TSTE86 · 6 credits · Advanced level (A1N) · Datateknik, Elektroteknik
Digital Integrated Circuits
Active · next start HT 2026
63%
passed the latest ordinary exam
TEN1 · 24 Oct 2025 · 35 students
63%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
TEN1 · 180 students
90%
Harder than 90% of courses at advanced level
Compared with 285 courses at the same level, ordinary exams over the last three academic years. 88 students.
Part of 3 programmes
Exam
TEN1 Written Examination
- 5
- 4
- 3
- U
Ordinary exams
63% passed · 180 students
- 63%35
- 68%53
- 70%33
- 56%34
- 52%25
Re-exams
37% passed · 70 students
- 43%7
- 44%9
- 42%12
- 33%12
- 20%10
- 14%7
- 54%13
- Pass the re-exam: 37% (70 students), compared with 63% (180 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get 4 or 5: 31% (250 students)
Show small sittings (4)
Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
- 25%4
- 33%3
- 75%4
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Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
LAB1 Laboratory Work
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 152 students
- 100%31
- 100%48
- 100%23
- 100%30
- 100%20
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
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- 100%2
About the course
Aim
The course aims at providing knowledge on the design of digital integrated circuits. After the course is completed the students should be able to perform the following:
- use methods and techniques for implementation and verification of circuits
- understand the possibilities and limitations of circuits in System-on-Chip design
- comprehend and apply electrical models of integrated components and interconnect
- estimate circuit performance.
Content
The lectures, exercises, and laboratory work treat the following subjects:
- review of CMOS processes and semiconductor technology
- electrical and geometrical properties of the MOSFET
- modelling of wires and interconnect
- design of basic logic circuits, such as static and dynamic gates, latches and flip-flops
- digital circuit timing and clocking
- estimation of performance and power dissipation
- logic and arithmetic blocks, data paths, control units and memories
- I/O and chip packaging
- layout strategies and CAD tools
- overview of ASIC design flow from logic synthesis to layout
- overview of design verification including estimation, simulation and testing.
- Examiner
- Mark Vesterbacka
- Scheduled hours
- 60 h
- Main field of study
- Datateknik, Elektroteknik