Basic analog and digital electronic circuits and principles. Techniques of electrical and electronic measurements with laboratory instruments.

An introduction to electric circuit elements and electronic devices and a study of circuits containing such devices.

Introduction to cryptography and authentication from a hardware-centric perspective. Historic ciphers, symmetric and asymmetric encryption, and power analysis attacks are taught from a digital and VLSI design perspective.

Basic electronic test instrumentation. Elementary passive and active circuits using both discrete (diodes, bipolar junction transistors, MOSFETs) and integrated devices (operational amplifiers). Credit not allowed for both ECE 3043 and ECE 3041.

Design and implementation of digital systems, including a team design project. CAD tools, project design methodologies, logic synthesis, and assembly language programming.

Introduction to discrete-time signal processing and linear systems. Sampling theorem, filtering, frequency response, Discrete Fourier Transform, Z-Transform. Laboratory emphasizes computer-based signal processing. Credit not allowed for both ECE 2026 and ECE 2025.

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