Technical Elective Offered by Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
This electrical and computer engineering-specific (ECE-specific) technical elective teaches students to apply the fundamentals of structured design methodologies to tackle digital system engineering problems, such as power integrity, noise immunity, signaling integrity, and timing compliance. This course gives students the skills required to design complex high precision and high-performance systems. It prepares students for advanced graduate studies in digital systems engineering as well as lucrative positions at companies like:
- Cisco – as a leader in the next generation networking and cloud systems designs.
- Anritsu – providing innovative communications test and measurement solutions.
- Google and Amazon – whose engineers design reconfigurable cloud-based data centers.
- Mercury Systems – bringing highly complex, dense, rugged and secure electronic packaging solutions to our nation’s warfighters and first responders.
- Apple – designing the most advanced cell phones.
Specifically, students who take this course will learn about:
- Packaging of Digital Systems
- Modeling and Analysis of Interconnects
- System Power Distribution
- Noise in Digital Systems
- Signaling Conventions
- Advanced Signaling Techniques
- Timing Conventions
- Synchronization