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


