Electronics Design

Project

In addition to taught work and practical assignments you will also complete a joint research project in one of the state-of-the-art laboratories in the school. The independent project is mainly undertaken during the summer at the end of the academic year, although students are encouraged to begin work and planning during the teaching period.

Examples of past projects undertaken for the Electronics Design MSc include:

Design of a coupled Micro-Resonator array

The object of this project is to design a micro/nano electro-mechanical system (MEMS) of several resonators. The arrays designed are to form part of a low cost system that would be used to detect bacteria in blood samples. Specific tasks in this project include simulating the design in a numerical computing environment, creating a layout of the array using CAD software and simulating the completed layout using finite element solvers.

Design of a column parallel CMOS ADC for a digital camera

This project sets out to design an analogue-to-digital convertor (ADC) to digitise the output of a pixel array. The array forms the sensing part of the digital camera and has the ability to capture images with large intensity differences. An ADC capable of producing a large number of output bits at very high speed is required and would be integrated onto the same chip as the sensors as well as other digital processing blocks. Constituent parts of this project include researching various designs of ADCs and selecting the one most suitable, designing the ADC, simulating the ADC and completing the chip layout.