MSc System Level Integration

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University of Edinburgh

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• Entry requirements
  Entry Requirements Applicants must hold a good UK honours degree (2:2 or better), or its equivalent from outside the UK, or a qualification or experience that is acceptable as equivalent, in computing, electronic engineering, physics or a related subject.
• Academic title
  MSc System Level Integration
• Course description
  Programme
  
  The Institute is a unique academic collaboration between the Electronic Engineering and Informatics departments of four of the UK's leading universities (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt and Strathclyde).
  
  This course has been developed to provide education and training in the design and integration of electronic systems. It combines both the hardware and software design aspects used in the integration of electronic systems. The taught part of the course is split into a set of compulsory modules and a specialisation within a specific theme.
  
  The compulsory modules cover many of the key concepts within the development of integrated electronic systems from specification down to implementation into hardware and software components. This includes system-level modelling, embedded software design, real-time operating systems, hardware design aspects at register transfer level, gates and transistors. Different implementation technologies (FPGA, standard cell) and methodologies are explored including design for re-use and the integration of Intellectual Property (IP) components.
  
  The student will specialise by selecting a group of modules and a project within a specific topic, including Embedded Software, Hardware & Signal Processing and Business & Management.
  
  During the course, students will undertake a lot of hands-on work through labs and assignments using both commercial and non-commercial design and development tools used for modelling, simulation, verification and synthesis. The project executed during the summer will complete the Masters. Students select a project from a list including both academic and industrial projects.
  
  The programme has a strong link with the electronics industry that provides input to the course content and commercial design tools, the participation in the poster session and the MSc projects. Students completing the course graduate with a degree endorsed by each of the four partner universities.
  
  Learning Outcomes
  
  At the end of the programme, it is expected that students will be able to adapt quickly into the commercial electronics design environment that focuses on the integration of electronic systems. They will have an understanding of both the underlying design and development principles and the computer-aided design tools used within the electronics design industry.
  
  How You Will Be Taught
  
  Students will be taught at the Institute of System Level Integration in Livingston (full time or part time students) or by distance learning (part time students only). Full time students will join a learning environment that mirrors commercial design centres, with each student having their own desk in an open plan office area with computer and storage facilities. The MSc consists of lecture-based courses and a project. The lecture-based courses include practical lab sessions and are assessed by means of examinations, written reports and programming assignments. The project, industrial or academic, is written up as a dissertation and a poster presentation.

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