2001-2002 Undergraduate Calendar
	2001-2002 UNDERGRADUATE CALENDAR: COURSES
	Carleton University

Electronics Courses
Not all of the following courses are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings for 2001-2002, please consult the Registration Instructions and Class Schedule booklet published in the summer.

The Departments of Electronics and Systems and Computer Engineering offer courses in Communications Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Engineering Physics programs (please see p. 91-94).

Engineering 97.198*
First Year Project
A practical introduction to engineering design. Students work in small teams to specify, design and implement a system, formally managing the project progress and submitting oral and written reports.
Prerequisite: Registration in the Engineering Physics program.
Lectures and tutorials two hours a week, laboratory four hours a week.

Engineering 97.251*
Circuits and Signals
Properties of signals. Basic circuit elements: voltage and current sources. Kirchhoff's laws, linearity, superposition. Thevenin and Norton's theorems. Circuit simplification. AC steady-state analysis: impedance, admittance, phasors, frequency response. Transient response of RL and RC circuits: form of response, initial and final conditions. RLC circuits: resonance.
Prerequisites: Mathematics 69.105* and Physics 75.104* (or 75.101* and 75.102*).
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory and problem analysis three hours a week.

Engineering 97.257*
Electronics I
Qualitative semiconductor physics, leading to the diode equation. Diode applications. Operational amplifiers and their application in
feedback configurations including active filters. Introduction to bipolar transistors and MOSFETs, biasing and simple circuit applications. Transistor structure of digital logic gates.
Prerequisite: Engineering 97.251*.
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory and problem analysis three hours a week.

Engineering 97.267*
Switching Circuits
Boolean algebra, gate, combinatorial circuits. DeMorgan notation, sum-of-product and product-of-sum forms. Logic arrays, PLAs and PALs. Flip-flops, latches, sequential circuits, state graphs and state minimization. Counters and controllers. Hazards. Asynchronous sequential circuits, race free assignment, realization.
Precludes additional credit for Engineering 94.267*/94.367* or 97.367*.
Prerequisite: Physics 75.104* or permission of the Department
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 97.315*
Basic EM and Power Engineering
Electrostatics and magnetostatics. Solution of Poisson's and Laplace's equations. The Lorenz equation and force. Time varying fields. Magnetic circuits and transformers. DC and AC motors.
Precludes additional credit for Engineering 97.261* or 97.354*.
Prerequisites: Mathematics 69.204* and Physics 75.104* (or 75.101* and 75.102*).
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory and problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 97.350*
Digital Electronics
Digital circuit design using verilog and logic synthesis, the electronic properties of logic gates, electrical interfacing between logic families, asynchronous to synchronous interfacing, clock distribution and timing, VLSI design options. Students implement substantial circuits with field-programmable gate arrays.
Prerequisites: Engineering 97.257* and 97.267*.
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory three hours a week.

Engineering 97.359*
Electronics II
Introduction to semiconductor devices and ICs. DC, AC and switching properties of BJTs. Linear amplifiers; bandwidth considerations; two-port analysis. Large signal amplifiers; power amplifiers; transformerless circuits. Feedback and operational amplifiers; gain, sensitivity, distortion and stability. Filter design. Oscillators.
Prerequisite: Engineering 97.257*.
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory three hours a week.

Engineering 97.365*
Electrical Engineering
DC circuits: elements, sources, analysis. Single phase AC circuits: phasors, RLC circuits, real and reactive power, impedance, network analysis, three phase systems. Power transformers. DC motors: operation and characteristics. AC motors: single phase and three phase.
Prerequisites: Mathematics 69.105* and Physics 75.104* (or 75.101* and 75.102*). Not open to students in Communication Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics or Aerospace Stream C.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 97.395*
Professional Practice
Presentations by faculty and external lecturers on the Professional Engineers Act, professional ethics and responsibilities, practice within the discipline and its relationship with other disciplines and to society, health and safety, environmental stewardship, principles and practice of sustainable development. Communication skills are emphasized. (Also listed as Engineering 94.395*).
Precludes additional credit for Engineering 82.495* and 86.495*.
Prerequisite: Third-year registration.
Lectures three hours a week.

Engineering 97.398*
Physical Electronics
Fundamentals of device physics and operation of the pn junction, bipolar transistor and MOSFET. Basic integrated circuit processing and application to diodes, BJTs and MOSFETs. Correlation between processing, structure, operation and modelling. Consideration of parasitic and small-geometry effects, reliability and process variation.
Precludes additional credit for Engineering 97.368*.
Prerequisites: Chemistry 65.111*, Mathematics 69.204*, Physics 75.104* (or 75.101* and 75.102*), Electronics 97.257*.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 97.399*
Electromagnetic Waves
Maxwell's equations and EM wave solutions. Polarization. Poyntingvector. EM waves in dielectrics and conductors; skin depth. Reflection and refraction. Standing waves. Fresnel relations, Brewster angle. Transmission lines. Line termination, basic impedance matching and transformation. Smith charts. Introduction to guided waves; slab waveguide.
Prerequisite: Engineering 97.315 or permission of the Department
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 97.452*
Microwave Circuits
Introduction to microwave tubes, semiconductor devices, and passive components. Scattering matrix description of microwave junctions. Properties of basic reciprocal and non-reciprocal passive microwave devices. Fundamentals of microwave amplifiers and oscillators. Design of solid-state microwave amplifiers and oscillators.
Prerequisite: Engineering 97.453*.
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 97.453*
Radio Frequency Lines and Antennas
Introduction to distributed circuits, travelling and standing waves, reflection coefficient, SWR, impedance transformation, Smith charts. Introduction to transmission lines; coaxial, rectangular waveguide, resonators, optical fibers. Introduction to antennas; gain, directivity, effective area. Introduction to linear arrays.
Prerequisite: Engineering 97.399*.
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 97.454*
Avionics Systems
Electromagnetic spectrum. Air data sensing, display. Communications systems. Navigation and landing systems; ground-based, inertial and satellite systems. Airborne radar. Guidance, control for aircraft, autopilots; stability augmentation; active control; sensor requirements; display techniques. Aircraft power systems. Safety systems. Vehicle/systems integration, certification.
Precludes additional credit for Engineering 87.454.
Prerequisite: Fourth-year registration. Not open to students in Electrical Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering, or Aerospace Stream C.
Lecture three hours a week.

Engineering 97.455*
Telecommunication Circuits
A course of study of the commonly used circuit components in modern telecommunication systems. Both analog and digital systems are included. The design of the hardware is emphasized. Examples are drawn from broadcasting, telephony and satellite systems.
Prerequisites: Engineering 94.351* and 97.359*.
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 97.456*
CAD for Communication Circuits
Basic principles of Computer-Aided Design tools used for analysis and design of communication circuits and systems. Frequency and time-domain analysis. Noise and distortion analysis. Transmission line effects. Sensitivity analysis, and circuit performance optimization. Digital simulation.
Prerequisite: Fourth-year registration.
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory and problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 97.459*
Communication Links
Fundamentals; decibel, intermodulation, idB compression, dynamic range, SNR, noise figure, noise temperature, antenna gain, EIRP, G/T. Line-of-sight links; receiver, diversity, fade margin. Satellite links; link calculations, multiple accessing, earth stations. Fiber links, fiber types, sources, detectors, systems.
Prerequisite: Fourth-year registration or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory and problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 97.460*
Radar and Navigation
Radar: operation, minimum detectable signal, propagation effects. Surveillance Radars: Moving Target indicator and Pulse Doppler operation. Radio Navigation: pulsed and CW operation. Operational systems: Loran C., VOR/DME, TACAN, Global Positioning system. Inertial Navigation. Navigation Co-ordinate Systems. Techniques for determining best estimates of position.
Prerequisite: Engineering 97.453*.
Lectures three hours a week.

Engineering 97.461*
Microprocessor Systems
Interfacing aspects in microprocessor systems. Microprocessors and bus structures, internal architecture, instruction set and pin functions. Memory interfacing, input-output, interrupts, direct memory accesses, special processors and multiprocessor systems.
Precludes additional credit for Engineering 94.361* and Computer Science 95.306*.
Prerequisite: Engineering 97.267 and one of 94.203* or 94.303* or 94.306* or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 97.469*
Integrated Circuit Design and Fabrication
Introduction to nMOS IC design: static logic gates, noise margin, transmission gates, factors influencing switching speed, dynamic logic, input protection, output buffers, circuit simulation with SPICE. Laboratory work includes design and layout of a simple nMOS IC which is fabricated and returned for testing.
Prerequisite: Engineering 97.350*.
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory and problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 97.470*
Modelling of Integrated Devices
The operation and modelling of integrated semiconductor devices. Topics include: physical models, analytic device models, their limitations and, where appropriate, their implementation in commercial circuit simulators, parameter extraction and numerical simulation.
Prerequisite: Engineering 97.398*.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis two hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 97.472
Fiber Optic Communications
Fundamentals of optoelectronics with application to fiber optic communications. Optical fibre: modes, losses, dispersion, splices and coupling to sources. Optical sources: LEDs and laser diodes. Optical detectors: photoconductor, pin and avalanche photodiodes. Optical receiver design. Fiber optic communications systems: intensity modulation/direct detection; coherent homodyne or heterodyne detection.
Prerequisites: Engineering 97.398 and 97.399.
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 97.475*
Electronic Materials, Devices and Transmission Media
Review of solid-state theory, conductors, semiconductors, superconductors, insulators, and optical and magnetic properties. Devices used in modern high speed electronic and communication systems: transistors, lasers, photodiodes, fiber optics, Josephson junctions. Implications of material properties on fabrication and operation of devices and circuits.
Precludes additional credit for Engineering 94.475*.
Prerequisite: Fourth-year registration. Not available for credit to students in Electrical Engineering.
Lectures three hours a week.

Engineering 97.476*
Digital Integrated Electronics
Lectures and hands-on experience introduce advanced concepts in digital interfacing and hardware simulation. Industry standard VME bus operation, VHDL programming and simulation, programmable logic devices, memory devices. A modern laboratory supports VME multiprocessing, VHDL modelling and hardware design.
Prerequisite: Engineering 97.350*.
Lectures two hours a week, laboratory three hours a week.

Engineering 97.477*
Analog Integrated Electronics
Emphasis on integration of analog signal processing techniques in monolithic IC technology. Continuous active filter design. MOS IC technology. OP amp design. Basic sampled data concepts; Z-transform analysis, switched capacitor filters. Noise aspects. Bipolar technology: radio frequency IC design.
Prerequisite: Engineering 97.359*.
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory and problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 97.478*
Advanced Digital Integrated Circuit Design
VLSI design based on CMOS technology; switching characteristics of CMOS logic circuits; cell libraries; structured design and test, Computer-Aided Design tools, design for testability. Laboratory emphasis on design methods using synthesis from Verilog Code.
Prerequisite: Fourth-year registration in Electronics or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory and problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 97.496*
Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
At the discretion of the Engineering Faculty Board, a course dealing with selected advanced topics of interest to Electrical and Computer Systems engineering students may be offered. (Also listed as Engineering 94.496*.)
Prerequisite: Fourth-year registration.
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory and problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 97.497
Engineering Project
Student teams develop professional-level experience by applying, honing, integrating, and extending previously acquired knowledge in a major design project. Lectures are devoted to discussing project-related issues and student presentations. A project proposal, interim report, oral presentations, and a comprehensive final report are required.
Prerequisite: Fourth-year registration and Engineering 97.395* (may be taken concurrently). Certain projects may have additional prerequisites or corequisites.
Lecture one hour a week, laboratory seven hours a week.

Engineering 97.498
Engineering Project
Student teams develop professional-level experience by applying, honing, integrating, and extending previously acquired knowledge in a major design project. Lectures are devoted to discussing project-related issues and student presentations. A project proposal, interim report, oral presentations, and a comprehensive final report are required.
Prerequisite: Fourth-year registration and Engineering 97.395* (may be taken concurrently). Certain projects may have additional prerequisites or corequisites.
Lecture one hour a week, laboratory seven hours a week.

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