Seven laboratory sessions. Prepares for EENG 421b and 325b. Laboratory work includes a small project using Electronic Workbench, PSpice, LabView, and an integrated Web information environment. Introduction to the analysis and design of digital systems, from the digital abstraction of a transistor to the fundamentals of processor design. Data representation, information encoding, combinatorial circuits, sequential circuits, and pipelining.
Students design and construct a large digital system.
Some understanding of electric circuits and programming is desirable but not essential. Exploration of a task involving multiple interacting mobile robots controlled by microcontrollers. A competition of alternate approaches by small design teams. James Duncan, Richard Kennan, Anand Rangarajan. For description see under Biomedical Engineering.