Integrated Systems and Circuits Design

School of 
Engineering & IT

Degree Program
Integrated Systems and Circuits Design

Master of Science in Engineering (MSc)

4 semesters

120 ECTS

limited study places

Full time

Tuition fee: € 363.36 per semester

Location: Villach

Language of instruction: English

Contents

Binary number systems, two's complement representation

Adders

  • Ripple carry adder, carry look-ahead adder, tree adder
  • Carry skip adder, carry select adder, conditional sum adder
  • Bit-serial adder

Multipliers

  • Basic array multiplier
  • Multiplication of 2's complement numbers
  • Speeding up, Booth encoding, tree structures
  • Bit-serial multiplication

Dividers

  • Division basics
  • Iterative binary division algorithms, restoring and non-restoring
  • Higher radix division

Introduction to digital filters

Basic algorithms

  • Averaging filters
  • Non-recursive filters including polyphase and halfband
  • Recursive filters including biquads and all-pass

Filter architectures

  • Averaging filters for decimation and interpolation
  • Non-recursive filters including polyphase and halfband
  • Recursive filters including biquads and all-pass

Implementation issues

  • Binary coefficients, truncation, structural optimization
  • Multi-input adders
  • Clocking issues
  • QSNR – quantization noise

Design and implementation of digital filters

  • Matlab filter design toolbox

Labs, case studies and project