Embedded In Silico and In Materio Computing
Taught by Christof Teuscher, PSU
Monday/Wednesday 6:40-8:30 p.m.
Imagine a biomolecular computer that monitors your cholesterol level, a bacterial computer that senses dangerous chemicals in the environment, a self-adapting and self-repairing massive-scale sensor network on an unmanned spacecraft exposed to hard radiation, or a paintable computer on your wall that displays your friends' Twitter tweets. How do you design a reliable computer architecture based on unreliable non-silicon and non-Boolean computing components? How do you program, test, and maintain a massive-scale embedded system that needs to be robust and reconfigurable? How can you compute with non-Boolean systems by exploiting the inherent complex dynamics a physical devices provides?
Embedded systems are dedicated special-purpose computers that often have to process information with real-time, spatial, power, and other constraints. Embedded control systems are ubiquitous today in consumer, industrial, and military devices, a trend that will undoubtedly continue, in particular in view of new application domains and new computing devices, such as biomolecular and other non-silicon devices. This course introduces and develops the advanced hardware and software concepts and the design methodologies an engineer will need to master in order to design and program such novel embedded in silico and in materio computing systems. Special emphasis will be given to the engineering and scientific aspects of distributed, (self-) adaptive, and intelligent information processing and to the interconnect and communication aspects.
The course is designed to provide a solid overview on multiple emerging technologies and an understanding of the advantages, limitations, and trade-offs of each of them. Students will read relevant literature and explore concepts in hands-on mini-projects.
Dr. Teuscher's teaching website: http://www.teuscher-lab.com/teaching
Dr. Teuscher's website: http://www.teuscher-lab.com/christof
Dr. Teuscher's lab website: http://www.teuscher-lab.com
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