Specialization Microelectronics

The specialization “Microelectronics” treats modern methods for the design of analog and digital integrated circuits, mainly ASICs. The analogue and digital building blocks are presented in detail. Students get to know methods to describe, simulate and verify circuits on the design level. Synthesis, layout and verification of digital, analogue or mixed mode integrated ASICs are treated. During lab courses, we use state of the art CAD software tools from the world leading company 'cadence'.

2 compulsory modules:

• Components, Basic Circuits & Simulation
• Digital Hardware Description and Verification

3 elective modules from:

• Full Custom VLSI Design
• Digital Semicustom Design Flow
• Advanced Analog Building Blocks
• Reconfigurable Embedded Systems 
• Emerging Computing Paradigms
• Architecture and CAD for FPGA
• Energy Efficient Computing