Embedded Electronics Engineering - Master's Programme

Integrated circuits are a strategic asset and key enabling technology for digital transformation, automated cars, cloud, Internet of Things, 5G/6G, and supercomputers. This programme is demanding and unique in its offering, a perfect preparation for your future career. The programme spans areas from radio frequency (RF) circuits to data conversion and digital circuits, processors and systems. Another distinguishing feature is that the programme provides a wide range of elective courses, including programming, machine learning, signal processing, nano devices, to link circuits design with applications at system level. 

Based on the tight relations between the university and the local industry, the programme is closely linked with world-leading companies, ensuring that our courses maintain high industrial relevance. Students’ degree projects have resulted in patent registrations and the opportunity to publish work at international conferences and journals. Examples of companies where students have performed their degree projects are Ericsson, Sony, Axis Communications, ARM, Volvo Cars, Oticon A/S, and NXP.

Mandatory courses

• Design of Embedded Systems
• Introduction to Structured VLSI Design
• Analogue IC Design
• Digital IC Design
• Integrated A/D and D/A Converters
• Patent and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
• IC Project I
• IC Project II
• Master’s degree project

Information about the courses of the programme - lth.se 
Information about the programme overview, structure and courses - lth.se 

Special features of the programme

• Focus on applied studies in digital IC design, analogue RF IC design and mixed signal/data conversion IC design, including soft skills such as how to identify and protect inventions.
• Hands-on laboratory work using modern CAD tools (e.g. Candence and Synopsys), IC technologies, and hardware platforms (e.g. AMD/Xilinx FPGA).
• Taught by world-leading researchers and with strong links to research in the field.
• After the initial taught courses, students undertake a large project, starting from a digital or analogue design and carrying it through to completion and, in some cases, silicon realisation and system demonstration.
• Tight connection to and strong support from local industry (leading international companies).

Career prospects

After completing this programme, you will be ready for a career in circuits and systems with a focus on VLSI design. Designers in this area are very attractive on the global job market.

Lund itself is a part of one of the fastest growing regions in Europe, with a large concentration of companies in the field, such as Sony, Ericsson, Axis Communications, ARM, Volvo Cars, Mellanox, Oticon and GN Resound. The European Spallation Source (ESS) and MAX IV, both located in Lund, also offer students exciting career opportunities. Graduates are employed by companies in Lund, such as Ericsson, Axis Communications, Sony, and ARM Sweden, while others have moved on to international companies like Borg Warner, Mellanox and Huawei.

An intriguing and challenging career option is to continue towards a PhD. The project courses and the final semester degree project offer students opportunity to work alongside our current PhD students and senior researchers to get a taste of what a career in research is like. Many master’s students have chosen to continue their PhD studies at Lund University. Other students have also moved on to PhDs at Chalmers University of Technology, and Twente University in the Netherlands, to name a few.