Program for a concentration in Integrated Circuit (IC) Design for Masters Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering:

IC Design Faculty Coordinator: Dr. George L. Engel

All graduate students who are advised by Dr. Engel should complete their plan of study.

IC Design Core courses:

ECE483: Advanced Digital Systems Engineering

ECE484: Digital VLSI Design

ECE584: Analog CMOS Integrated Circuit Design

ECE585: Mixed-signal VLSI Design

Take four or five of following (maximum of two out of department courses):

ECE426: Radio Frequency Design

ECE428: Analog Filter Design

ECE436: Digital Signal Processing (DSP)

ECE437: DSP Design Projects

ECE476 Electronic Circuit Design II (Spring 2011 – taught by Dr. Engel)

ECE477: Network Engineering

ECE482: Microprocessor Systems

ECE532: Applications of DSP

ECE577: Advanced Network Engineering

ECE581: High Performance Architectures I

ECE582 High Performance Architectures II

ECE591 Independent Study

ECE595: Electrical Engineering Master's Project

Other courses of interest:

ECE438 Image Analysis & Computer Vision

ECE439 Digital Image Processing

ECE538 Image Analysis & Computer Vision II

ECE539 Digital Image Processing II

Students choosing the Thesis option need to take 6 hours of ECE599!

For the non-thesis option, it is highly recommended that students take ECE595.