Academic Year 2020-2021 2nd Semester
Academic year2020-2021 2nd semester
Faculty of Design. 30Department of Multidisciplinary. 32The Israeli Experience .34Table of ContentFaculty of Engineering. 2005551 - Power Electronics Systems .2250205 - Selected Topics in Chemistry and Biology .2305505 - Digital Signal Processing .2450046 - Waves and Distributed Systems .2550087 - Image Processing .2650006 - Semiconductor Devices (Semiconductor B) .2750014 - Signals and Systems .282When Technology Meets Market Forces .36Technology, Innovation and New Media .38Enterprise and innovation in historical perspective .42Advanced English skills for technological studies and design .44Liberating Programming – System Programming for everyone using visual languages .48Biological Clocks .49Graduate courses. 50Faculty of Engineering. 5055315 - Nano-technologies and Nano-electrophotonic .5433055 - Modern Fiber Optics Communications .5555412 - Smart Antennas in Radio Systems .5655309 - Biomedical sensors .5755405 - Non Linear Optical Communication .58Advanced Image Processing (AIP) .60
2 EngineeringFaculty of20LecturersCreditsPower Electronic SystemsDr. Boris Akselrod3.5Selected Topics in Chemistry and BiologyDr. Yulia Einav3.5Digital Signal ProcessingDr. Gilad Katz3.5Waves and distributed systemsDr. Boris Lambricov3.5Image ProcessingDr. Amir Handelman3.5Semiconductor devicesDr. Amos Bardea3.5Signals and systemsDr. Dror Lederman3.5Faculty of EngineeringCourses21
SYLLABI50205 - Selected Topics in Chemistry and BiologyWeekly hours: 4Hours a week: 4Lecturer: Dr. Boris AkselrodCredit points: 3.5Lecturer: Dr. Yulia EinavCredit points: 3.5Prerequisites: 50011 Analog Linear Electronic Circuits, 50081 Network TheoryPerquisite: NoneCourse goals & learning outcomesThe course surveys the theory of power electronics.Course goals & Learning outcomesCourses Subjects1. The power electronic circuit as a controlled-energy processing system. DC-DC , PFC AC-DC, DC-AC and ACAC conversion. Industrial requirements : efficiency, clean energy, small size, fast transient response. Switchingand conduction losses. Hard-switching and soft-switching. Frequency- and PWM control. CCM and DCM.Basic DC-DC structures : boost, buck , buck-boost : cyclical operation, DC gain via energy balance.2. Average state-space equations. Matrices :Aav, Bav, Cav. Transient response. Small-ripple approximation.Small-signal approximation. AC open-loop small signal line to load and control to load transfer functions. DCand ac analysis of boost, buck and buck-boost converters. Practical observations : latch-up effect, rhp zero,and its influence on stability.3. Hard-switching PWM DC-DC converters :Cuk, Zeta, Sepic, forward, flyback, push-pull, half bridge, full-bridge,three-level, tripler. Switching topologies and main equations.Faculty of Engineering05551 - Power Electronics SystemsThis course is designed to introduce the chemical basis of human physiology and the biochemical processes inthe context of biological function.Course subjects1. Introduction, chemical elements and periodic table.2. Chemical bonding, ionic compounds, covalent bond, metals, intermolecular forces.3. Chemistry of the living state, macromolecules.4. Stoichiometry, chemical equilibrium (aqueous solution, pH, buffer solutions).5. Chemical and enzyme kinetics, enzyme function.6. Thermodynamics: spontaneous reactions, free energy, coupled reactions.7. Introduction to cell biology, structure and function of the cell (flow of information, biosignaling).4. PWM Switched-capacitor converters as power supplies for mobile electronic equipment.Grading policy: Midterm exam – 20%,, Final exam- 80%5. Soft-switching. ZCS and ZVS quasi-resonant frequency-controlled converters (QRC). QRCs with extendedperiod and duty-cycle control. ZVT and ZCT PWM converters. Active and passive snubbers. High-efficientconverter with ZVT for all switches .Textbooks and other Source Materials1. Petrucci, R.H., Herring F.J., Madura J.D., and Bissonnette C. General Chemistry. 10th ed., Prentice Hall, 2010.2. Nelson, D.L. and Cox, M.M. Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry. 5th ed., W. H. Freeman, 2008.Grading policy The course grade is given by the exam mark / - 10 % , function of the student activity duringthe classBibliography listTextbooks and other Source Materials2. Alberts, B., Bray D., Hopkin, K., et al. Essential Cell Biology. 3rd ed., Garland Science, 2009.1 2010 - , הוצאת האוניברסיטה הפתוחה .’ כרכים א’ ו ב , כימיה כללית . ג’ונס ל . אטקינס פ .1. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics2223
SYLLABI50046 - Waves and Distributed SystemsWeekly hours: 4Hours a week: 4Lecturer: Dr. Gilad KatzCredit points: 3.5Credit points: 3.5Prerequisites: Signals and systems 50014Prerequisites: Electromagnetic fields 50015Course goals & learning outcomesThis course is designed to introduce the student the basic mathematical theory of discrete signals and their relationshipto discrete linear time invariant systems. The course provides the basic tools of the discrete signals representationin the time and frequency domain, the fourier analysis for discrete signals and dicrete fourier trasnform and wellas the fast fourier transform. Further in this course provides also digital filter theory such as, filters design, finiteimpulse response and infinite impulse response implementations as well as basic for multi rate systems.Course goals & Learning outcomesCourses Subjects1. Discrete time signals and systems, impulse response, difference equations, system representation usingdifference equations.2. The Z transform, z transform properties, the inverse z transform, transfer function of discrete linear system,system stability, cascading system realization, hybrid systems.In the framework of the course the following topics are studied: plane waves and their properties; the transmissionline circuits; the analysis of the transition processes in transmission lines; analysis of the transmission line circuitsin the steady state sinusoidal regime.Course subjects1. The Maxwell equations.2. Boundary conditions.3. Wave equations. Plane waves.4. Propagation of electromagnetic waves in a medium with losses.5. Reflection and refraction of electromagnetic waves at the boundary between two dielectric media.3. Signal and System analysis in the frequency domain - The Discrete Time Fourier Transform (DTFT), its properties,system frequency response, DTFT vs. Series fourier Transform.6. Transmission lines – definitions, terms, equations.4. Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) properties, linear convolution and Circular Convolution.8. Transmission lines in a steady state sinusoidal regime.7. Transition process in the transmission lines.5. Fast Fourier Transform, radix – 2 FFT, FFT by time decimation and frequency decimation.9. The telegraph equations.6. Introduction to Digital filters, LPF, HPF, BPF, BSF. Linear phase filters, Finite impulse response (FIR) Filters.10. Matching of Transmission lines.7. Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filters – Analog filteroverview (Butterworth, Chebyshev, elliptic, bessel), Impulseinvariant Transformation, the backward difference method, Bilinear Transform and Digital Filter Realization.12. Transmission line with losses.8. MultiRate systems Interpultaion and decimation.Grading policy 100% final exam.Textbooks and other Source Materials1.Proakis J., D.G. Manolakis, “DSP: Principles, Algorithms and Applications”, Prentice-Hall, 3rdEd., 1996.2. Oppenheim A.V. and Schafer R.W., “Discrete-Time Signal processing”, 3rd edition, Prentice Hall, 2010.3.Boaz Porat, “A Course in Digital Signal Processing” John Wiley & Sons. Inc. 19974.Mitra S.K., “Digital Signal Processing: a computer-based approach”, McGraw-Hill, 2005.24Lecturer: Dr. Boris LambricovFaculty of Engineering05505 - Digital Signal Processing11. The Smith charts and their applications.Grading policy: 10% Quiz, 90% Final examTextbooks and other Source Materials1. Rao, N.N., “Elements of Engineering Electromagnetics”, Prentice-Hall, 5th Ed., 2000.Recommended Textbooks1. Ishimaru, A., “Electromagnetic Wave Propagation, Radiation and Scattering”, Prentice Hall, 1992.2. Ramo, S., J.R. Whinnery, T. Van Duzer, “Fields and Waves in Communication Electronics”, 3rd Ed., Wiley, 1994.25
SYLLABILecturer: Dr. Amir HandelmanLecturer: Dr. Amos BardeaCredit points: 3.5Credit points: 3.5Weekly hours: 4Prerequisites: Signal Processing (can be a co-requisite)Course goals & learning outcomes: Nowadays, image processing is ubiquitous – we meet it everywhere, fromdigital cameras, through the Internet, digital TV and cinema, as well is in numerous industrial, science, medical anddefense applications. This course aims as providing the mathematical tools necessary for image processing andan introduction to its major applications.Courses Subjects1. Introduction to Image Processing – is it just 2-D signal processing? A brief review of techniques, issues andapplications.2. Two dimensional mathematical operations.3. Basic Imaging terms.4. Human Vision – mathematical models of image acquisition by the eye, introduction to Colorimentry.5. Image Sampling and Image Quantization:a.Sampling and reconstruction errors;b. Quantization and reconstruction errors;c.Minimizing sampling and quantization errors.6. Selected applications:a.Image filters;b.Image enhancement;c.Introduction to image restoration;d. Image compression: (i) Lossy and non-lossy compression; (ii) Vector quantization; (iii) Image plane compressionmethods; (iv) Transform based compression; (v) Application examples.Grading policy 100% final exam.Textbooks and other Source Materials: 1. Anil K. Jain, Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing (Prentice Hall,NJ, 1989). 2. W.K. Pratt, Digital Image Processing 1st edition (Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1978) or 3rd edition(Wiley-Interscience, New York, 2001).2650006 - Semiconductor Devices (Semiconductor B)Hours a week: 4Prerequisites: Semiconductors Basics (Semiconductors A) – 50003Course goals & Learning outcomesFaculty of Engineering50087 - Image ProcessingThe course surveys the field of semiconductor devices, from junction diodes through laser diodes and advancedtransistors used in integrated microelectronic circuits. The course is a direct continuation of the course SemiconductorsBasics (Semiconductors A).The course is designed to acquaint students with the physical principles of a variety of semiconductor devices andto enhance their understanding of their planning, manufacture and integration in electronic systems.Course subjects1. Static characteristics of semiconductors;2. Dynamic behavior of PN diodes;3. Field effect transistors; MOS Capacitor and transistors FET.4. MOS and CMOS transistors in integrated circuits;5. The bipolar transistor - structure;6. The bipolar transistor – dynamic behavior;7. Integrated circuits IC and Microelectronics technologies;8. Electro-optic devices. Detectors and photovoltaic cell PV. Light emitting devices - light-emitting diode (LED),LASER diode.Grading policy: 15% grade work and 85% final examTextbooks and other Source Materials1. Neamen D. A., Semiconductor Physics and Devices, McGrow-Hill, 2003.2 6991 - “מוליכים למחצה” בהוצאת האוניברסיטה הפתוחה , אדיר בר לב וגדי גולן .3 2222 “התקני מוליכים למחצה ומיקרואלקטרוניקה” בהוצאת האוניברסיטה – הפתוחה , אדיר בר לב וגדי גולן Reference Material: 3. Rosenfeld and A. C. Kak, Digital Picture Processing, Second Edition, Volumes 1 and 2(Academic Press, New York, 1982). 4. T. S. Huang, Editor, Two-Dimensional Digital Signal Processing II (SpringerVerlag, New York, 1981). 5. Oran Brighan, The Fast Fourier Transform (Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs NJ, 1974).4. Barlev, A, “Semiconductors and electronic devices”, Prentice Hall, New York 1993.Notes: 1. Students are expected to be present in, at least, 67% of the lectures and to submit not less than 67%of the home assignments. 2. Course grade will be based on a final examination6. Kasap S. O. Principles of Electrical Engineering Materials and Devices, McGrow Hill, 2003.5. Van Zeghbroeck, Bart J., “Principles of Semiconductor Devices”, University of Colorado at Bulder, 1999. 5. http://ece-www.colorado.edu/ bart/book7. Sze S.M., “Physics of Semiconductor Devices”, John Wiley & Sons, NY 1981.27
SYLLABILecturer: Dr. Dror LedermanWeekly hours: 4Credit points: 3.5Prerequisites: Introduction to linear systems 50009Course goals & learning outcomesThe objective of the course is to deliver to students fundamental knowledge of mathematical methods used for thedescription of general properties of systems, especially, linear time invariant (LTI) systems, and generalized signalspropagating through such systems. The course serves as the basis for the modeling and analysis of LTI systemsand their applications.The students are expected to understand the methods learnt during the course, and know how to apply andimplement them in practical problems. In particular, the students are expected to understand the differences betweenthe methods, advantages and disadvantages of each method, and know how to choose the method appropriatefor the particular problem at hand.Faculty of Engineering50014 - Signals and SystemsCourses Subjects1. General characteristics of systems: linearity, causality, memory, inversibility, stability, time invariance. Lineartime invariant (LTI) systems. Elements of LTI systems. Connection of systems. Block diagrams.2. Classification of signals: discrete and continuous signals. Typical signals: periodic signals, complex signals,generalized exponential signals, step-function, -function. Amplitude and phase of a signal.modulation of signals. 3. Discrete LTI systems. Difference equations. Impulse response. Frequency response. Filters for dicrete signals.Convolution of discrete signals.4. Continuous LTI systems. Linear differential equations with constant coefficients. Step response. Impulseresponse. Frequency response. Convolution of continuous signals.5. Fourier analysis of continuous LTI systems. Periodic signals. Fourier series in a complex form, its relation withthe sine and cosine Fourier series. Examples.6. Fourier transformation of non-periodic signals and its general properties. Fourier transforms of practicallyimportant signals: , a unit rectangular impulse. Fourier transform of a periodic signal. The Parseval’s theorem.7. The sampling theorem, Nyquist frequency, reconstruction.8. Laplace Transform.9. Z transform and its applications.Grading policy 15% Matlab assignments, 10% Quiz, 75% Final examTextbooks and other Source Materials: 1. A.V. Oppenheim, A.S. Willsky and H. Nawab, “Signals and Systems”,2nd edition Prentice Hall, 1996. 2. R. A. Gabel , R.A. Roberts, “Signals and Systems,” Wiley, 1980. 3. S. Salivahanan,A. Vallavaraj, “Digital Signal Processing,” Tata McGraw-Hill Education, 2000. 4. D. Sundararajan, “A PracticalApproach to Signals and Systems,” Wiley, 2009.2829
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