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  • 3.00 Credits

    Brief review of probability and random process theory. Hypothesis Testing as applied to signal detection. Various optimality criterion including Bayes and Neyman-Pearson and their applications in digital communications, radar, and sonar systems. Optimum and locally optimum detection schemes for Gaussian and non-Gaussian noise. Estimation of unknown signal parameters. Topics of current interest including, distributed signal detection, robust signal detections and quantization for detection as time permits. Prerequisites: ECE 108 and MATH 231 or MATH 309. Blum
  • 3.00 Credits

    Design strategies for numerical processors, cellular array adders and multipliers, conditional sum and carry-save asynchronous processors, data recoding and Booth's algorithms, use of alternate numerical bases, CORDIC trigonometric calculator, accumulator orientations, bit slice and bit-sequential processors, pipelining and parallel processing considerations. Prerequisite: ECE 201. Wagh
  • 3.00 Credits

    The fundamentals of performance-driven VLSI systems for signal processing. Analysis of signal processing algorithms and architectures in terms of VLSI implementation. VLSI design methodology. Includes a design project which requires use of a set of tools installed on SUN workstations for behavioral simulation, structural simulation, circuit simulation, layout, functional simulation, timing and critical path analysis, functional testing, and performance measurement. Prerequisite: ECE 361, ECE 343, or equivalent.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Decision-theoretic, structural, and neural network approaches to pattern recognition. Pattern vectors and feature extraction. Classifiers, decision regions, boundaries and discriminant functions. Clustering and data analysis. Statistical pattern recognition, parametric and nonparametric approaches. Syntactic pattern recognition. Introduction to neural networks, with examples of back propagation and self-organization algorithms. Prerequisites: MATH 205 and MATH 231, or equivalent.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Review of the fundamentals of Circuits and Systems theory, including the time and frequency domain response of linear time-invariant circuits. Equation formulation for general lumped circuits, including node voltage and loop current analysis. Basic graph theoretic properties of circuits including Tellegen's Theorem. Discussion of passivity and reciprocity including multiport network properties. State space formulation and solution of general circuits (and systems). Modern filter concepts, including synthesis techniques for active filters and externally linear filters, such as Log Domain filters. Techniques for the analysis of weakly nonlinear systems, as time permits. Prerequisites: Graduate standing, ECE 125 or equivalent.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Fundamentals of imaging acquisition and geometry. Fourier, Hadamard, Walsh and Wavelet Transforms and their usage in image segmentation and understanding. High-pass and low-pass filtering in frequency and spatial domains. Multiresolution analysis and spatial scale filtering. Shape and texture representation and recognition. Prerequisite: ECE 343 or equivalent.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Review of elementary solid-state physics. Relationships between Fermi energy and carrier density and leakage. Introduction to optical waveguiding in simple doubleheterostructures. Density of optical modes, Blackbody radiation and the spontaneous emission factor. Modal gain, modal loss, and confinement factors. Einstein's approach to gain and spontaneous emission. Periodic structures and the transmission matrix. Ingredients. A phenomenological approach to diode lasers. Mirrors and resonators for diode lasers. Gain and current relations. This course, a version of ECE325 for graduate students, requires research projects and advanced assignments. Credit will not be given for both ECE 325 and ECE 425. Prerequisite: ECE 203.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Continuation of Semiconductor Lasers I. Topics covered include: Gain and current relations; dynamic effects; perturbation and coupled-mode theory; dielectric waveguides; and photonic integrated circuits. This course, a version of ECE326 for graduate students, requires research projects and advanced assignments. Credit will not be given for both ECE 326 and ECE 426.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Emphasis on structural concepts motivated by recent advances in integrated circuit technology. Major topics include: logical completeness, decomposition techniques, synthesis with assumed network forms, systolic architectures, systolic lemma and its applications, bit serial architectures. Prerequisite: ECE 320 or equivalent. Wagh
  • 3.00 Credits

    Fading and dispersive channel model, direct sequence spread spectrum, frequency hopping spread spectrum, DS-CDMA, FH-CDMA, spread sequences and their properties, multi-user detection, PN code acquisition, wireless communication systems, industrial standards (IS-95, WCDMA, CDMA2000). Prerequisite: ECE341 or ECE342 or ECE410 or consent of instructor.
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