Integrated Circuit Design

Chair: ICD

Introduction

ICs are at the heart of the rapid developments in mobile telecommunications, multi-media and internet, and in numerous other applications. IC design is of large industrial importance, which is even more true for analogue circuit design, in which the European electronics industry has a leading position.

In the Integrated Circuit Design group (ICD-group) we do research on integrated transceivers in CMOS technology. This includes transmitters and receivers for wireless and wireline communication systems. We develop clever IC design techniques to realize portable, fast and energy efficient communication systems. Current projects are in the field of frequency synthesisers, radio frontends, RF beamforming and cognitive radio.

Programme mentor

·	prof. dr. ir. B. Nauta

Compulsory courses

Code	Course	Study load (EC)
191210750	System-on-Chip Design	10
191210850	Advanced Analog IC-Electronics	5

One additional compulsory course will be chosen by the programme mentor from the following list, after discussion with the student:

Code	Course	Study load (EC)
191210870	Integrated Circuits and Systems for mixed signals	5
191211500	Wireless Transceivers Electronics	5
191210840	A/D Converters	5
191210860	Project Advanced Electronics	5
191211720	Microwave Techniques	5

Website for more information

http://icd.ewi.utwente.nl/