Lectures

In our lectures we teach the basics of analog and digital circuit design. From the fundamental function principle of the individual components to the design and calculation of complex analog and digital circuits.

Bachelor

  • Diodes and diode circuits
  • Transistor models and large signal modelling
  • Operational amplifier
  • Circuit simulation with SPICE
  • Small signal modeling and linear amplification
  • Introduction to the frequency behavior of circuits
  • Digital CMOS circuits
  • Basic analog circuit blocks:
    • Current mirror
    • Reference Circuits
    • Multistage amplifier
  • internal structure and characteristics of differential and operational amplifiers
    • Feedback
    • Frequency Response
  • Oscillators

Master

  • MOS Transistor Models
  • CMOS Logic Gates, Chip Layout and Design Rules
  • Static and Dynamic Behavior of CMOS Circuits
  • Synchonous CMOS Circuits
  • Performance and Power Characterisation
  • Design Techniques and CAD Tools
  • FPGA and Gate Array Technologies
  • Memory Technologies
  • Chip Test
  • Microprocessor Architectures
  • DSP Architectures
  • Hardware related Programming
  • Printing technologies for functional printing
    • Printing methods and systems
  • Design and materials for printed electronics
    • aerial
    • OFET
    • RFID
  • Activities for quality assurance
  • Examples of application
    • aerial
    • RFID
    • OFET
    • photovoltaic
    • batteries
  • lab on a chip
  • Aufbau von typischen Baugruppen der Industrieelektronik
  • Verständnis der einzelnen Funktionsblöcke
    • Digitaler Kern
    • Sensor-Frontend,
    • Aktor-Frontend
    • Versorgungs- und Steuerungsebene
  • Funktionsweise der wichtigsten Feldbus-Systeme
  • Kenntnis einschlägiger Normen und der technischen Randbedingungen

CAD-Verfahren zum Entwurf und Simulation von integrierten System-on-Chips

  • Requirements of automotive software and electronics
  • Development processes in the automotive industry (e.g. Agile, SAFe, ASPICE), norms and standards (e.g. ISO 26262)
  • EE architecture, functional architecture, SW architecture and electronic control unit architecture (e.g. AUTOSAR)
  • Fundamentals of semiconductor technology and integrated circuits
  • Chip architectures, design methods, manufacturing technologies and role allocation in the semiconductor industry
  • Development trends against the background of AI, energy efficiency and open hardware
  • SDV in Practice (Guest: Dr.-Ing. Lea Schwarz, Audi AG)
  • Cyber Security in Automotive (Guest: Prof. Dr. Christoph Krauß, INCYDE GmbH)
  • Future of SDV (Guest: Dr. Jan Becker, Apex.AI)

More

  • Essential circuit building blocks of a communication system
    • Describe them on transistor level
  • Protocols and hardware-implementations of high-speed bus-systems
  • Clock/data recovery techniques
    • Delay Locked Loop
    • Phase Locked Loop
    • Timing Recovery
  • Aspects of error-detection and – avoidance
  • Application for high-speed DRAM/memory systems

This course is a digital course offer, i.e. it is a self-paced course with digital media (mp4 recordings, digital documents). Students registered at a Unite!-university can register for this course via the VECP (Virtual Exchange Credit Programme), and can remotely attend this course (including the exam, which can be done at their home university). If you plan for this, you have to contact early either us (IES), or the Unite!-offices or the microelectronic professors of your home university for support and advice.