Introduction to Electronics for Security Engineers

Lecture & Practice classes for Master's track

Lectures are held each Wednesday 18:55, room 215 building D1.
Excercise classes are held each Monday at 18:55, room 303 building C5.

Passing

Each student is required to select and present one paper related to the course's subjects. The papers must be first consulted with the teacher.

There will be a written examination near the end of the semester (date TBA). It will test the knowledge acquired both during the lecture and excercise classes. It will be partially a closed test and partialy contain open questions to discuss. The final grade will be derived as follows:
final mark = 0.4*presentation + 0.6*exam

Examination what&when

The examination will take place on January 17th.
It will consist of a set of closed (a-b-c-d) and open questions regarding the covered topics.
The passing mark can be obtained if 50% + 1 point are scored.

Lecture topics

  • Why electronics. Essential concepts: voltage, current. Ohm's Law.
  • Capacitors. RC circuits.
  • Semiconductors: pn junction, diode
  • Junction transistor (1): internal workings, parameters
  • Junction transistor (2): the resistor-man, transistor as a switch
  • Elementary circuits with transistors: switching circuit, voltage follower, logic (inverter)
  • FET transistors: JFET, MOSFET, construction, working, parameters
  • Inductors, alternating current, filters
  • Fourier series, frequency domain
  • Modulation/demodulation: AM, FM
  • Digital signals, sampling, coding
  • Shannon criterion, digital modulation (ASK, FSK)
  • Quadrature modulation, QPSK, QAM, MSK
  • White noise, random sequence generation
  • Flash memory (NOR, NAND)

List of presentation topics

  • Electrical network frequency: stabilisation and noise (PK -- 3.01.2018)
  • Physically-unclonable functions (PUFs) (BP -- 15.01.2018)
  • Extraction of intrinsic structure for Hardware Trojan detection (AB -- 8.01.2018)
  • Devil in a box: Installing backdoors in electronic door locks (KA -- 15.01.2018 (?) )
  • Built-In Self Authentication (BISA) (AM -- )
  • ...

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