Integrated Circuit Design

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 ICD courses

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

Elective ICD courses

In addition to the compulsory one, you can of course choose more ICD electives.

Electives of other groups

Electives offered by other groups that are popular with ICD students to start their master with:

Other interesting options in adjacent fields:

Website for more information

https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/icd/