Electrical Engineering
Please see the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department for program and degree requirements.
EL ENG 20 Structure and Interpretation of Systems and Signals 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week.
Prerequisites: Mathematics 1B.
Mathematical modeling of signals and systems. Continous and discrete signals, with applications to audio, images, video, communications, and control. State-based models, beginning with automata and evolving to LTI systems. Frequency domain models for signals and frequency response for systems, and sampling of continuous-time signals. A Matlab-based laboratory is an integral part of the course.
Formerly known as Electrical Engineering 20N. Instructor: Ayazifar
EL ENG 24 Freshman Seminar 1 Unit
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics may vary from department to department and semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
EL ENG 25 What Electrical Engineers Do--Feedback from Recent Graduates 1 Unit
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
A Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences degree opens the door to many opportunities, but what exactly are they? Graduation is only a few years away and it's not too early to find out. In this seminar students will hear from practicing engineers who recently graduated. What are they working on? Are they working in a team? What do they wish they had learned better? How did they find their jobs?
Instructor: Boser
EL ENG 40 Introduction to Microelectronic Circuits 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture, 3 hours of Laboratory, and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture, 2 hours of Discussion, and 6 hours of Laboratory per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: Mathematics 1B.
Fundamental circuit concepts and analysis techniques in the context of digital electronic circuits. Transient analysis of CMOS logic gates; basic integrated-circuit technology and layout.
Students will receive one unit of credit for 40 taking 42 and no credit after taking 100.
EL ENG 42 Introduction to Digital Electronics 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: Mathematics 1B.
This course serves as an introduction to the principles of electrical engineering, starting from the basic concepts of voltage and current and circuit elements of resistors, capacitors, and inductors. Circuit analysis is taught using Kirchhoff's voltage and current laws with Thevenin and Norton equivalents. Operational amplifiers with feedback are introduced as basic building blocks for amplication and filtering. Semiconductor devices including diodes and MOSFETS and their IV characteristics are covered. Applications of diodes for rectification, and design of MOSFETs in common source amplifiers are taught. Digital logic gates and design using CMOS as well as simple flip-flops are introduced. Speed and scaling issues for CMOS are considered. The course includes as motivating examples designs of high level applications including logic circuits, amplifiers, power supplies, and communication links.
Students will receive no credit for 42 after taking 40 or 100.
EL ENG 43 Introductory Electronics Laboratory 1 Unit
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 3.5 hours of laboratory/discussion per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: 42 (may be taken concurrently) or equivalent or consent of instructor.
Using and understanding electronics laboratory equipment such as oscilloscope, power supplies, function generator, multimeter, curve-tracer, and RLC-meter. Includes a term project of constructing and testing a robot or other appropriate electromechanical device.
EL ENG 97 Field Study 1 - 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Fieldwork per week for 15 weeks. 2 to 7.5 hours of Fieldwork per week for 8 weeks. 2.5 to 10 hours of Fieldwork per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor (see department adviser).
Students take part in organized individual field sponsored programs with off-campus companies or tutoring/mentoring relevant to specific aspects and applications of computer science on or off campus. Note Summer CPT or OPT students: written report required. Course does not count toward major requirements, but will be counted in the cumulative units toward graduation.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
EL ENG 98 Directed Group Study for Undergraduates 1 - 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Course format varies.
Group study of selected topics in electrical engineering, usually relating to new developments.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
EL ENG 99 Individual Study and Research for Undergraduates 1 - 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Independent study per week for 15 weeks. 1 to 4 hour of Independent study per week for 8 weeks. 1 to 5 hour of Independent study per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Freshman or sophomore standing and consent of instructor. Minimum GPA of 3.4 required.
Supervised independent study and research for students with fewer than 60 units completed.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
EL ENG 100 Electronic Techniques for Engineering 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture, 3 hours of Laboratory, and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture, 2 hours of Discussion, and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: Mathematics 1B.
This course serves as an introduction to the principles of electrical engineering, starting from the basic concepts of voltage and current and circuit elements of resistors, capacitors, and inductors. Circuit analysis is taught using Kirchhoff's voltage and current laws with Thevenin and Norton equivalents. Operational amplifiers with feedback are introduced as basic building blocks for amplification and filtering. Semiconductor devices including diodes and MOSFETS and their IV characteristics are covered. Applications of diodes for rectification, and design of MOSFETs in common source amplifiers are taught. Digital logic gates and design using CMOS as well as simple flip-flops are introduced. Speed and scaling issues for CMOS are considered. The course includes as motivating examples designs of high level applications including logic circuits, amplifiers, power supplies, and communication links.
Students will receive one unit of credit for 100 after taking 42 and no credit after taking 40.
EL ENG 105 Microelectronic Devices and Circuits 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture, 1 hour of Discussion, and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 40.
This course covers the fundamental circuit and device concepts needed to understand analog integrated circuits. After an overview of the basic properties of semiconductors, the p-n junction and MOS capacitors are described and the MOSFET is modeled as a large-signal device. Two port small-signal amplifiers and their realization using single stage and multistage CMOS building blocks are discussed. Sinusoidal steady-state signals are introduced and the techniques of phasor analysis are developed, including impedance and the magnitude and phase response of linear circuits. The frequency responses of single and multi-stage amplifiers are analyzed. Differential amplifiers are introduced.
EL ENG 113 Power Electronics 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 105 or consent of instructor.
Power conversion circuits and techniques. Characterization and design of magnetic devices including transformers, reactors, and electromagnetic machinery. Characteristics of bipolar and MOS power semiconductor devices. Applications to motor control, switching power supplies, lighting, power systems, and other areas as appropriate.
EL ENG 117 Electromagnetic Fields and Waves 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture, 1 hour of Discussion, and 1.5 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 40, Mathematics 53, 54, knowledge of phasor analysis (e.g. as taught in 105).
Review of static electric and magnetic fields and applications; Maxwell's equations; transmission lines; propagation and reflection of plane waves; introduction to guided waves, microwave networks, and radiation and antennas. Minilabs on statics, transmission lines, and waves.
Formerly known as 117A-117B.
EL ENG 118 Introduction to Optical Engineering 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Fundamental principles of optical systems. Geometrical optics and aberration theory. Stops and apertures, prisms, and mirrors. Diffraction and interference. Optical materials and coatings. Radiometry and photometry. Basic optical devices and the human eye. The design of optical systems. Lasers, fiber optics, and holography.
Students will receive no credit for Electrical Engineering 118 after taking Electrical Engineering 218A. A deficient grade in Electrical Engineering 119 may be removed by taking Electrical Engineering 118. Formerly known as Electrical Engineering 119. Instructor: Waller
EL ENG 120 Signals and Systems 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Recitation per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 20N, Mathematics 53, 54.
Continuous and discrete-time transform analysis techniques with illustrative applications. Linear and time-invariant systems, transfer functions. Fourier series, Fourier transform, Laplace and Z-transforms. Sampling and reconstruction. Solution of differential and difference equations using transforms. Frequency response, Bode plots, stability analysis. Illustrated by analysis of communication systems and feedback control systems.
EL ENG 121 Introduction to Digital Communication Systems 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 120, 126.
Introduction to the basic principles of the design and analysis of modern digital communication systems. Topics include source coding, channel coding, baseband and passband modulation techniques, receiver design, and channel equalization. Applications to design of digital telephone modems, compact disks, and digital wireless communication systems. Concepts illustrated by a sequence of MATLAB exercises.
EL ENG 122 Introduction to Communication Networks 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture, 1 hour of Discussion, and 1 hour of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Computer Science 61B, Mathematics 53 or 54.
This course is an introduction to the design and implementation of computer networks. We will focus on the concepts and fundamental design principles that have contributed to the Internet's scalability and robustness and survey the underlying technologies--e.g., Ethernet, 802.11, DSL, optical links--that have led to the Internet's phenomenal success. Topics include layering, congestion/flow/error control, routing, addressing, multicast, packet scheduling, switching, internetworking, network security, and networking/programming interfaces.
EL ENG 123 Digital Signal Processing 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture, 1 hour of Discussion, and 1 hour of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 120.
Discrete time signals and systems: Fourier and Z transforms, DFT, 2-dimensional versions. Digital signal processing topics: flow graphs, realizations, FFT, chirp-Z algorithms, Hilbert transform relations, quantization effects, linear prediction. Digital filter design methods: windowing, frequency sampling, S-to-Z methods, frequency-transformation methods, optimization methods, 2-dimensional filter design.
EL ENG C125/BIO ENG C125 Introduction to Robotics 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Bioengineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture, 1 hour of Discussion, and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 120 or equivalent, consent of instructor.
An introduction to the kinematics, dynamics, and control of robot manipulators, robotic vision, and sensing. The course covers forward and inverse kinematics of serial chain manipulators, the manipulator Jacobian, force relations, dynamics, and control. It presents elementary principles on proximity, tactile, and force sensing, vision sensors, camera calibration, stereo construction, and motion detection. The course concludes with current applications of robotics in active perception, medical robotics, and other areas.
Instructor: Bajcsy
EL ENG 126 Probability and Random Processes 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 20.
This course covers the fundamentals of probability and random processes useful in fields such as networks, communication, signal processing, and control. Sample space, events, probability law. Conditional probability. Independence. Random variables. Distribution, density functions. Random vectors. Law of large numbers. Central limit theorem. Estimation and detection. Markov chains.
EL ENG 127 Optimization Models in Engineering 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Math 54 or equivalent or consent of instructor.
This course offers an introduction to optimization models and their applications, ranging from machine learning and statistics to decision-making and control, with emphasis on numerically tractable problems, such as linear or constrained least-squares optimization.
Students will receive no credit for Electrical Engineering 127 after taking Electrical Engineering 227A.
EL ENG C128/MEC ENG C134 Feedback Control Systems 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Mechanical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Analysis and synthesis of linear feedback control systems in transform and time domains. Control system design by root locus, frequency response, and state space methods. Applications to electro-mechanical and mechatronics systems.
EL ENG 129 Neural and Nonlinear Information Processing 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 120 or consent of instructor.
Principles of massively parallel real-time computation, optimization, and information processing via nonlinear dynamics and analog VLSI neural networks, applications selected from image processing, pattern recognition, feature extraction, motion detection, data compression, secure communication, bionic eye, auto waves, and Turing patterns.
Instructor: Chua
EL ENG 130 Integrated-Circuit Devices 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 40 or 100.
Overview of electronic properties of semiconductor. Metal-semiconductor contacts, pn junctions, bipolar transistors, and MOS field-effect transistors. Properties that are significant to device operation for integrated circuits. Silicon device fabrication technology.
Students will receive no credit for El Eng 130 after taking El Eng 230A.
EL ENG 134 Fundamentals of Photovoltaic Devices 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 40 or 100 or Engineering 45.
This course is designed to give an introduction to, and overview of, the fundamentals of photovoltaic devices. Students will learn how solar cells work, understand the concepts and models of solar cell device physics, and formulate and solve relevant physical problems related to photovoltaic devices. Monocrystalline, thin film and third generation solar cells will be discussed and analyzed. Light management and economic considerations in a solar cell system will also be covered.
Instructor: Arias
EL ENG 137A Introduction to Electric Power Systems 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Physics 7B; Electrical Engineering 40, 100, or Engineering 45; or consent of instructor.
Overview of conventional electric power conversion and delivery, emphasizing a systemic understanding of the electric grid with primary focus at the transmission level, aimed toward recognizing needs and opportunities for technological innovation. Topics include aspects of a.c. system design, electric generators, components of transmission and distribution systems, power flow analysis, system planning and operation, performance measures, and limitations of legacy technologies.
Instructor: von Meier
EL ENG 137B Introduction to Electric Power Systems 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Electrical Engineering 137A and 194 or consent of instructor.
Overview of recent and potential future evolution of electric power systems with focus on new and emerging technologies for power conversion and delivery, primarily at the distribution level. Topics include power electronics applications, solar and wind generation, distribution system design and operation, electric energy storage, information management and communications, demand response, and microgrids.
Instructor: von Meier
EL ENG 140 Linear Integrated Circuits 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture, 1 hour of Discussion, and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Electrical Engineering 105.
Single and multiple stage transistor amplifiers. Operational amplifiers. Feedback amplifiers, 2-port formulation, source, load, and feedback network loading. Frequency response of cascaded amplifiers, gain-bandwidth exchange, compensation, dominant pole techniques, root locus. Supply and temperature independent biasing and references. Selected applications of analog circuits such as analog-to-digital converters, switched capacitor filters, and comparators. Hardware laboratory and design project.
Students will receive no credit for El Eng 140 after taking El Eng 240A. Instructors: Alon, Sanders
EL ENG 141 Introduction to Digital Integrated Circuits 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture, 1 hour of Discussion, and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Electrical Engineering 40; Electrical Engineering 105 and Computer Science 150 recommended.
CMOS devices and deep sub-micron manufacturing technology. CMOS inverters and complex gates. Modeling of interconnect wires. Optimization of designs with respect to a number of metrics: cost, reliability, performance, and power dissipation. Sequential circuits, timing considerations, and clocking approaches. Design of large system blocks, including arithmetic, interconnect, memories, and programmable logic arrays. Introduction to design methodologies, including hands-on experience.
Students will receive no credit for Electrical Engineering 141 after taking Electrical Engineering 241A. Instructors: Alon, Rabaey
EL ENG 142 Integrated Circuits for Communications 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture, 1 hour of Discussion, and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: El Eng 20 and El Eng 140.
Analysis and design of electronic circuits for communication systems, with an emphasis on integrated circuits for wireless communication systems. Analysis of noise and distortion in amplifiers with application to radio receiver design. Power amplifier design with application to wireless radio transmitters. Radio-frequency mixers, oscillators, phase-locked loops, modulators, and demodulators.
Students will receive no credit for El Eng 142 after taking El Eng 242A.
EL ENG 143 Microfabrication Technology 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 40 and Physics 7B.
Integrated circuit device fabrication and surface micromachining technology. Thermal oxidation, ion implantation, impurity diffusion, film deposition, expitaxy, lithography, etching, contacts and interconnections, and process integration issues. Device design and mask layout, relation between physical structure and electrical/mechanical performance. MOS transistors and poly-Si surface microstructures will be fabricated in the laboratory and evaluated.
EL ENG 144 Fundamental Algorithms for Systems Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 20; Computer Science 70 or consent of instructor.
The modeling, analysis, and optimization of complex systems requires a range of algorithms and design software. This course reviews the fundamental techniques underlying the design methodology for complex systems, using integrated circuit design as example. Topics include design flows, discrete and continuous models and algorithms, and strategies for implementing algorithms efficiently and correctly in software. Laboratory assignments and a class project will expose students to state-of-the-art tools.
Instructors: Keutzer, Lee, Roychowdhury, Seshia
EL ENG C145B/BIO ENG C165 Medical Imaging Signals and Systems 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Bioengineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Electrical Engineering 120; basic programming ability in C or FORTRAN.
Biomedical imaging is a clinically important application of engineering, applied mathematics, physics, and medicine. In this course, we apply linear systems theory and basic physics to analyze X-ray imaging, computerized tomography, nuclear medicine, and MRI. We cover the basic physics and instrumentation that characterizes medical image as an ideal perfect-resolution image blurred by an impulse response. This material could prepare the student for a career in designing new medical imaging systems that reliably detect small tumors or infarcts.
Instructor: Conolly
EL ENG C145L/BIO ENG C145L Introductory Electronic Transducers Laboratory 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Bioengineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Laboratory exercises exploring a variety of electronic transducers for measuring physical quantities such as temperature, force, displacement, sound, light, ionic potential; the use of circuits for low-level differential amplification and analog signal processing; and the use of microcomputers for digital sampling and display. Lectures cover principles explored in the laboratory exercises; construction, response and signal to noise of electronic transducers and actuators; and design of circuits for sensing and controlling physical quantities.
Instructor: Derenzo
EL ENG C145M/BIO ENG C145M Introductory Microcomputer Interfacing Laboratory 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Bioengineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 40, Compsci 61B or a working knowledge of ANSI C programming or consent of instructor.
Laboratory exercises constructing basic interfacing circuits and writing 20-100 line C programs for data acquisition, storage, analysis, display, and control. Use of the IBM PC with microprogrammable digital counter/timer, parallel I/O port. Circuit components include anti-aliasing filters, the S/H amplifier, A/D and D/A converters. Exercises include effects of aliasing in periodic sampling, fast Fourier transforms of basic waveforms, the use of the Hanning filter for leakage reduction, Fourier analysis of the human voice, digital filters, and control using Fourier deconvolution. Lectures cover principles explored in the lab exercises and design of microcomputer-based systems for data acquisitions, analysis and control.
Instructor: Derenzo
EL ENG C145O/BIO ENG C136L/INTEGBI C135L Laboratory in the Mechanics of Organisms 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Bioengineering; Integrative Biology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 6 hours of laboratory and 1 hour of discussion per week, plus 1 field trip.
Prerequisites: Integrative Biology 135 or consent of instructor; for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science students, Electrical Engineering 105, 120 or Computer Science 184.
Introduction to laboratory and field study of the biomechanics of animals and plants using fundamental biomechanical techniques and equipment. Course has a series of rotations involving students in experiments demonstrating how solid and fluid mechanics can be used to discover the way in which diverse organisms move and interact with their physical environment. The laboratories emphasize sampling methodology, experimental design, and statistical interpretation of results. Latter third of course devoted to independent research projects. Written reports and class presentation of project results are required.
Students will receive no credit for C135L after taking 135L. Formerly known as Integrative Biology 135L.
EL ENG 147 Introduction to Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Electrical Engineering 40 or 100 or consent of instructor.
This course will teach fundamentals of micromachining and microfabrication techniques, including planar thin-film process technologies, photolithographic techniques, deposition and etching techniques, and the other technologies that are central to MEMS fabrication. It will pay special attention to teaching of fundamentals necessary for the design and analysis of devices and systems in mechanical, electrical, fluidic, and thermal energy/signal domains, and will teach basic techniques for multi-domain analysis. Fundamentals of sensing and transduction mechanisms including capacitive and piezoresistive techniques, and design and analysis of micmicromachined miniature sensors and actuators using these techniques will be covered.
Students will receive no credit for El Eng 147 after taking El Eng 247A. Instructors: Maharbiz, Nguyen, Pister
EL ENG C149/COMPSCI C149 Introduction to Embedded Systems 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 20N; Computer Science 61C; Computer Science 70 or Math 55.
This course introduces students to the basics of models, analysis tools, and control for embedded systems operating in real time. Students learn how to combine physical processes with computation. Topics include models of computation, control, analysis and verification, interfacing with the physical world, mapping to platforms, and distributed embedded systems. The course has a strong laboratory component, with emphasis on a semester-long sequence of projects.
Students will receive no credit for Electrical Engineering C149/Computer Science C149 after<BR/>taking Electrical Engineering C249M/Computer Science C249M. Students may remove a deficient grade in Electrical Engineering C149/Computer Science C149 after taking Electrical Engineering 124.<BR/> Instructors: Lee, Seshia
EL ENG 192 Mechatronic Design Laboratory 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1.5 hours of Lecture and 10 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 120, Computer Science 61B or 61C, 150 or equivalent.
Design project course, focusing on application of theoretical principles in electrical engineering to control of a small-scale system, such as a mobile robot. Small teams of students will design and construct a mechatronic system incorporating sensors, actuators, and intelligence.
Instructor: Fearing
EL ENG 194 Special Topics 1 - 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Topics will vary semester to semester. See the Electrical Engineering announcements.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
EL ENG H196A Senior Honors Thesis Research 1 - 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade. This is part one of a year long series course. A provisional grade of IP (in progress) will be applied and later replaced with the final grade after completing part two of the series.
Hours and format: Individual research.
Prerequisites: Open only to students in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science honors program.
Thesis work under the supervision of a faculty member. A minimum of four units must be taken; the units may be distributed between one and two semesters in any way. To obtain credit a satisfactory thesis must be submitted at the end of the two semesters to the Electrical and Engineering and Computer Science Department archive. Students who complete four units and a thesis in one semester receive a letter grade at the end of H196A. Students who do not, receive an IP in H196A and must enroll in H196B.
EL ENG H196B Senior Honors Thesis Research 1 - 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade. This is part two of a year long series course. Upon completion, the final grade will be applied to both parts of the series.
Hours and format: Individual research.
Prerequisites: Open only to students in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science honors program.
Thesis work under the supervision of a faculty member. A minimum of four units must be taken; the units may be distributed between one and two semesters in any way. To obtain credit a satisfactory thesis must be submitted at the end of the two semesters to the Electrical and Engineering and Computer Science Department archive. Students who complete four units and a thesis in one semester receive a letter grade at the end of H196A. Students who do not, receive an IP in H196A and must enroll in H196B.
EL ENG 197 Field Study 1 - 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Fieldwork per week for 15 weeks. 2 to 7.5 hours of Fieldwork per week for 8 weeks. 2.5 to 10 hours of Fieldwork per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor (see department adviser).
Students take part in organized individual field sponsored programs with off-campus companies or tutoring/mentoring relevant to specific aspects and applications of computer science on or off campus. Note Summer CPT or OPT students: written report required. Course does not count toward major requirements, but will be counted in the cumulative units toward graduation.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
EL ENG 198 Directed Group Study for Advanced Undergraduates 1 - 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: To vary with section.
Prerequisites: 2.0 GPA or better; 60 units completed.
Group study of selected topics in electrical engineering, usually relating to new developments.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
EL ENG 199 Supervised Independent Study 1 - 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Individual conferences.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and major adviser.
Supervised independent study. Enrollment restrictions apply.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
EL ENG 210 Applied Electromagnetic Theory 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 117, or Physics 110A, 110B.
Advanced treatment of classical electromagnetic theory with engineering applications. Boundary value problems in electrostatics. Applications of Maxwell's Equations to the study of waveguides, resonant cavities, optical fiber guides, Gaussian optics, diffraction, scattering, and antennas.
Formerly known as 210A-210B.
EL ENG C213/AST C210 Soft X-rays and Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Applied Science and Technology
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Physics 110, 137, and Mathematics 53, 54 or equivalent.
This course will explore modern developments in the physics and applications of soft x-rays. It begins with a review of electromagnetic radiation at short wavelengths including dipole radiation, scattering and refractive index, using a semi-classical atomic model. Subject matter will include the generation of x-rays with laboratory tubes, synchrotron radiation, laser-plasma sources, x-ray lasers, and black body radiation. Concepts of spatial and temporal coherence will be discussed.
Formerly known as El Engineering 290G.
EL ENG 215A Introduction to Robotics 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture, 1 hour of Discussion, and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 120 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
An introduction to the kinematics, dynamics, and control of robot manipulators, robotic vision, and sensing. The course will cover forward and inverse kinematics of serial chain manipulators, the manipulator Jacobian, force relations, dynamics and control-position, and force control. Proximity, tactile, and force sensing. Network modeling, stability, and fidelity in teleoperation and medical applications of robotics.
Students will receive no credit for 215A after taking C125/Bioengineering C125. Instructor: Bajcsy
EL ENG 218A Introduction to Optical Engineering 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week.
Fundamental principles of optical systems. Geometrical optics and aberration theory. Stops and apertures, prisms, and mirrors. Diffraction and interference. Optical materials and coatings. Radiometry and photometry. Basic optical devices and the human eye. The design of optical systems. Lasers, fiber optics, and holography.
Students will receive no credit for Electrical Engineering 218A after taking Electrical Engineering 118 or 119. Instructor: Waller
EL ENG 219A Numerical Simulation and Modeling 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor; a course in linear algebra and on circuits is very useful.
Numerical simulation and modeling are enabling technologies that pervade science and engineering. This course provides a detailed introduction to the fundamental principles of these technologies and their translation to engineering practice. The course emphasizes hands-on programming in MATLAB and application to several domains, including circuits, nanotechnology, and biology.
Instructor: Roychowdhury
EL ENG 219B Logic Synthesis 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
The course covers the fundamental techniques for the design and analysis of digital circuits. The goal is to provide a detailed understanding of basic logic synthesis and analysis algorithms, and to enable students to apply this knowledge in the design of digital systems and EDA tools. The course will present combinational circuit optimization (two-level and multi-level synthesis), sequential circuit optimization (state encoding, retiming), timing analysis, testing, and logic verification.
EL ENG 219C Computer-Aided Verification 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring. Offered alternate years.
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor; Computer Science 170 is recommended.
Introduction to the theory and practice of formal methods for the design and analysis of systems, with a focus on automated algorithmic techniques. Covers selected topics in computational logic and automata theory including formal models of reactive systems, temporal logic, model checking, and automated theorem proving. Applications in hardware and software verification, analysis of embedded, real-time, and hybrid systems, computer security, synthesis, planning, constraint solving, and other areas will be explored as time permits.
Instructor: Seshia
EL ENG C219D/COMPSCI C219D Concurrent Models of Computation 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Theory and practice of concurrent models of computation (MoCs) with applications to software systems, embedded systems, and cyber-physical systems. Analysis for boundedness, deadlock, and determinacy; formal semantics (fixed point semantics and metric-space models); composition; heterogeneity; and model-based design. MoCs covered may include process networks, threads, message passing, synchronous/reactive, dataflow, rendezvous, time-triggered, discrete events, and continuous time.
Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Lee
EL ENG C220A/MEC ENG C232 Advanced Control Systems I 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Mechanical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week.
Input-output and state space representation of linear continuous and discrete time dynamic systems. Controllability, observability, and stability. Modeling and identification. Design and analysis of single and multi-variable feedback control systems in transform and time domain. State observer. Feedforward/preview control. Application to engineering systems.
Students will receive no credit for Electrical Engineering C220A after taking Mechanical Engineering 232. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructors: Borrelli, Horowitz, Tomizuka, Tomlin
EL ENG C220B/MEC ENG C231A Experiential Advanced Control Design I 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Mechanical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Experience-based learning in the design of SISO and MIMO feedback controllers for linear systems. The student will master skills needed to apply linear control design and analysis tools to classical and modern control problems. In particular, the participant will be exposed to and develop expertise in two key control design technologies: frequency-domain control synthesis and time-domain optimization-based approach.
EL ENG C220C/MEC ENG C231B Experiential Advanced Control Design II 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Mechanical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Experience-based learning in the design, analysis, and verification of automatic control systems. The course emphasizes the use of computer-aided design techniques through case studies and design tasks. The student will master skills needed to apply advanced model-based control analysis, design, and estimation to a variety of industrial applications. The role of these specific design methodologies within the larger endeavor of control design is also addressed.
EL ENG 221A Linear System Theory 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Recitation per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 120; Mathematics 110 recommended.
Basic system concepts; state-space and I/O representation. Properties of linear systems. Controllability, observability, minimality, state and output-feedback. Stability. Observers. Characteristic polynomial. Nyquist test.
EL ENG 222 Nonlinear Systems--Analysis, Stability and Control 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 221A (may be taken concurrently).
Basic graduate course in non-linear systems. Second Order systems. Numerical solution methods, the describing function method, linearization. Stability - direct and indirect methods of Lyapunov. Applications to the Lure problem - Popov, circle criterion. Input-Output stability. Additional topics include: bifurcations of dynamical systems, introduction to the "geometric" theory of control for nonlinear systems, passivity concepts and dissipative dynamical systems.
EL ENG 223 Stochastic Systems: Estimation and Control 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 226A (which students are encouraged to take concurrently).
Parameter and state estimation. System identification. Nonlinear filtering. Stochastic control. Adaptive control.
EL ENG 224A Digital Communications 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 120 and 126, or equivalent.
Introduction to the basic principles of the design and analysis of modern digital communication systems. Topics include source coding; channel coding; baseband and passband modulation techniques; receiver design; channel equalization; information theoretic techniques; block, convolutional, and trellis coding techniques; multiuser communications and spread spectrum; multi-carrier techniques and FDM; carrier and symbol synchronization. Applications to design of digital telephone modems, compact disks, and digital wireless communication systems are illustrated. The concepts are illustrated by a sequence of MATLAB exercises.
Formerly known as 224.
EL ENG 224B Fundamentals of Wireless Communication 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 121, 226A, or equivalent.
Introduction of the fundamentals of wireless communication. Modeling of the wireless multipath fading channel and its basic physical parameters. Coherent and noncoherent reception. Diversity techniques over time, frequency, and space. Spread spectrum communication. Multiple access and interference management in wireless networks. Frequency re-use, sectorization. Multiple access techniques: TDMA, CDMA, OFDM. Capacity of wireless channels. Opportunistic communication. Multiple antenna systems: spatial multiplexing, space-time codes. Examples from existing wireless standards.
Instructor: Tse
EL ENG 225A Digital Signal Processing 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 123 and 126 or solid background in stochastic processes.
Advanced techniques in signal processing. Stochastic signal processing, parametric statistical signal models, and adaptive filterings. Application to spectral estimation, speech and audio coding, adaptive equalization, noise cancellation, echo cancellation, and linear prediction.
Instructors: Gastpar, Bahai
EL ENG 225B Digital Image Processing 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 123.
2-D sequences and systems, separable systems, projection slice thm, reconstruction from projections and partial Fourier information, Z transform, different equations, recursive computability, 2D DFT and FFT, 2D FIR filter design; human eye, perception, psychophysical vision properties, photometry and colorimetry, optics and image systems; image enhancement, image restoration, geometrical image modification, morphological image processing, halftoning, edge detection, image compression: scalar quantization, lossless coding, huffman coding, arithmetic coding dictionary techniques, waveform and transform coding DCT, KLT, Hadammard, multiresolution coding pyramid, subband coding, Fractal coding, vector quantization, motion estimation and compensation, standards: JPEG, MPEG, H.xxx, pre- and post-processing, scalable image and video coding, image and video communication over noisy channels.
Instructor: Zakhor
EL ENG C225E/BIO ENG C265 Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Bioengineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory and 1 hour of discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Either Electrical Engineering 120 or Bioengineering C165/Electrical Engineering C145B or consent of instructor.
Fundamentals of MRI including signal-to-noise ratio, resolution, and contrast as dictated by physics, pulse sequences, and instrumentation. Image reconstruction via 2D FFT methods. Fast imaging reconstruction via convolution-back projection and gridding methods and FFTs. Hardware for modern MRI scanners including main field, gradient fields, RF coils, and shim supplies. Software for MRI including imaging methods such as 2D FT, RARE, SSFP, spiral and echo planar imaging methods.
Course Objectives: Graduate level understanding of physics, hardware, and systems engineering description of image formation, and image reconstruction in MRI. Experience in Imaging with different MR Imaging systems. This course should enable students to begin graduate level research at Berkeley (Neuroscience labs, EECS and Bioengineering), LBNL or at UCSF (Radiology and Bioengineering) at an advanced level and make research-level contribution
Students will receive no credit for Bioengineering C265/El Engineering C225E after taking El Engineering 265. Instructors: Lustig, Conolly
EL ENG 225D Audio Signal Processing in Humans and Machines 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 123 or equivalent; Statistics 200A or equivalent; or graduate standing and consent of instructor.
Introduction to relevant signal processing and basics of pattern recognition. Introduction to coding, synthesis, and recognition. Models of speech and music production and perception. Signal processing for speech analysis. Pitch perception and auditory spectral analysis with applications to speech and music. Vocoders and music synthesizers. Statistical speech recognition, including introduction to Hidden Markov Model and Neural Network approaches.
Instructor: Morgan
EL ENG 226A Random Processes in Systems 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 120 and Statistics 200A or equivalent.
Probability, random variables and their convergence, random processes. Filtering of wide sense stationary processes, spectral density, Wiener and Kalman filters. Markov processes and Markov chains. Gaussian, birth and death, poisson and shot noise processes. Elementary queueing analysis. Detection of signals in Gaussian and shot noise, elementary parameter estimation.
Formerly known as 226. Instructor: Anantharam
EL ENG 226B Applications of Stochastic Process Theory 2 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 226A.
Advanced topics such as: Martingale theory, stochastic calculus, random fields, queueing networks, stochastic control.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructors: Anantharam, Varaiya
EL ENG 227AT Optimization Models in Engineering 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Mathematics 54 or equivalent or consent of instructor.
This course offers an introduction to optimization models and their applications, ranging from machine learning and statistics to decision-making and control, with emphasis on numerically tractable problems, such as linear or constrained least-squares optimization.
Students will receive no credit for Electrical Engineering 227AT after taking Electrical Engineering 127. Instructor: El Ghaoui
EL ENG 227BT Convex Optimization 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture, 1 hour of Discussion, and 2 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Mathematics 54 and Statistics 2 or equivalents.
Convex optimization is a class of nonlinear optimization problems where the objective to be minimized, and the constraints, are both convex. The course covers some convex optimization theory and algorithms, and describes various applications arising in engineering design, machine learning and statistics, finance, and operations research. The course includes laboratory assignments, which consist of hands-on experiments with the optimization software CVX, and a discussion section.
Formerly known as Electrical Engineering 227A. Instructors: El Ghaoui, Wainwright
EL ENG C227B/IND ENG C227B Convex Optimization and Approximation 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Industrial Engin and Oper Research
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 227A or consent of instructor.
Convex optimization as a systematic approximation tool for hard decision problems. Approximations of combinatorial optimization problems, of stochastic programming problems, of robust optimization problems (i.e., with optimization problems with unknown but bounded data), of optimal control problems. Quality estimates of the resulting approximation. Applications in robust engineering design, statistics, control, finance, data mining, operations research.
Instructor: El Ghaoui
EL ENG C227C/IND ENG C227B Convex Optimization and Approximation 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Industrial Engin and Oper Research
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites: 227A or consent of instructor.
Convex optimization as a systematic approximation tool for hard decision problems. Approximations of combinatorial optimization problems, of stochastic programming problems, of robust optimization problems (i.e., with optimization problems with unknown but bounded data), of optimal control problems. Quality estimates of the resulting approximation. Applications in robust engineering design, statistics, control, finance, data mining, operations research.
Instructor: El Ghaoui
EL ENG C227T/IND ENG C227A Introduction to Convex Optimization 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Industrial Engin and Oper Research
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory and 1 hour of discussion per week.
The course covers some convex optimization theory and algorithms, and describes various applications arising in engineering design, machine learning and statistics, finance, and operations research. The course includes laboratory assignments, which consist of hands-on experience.
Formerly known as Electrical Engineering C227A/Industrial Engin and Oper Research C227A. Instructors: El Ghaoui, Wainwright
EL ENG 228A High Speed Communications Networks 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 122, 226A (may be taken concurrently).
Descriptions, models, and approaches to the design and management of networks. Optical transmission and switching technologies are described and analyzed using deterministic, stochastic, and simulation models. FDDI, DQDB, SMDS, Frame Relay, ATM, networks, and SONET. Applications demanding high-speed communication.
EL ENG 229A Information Theory and Coding 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring. Offered alternate years.
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 226 recommended, Statistics 200A or equivalent.
Fundamental bounds of Shannon theory and their application. Source and channel coding theorems. Galois field theory, algebraic error-correction codes. Private and public-key cryptographic systems.
Formerly known as 229. Instructors: Anantharam, Tse
EL ENG 229B Error Control Coding 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 126 or equivalent (some familiarity with basic probability). Prior exposure to information theory not necessary.
Error control codes are an integral part of most communication and recording systems where they are primarily used to provide resiliency to noise. In this course, we will cover the basics of error control coding for reliable digital transmission and storage. We will discuss the major classes of codes that are important in practice, including Reed Muller codes, cyclic codes, Reed Solomon codes, convolutional codes, concatenated codes, turbo codes, and low density parity check codes. The relevant background material from finite field and polynomial algebra will be developed as part of the course. Overview of topics: binary linear block codes; Reed Muller codes; Galois fields; linear block codes over a finite field; cyclic codes; BCH and Reed Solomon codes; convolutional codes and trellis based decoding, message passing decoding algorithms; trellis based soft decision decoding of block codes; turbo codes; low density parity check codes.
Instructor: Anatharam
EL ENG 230A Integrated-Circuit Devices 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 40 or 100.
Overview of electronic properties of semiconductors. Metal-semiconductor contacts, pn junctions, bipolar transistors, and MOS field-effect transistors. Properties that are significant to device operation for integrated circuits. Silicon device fabrication technology.
Students will receive no credit for Electrical Engineering 230A after taking Electrical Engineering 130. Formerly known as Electrical Engineering 230M.
EL ENG 230B Solid State Devices 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 130 or equivalent.
Physical principles and operational characteristics of semiconductor devices. Emphasis is on MOS field-effect transistors and their behaviors dictated by present and probable future technologies. Metal-oxide-semiconductor systems, short-channel and high field effects, device modeling, and impact on analog, digital circuits.
Formerly known as Electrical Engineering 231. Instructors: Subramanian, King Liu, Salahuddin
EL ENG 230C Solid State Electronics 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 131; Physics 137B.
Crystal structure and symmetries. Energy-band theory. Cyclotron resonance. Tensor effective mass. Statistics of electronic state population. Recombination theory. Carrier transport theory. Interface properties. Optical processes and properties.
Formerly known as Electrical Engineering 230. Instructors: Bokor, Salahuddin
EL ENG W230A Integrated-Circuit Devices 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Web-based lecture and 1 hour of Web-based discussion per week for 15 weeks. 4.5 hours of Web-based lecture and 1.5 hours of Web-based discussion per week for 10 weeks. This is an online course.
Prerequisites: MAS-IC students only.
Overview of electronic properties of semiconductors. Metal-semiconductor contacts, pn junctions, bipolar transistors, and MOS field-effect transistors. Properties that are significant to device operation for integrated circuits. Silicon device fabrication technology.
Students will receive no credit for Electrical Engineering W230A after taking Electrical Engineering 130, Electrical Engineering W130 or Electrical Engineering 230A. Formerly known as Electrical Engineering W130. Instructors: Javey, Subramanian, King Liu
EL ENG W230B Solid State Devices 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Web-based lecture and 1 hour of Web-based discussion per week for 15 weeks. 4.5 hours of Web-based lecture and 1.5 hours of Web-based discussion per week for 10 weeks. This is an online course.
Prerequisites: EE W230A or equivalent; MAS-IC students only.
Physical principles and operational characteristics of semiconductor devices. Emphasis is on MOS field-effect transistors and their behaviors dictated by present and probable future technologies. Metal-oxide-semiconductor systems, short-channel and high field effects, device modeling, and impact on analog, digital circuits.
Students will receive no credit for EE W230B after taking EE 230B. Formerly known as Electrical Engineering W231. Instructors: Subramanian, King Liu, Salahuddin
EL ENG 232 Lightwave Devices 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Electrical Engineering 130 or equivalent; Physics 137A and Electrical Engineering 117 recommended.
This course is designed to give an introduction and overview of the fundamentals of optoelectronic devices. Topics such as optical gain and absorption spectra, quantization effects, strained quantum wells, optical waveguiding and coupling, and hetero p-n junction will be covered. This course will focus on basic physics and design principles of semiconductor diode lasers, light emitting diodes, photodetectors and integrated optics. Practical applications of the devices will be also discussed.
Instructor: Wu
EL ENG C235/NSE C203 Nanoscale Fabrication 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
This course discusses various top-down and bottom-up approaches to synthesizing and processing nanostructured materials. The topics include fundamentals of self assembly, nano-imprint lithography, electron beam lithography, nanowire and nanotube synthesis, quantum dot synthesis (strain patterned and colloidal), postsynthesis modification (oxidation, doping, diffusion, surface interactions, and etching techniques). In addition, techniques to bridging length scales such as heterogeneous integration will be discussed. We will discuss new electronic, optical, thermal, mechanical, and chemical properties brought forth by the very small sizes.
Instructor: Chang-Hasnain
EL ENG 236A Quantum and Optical Electronics 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring. Offered alternate years.
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 117A, Physics 137A or equivalent.
Interaction of radiation with atomic and semiconductor systems, density matrix treatment, semiclassical laser theory (Lamb's), laser resonators, specific laser systems, laser dynamics, Q-switching and mode-locking, noise in lasers and optical amplifiers. Nonlinear optics, phase-conjugation, electrooptics, acoustooptics and magnetooptics, coherent optics, stimulated Raman and Brillouin scattering.
EL ENG C239/AST C239 Partially Ionized Plasmas 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Applied Science and Technology
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring. Offered alternate years.
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Forty-5 hours of lecture per term.
Prerequisites: An upper division course in electromagnetics or fluid dynamics.
Introduction to partially ionized, chemically reactive plasmas, including collisional processes, diffusion, sources, sheaths, boundaries, and diagnostics. DC, RF, and microwave discharges. Applications to plasma-assisted materials processing and to plasma wall interactions.
Formerly known as 239.
EL ENG 240A Analog Integrated Circuits 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture, 1 hour of Discussion, and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Electrical Engineering 105.
Single and multiple stage transistor amplifiers. Operational amplifiers. Feedback amplifiers, 2-port formulation, source, load, and feedback network loading. Frequency response of cascaded amplifiers, gain-bandwidth exchange, compensation, dominant pole techniques, root locus. Supply and temperature independent biasing and references. Selected applications of analog circuits such as analog-to-digital converters, switched capacitor filters, and comparators. Hardware laboratory and design project.
Students will receive no credit for Electrical Engineering 240A after taking El ectrical Engineering 140. Instructors: Sanders, Nguyen
EL ENG 240B Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 140.
Analysis and optimized design of monolithic operational amplifiers and wide-band amplifiers; methods of achieving wide-band amplification, gain-bandwidth considerations; analysis of noise in integrated circuits and low noise design. Precision passive elements, analog switches, amplifiers and comparators, voltage reference in NMOS and CMOS circuits, Serial, successive-approximation, and parallel analog-to-digital converters. Switched-capacitor and CCD filters. Applications to codecs, modems.
Formerly known as Electrical Engineering 240.
EL ENG 240C Analysis and Design of VLSI Analog-Digital Interface Integrated Circuits 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Electrical Engineering 140.
Architectural and circuit level design and analysis of integrated analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog interfaces in CMOS and BiCMOS VLSI technology. Analog-digital converters, digital-analog converters, sample/hold amplifiers, continuous and switched-capacitor filters. RF integrated electronics including synthesizers, LNA's, and baseband processing. Low power mixed signal design. Data communications functions including clock recovery. CAD tools for analog design including simulation and synthesis.
Formerly known as Electrical Engineering 247. Instructor: Boser
EL ENG W240A Analog Integrated Circuits 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Web-based lecture and 1 hour of Web-based discussion per week for 15 weeks. 4.5 hours of Web-based lecture and 1.5 hours of Web-based discussion per week for 10 weeks. This is an online course.
Prerequisites: MAS-IC students only.
Single and multiple stage transistor amplifiers. Operational amplifiers. Feedback amplifiers, 2-port formulation, source, load, and feedback network loading. Frequency response of cascaded amplifiers, gain-bandwidth exchange, compensation, dominant pole techniques, root locus. Supply and temperature independent biasing and references. Selected applications of analog circuits such as analog-to-digital converters, switched capacitor filters, and comparators.
Students will receive no credit for EE W240A after taking EE 140 or EE 240A. Instructors: Alon, Sanders, Nguyen
EL ENG W240B Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Web-based lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4.5 hours of Web-based lecture per week for 10 weeks. This is an online course.
Prerequisites: EE W240A; MAS-IC students only.
Analysis and optimized design of monolithic operational amplifiers and wide-band amplifiers; methods of achieving wide-band amplification, gain-bandwidth considerations; analysis of noise in integrated circuits and low noise design. Precision passive elements, analog switches, amplifiers and comparators, voltage reference in NMOS and CMOS circuits, Serial, successive-approximation, and parallel analog-to-digital converts. Switched-capacitor and CCD filters. Applications to codecs, modems.
Students will receive no credit for EE W240B after taking EE 240B. Formerly known as Electrical Engineering W240.
EL ENG W240C Analysis and Design of VLSI Analog-Digital Interface Integrated Circuits 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Web-based lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4.5 hours of Web-based lecture per week for 10 weeks. This is an online course.
Prerequisites: EE W240A; MAS-IC students only.
Architectural and circuit level design and analysis of integrated analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog interfaces in modern CMOS and BiCMOS VLSI technology. Analog-digital converters, digital-analog converters, sample/hold amplifiers, continuous and switched-capacitor filters. Low power mixed signal design techniques. Data communications systems including interface circuity. CAD tools for analog design for simulation and synthesis.
Students will receive no credit for EE W240C after taking EE 240C. Formerly known as Electrical Engineering W247. Instructor: Boser
EL ENG 241A Introduction to Digital Integrated Circuits 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture, 1 hour of Discussion, and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Electrical Engineering 40; Electrical Engineering 105 and Computer Science 150 recommended.
CMOS devices and deep sub-micron manufacturing technology. CMOS inverters and complex gates. Modeling of interconnect wires. Optimization of designs with respect to a number of metrics: cost, reliability, performance, and power dissipation. Sequential circuits, timing considerations, and clocking approaches. Design of large system blocks, including arithmetic, interconnect, memories, and programmable logic arrays. Introduction to design methodologies, including hands-on laboratory experience.
Students will receive no credit for Electrical Engineering 241A after taking Electrical Engineering 141. Instructors: Alon, Rabaey, Nikolic
EL ENG 241B Advanced Digital Integrated Circuits 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 141.
Analysis and design of MOS and bipolar large-scale integrated circuits at the circuit level. Fabrication processes, device characteristics, parasitic effects static and dynamic digital circuits for logic and memory functions. Calculation of speed and power consumption from layout and fabrication parameters. ROM, RAM, EEPROM circuit design. Use of SPICE and other computer aids.
Formerly known as Electrical Engineering 241. Instructors: Nikolic, Rabaey
EL ENG W241A Introduction to Digital Integrated Circuits 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: F/Sp: 3 hours of web-based lecture, 1 hour of web-based discussion, and 3 hours of web-based laboratory per week. Su: 4.5 hours of web-based lecture, 1.5 hours of web-based discussion, and 4.5 hours of web-based laboratory per week for 10 weeks. This is an online course.
Prerequisites: MAS-IC students only.
CMOS devices and deep sub-micron manufacturing technology. CMOS inverters and complex gates. Modeling of interconnect wires. Optimization of designs with respect to a number of metrics: cost, reliability, performance, and power dissipation. Sequential circuits, timing considerations, and clocking approaches. Design of large system blocks, including arithmetic, interconnect, memories, and programmable logic arrays. Introduction to design methodologies, including laboratory experience.
Students will receive no credit for W241A after taking EE 141 or EE 241A. Instructors: Alon, Rabaey, Nikolic
EL ENG W241B Advanced Digital Integrated Circuits 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Web-based lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4.5 hours of Web-based lecture per week for 10 weeks. This is an online course.
Prerequisites: EE W241A; MAS-IC students only.
Analysis and design of MOS and bipolar large-scale integrated circuits at the circuit level. Fabrication processes, device characteristics, parasitic effects static and dynamic digital circuits for logic and memory functions. Calculation of speed and power consumption from layout and fabrication parameters. ROM, RAM, EEPROM circuit design. Use of SPICE and other computer aids.
Students will receive no credit for EE W241B after taking EE 241B. Formerly known as Electrical Engineering W241. Instructors: Nikolic, Rabaey
EL ENG 242A Integrated Circuits for Communications 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture, 1 hour of Discussion, and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 20N and 140 or equivalent.
Analysis and design of electronic circuits for communication systems, with an emphasis on integrated circuits for wireless communication systems. Analysis of noise and distortion in amplifiers with application to radio receiver design. Power amplifier design with application to wireless radio transmitters. Radio-frequency mixers, oscillators, phase-locked loops, modulators, and demodulators.
Students will receive no credit for Electrical Engineering 242A after taking Electrical Engineering 142. Formerly known as Electrical Engineering 242M.
EL ENG 242B Advanced Integrated Circuits for Communications 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 142, 240.
Analysis, evaluation and design of present-day integrated circuits for communications application, particularly those for which nonlinear response must be included. MOS, bipolar and BICMOS circuits, audio and video power amplifiers, optimum performance of near-sinusoidal oscillators and frequency-translation circuits. Phase-locked loop ICs, analog multipliers and voltage-controlled oscillators; advanced components for telecommunication circuits. Use of new CAD tools and systems.
Formerly known as Electrical Engineering 242. Instructor: Niknejad
EL ENG W242A Integrated Circuits for Communications 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Web-based lecture and 1 hour of Web-based discussion per week for 15 weeks. 4.5 hours of Web-based lecture and 1.5 hours of Web-based discussion per week for 10 weeks. This is an online course.
Prerequisites: EE W240A; MAS-IC students only.
Analysis and design of electronic circuits for communication systems, with an emphasis on integrated circuits for wireless communication systems. Analysis of noise and distortion in amplifiers with application to radio receiver design. Power amplifier design with application to wireless radio transmitters. Radio-frequency mixers, oscillators, phase-locked loops, modulators, and demodulators.
Students will receive no credit for EE W242A after taking EE 142, EE 242A, or EE 242B. Formerly known as Electrical Engineering W142. Instructor: Niknejad
EL ENG W242B Advanced Integrated Circuits for Communications 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Web-based lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4.5 hours of Web-based lecture per week for 10 weeks. This is an online course.
Prerequisites: EE W240A, EE W242A; MAS-IC students only.
Analysis, evaluation, and design of present-day integrated circuits for communications application, particularly those for which nonlinear response must be included. MOS, bipolar and BICMOS circuits, audio and video power amplifiers, optimum performance of near-sinusoidal oscillators and frequency-translation circuits. Phase-locked loop ICs, analog multipliers and voltage-controlled oscillators; advanced components for telecommunication circuits. Use of new CAD tools and systems.
Students will receive no credit for EE W242B after taking EE 242B. Formerly known as Electrical Engineering W242. Instructor: Niknejad
EL ENG 243 Advanced IC Processing and Layout 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 143 and either 140 or 141.
The key processes for the fabrication of integrated circuits. Optical, X-ray, and e-beam lithography, ion implantation, oxidation and diffusion. Thin film deposition. Wet and dry etching and ion milling. Effect of phase and defect equilibria on process control.
EL ENG 244 Fundamental Algorithms for Systems Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing.
The modeling, analysis, and optimization of complex systems requires a range of algorithms and design software. This course reviews the fundamental techniques underlying the design methodology for complex systems, using integrated circuit design as example. Topics include design flows, discrete and continuous models and algorithms, and strategies for implementing algorithms efficiently and correctly in software. Laboratory assignments and a class project will expose students to state-of-the-art.
Instructors: Keutzer, Lee, Roychowdhury, Seshia
EL ENG W244 Fundamental Algorithms for System Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Web-based lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4.5 hours of Web-based lecture per week for 10 weeks. This is an online course.
Prerequisites: MAS-IC students only.
The modeling, analysis, and optimization of complex systems require a range of algorithms and design tools. This course reviews the fundamental techniques underlying the design methodology for complex systems, using integrated circuit design as an example. Topics include design flows, discrete and continuous models and algorithms, and strategies for implementing algorithms efficiently and correctly in software.
Students will receive no credit for W244 after taking 144 and 244. Instructors: Keutzer, Lee, Roychowdhury, Seshia
EL ENG C246/MEC ENG C219 Parametric and Optimal Design of MEMS 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Mechanical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Parametric design and optimal design of MEMS. Emphasis on design, not fabrication. Analytic solution of MEMS design problems to determine the dimensions of MEMS structures for specified function. Trade-off of various performance requirements despite conflicting design requirements. Structures include flexure systems, accelerometers, and rate sensors.
Formerly known as 219. Instructors: Lin, Pisano
EL ENG 247A Introduction to Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Electrical Engineering 40 or 100 or consent of instructor required.
This course will teach fundamentals of micromachining and microfabrication techniques, including planar thin-film process technologies, photolithographic techniques, deposition and etching techniques, and the other technologies that are central to MEMS fabrication. It will pay special attention to teaching of fundamentals necessary for the design and analysis of devices and systems in mechanical, electrical, fluidic, and thermal energy/signal domains, and will teach basic techniques for multi-domain analysis. Fundamentals of sensing and transduction mechanisms including capacitive and piezoresistive techniques, and design and analysis of micmicromachined miniature sensors and actuators using these techniques will be covered.
Students will receive no credit for EE 247A after taking EE 147. Instructors: Maharbiz, Nguyen, Pister
EL ENG C247B/MEC ENG C218 Introduction to MEMS Design 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Mechanical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in engineering or science; undergraduates with consent of instructor.
Physics, fabrication, and design of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). Micro and nanofabrication processes, including silicon surface and bulk micromachining and non-silicon micromachining. Integration strategies and assembly processes. Microsensor and microactuator devices: electrostatic, piezoresistive, piezoelectric, thermal, magnetic transduction. Electronic position-sensing circuits and electrical and mechanical noise. CAD for MEMS. Design project is required.
Instructors: Nguyen, Pister
EL ENG W247B Introduction to MEMS Design 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Web-based lecture and 1 hour of Web-based discussion per week for 15 weeks. 4.5 hours of Web-based lecture and 1.5 hours of Web-based discussion per week for 10 weeks. This is an online course.
Prerequisites: MAS-IC students only.
Physics, fabrication and design of micro electromechanical systems (MEMS). Micro and nano-fabrication processes, including silicon surface and bulk micromachining and non-silicon micromachining. Integration strategies and assembly processes. Microsensor and microactuator devices: electrostatic, piezoresistive, piezoelectric, thermal, and magnetic transduction. Electronic position-sensing circuits and electrical and mechanical noise. CAD for MEMS. Design project is required.
Students will receive no credit for EE W247B after taking EE C247B or Mechanical Engineering C218. Formerly known as Electrical Engineering W245. Instructors: Nguyen, Pister
EL ENG C249/CIV ENG C289 Embedded System Design: Modeling, Analysis, and Synthesis 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture, 1 hour of Discussion, and 2 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Principles of embedded system design. Focus on design methodologies and foundations. Platform-based design and communication-based design and their relationship with design time, re-use, and performance. Models of computation and their use in design capture, manipulation, verification, and synthesis. Mapping into architecture and systems platforms. Performance estimation. Scheduling and real-time requirements. Synchronous languages and time-triggered protocols to simplify the design process.
Instructor: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
EL ENG C249A/COMPSCI C249A Introduction to Embedded Systems 4 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
This course introduces students to the basics of models, analysis tools, and control for embedded systems operating in real time. Students learn how to combine physical processes with computation. Topics include models of computation, control, analysis and verification, interfacing with the physical world, mapping to platforms, and distributed embedded systems. The course has a strong laboratory component, with emphasis on a semester-long sequence of projects.
Students will receive no credit for El Eng/Comp Sci C249A after taking El Eng/Comp Sci C149. Formerly known as Electrical Engineering C249M/Computer Science C249M. Instructors: Lee, Seshia
EL ENG 290A Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in Computer-Aided Design 1 - 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 3 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
EL ENG 290B Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in Solid State Devices 1 - 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 3 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
EL ENG 290C Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in Circuit Design 1 - 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 3 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
EL ENG 290D Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in Semiconductor Technology 1 - 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 3 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
EL ENG 290F Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in Photonics 1 - 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 3 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
EL ENG 290N Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in System Theory 1 - 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 3 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
EL ENG 290O Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in Control 1 - 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 3 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
EL ENG 290P Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in Bioelectronics 1 - 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 3 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
EL ENG 290Q Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in Communication Networks 1 - 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 3 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
EL ENG 290S Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in Communications and Information Theory 1 - 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 3 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
EL ENG 290T Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Advanced Topics in Signal Processing 1 - 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 3 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
The 290 courses cover current topics of research interest in electrical engineering. The course content may vary from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
EL ENG W290C Advanced Topics in Circuit Design 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Web-based lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4.5 hours of Web-based lecture per week for 10 weeks. This is an online course.
Prerequisites: MAS-IC students only.
Seminar-style course presenting an in-depth perspective on one specific domain of integrated circuit design. Most often, this will address an application space that has become particularly relevant in recent times. Examples are serial links, ultra low-power design, wireless transceiver design, etc.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Students will receive no credit for W290C after taking 290C.
EL ENG 290Y Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering: Organic Materials in Electronics 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 130; undergraduate general chemistry.
Organic materials are seeing increasing application in electronics applications. This course will provide an overview of the properties of the major classes of organic materials with relevance to electronics. Students will study the technology, physics, and chemistry of their use in the three most rapidly growing major applications--energy conversion/generation devices (fuel cells and photovoltaics), organic light-emitting diodes, and organic transistors.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Subramanian
EL ENG C291/CIV ENG C291F/MEC ENG C236 Control and Optimization of Distributed Parameters Systems 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Civil and Environmental Engineering; Mechanical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Engineering 77, Mathematics 54 (or equivalent), or consent of instructor.
Distributed systems and PDE models of physical phenomena (propagation of waves, network traffic, water distribution, fluid mechanics, electromagnetism, blood vessels, beams, road pavement, structures, etc.). Fundamental solution methods for PDEs: separation of variables, self-similar solutions, characteristics, numerical methods, spectral methods. Stability analysis. Adjoint-based optimization. Lyapunov stabilization. Differential flatness. Viability control. Hamilton-Jacobi-based control.
EL ENG C291E/MEC ENG C290S Hybrid Systems and Intelligent Control 3 Units
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Mechanical Engineering
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Analysis of hybrid systems formed by the interaction of continuous time dynamics and discrete-event controllers. Discrete-event systems models and language descriptions. Finite-state machines and automata. Model verification and control of hybrid systems. Signal-to-symbol conversion and logic controllers. Adaptive, neural, and fuzzy-control systems. Applications to robotics and Intelligent Vehicle and Highway Systems (IVHS).
Formerly known as 291E.
EL ENG 298 Group Studies, Seminars, or Group Research 1 - 4 Units