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Digital Systems Emphasis for Electrical Engineering Students

Digital Systems Emphasis for Electrical Engineering Students. Digital Systems skills are very valuable for electrical engineers Digital systems are the de-facto implementation medium for all kinds of systems: Communications systems Control systems Power systems Electromechanical systems.

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Digital Systems Emphasis for Electrical Engineering Students

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  1. Digital Systems Emphasis for Electrical Engineering Students • Digital Systems skills are very valuable for electrical engineers • Digital systems are the de-facto implementation medium for all kinds of systems: • Communications systems • Control systems • Power systems • Electromechanical systems Some things to think about when choosing your technical elective courses…

  2. They interact with people and the physical world • They sense, compute, and control things • A modern car has up to 50 microcomputers inside • Cell phones, MP3 players, appliances, Power Grid, GPs… • Taking over domains that used to be analog • Communications, control, signal processing… • Digital speeds getting faster & faster: “software radio” Digital Systems are Ubiquitous • Why? • Often easier, cheaper to design & implement than analog • “Digital Abstraction” – reduce analog values to ‘0’ and ‘1’ • Not sensitive to process variations, temperature, etc. • Design with software & hardware description languages

  3. Logic “core” • FPGAs – design in VHDL or Verilog • Application-specific integrated Circuits: VHDL or Verilog • Microcontrollers and Digital Signal Processors: C or C++ • Memory • Interconnect: • Between chips • Between systems: Local Area Networks, wireless • Wide-area networks (Internet) • Power supply • Software Digital System Components

  4. You can’t have too much software skill! • Industry is full of industry-specific languages & protocols • A strong foundation makes it easy to pick them up • CS120 & CS121: Computer Science I and II • Programming C and C++ • Dynamic data structures • Structured and object-oriented programming • CS382 – Software Engineering • How to sucessfully design and test large software systems • CS/MATH395: Analysis of Algorithms • MATH473: Numerical Analysis Software Skills

  5. 18 tech electives, 300 & 400 level • 12 from ECE • 6 from ECE, CS, Physics or Math • Build your own digital systems emphasis Digital Tech Electives • ECE440: Digital Systems Engineering • Emphasis on FPGAs, VHDL • Design & test complex systems • High-Performance design techniques • ECE443: Distributed Process & Control Networks • Many things controlled over networks • E.g. the Power Grid, now and future

  6. ECE455: Information and Coding Theory • How is information coded for transmission, storage and use? • How does MP3 work? JPEG? Encryption? Error correction? • What is information bandwidth? How do we design for it? More Digital Tech Electives • ECE445: Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits (VLSI • Chip-level design of digital components • Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) • ECE476: Digital Filtering • How to design digital filters & implement them in hardware • Computer Science Embedded Computing Classes • Embedded System Design • Real-time Operating Systems (RTOS)

  7. ECE455: Information and Coding Theory • How is information coded for transmission, storage and use? • How does MP3 work? JPEG? Encryption? Error correction? • What is information bandwidth? How do we design for it? Even More Digital Tech Electives • ECE445: Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits (VLSI • Chip-level design of digital components • Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) • ECE471: Digital Control Systems • Design control systems, implement them with digital hardware • ECE476: Digital Filtering • How to design digital filters & implement them in hardware

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