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Research line: Integrated and heterogeneous microsystems

Specific competencies: The student must acquire cognitive and instrumental skills, both general and specific, to complement those acquired during their studies of degree and master in order to provide the maturity level that is expected from a doctor. Specific cognitive competencies, complementary to those obtained in the master, should enable the student access to the level of expert in the specific topic of research. That is, someone who knows the background, the topic itself and in its relations with the disciplines and related areas, and is capable of developing scientific and technological advanced products based on this knowledge. The student must acquire general cognitive competencies that allow a global view of bio-electronic systems. With emphasis on the instrumental ability expected that are expected from a Doctor, in particular: (a) ability to specify unstructured problems and/or to identify the critical constraints, technological and methodological solutions proposed previously in the specific research topic; (b) the ability to develop methods, models, circuits or systems that advance the state of the art and solve problems in the respective research topics, including the development of new theories; (c) the ability to develop global views of the problems, that intersect with all levels of issues: technology, circuits, systems and applications; (d) the ability to report progress, describe them in memories and technical reports understandable and useful to the scientific and technical community and to defend them orally in international forums; (e) capacity in substantiate these advances in implementing innovations applicable to the industrial sector.

Training activities: the basic training activity is the continuous interaction between the student and its director or directors, completed in the writing and defense of the doctoral thesis. Also, regular meetings are held for students and teachers of the research line for the delivery of seminars by teachers and the presentation and discussion of student work. The training is complemented with the assistance, as a lecturer and as a listener, to international congresses related to the research line, as well as conferences and courses given by renowned researchers within the framework of the doctoral program.

Coordination activities: regular meetings of the teaching staff of the research line to organize research activity of the students working in this research line, as well as to monitor the individual evolution.They will also establish and updated the objectives of the research line.

Evaluation and rating systems: evaluation and rating will be made through the public defense of the Doctoral Thesis in accordance with current regulations of the University of Seville

Brief description of content: Pixels and sensors of image CMOS. Systems of vision CMOS and hybrids. Sensors of radiation. Programmable intelligent sensors and with adaptive response. Integration in 3-D technologies.Architectures for autonomous systems.Signal coding for heterogeneous systems.Interaction between layers in heterogeneous systems. Reading channels, conditioning signal circuits and "drivers" for sensor-procesador systems. Wireless sensors. Communications circuits for wireless sensors. RFID systems. Power management and energy capture from the environment. Energy efficient systems; "Green" circuits and systems. Methodologies for modeling, analysis and synthesis of heterogeneous systems.

Verificado por la Comisión de Verificación de Planes de Estudio del Consejo de Universidades el 30 de junio de 2010