دليل المواد | الشئون الأكاديمية

Finite differences representations of Maxwell's equations, Numerical dispersion and numerical stability, Source implementations, Absorbing boundary conditions, High-order schemes and other recent advances in FDTD, Practical applications.

Scattering parameters representation of microwave circuits, directional couplers, microwave junctions, attenuators, phase shifters, circulators, filters, microstrip lines. Techniques of microwave measurements.

The far-field integrals, resiprocity, directivity. Radiation patterns of dipoles and loops. Radiation patterns of horn and slot antennas. Linear arrays: analysis and synthesis. Self impedance and mutual impedance of dipoles. The design of feeding structures for antenna elements. Reflectors and lenses.

Waveguides with metallic boundaries, Mode orthogonality, Modal expansion Excitation by simple sources. Constant impedance wall waveguides. The corrugated waveguide as a low crosspolar radiator. Waveguides with imperfect walls: The earth Ionosphere guide and the Tunnel Guide as examples of natural waveguides. Dielectric waveguides: i) The Optical Fiber Guide, ii) Millimeter waveguides. The Microstrip line and the Coplanar Waveguide: Characteristics of single and coupled lines. Numerical methods for waveguide analysis.

Networking overview, Protocols, Multimedia issues, Packet switching networks, Intelligent Networks, Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, Mobile Networking, and current trends in high speed networking.

Basics of lossless compression techniques, Universal coding schemes, Dictionary based LZ algorithms, Arithmetic coding, Lossless image compression, G3/G4 facsimile coding, JBIG standard, Scalar and Vector quantization. Lossy image and audio compression, Predictive coding, Transform coding, Subband coding, Multimedia compression standards, JPEG2000, H.263 and variants, MPEG-1,2 and 4.

Introduction and Fundementals, Medium Access Control Protocols, Cellular Networks, Wireless Internet, 4G Systems, and Pervasive Networking.

Introduction to networks and information theory, Cryptography, Network secrity modeling, IP security, E-business security, Network management security, System security, Firewalls, and Current trends in network security.

Introduction to wireless communication principles, the cellular concept-system design issues, signal propogation and link budgets for wireless links, communication over fading channels, modulation, multiplexing, and multiple access techniquese, channel coding for wireless systems, equalization and diversity, wireless communication networks and standards.

Crystallographic properties of semiconductors, physical models of the atom including the Quantum model, atomic structure and periodic table, Energy bands, charge carriers and excess carriers in semiconductors, Fermi-Dirac statistics, Basic semiconductor equations, Optical absorption, Quantitative theory of semiconductor devices: 1.PN Junction diodes, 2. Bipolar Junction Transistors, 3. MOS transistors, including steady state and transient analysis, high frequency properties, charge control model, Special devices such as photo-diodes, Schottky diodes, CCDs, etc..

Varactor diodes, parametric amplifiers, pindiodes, transferred electron devices. Transit time devices, IMPATTS, BARITTS, travelling wave tubes, klystrons, magnetrons, MESFET, harmonic multipliers.

Models for Integrated-circuit active devices. Basic Integrated circuit building blocks. Bipolar MOS and BICMOS operational amplifiers. Design and Analysis. Frequency response of Integrated circuits. Nonlinear analog circuits. Noise in integrated circuits.

Design and implementation of CMOS digital circuits including: The inverter (complexity, static, dynamic, power, delay, scaling effects). Combinational logic gates and arithmetic building blocks (static, dynamic, cascading, power, choice of logic family). Sequential logic circuits and memories (static, dynamic, non-bistable), RAM's ROM's. PLASs, Introduction to stick diagrams, to symbolic layout rules and to use layout editors. a silicon CMOS design project leading to a complete layout of a digital block designed and simulated using HSPICE is an integral part of the course.

Mixed analog and digital simulation techniques. Symbolic layout and compaction techniques. Simulated annealing Verification methods. Logic and high level synthesis. Managing design complexity.

Applications of dynamic network theory to electromechanical energy conversion problems. Linear transformations; power invariant transformations, the generalized rotating machine; dynamic and steady-state response of machines.