Chair: ICD
Introduction
Integrated Circuits – also known as ”chips” - are at the heart of the rapid developments in electronics. Without chips, the modern world would simply be impossible. Applications like (wireline and wireless) communications, sensing, self-driving cars, artificial intelligence, and in fact the whole internet, are fueled by chips! This field has become of extremely high societal, industrial, and geopolitical importance. While signal processing and computing are done in the digital domain, the interface with the natural world and the physical implementation of circuits is all analog by nature. The University of Twente has one of the few leading groups in the world in this exciting analog (and Radio Frequency) domain.
In the Integrated Circuit Design group (ICD-group) we do research on analog and radio frequency integrated circuits in CMOS technology. This includes transmitters and receivers for wireless and wireline communication and radar systems, but also analog to digital and digital to analog converters, timing circuits, power stages, and precise references. With the help of MSc and Ph.D. students, we advance this field with fundamental solutions for practical problems. The transfer of our results to the industry is high and many of our inventions are now in your smartphone or other devices!
Programme mentor
Compulsory courses
Code | Course | Study load (EC) | Quarter |
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System-on-Chip Design | 10 | 1A/1B | |
Perspectives on Engineering Design | 2,5 | 1B | |
Philosophy of Engineering: Ethics | 2,5 | 1B | |
Advanced Analog IC-Electronics | 5 | 2A |
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) | Quarter |
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Microwave Techniques | 5 | 1B | |
Wireless Transceivers Electronics | 5 | 2B | |
A/D Converters | 5 | 2B | |
Advanced Electronics Project | 5 | Year |
Note that courses in the table above, not part of the compulsory course programme, can still be chosen as elective.
Starting up your course programme in Integrated Circuit Design
Below we give two sets of courses as a “save choice”, one for quarter 1A and one for quarter 2A.
If you start your programme in September, you can safely choose the courses below for quarter 1A:
System-on-Chip Design (part 1) | 5 | |
Wireless Communication Systems | 5 | |
Power Electronic Converters | 5 |
If you start your programme in February, you can safely choose the courses below for quarter 2A:
Advanced Analog IC-Electronics | 5 | |
Electromagnetic Compatibility | 5 | |
Implementation of Digital Signal Processing | 5 | |
Wireless Propagation Channels | 5 |