General Informationen

Here you will find the lectures offered by our working group in the summer semester.

A list of vacant student works can be found here.

Important Links

  • KIS: Dates of courses
  • OLAT: Course materials and further information (passwords can be obtained at our chair or in the lecture)

Courses in Summer Semester

We offer the following courses in the summer semester:

Microelectronic Circuit and System Design II (EIT-EMS-655-V-7)

Contents

  • Low Power Design
  • Arithmetic Building Blocks
  • Interconnect Issues
  • Timing Issues
  • Throughput Considerations
  • Network-on-Chip (NoC)
  • Memory Architectures
  • 3D Integration of ICs

Dates

Link to KIS System

Lecture:
Monday, 13:45 - 14:30 (12-270)
Wednesday, 08:30 - 10:00 (12-270)

Exercise:
Monday, 14:30 - 15:15 (12-270)

Prerequisites

"Microelectronic Circuit and System Design I" or "Mikroelektronik für Nichtvertiefer" (MNV)

Materials

OLAT

FPGA-Based Hardware Accelerators and Hybrid Systems (EIT-EMS-732-V-7)

Contents

This course teaches design, integration, and validation concepts for hardware-accelerated hybrid systems (in particular with FPGAs). It focuses on the higher abstraction levels starting from the application itself, moving to over algorithm and execution platform selections to the final implementation.

Covered topics in this course:

  • Application-level design space exploration and selection of appropriate implementation styles
  • High-level synthesis (HLS)
  • Commercial hybrid devices (Xilinx and Intel FPGAs and SoCs)
  • Virtual platforms (VPs) and SystemC / TLM basics
  • Validation with unit tests and integration tests
  • Development styles: Classic, Test-Driven Design (TDD), and agile hardware design
  • Methods and tools for project tracking and collaboration

Dates

Link to KIS System

Lecture:
Monday, 10:00 - 11:30 (11-260)

Registration + Materials

OLAT

Prerequisites

This course is targets later stage master students from electrical engineering, computer architecture, or computer science. To successfully attend you require knowledge in the areas of computing architectures, RTL hardware design (VHDL or Verilog), basics of microelectronics, basic programming skills in C and object-oriented C++, and basic Linux skills.

Applied Network and Bus Technology for Automation & Control (EIT-EMS-735-M-6)

Contents

1) Instructed Lab Part (1 CP):

    • Linux systems: basics, shell, packages, network configuration
    • IP Networks (Layer 1 to 4)
      • Basics: media, ARP, DHCP, ICMP, DNS, UDP, IPv4 and IPv6, TCP
      • VLANs
      • Switching and routing, routing protocols
      • Basic security aspects (segmentation, firewalls, ACLs)
    • Cisco: Switch setup, configuration, and management, IOS CLI
    • Routing with Linux and Cisco switches

2) Autonomous Lab Project (3 CPs):

    • You carry out a project with the effort of 90 h (3 CPs). Topic and modalities are set individually.

Registration + Materials

OLAT

Embedded Processor Lab (EIT-EMS-546-L-4)

Contents

In this lab, the participants study the RISCV instruction set using a RV32I processor. Besides that, they learn how to work with its toolchain. The concepts of modern processor architectures in a given hardware are analyzed to accelerate a post-quantum safe encryption algorithm. Therefore, instruction set extensions and custom instructions as well as software optimizations have to be implemented by the participants. Furthermore, the use of common development tools for software design and synthesis is conveyed.

Registration

OLAT

Registration Deadline: 28.10.2024
 

Prerequisites

  • Architektur digitaler Systeme I (EIT-EIS-571-V-4)
  • VHDL Knowledge

Microelectronics (MNV) (EIT-EMS-708-V-4)

Contents

  • Introduction into the design flow of integrated circuits
  • technology basics
  • implementation styles
  • circuit technology basics
  • design methodology

Dates

Link to KIS System

Lecture:   
Monday, 10:00 - 11:30 (11-262)

Exercise:  
Friday, 09:00 - 09:45 (11-241)

Materials

OLAT

Please register for this course in the KIS-Office to receive the OLAT access code by email.

Microelectronic Lab (EIT-EMS-656-L-4)

Contents

  • Einführung in den Entwurfszyklus integrierter Schaltungen
  • technologische Grundlagen
  • Implementierungsstile
  • schaltungstechnische Grundlagen
  • Entwurfsmethodiken

Remarks

Students, who must join this Lab by the rules of their "Prüfungsordnung", should contact  Dr.-Ing. Christian Weis before registration.

Network and Bus Technology / Introduction to Communication Networks / Applied Network and Bus Technology (EIT-EMS-733-W-3)

Contents

  • undamentals of communication networks
    • Abstraction layers
    • Topologies
    • Access schemes
    • Modulation and coding schemes
  • IP Networks (Layer 1 to 4)
    • Basics: media, ARP, DHCP, ICMP, DNS, UDP, IPv4 and IPv6, TCP
    • VLANs
    • Switching and routing, routing protocols
    • Basic security aspects (segmentation, firewalls, ACLs)
  • Event-driven programming models
  • Bus systems and protocols in buildings and media technology
    • KNX, 1-Wire, Modbus
    • RS-232, RS-422, RS-485
    • MIDI, DMX, DALI
  • Data brokers for linking different systems: purpose, implementations, and configuration
  • Linux systems: basics, shell, packages

Dates

Link to KIS System

Lecture:
Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30 (11-262)

Laboratory:
Friday, 08:30 - 12:00 (11-107)

Registration + Materials

OLAT

Seminar Microelectronics (EIT-EMS-730-S-4)

Contents

Talks and discussions related to microelectronics

  • #SWS: 2 h
  • #ECTS Credits: 3
  • Languages: German / English
  • Registration mandatory: yes

Important Dates

06.5.2024: Topic release
20.5.2024: Deadline topic subscription