Electrical and Computer Engineering

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

IC Design Faculty Coordinator: Dr. Timothy York, tyork@siue.edu

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

 If you wish to read about Dr. York's research, click here .

ECE Core Courses:

    One course from each of the following two areas:

• Signals and Systems: ECE 532, 535, 539, 563, 574
• Computer Systems: ECE 538, 577, 581, 582, 584, 585
• In addition, ECE 510 is highly recommended for all graduate students

IC Design Core courses:

• ECE 483: Advanced Digital Systems Engineering

• ECE 484: Digital VLSI Design

• ECE 584: Analog CMOS Integrated Circuit Design

• ECE 585: Mixed-signal VLSI Design

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

• ECE 426: High Frequency Design

• ECE 428: Analog Filter Design

• ECE 436: Digital Signal Processing (DSP)

• ECE 477: Network Engineering

• ECE 482: Microprocessor Systems

• ECE 532: Applications of DSP

• ECE 577: Advanced Network Engineering

• ECE 581: High Performance Architectures I

• ECE 582 High Performance Architectures II

• ECE 591 Independent Study

• ECE 595: Electrical Engineering Master's Project

Other courses of interest:

• ECE 438 Image Analysis & Computer Vision

• ECE 439 Digital Image Processing

• ECE 476 Electronic Circuits II

• ECE 535 Advanced Image Compression Methods and Algorithms

• ECE 538 Image Analysis & Computer Vision II

• ECE 539 Digital Image Processing II

• MATH 462: Engineering Mathematics II

• MATH 465: Numerical Analysis

• CS 404 : Scientific Computation

• ECE 492: Mobile Robotics

Students choosing the Thesis option need to take 6 hours of ECE 599!

For the non-thesis option, it is highly recommended that students take ECE 595.