Course Syllabus
Lecture Schedule and Topics
NOTICE: Lecture will be offered as 7 4-hour slots rather than 14 2 hour lectures. CAREFULLY NOTE THE DATES!
| Lecture # | Date | Topics | Readings |
| 1/2 | Sept 16 | Overview and Applications - Human Intranet | |
| 3/4 | Oct 7 | Basics and Bounds / Electrodes, sensors and interfaces | |
| 5/6 | Oct 21 | Energy Sources | |
| 7/8 | Oct 28 | ULP Mixed Signal | |
| 9/10 | Nov 4 | Body area wireless networks | |
| 11/12 | Nov 18 | ULP Digital / Advanced processing | |
| 13/14 | Dec 2 | Bio-inspired electronics | |
| Project Presentations | RR&R Week |
Prerequisites
Students must be familiar with integrated circuits design, including basic analog and digital. EE140 and EE141 or equivalent are essential.
Lecture Format
About 75% of the time will be reserved for lectures by the instructor. The other 25% will consists of presentations by students and discussion of the topics. Students will be expected to research assigned topics and make presentations on what they learned throughout the semester. The presentations, which are supposed to be feed discussion, will be highly interactive. Students will be expected to submit their materials as part of the class grade.
Project
The course has a design project. Students (as part of small groups) are supposed to study one particular topic (though literature search and personal creativity) in depth and propose and evaluate an physical realization of their proposed device/system. Important metrics will include viability, energy consumption and lifetime.
Grading
Presentations and participation: 40%; Project 60%.
Communications and Blogs
This term we will be using Piazza for class discussion. The system is highly catered to getting you help fast and efficiently from classmates and instructors. Rather than emailing questions to the teaching staff, we encourage you to post your questions on Piazza. If you have any problems or feedback for the developers, email team@piazza.com.
Course Summary:
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