P2

Definition
Workshop and laboratory skills.

Sub skills
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Assessment
Current methods used to assess ability in the skill.

Benchmarks
CORE

Introduction to Electronic Hardware

Understand reasons for professional laboratory working practices (safety, use of logbooks, experimental record keeping and measurement techniques). Be able to plan and provide technical information for a formal report associated with the laboratory sessions, written to the IET Professional Engineering specification.

Laboratory Elements for: Conduct of experimental work.
 * Analogue Electronics
 * Signals & Systems
 * High Speed Electronics

NON-CORE

Music Technology: Creation and Perception

Compose a short, tightly specified, sound-scape using a digital synthesis software package (PureData) and critically analyse the result.

Principles of Flight

Design exercise.

Computer Operating Systems and Interfacing

Write programs in machine code and assembler code, and understand how compiled code relates to these techniques. Write programs for interfacing applications.

Recording Studio Techniques

Demonstrate an understanding of the recording studio environment multitrack recording formats and the associated signals and systems involved. Use a software based Digital Audio Workstation environment together with a range of outboard mixing and processing options for recording, processing and production work. Select and use microphones appropriate for recording a variety of live and studio based scenarios. Mix individual component audio tracks into a two track stereo master.

Semiconductor Devices

Associated laboratory exercises.

Computer Architectures

Use hierarchical design techniques to implement complex designs. Use design capture in VHDL and integrate these design techniques. Use pre- and post-route simulation to verify designs.

Further Analogue Electronics

Laboratories on Amplifiers, Audio Power Amplifier, Switch Mode Power Supply.

Nano fabrication

Nano fabrication laboratory. Clean room practice.

Video Systems

To prepare for and manage video productions including procurement, scheduling and budgeting, creating all required visual and aural elements for a video program, finally assembling into a finished video program. To assess the effectiveness of a program in conveying required information suitable for its target.

Distributed Circuits

Have a basic understanding of how a network analyser works.

Digital Engineering

Analyse algorithms and identify strategies for their implementation on microprocessor-based systems. Implement and use complex IP modules within a FPGA design. Develop complex VHDL testbenches for circuit verification and devise appropriate verification strategies. Use and understand the complete design flow required to implement a microprocessor module on an FPGA-based platform.

Analogue & Digital Filters

Design and build analogue and digital filters. Calculate the order and type of filter based on specifications. Implement such filters using passive LC and active circuits or in Matlab, as appropriate.

DSP Architectures

Use and understand the complete design flow required to implement complex designs that include a microprocessor module on an FPGA-based platform. Design a digital signal processing system using microprocessors, custom digital circuits, or a mixed approach. Analyse algorithms and identify efficient strategies for their implementation using dedicated hardware. Appreciate strengths and limitations of the debugging of digital circuits and integrate test logic in a design using a JTAG interface.

Relevant Higher Order Skills
Electrical Engineering