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ELE-3609 Signal Distribution and Transmission - 5 stp

The course is administrated by

Institutt for elektroteknologi

Type of course

The course can be taken as a single course. Students belonging to Master in Electrical Engineering are prioritised, while other students can sign up provided available laboratory and lecturer capacity.

Recommended knowledge: A course in complex analysis.

Course contents

Introduction to bus standards for industrial control systems; Introduction to signal processing: discrete-time signal and systems, z-transform, sampling, transform analysis, frequency response, impulse response, discrete Fourier transform, Fourier-analysis.

Admission requirements

A relevant undergraduate Bachelor Engineering program with minimum 25 credits mathematics, 5 credits statistics, 7,5 credits physics.

Application code: 9371

Objective of the course

After completed course the students should have the following learning outcome:

Knowledge

The candidate knows the characteristics of the most common bus standards used in industry control systems and can describe the difference between them.
The candidate has knowledge in analog and digital signal transmission and processing.

Skills

The candidate can apply the concepts and methods from this module to practical systems.
The candidate is able to design basic parts of a signal transmission and processing system.

General competence

The candidate understands how signal processing is used to improve the usability of a system.

Language of instruction

English

Teaching methods

Classroom lectures and written exercises. The course takes two weeks, each of 30 hours. Each day 4 hours of lectures, and 2 hours of exercises