Average power and r.m.s. values. Reactive power, complex power, and power factor. Three phase circuits and their analysis. Measurement of power. Computer organization and representation of numbers, strings, arrays, list structures at the machine level.
Examples utilize all levels of computer architecture.
Course will contain a significant, weekly, in-class programming experience. Combinational design, multiplexing, sequential design. Offered every fall. Engineering principles of biomedical instrumentation relating to circulation, respiration, and motor-neural systems are developed. The relationship between human anatomy, physiological system, and transducers is treated as a man-machine interface phenomenon.