招收对象

MSc(ICDE)项目的招收对象为希望提升集成电路学科知识的学生和专业人员。我们亦鼓励成绩优异的应届毕业生提出申请。

入学要求

申请者必须持有电子工程学丶工程科学或物理科学学士学位，或者持有受认可的大学的同等学历资格。

教学语言

所有课程讲授和教学资料均为英语。

英语要求

所有的课程讲授和教学资料均为英语。如果申请者毕业於以英语作为教学语言的大学（包括香港所有的大学和北美丶英国丶澳大利亚丶新加坡丶新西兰等地的大部分大学），就不需提供英语能力证明；如果申请者毕业於不是以英语作为教学语言的大学，则需於申请时递交英语能力证明。以下是部份建议可提供的证明：

备注：TOEFL及IELTS成绩的有效日期是由测验当天计起的两年内。

学分转换

学员在其他院校完成获得承认的课目，可以准予学分转换。学员必须在入学後第一个学期内向课程办公室提出申请。学分转换须经课程主任批准承认，并符合课程丶学院及大学对学分转换的一般要求。经批准後最多可转换3个学分。

要完成 MSc(ICDE) 课程，学员必须完成八门授课学科(3个学分 x 6 加 2个学分 x 2)和一门设计课程(4个学分)。

学科目录

• EESM 5000   CMOS VLSI 设计

• EESM 5020   数位式VLSI电路系统设计与自控式设计

• EESM 5030   VLSI信号处理结构

• EESM 5060   Embedded Systems

• EESM 5100   模拟集成电路分析和设计

• EESM 5120   高级模拟集成电路分析和设计

• EESM 5200   集成电路设计的半导体器件

• EESM 5310   Power Management Circuits and Systems

• EESM 5320   Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits Design

• EESM 5810   High-Tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship

• EESM 5900   专题课 *

• EESM 5920   模拟集成电路系统和设计的专题学习

• EESM 6980   理学硕士毕业设计

除EESM 6980(值4学分)、EESM 5310和EESM 5320(各值2学分)外，以上所有课均值3学分。

*学员可以修读最多六个学分的EESM 5900课目。

为了囊括最新的IC设计工程技术和论题，以上课程目录可能会有所修改。

经课程主任批准后，学员可以修读由其他自资理学硕士课程开设的最多九个学分的课目，其中包括:

• 理学硕士(电子工程学)课程或理学硕士(电信学)课程中选修最多九个学分的课目，或者

• 从非EESM课目中选修最多三个学分的课目

各自资理学硕士课程开设的课目学额，或受制于该课程的限额。

暂定提供之学课:

所有课程及课程替代须经由课程主任批准，及有关课程的附带条件。学员如同时选修EESM 5515和EESM 5536，便不应选修EESM 5650。选修EESM 5620的学员最好先修读EESM 5600。修读EESM5310，EESM 5320或EESM 5120前，必须先完成EESM 5100。已修读EESM 5539的学员不应选修EESM 5670。学员只限选修EESM 5900, 最高为6学分。

**课程开设将视乎需要及实际情况而定

课程评分和毕业要求

学员须按时上课。各课目的评分方法将按照大学研究生课程的标准。与香港科技大学对所有的研究生要求一致，学员必须完成学习，同时毕业平均成绩等级在2.850 (以A为4分计)或以上。如果学员不能达到毕业要求，便需要重修部分已修读课目或修读其它可替代的课目，并需按所需学分额外缴付学费。

学科内容

EESM 5000	CMOS VLSI 设计   [3 个学分]
[Previous Course Code(s): EESM 501] CMOS process and design rules; MOS device electronics; CMOS circuit and logic circuit characterization and performance estimation; VLSI design and verification tools. Project work will be centered on industry standard tools. [详细]

EESM 5020	数位式VLSI电路系统设计与自控式设计   [3 个学分]
[Previous Course Code(s): EESM 516] Structured design styles, specification, synthesis and simulation using hardware descriptive language (HDL), structural chip design and system design, circuit design of system building blocks: arithmetic unit, memory systems, clocking and performance issues in system design, design-automation tools and their applications, introduction to testing. Exclusion(s): ELEC 5160

EESM 5030	VLSI信号处理结构   [3 个学分]
[Previous Course Code(s): EESM 518] VLSI architecture design for digital signal processing applications such as multimedia and communication systems will be covered; general techniques such as pipelining, retiming, folding and unfolding, and systolic array design will be discussed; algorithmic/architectural tradeoff in power and performance will be studied; example applications in video processing and wireless communication architectures will be provided. Background: ELEC 5160 or EESM 5020

EESM 5060	Embedded Systems   [3 个学分]
[Previous Course Code(s): EESM 5900A] This course introduces trends and design strategies for embedded systems. It will give a holistic view of embedded system design using smart phone as an example. It covers the basic hardware and software components involved in a complex embedded system. It also covers the design and use of System-on-a-chip (SoC) in embedded systems. The course will also discuss the design issues such as testability and power considerations. Hands-on experience will be provided.

EESM 5100	模拟集成电路分析和设计   [3 个学分]
[Previous Course Code(s): EESM 503] Current sources, output stages, operational amplifiers, frequency response, feedback analysis, stability and compensation, slew rate, advanced integrated-circuit design techniques, analog VLSI building blocks. [详细]

EESM 5120	高级模拟集成电路分析和设计   [3 个学分]
[Previous Course Code(s): EESM 504] Noise analysis, advanced op-amp design techniques, analog VLSI building blocks, multipliers, oscillators, mixers, phase-locked loops, A/D and D/A converters, passive filter design, frequency scaling, active filter design. Exclusion(s): ELEC 5040Background: ELEC 4420 and ELEC 4510 [详细]

EESM 5200	集成电路设计的半导体器件   [3 个学分]
[Previous Course Code(s): EESM 506] Review of MOSFET characteristics, device modeling for circuit simulation (SPICE models), the BSIM MOSFET models, other semiconductor models, circuit model parameter characterization, design guard-band and statistical modeling.

EESM 5310	Power Management Circuits and Systems   [2 个学分]
The course will cover power management circuits such as voltage references, linear voltage regulators, switched-inductor and switched-capacitor power converters; and power management systems for energy harvesting, RFID and bio-medical implants. [Details]

EESM 5320	Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits Design   [2 个学分]
The course will cover radio-frequency circuit design techniques for wireless transceivers. At the end of the course, students should be familiar and acquire basic knowledge in transceiver architecture and integration, low-noise amplifiers, mixers, synthesizers, phase-locked loops, VCOs, and power amplifiers. [Details]

EESM 5810	High-Tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship   [3 个学分]
[Previous Course Code(s): EESM 5900E] This interdisciplinary class combines a technical survey of emerging technologies/innovation and training in practical high-tech entrepreneurship. The class surveys a few major areas of innovation that will change the future landscape of the high-tech industry, with notable guest lecturers providing business cases and industry perspective. The class also introduces practical entrepreneurship principles for business development. Students learn important skills such as building teams and attracting talent, developing a product/technology roadmap, marketing and selling an idea, structuring a company, managing rapid growth, raising venture funds, forming strategic partnerships, and developing an intellectual property strategy. [Details]

EESM 5900	专题课   [3 个学分]
[Previous Course Code(s): EESM 600] Selected topics of current interest. May be repeated for credit if different topics are covered.  - EESM 5900C Principle of Enabling Device Technology for Electronic Circuits (3 个学分) [详细] - EESM 5900D Project Management for Advanced Electronic & Computing Engineering (3 个学分) [详细] - EESM 5900E High-Tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship (3 个学分) [详细]

EESM 5920	模拟集成电路系统和设计的专题学习   [3 个学分]
[Previous Course Code(s): EESM 692] Selected topics in analog and mixed-signal IC design drawn from disciplines such as RF/microwave IC design, integrated power electronics, imager design, micro-sensor design and micro-display design. Two to three selected topics will be discussed in depth that put emphasis on system level considerations as well as functional blocks design. Background: ELEC 4420, EESM 5100 [详细]

EESM 6980	理学硕士毕业设计   [4 个学分]
[Previous Course Code(s): EESM 698] Independent project carried out under the supervision of a faculty member. This course may be run repeatedly for credit(s). Exclusion(s): ELEC 698 (prior to 2010-11)