This course will introduce students to the notion of waves through the context of transmission lines and electromagnetic propagation in simple unbounded media, and also introduce the theory of electromagnetism and electromagnetic fields and waves and their interaction with simple media and structures. The course includes the following topics: Transmission lines modeled as distributed circuits; introduction to one dimensional waves and the wave equation; wave velocity. Time-harmonic representation of waves and Helmholtz equation; wavelength and wavenumber.

An introduction to computer architecture and hardware design. Topics include: computer abstractions and technology, performance evaluation, instruction set architectures, computer arithmetic, pipelining, memory systems, and interfacing. Laboratory assignments will include the use of hardware description languages, machine languages and assembly languages, and hardware emulation using FPGA boards. State-of-the-art computer simulation tools are used as part of the course.

This course provides the theoretical and practical foundations for engineering the production of contemporary and future software intensive systems, and provides the basis for the analysis and co-design of complex hardware and software systems. The course enables advanced engineering problem solving concepts and skills by means of state of the art tools. The primary objectives of the course are to provide a deep introduction to both i) "systems" software programming in a Unix environment and ii) the basic suite of tools for engineering software.

Discrete-time signal and system representations. Linear time invariant systems, impulse responses, convolution. Frequency-domain analysis of discrete-time signals and systems: Fourier series, Fourier Transforms, frequency responses, filtering. Discrete-time processing of continuous-time signals. Z Transforms for systems analysis: transfer functions, stability. Design of FIR and IIR filters. Introduction to random processes and statistical noise models. Applications in digital communications and signal processing systems.

Analysis of circuit response to sinusoidal excitation; phasor analysis, impedance, admittance, power, frequency response, transfer functions, Bode plots, filters. Linear analysis of nonlinear circuits; DC biasing of 3 terminal devices, small signal analysis, single device amplifiers, small signal gain and frequency response.

Analysis of circuit response to sinusoidal excitation; phasor analysis, impedance, admittance, power, frequency response, transfer functions, Bode plots, filters. Linear analysis of nonlinear circuits; DC biasing of 3 terminal devices, small signal analysis, single device amplifiers, small signal gain and frequency response.

Analysis of circuit response to sinusoidal excitation; phasor analysis, impedance, admittance, power, frequency response, transfer functions, Bode plots, filters. Linear analysis of nonlinear circuits; DC biasing of 3 terminal devices, small signal analysis, single device amplifiers, small signal gain and frequency response.

Analysis of circuit response to sinusoidal excitation; phasor analysis, impedance, admittance, power, frequency response, transfer functions, Bode plots, filters. Linear analysis of nonlinear circuits; DC biasing of 3 terminal devices, small signal analysis, single device amplifiers, small signal gain and frequency response.

Analysis of circuit response to sinusoidal excitation; phasor analysis, impedance, admittance, power, frequency response, transfer functions, Bode plots, filters. Linear analysis of nonlinear circuits; DC biasing of 3 terminal devices, small signal analysis, single device amplifiers, small signal gain and frequency response.

Analysis of circuit response to sinusoidal excitation; phasor analysis, impedance, admittance, power, frequency response, transfer functions, Bode plots, filters. Linear analysis of nonlinear circuits; DC biasing of 3 terminal devices, small signal analysis, single device amplifiers, small signal gain and frequency response.