Lab. The design of very-large-scale integrated circuits. Experience in VLSI design through team projects emphasizing issues involved in the design of an entire custom chip. CAD tools used in the design process, resulting in specification of circuitry suitable for fabrication. Prerequisite: E&C-ENG 558.

Embedded systems sense, actuate, compute, and communicate to accomplish tasks in domains such as medical, automotive, and industrial controls. Informal methods of hacking together embedded systems are at odds with the criticality of their applications. This course will introduce recent developments toward more rigorous modeling and verification of embedded and cyber-physical systems.

This course introduces the theoretical foundations of embedded systems, with a focus on applications in the domains of medical devices and other low-power systems. The topics covered will include modeling, scheduling, analysis and verification of systems with discrete, continuous, and hybrid dynamics. Course is intended for graduate students and senior undergraduates.

A graduate version of E&C-Eng 570 which includes additional readings from research papers on embedded operating systems concepts,

This course provides an introduction to software systems with emphasis on operating system design and implementation. A key aspect is computer architecture and system software interaction. Topics include: process management, threading, synchronization, deadlocks, scheduling, security, IO systems, and distributed systems.

To explore concepts related to the design, analysis, and construction of microwave systems. This course will discuss the fundamental tradeoffs governing system design: the hardware components and technologies that comprise working systems, the models used for characterizing the transmission and reception of signals, the physics of wave propagation and interaction, and estimation theory which seeks to separate signals from sources of error and guide algorithms for extracting information from received signals.

Introduces key concepts in biosensors and bioelectronics.The course starts from the basics of molecular and cellular biology, followed by discussions on important biomedical devices and system in electrical, optical, magnetic and mechanical domains.

Introduction to digital communications at the graduate level. Signaling formats, optimal receivers, and error probability calculations. Introduction to error control coding, source coding, and information theory. Prerequisite: undergraduate probability.

This course provides an introduction to the new area of Security Engineering, and provides examples drawn from recent research at UMASS and elsewhere. Security Engineering is a multi-disciplinary field combining technical aspects of Applied Cryptography, Computer Engineering, and Networking as well as issues from Psychology, Sociology, Policy and Economics. Several guest lectures will be presented by experts in these disciplines.

This graduate course provides an introduction to the new area of Security Engineering, and provides examples drawn from recent research at UMASS and elsewhere. Security Engineering is a multi-disciplinary field combining technical aspects of Applied Cryptography, Computer Engineering, and Networking as well as issues from Psychology, Sociology, Policy and Economics. Several guest lectures will be presented by experts in these disciplines.