Syllabus

Scientific Methodology
Hours: ​30
Credits: ​2
Syllabus: Science, ethics and society. Research in graduate school. Documentation in the research. Research topic: problem formulation and research hypotheses, objectives, theoretical reference. Methodological procedures: collection, validation, analysis and discussion of data and results. The research project. Planning and structure of the final work. Elaboration of articles and dissertation.

Analysis and Design of Electronic Systems
Hours: ​45
Credits: ​3
Syllabus: Automation process: measurement, actuation and control. Automation and control with Microcontrollers and Programmable Logic Devices. Interface with external devices. Communication protocols. Energy management in electronic systems. Low and medium power devices: semiconductors and power converters. Stability and performance of feedback systems.

Control Systems
Hours: ​45
Credits: ​3
Syllabus: Description of the control problem. Continuous and discrete time control. Controllers with 1 and 2 degrees of freedom. Laplace transform and Z-transform. Transfer function, poles and zeros, stability. Temporal response: transient and steady-state regime. Frequency response. Response to reference and disturbance. Specifications of performance and robustness. Analysis and design of control systems in continuous and discrete time.

Electromagnetic Compatibility
Hours: ​45
Credits: ​ 3
Syllabus: Advanced aspects in electromagnetic compatibility. Conducted and radiated emission. Conducted and radiated susceptibility. Electromagnetic interference. Control of electromagnetic interference. Radiation and coupling. Nonlinearities of electronic components. Signal spectrum. Parasitic elements of the components. Crosstalk, filters and shielding. EMC Standards. Projects for electromagnetic compatibility (printed circuit board, signal integrity, grounding, logic arrangement and filters).

Programming of Electronic Systems
Hours: ​45
Credits: ​3
Syllabus: Architecture and programming of microcontrollers / microprocessors. Review of input and output (I / O) principles and practices. Concurrent programming. Design and development of software for critical systems. Construction of reliable software (testing and debugging of complex systems).

Cyber-physical Systems
Hours: ​45
Credits: ​3
Syllabus: Introduction, motivation and examples of Cyber-Physical Systems. Modeling of continuous, discrete and hybrid systems, state machines, composition and concurrency. Intelligent sensors and actuators: perspective of distributed systems, processing, storage, communication, synchronization, scheduling, concurrency and parallelism. Design of cyber-physical systems for verification: project based on specified contracts with temporal logic and separation logic.

Applied Power Electronics
Hours:​ 45
Credits:​ 3
Syllabus: Renewable and sustainable energies. High-gain and high-performance DC-DC converters. AC-connected converters. Maximum power point tracking techniques. Current and voltage reversibility. Power factor correction in PWM rectifiers Modulation techniques. PWM applied to converters.

Modeling and Control of Static Converters
Hours: ​45
Credits: ​3
Syllabus: Obtaining dynamic models of static converters; Modeling by mean values. Small signal analysis. The PWM switch model. Canonical models of circuits. State-space models. State feedback. Nonlinear control systems.

Instrumentation for Electronic Systems
Hours: ​45
Credits: ​3
Syllabus: Structure of electronic measuring and actuation systems. Measurement signal electronic processing circuits. Analog and digital signal processing techniques in hardware. Analog / digital and digital / analog converters for precision instrumentation. Techniques and circuits for logic level compatibility. Virtual instrumentation. Acquisition and processing of data by virtual instrumentation software.

Analysis and Identification of Dynamical Systems
Hours:​ 45
Credits: ​3
Syllabus: Representation of systems. Linear and nonlinear systems. Linearization. Fundamentals of Lyapunov theory. Modeling by process physics. Parametric and non-parametric identification. Identifiability. Convergence, consistency and efficiency of estimators. Persistence of excitation. Deterministic methods of identification. Prediction error methods. Polarization. Non-polarized least squares. Recursive estimation. Estimation of nonlinear models. Structure and excitation signal selection. Validation of models.

Industrial and Vehicular Network
Hours: ​45
Credits: ​3
Syllabus: Industrial and Vehicle Networks (VANETs). Industrial and vehicular automation protocols: Industrial Ethernet, ProfiNet, DeviceNet, FieldBus, CAN, FlexRay, HART. Wireless networks: bluetooth, ZigBee, WiFi. Applications in electronic systems.

Special Topics in Embedded Systems
Hours: ​45
Credits: ​3
Syllabus: Course that addresses several advanced topics in the area of Embedded Systems, according to the interest of the respective line of research.

Special Topics in Power Electronics Systems
Hours: ​45
Credits: ​3
Syllabus: Course that addresses several advanced topics in the area of Electronic Power Systems, according to the interest of the respective line of research.

Monitored Study in Electronic Systems
Hours:​ 45
Credits: ​3
Syllabus: Individual or group study of a maximum of three students of topics not covered by the regular subjects and, according to the supervisor, necessary for the development of the dissertation.