Electrical Engineering

The course provides you with a sound understanding of people tasks (often done by HR) and brings you to a better understanding of yourself as a a potential leader. These two streams represent an understanding of leadership as a conjunction of leading oneself, leading others, and leading a business.

5 ECTS, 4 SWS

Interface electronics deals with data converters. Data converters are very interesting electronic systems combining digital, analog electronics and signal processing.

Microelectronics deals with design, manufacturing and test of integrated transistor circuits.
At the beginning emphasis was on integrating as many transistors as possible in a small area achieving high operating speeds (timing closure).
Nowadays in 10 nm technologies manufacturing costs and mask costs are very high and millions of transistors are available. Focus has changed to identify applications where millions of chips are needed (mobile phones) and to be able to build and verify robust circuits with millions of transistors in a short time frame.
Microelectronics maintained a steady 30% productivity gain every 2 years over the last 30 years. Semiconductor manufacturing is using roadmaps, data collection and analysis (Big Data), simulation, automation in software and hardware (Industry 4.0) and dedicated test strategies (Design for test) and verification to be successfull.

This class presents typical software tools for circuit development and manufacturing processes. A typical chip development example is done in the laboratory.