UNIT 1:
Basic element of discrete data control system, advantages of discrete data control system, introduction to Z-transform, Z-transform of elementary function, their properties and theorems, inverse Z-transform, Z-transform method for solving difference equations, limitations of Z-transform method.

UNIT 2:
sampling theorem, Impulse sampling and data hold, reconstructing original signals from sampled signals, the pulse transfer function, pulse transfer function of zero order hold and the relation between G(S) and G(Z), closed loop systems, the sampled signal flow graph.

UNIT 3:
Mapping between the S plane and the Z plane, stability analysis of closed loop systems in Z-plane, Jury stability test, transient and steady state response analysis, design based on root locus method.

UNIT 4:
Introduction to State space analysis, state space representation of discrete time system, solving discrete time state space equation, pulse transfer function matrix, discretization of continuous time state space equation, Liaqpunov stability analysis.

UNIT 5:
Controllability, Observeability, Useful transformations in state space analysis and design, design via pole placement, state observers.