Catalog Description: System description frameworks: finite state, continuous state, and hybrid systems. System behavior: state, languages, trajectories, controllability, observability, abstraction. Performance measures: verification, single and multiple criteria optimization. Implementation issues: data structures; simulation; reactive implementation, hardware/software co-design. System architecture; modularity, interfaces, hierarchy. Applications to communication networks, transportation, process control.

Units: 4

Prerequisites: Graduate standing in the College of Engineering, basic programming skills in C.

Formats:
Fall: 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week
Spring: 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week

Grading basis: letter

Final exam status: Written final exam conducted during the scheduled final exam period

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