EN312 Engineering Project (40 credits)

This unit aims to provide the student, as an individual, an opportunity to carry out an extended study in a specific application of electrical and electronic techniques, and enable the student to develop their analytical, practical and communication skills.

EN313 Electronic Circuit Design & Manufacture (20 credits)

The unit aims to present modern electronic circuit design methodologies with an emphasis on the performance of manufactured circuits compared with theoretically predicted performance. Typical filter or oscillator circuits will be used to investigate the performance of non ideal circuits and technologies for estimating manufacturing yields will be studied. In addition, current developments in manufacturing technology illustrating the philosophy of total quality in the product life cycle. This unit introduces students to the problems associated with electromagnetic interference and the good design practices required to ensure electromagnetic compatibility (EMC).

EN314 Digital Signal Processing & Applications (20 credits)

This unit aims to make use of the knowledge and analytical skills developed throughout the course to design modern digital systems signal processing systems. Additionally this unit aims to provide students with practical experience of designing and realizing real-time digital signal processing algorithms. The student will use a CAE package to support theoretical considerations of the systems design process to make performance predictions. A hardware DSP environment with supporting assembly and debugging software will be used to produce a real-time implementation of the algorithm being studied. A typical algorithm should be a FIR/IIR filter.

EN315 VLSI (20 credits)

This unit aims to develop an understanding of integrated circuit design in terms of sub-systems and primitive building blocks, in addition to considering the higher level issues and techniques, associated with designing systems on silicon. This is to be achieved through the analysis and design of such primitives and system level components, from layout through to spice level, gate-level and behavioural specification and verification using modem CAD tools. Practical design and implementation issues such as IC layout and testing will be emphasized throughout the unit by means of examples and case studies. The commercial issues surrounding integrated circuit development and implementation will be explored.

EN318 Embedded Systems & Advance Digital Systems Design (20 credits)

This units is essentially divided into two halves: Embedded Systems and Advanced Digital Systems design. The unit aims to develop application of micro controllers in embedded systems. A number of commercially available micro controllers will be introduced, and a number of embedded systems examples will be considered in terms of hardware and software requirements. After being introduced to a micro controller to an industrially based application. The second portion of this unit aims to show the student how to design Finite State Machines (FSMs). Logic stimulation will be used to verify circuit designs. The use of a standard Hardware Description Language will also be introduced for the design, verification and implementation of digital systems.