Curriculum Advisor

Dr. Larry Larson

(858) 534-8987

EBUI 5607

The electronic circuits and systems program involves the study of the processes of analysis and design of electronic circuits and systems. Emphasis is on analog and digital integrated circuits, very large-scale integration (VLSI), analog and digital signal processing, and system algorithms and architectures. Particular areas of study are:

• Analog, digital, radio frequency, and microwave electronic circuits and systems
• Analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters
• Wireless communications transceivers
• Phase-locked loops
• Low-Power integrated Circuits
• Parallel and multiprocessor computing
• Electronic neural networks and associative memories
• VLSI and algorithmic/application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design
• Microwave and millimeter wave integrated circuits (MIMIC)
• Gallium arsenide ultra-high-speed integrated circuits and devices (UHSIC)
• Algorithms and architectures for analog and digital signal processing (DSP)
• High-speed digital communications
• Computer arithmetic and numerical analysis of finite word length processors
• Fault-tolerant VLSI systems
• Design for testability, the design of reliable digital electronic systems
• Computer-aided design (CAD)
• Computer-aided engineering (CAE) of DSP/communications systems.

Course Requirements

·  Core Courses (twenty-four units):

Students must take one A-B-C sequence plus an additional 12 units from the following:

ECE 222A-B-C-D^*

Applied Electromagnetic Theory

ECE 230A-B-C

Solid State Electronics

ECE 250

Random Processes

ECE 251AN-BN-CN-DN

Digital Signal Processing, Filter Banks and Wavelets, Array Processing

ECE 260A-B-C

VLSI

ECE 264A-B-C-D

CMOS Analog Integrated Circuits and Systems

ECE 265A-B

Communication Circuit Design

* Students may take ECE 222 A-B-C or ECE 222A-B-D to meet the one sequence core coursework requirement
*ECE 222D is listed as ECE283 in Spring 2007 quarter.

·  Technical Electives (twenty-four units):

Students must take technical electives to complete the total of forty-eight units required.

These electives must be approved by a faculty advisor, and will generally consist of graduate ECE, CSE, MATH, and PHYS courses.

Graduate courses in other departments, or up to 12 units of 100-level courses, may be used to satisfy the technical elective requirement with approval of the faculty advisor.

Students may count no more than eight units of ECE 299 towards their technical elective requirement.