R & D - Research and Development in Microelectronics

Research and development work link the microelectronics department to national and international partners of both industry and academia. This keeps lecture contents up to date in the fast changing world of semiconductor industry and offers attractive project and thesis work to our students.

R&D work is carried out by permanent staff, PhD students as well as undergraduate students in course of diploma theses or internships.

The group is a competence center for VLSI signal processing, offering many years of experience in:

• digital VLSI design
• design of digital IP modules
• IP integration using state of the art digital design flow
• analog and mixed-signal VLSI design
• design and integration of multi-rate filter processors into A/D and D/A interfaces
• mixed-signal VLSI integration for optimal silicon utilization and low power
• high performance analog and digital design with very deep sub-micron (vdsm) technologies
• RF CMOS design (LNA, mixer, ...) using deep sub-micron technologies.