This module consists of one course in winter semester and a choice of 3 courses in summer semester.
Winter semester:
In the RoboLab (Prof. Christof Fetzer) students deal with problems in the field of computer science by using practical programming tasks. The students will gain skills in programming and first experiences in project and team work. After a brief introduction, the students then have time until the end of the year to solve a given task independently. Tutors will provide consultations and help the students.
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Summer semester, choice 1 of 3:
1. Semiconductor Technology Lab
In the Semiconductor Technology Lab (Prof. Thomas Mikolajick) students will go through the process steps to make a two layer wiring structure, which will be finally electrically qualified. The processing contains:
- PECVD
- RIE
- PVD
- Lithography
- Electrochemical Deposition
(OPAL)
2. Hardware/Software Codesign Lab
The HW/SW-Codesign Lab (Dr. Emil Matúš) uses the reconfigurable processor flow from the company Tensilica to demonstrate the potential of HW/SW Codesign. The Tensilica Instruction Extension (TIE) is a description language that allows to modify the standard RISC/VLIW pipelines of the different baseline processors. Out of the TIE description a modified compiler, assembler, linker, debugger and a cycle accurate processor simulator are generated. Thereby architecture modifications and their impact to the software can be analyzed with short turn-around times and manageable complexity. An energy and area estimator can be used to infer some estimates on the hardware complexity of the modified architecture without the need for setting up a complete RTL synthesis flow. ( OPAL)
3. Emerging PV Technologies
In the Emerging Photovoltaics Lab (Prof. Karl Leo) the students will follow an extended introduction to thin film solar cells with focus to challenges, production techniques, and typical characterization of solar cells. Afterwards, the students will prepare organic solar cells by screen printing and characterize their performance.
(OPAL)