SoC Masters: an international MSc program in system-on-chip design at KTH

Abstract

Our life and our future is changing due to the rapid growth of the Internet, communication technologies, pervasive and ubiquitous computing enabling the availability and invisibility of the complex electronics. The key driving force for this development during this decade will be system-on-chip technologies and Socware engineering, where the complex functionality is integrated towards ULSI scale single chip solutions. This on-going transition from traditional Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) has lead to new challenges and paradigm shifts in design methods and automation, system and circuit architectures and circuit techniques in order to harvest the potential benefits of the deep submicron CMOS technologies. To meet the future challenges, we have initiated at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) the first global Master Program on system-on-chip design and Socware engineering of ULSI systems. The program, which is taught in English, consists of 40 credit units of courses (9 months study program) and 20 credit units thesis work (6 months) and is primarily targeted to students who have a previous BSc education or at least 120 credit units of course work from technical universities.