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Real Time Instrumentation - ELEC2145
 ELEC2145

   
   
 
Course Outline: http://www.ee.unsw.edu.au
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: (COMP1911 or COMP1917) and ELEC2134
 
 
Fee Band:   (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

Real Time Instrumentation aims to equip students with the necessary and additional computing and hardware skills to be able to work with, and design real time computer systems which are connected as instrumentation and control devices to other electrical and mechanical circuits. The course is problem-based so that students will address the issues associated with, and concepts behind, building a simple real time computer system. The course introduces the concept of real-time computing, discussing why time is important and how it is incorporated into a design. In addition, students will learn about, and be exposed to, devices providing an interface between a computer and the environment. Fundamental signal provessing and control will be covered, including descrete-time processing, state machines, PID control, and numerical integration. Although the course will exercise analytical skills, there is a strong emphasis on practical implementation, using a Real Time Operating System and the C programming language to interface to, and control, real hardware.


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