Analog and Digital System Design on Cyber Physical System Platforms

The course introduces the Cyber Physical Systems, where the sensing and actuating sub-systems involve communication layers. The first few weeks are for learning the top-down system level designing for CPSs then the module, sub-module and component level is described in detail. The course deals with the identification of the requirements and problems in conjunction with the different system realizations. The coupling of different analog and digital signals and the power supply needs of the systems are also covered.

The second part of the semester deals with sensors used in CPSs: a great number of active and passive sensors are described in the means of electrical and physical performance, and also their applicability for certain tasks. The readout circuitries of passive sensors have a dedicated full lecture: system design and component calculation tasks are carried out furthermore the problems of the signal conditioning and transmission are highlighted. The sub-systems that incorporate MEMS (Microeletromechanical System) are very important in the modern CPSs, so the introduction and the application capabilities of such devices also have high priority during the semester.

The third part of the course deals with the system integration, joining the analog and digital sub-modules to a complete CPS. Key parameters that affect the integration are introduced and described in detail.

The semester ends with four case studies: application specific platform selection and CPS design for different purposes. The students can see the diverse application range of CPSs: starting with high computational demand purely digital systems, ending with multiple analog signal managing systems.

Weekly schedule:

Week 1.: Definition of Cyber Physical Systems, application example

Week 2.: Design issues of Cyber Physical Systems

Week 3.: Design steps of Cyber Physical Systems

Week 4.: Component selection: active and passive components, modules

Week 5.: Power supply issues and considerations for CPS

Week 6.: Active and passive sensors

Week 7.: Readout circuits for sensors

Week 8.: Sensor signal conditioning, amplification and forwarding

Week 9.: Intelligent sensors with Microelectromechanical Systems

Week 10.: Analog-digital converter families, types and applications

Week 11.: Case study: Low power system design using 32-bit microcontroller-based platform

Week 12.: Case study: Implementation of a high performance digital system using a multi-core processor based platform

Week 13.: Case study: power management using Cyber Physical Systems

Week 14.: Case study: Implementation of a custom Cyber Physical System by application specific integrated circuits