M.S. Concentration in Digital Systems and Integrated Circuits
The Digital Systems & Integrated Circuits concentration exposes students to standard CMOS based ASIC design, custom CMOS design, and FPGA based reconfigurable circuit design. The courses provide hands-on experience with hardware specification, logic design, verification, synthesis, physical implementation, circuit design, integrated circuit product testing, and the most up-to-date Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools on Linux in our VLSI lab.
In addition to the requirements for our MS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, the concentration requires taking 5 courses from among the following:
- Digital Signal Processing (E&C-ENG 565)
- Embedded Systems (E&C-ENG 622)
- Design Principles for Low Power Embedded Computing Systems (E&C-ENG 623)
- Reconfigurable Computing (E&C-ENG 636)
- VLSI Testing (E&C-ENG 654)
- VLSI Design Principles (E&C-ENG 658)
- Advanced VLSI Design (E&C-ENG 659)
- Hardware Design for Machine Learning (E&C-ENG 662)
- Synthesis & Verification of Digital Systems (E&C-ENG 667)
- Computer Architecture (E&C-ENG 668)
Featured faculty
Wayne Burleson
Graduate Program Director, Electrical and Computer Engineering
I develop integrated circuit hardware and software solutions for secure applications, including medical devices, transportation, payments and defense.
Maciej Ciesielski
Associate Department Head, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer Aided Design for VLSI circuits
Logic and high level synthesis and optimization
Formal verification of integrated circuits
Daniel Holcomb
Design and security of computing with integrated circuits. Work areas include ASIC, FPGA, EDA, and supply chain
Russell Tessier
Focused on the development and use of embedded systems and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
Application information & deadlines
Please contact Emily Krems, academic advisor with questions.
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