In this Master's Degree, Electronic Systems Engineering takes a systematic and overall approach, as opposed to the traditional one which is more oriented to components or circuits, but this approach is also necessary and is present in some of the subjects taught. The main objective of electronic systems engineering is to apply an interdisciplinary approach to studying and understanding the needs that arise and, by adopting a systemic paradigm, to design, implement, validate, optimize and maintain complex electronic systems in multidisciplinary settings. In this process of structured creation and development, the quality metrics for the creation of the results, and very often the need to rely on the methodologies of systems' science and other disciplines of engineering to design and deliver tangible products that represent the implementation of these systems should be taken into account.
An Electronic Systems Engineer must currently face a very high complexity and considerable diversity of components that compound the systems with which he works: hardware, software, people, etc. to which the large number of necessary knowledge and of information available must be added. Moreover, all these components interact with each other and must respond to the growing requirements, posed by a variety of stakeholders: employers, customers, regulators, technology providers, market, economic and financing aspects, etc.
The "Methodology, Quality and Personal Skills" course is the mainstay of the multifunctional and interdisciplinary training that is intended to be offered to participants, both those who choose professional development of an industrial nature, and those who are in their doctoral training stage. The adopted approach aims to bring the students to an integral training, not purely technical, based on their ability to enhance innovation, communication, leadership, finding
relevant information and documentation, and understanding of the market, developing their creative abilities and learning throughout term.
Given the ambitious objective, the scope of the course will focus on going through the fundamental aspects of some of these dimensions, starting a path which everyone must take throughout their career. The course consists of three main blocks:
• Approach towards system engineering projects: project financing, development methodology, quality assurance and environment, management of intellectual and industrial property.
• Approach to information and documentation: documentation sources, services and documentation centers, search and document retrieval on the Internet, writing and publication of research and development and innovation projects, support techniques to the oral presentation for the defense of research projects.
• Approach to personal and professional skills: methods for accessing a job, methods of communication and negotiation, leadership, conflict management, time management.relevant information and documentation, and understanding of the market, developing their creative abilities and learning throughout term.
Given the ambitious objective, the scope of the course will focus on going through the fundamental aspects of some of these dimensions, starting a path which everyone must take throughout their career. The course consists of three main blocks:
• Approach towards system engineering projects: project financing, development methodology, quality assurance and environment, management of intellectual and industrial property.
• Approach to information and documentation: documentation sources, services and documentation centers, search and document retrieval on the Internet, writing and publication of research and development and innovation projects, support techniques to the oral presentation for the defense of research projects.
• Approach to personal and professional skills: methods for accessing a job, methods of communication and negotiation, leadership, conflict management, time management.relevant information and documentation, and understanding of the market, developing their creative abilities and learning throughout term.
Given the ambitious objective, the scope of the course will focus on going through the fundamental aspects of some of these dimensions, starting a path which everyone must take throughout their career. The course consists of three main blocks:
• Approach towards system engineering projects: project financing, development methodology, quality assurance and environment, management of intellectual and industrial property.
• Approach to information and documentation: documentation sources, services and documentation centers, search and document retrieval on the Internet, writing and publication of research and development and innovation projects, support techniques to the oral presentation for the defense of research projects.
• Approach to personal and professional skills: methods for accessing a job, methods of communication and negotiation, leadership, conflict management, time management.

To who is it addressed?

To the (Systems) Engineer:
Any engineer, by definition, is called to conceive and design systems that solve society’s problems. To carry out this task, is not enough to know the technological aspects, though this is often almost the sole focus that is put into their training. Reality must take into account many other factors such as:
• In the development is vital to follow an appropriate methodology to ensure that the product is obtained with the functionality specified in the time and cost agreed, that is, with quality, meeting environmental requirements, etc.
• The project must be carried out under reasonable cost parameters and must contribute to the viability of the company that puts it on the market (financial aspects).
• The project results should be protected as regards the intellectual property of the creator and at the same time may be published for dissemination to society.
• Similarly, and perhaps at an earlier stage, it is necessary to have all the documentary information necessary for the development of work.
• Engineers must be able to assess the importance of the documentary sources and select those that are most interesting in order to publish projects. In addition, engineers must have the ability to produce documents and prepare presentations that enable them to disseminate the results of his work.
• Finally, these activities are carried out by people, who form the fundamental value of any organization and, in many cases, turn out to be framed in a business environment. It iss key, therefore, to know aspects related to personal and professional skills.
The course is aimed, therefore, at any engineer, whose activity will typically be carried out in collaboration with others within an organization, be it a company, a university or an R&D center. Mainly, however, it is intended for engineers interested in keeping informed and trained to maintain their competence, strive to advance in the useful knowledge of their profession and provide professional development opportunities for themselves and their colleagues. In this sense, the system engineer to who takes this course must have a clear interest in promoting R&D tasks and participate in them within their professional environment, including, of course, those engineers who currently carry out scientific research in the development framework of their doctoral thesis.

Educational Objectives of the course

The objective pursued is to provide a first contact with this large set of issues, key to the development of professional life and that are usually relegated in the engineers' training.
For the variety of topics to be covered, only an overview of each will be provided, placing a certain emphasis on some important point.
The bibliography and documentation provided should serve as a starting point for further individual work for training that should continue throughout professional life.
Students who have studied this subject will get sufficient training to be proficient in:
• Describe the phases of a development methodology and operation of a system, as well as project management.
• Select and apply appropriate methodology to any project.
• Remember the standards and quality assurance models and the tools available.
• Describe the environmental management system and its evolution.
• Describe tools for the investment analysis and strategies and funding mechanisms.
• Analyze investment alternatives for the development of a draft business.
• Describe the management tools of intellectual and industrial property, as well as the technological patent reports as important levers of innovation and competitiveness.
• Search and retrieve documental information for the development of any work of R&D&I.
• Assess the importance of documentary sources and select those that are most interesting in publishing the projects.
• Develop documents and prepare presentations to enable them to disseminate the results of their research projects.

Describe the aspects that deal with people and their professional development in business or organizations: competency development, knowledge management and talent management.
• Apply the basic tools in the negotiation and management of conflicts.
• Understand and apply the techniques that make effective a communication, at a personal and professional level.
• Implement a skills-based approach in curriculum design and prepare, submit and effectively manage a job application.
The overall objective of the course is to focus on the skills of the participant who must be able to incorporate not exclusively technological aspects, which are important in the field of engineering systems, both electronic and any other kind.
Also, indirectly, seek to aim for the subject of handling a range of topics not strictly technical and the sources of information related to them, so the engineers are in a position to continue their work of self-training or training with courses having identified the importance of these subjects and develop the ability of bibliographic research, individual work, report writing and team work.

The knowledge of digital electronics to the practical design of a digital medium of medi-um-high complexity is applied in this course. For this, it has to be able to reach a physical implementation from functional specifications following the methodology of synchronous digi-tal circuit design.
The emphasis of the laboratory is made in the use of CAD tools to design complex digital circuits using the VHDL description hardware language. By taking advantage of this scenar-io, other important practical issues will be also covered related to the design of complex digital systems. Validation of development is an important task to be performed by simulation, as in professional environments.
Throughout the course the student has to perform several practices by applying the different phases of a classic methodology of design:
1. Study of design CAD tools
2. VHDL specification and simulation techniques
3. Synthesis and implementation over FPGA
More specifically, the goals of the course can be described as follows:
− Experience in the development of complex digital systems
− Develop the analysis ability of a specification
− Use professional tools for synthesis and digital simulation
− Understand the importance of synchronous digital systems
− Learn techniques for debugging hardware systems through simulation
− Properly plan the developing stages of a complex system
− Address all phases of development until the final test in a real FPGA

The objective of this course is for students to acquire a basic knowledge of the most important technological processes applied to semiconductor materials used primarily in the field of nano- and microelectronics. Furthermore, the main effects that these techno-logical processes have on the optical and electrical properties will be explained as well as their application in optoelectronic devices.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE COURSE AND METHODOLOGY

For the development of the course there will be theory participative classes and discus-sion sessions and resolution practical problems. A collaborative teaching methodology will be used, promoting student-teacher interaction in tutoring and student-student, through discussions.

The objective of this course is to introduce students in the techniques and software tools for the design of integrated circuits and electronic systems, with applications in information processing, communications and instrumentation. Students will learn to design:
• Analog submodules based on operational amplifiers (OPA).
• Digital subsystems from high-level descriptions, including the making of
o Control machines
o Arithmetic-logic data paths
In both cases, students learn how to use design tools and to make flow design.
 

This course aims to train students in the use of CAD tools for digital integrated circuit design, with special attention to the phases of synthesis, simulation, physical design and verification. On each topic will be a series of labs with professional tools and methodologies used in the electronics industry based on workflow standard cells.
Specific objectives:

• The student will understand and assess general combinatorial optimization methods that use CAD tools.
• The student will be familiar with the parameters that describe a standard cell library.
• The student will understand the algorithms involved in logic synthesis and technology equivalence of combinational and sequential circuits, and high-level synthesis. The student will be able to synthesize a circuit described in VHDL language using the tool "Synopsys Design Compiler" and characterize the synthesized circuit. The student will become familiar with the types of files provided by manufacturers of standard cells for synthesis.
• The student will understand the algorithms involved in various types of electronic circuit simulation. The student will be able to perform pre-synthesis simulations, post-synthesis and post-place & route using the tool "Modelsim". The student will become familiar with the types of delay models provided by manufacturers of standard cells for synthesis.
• The student will understand the algorithms involved in VLSI physical design phase: floorplanning, placement, routing and special routed. The student will be able to perform the physical design of a circuit synthesized using the tool "Cadence SOC Encounter", performing electrical and physical verification and characterization. The student will become familiar with the types of files provided by manufacturers of standard cells for physical design.
• The student will understand the most common techniques for the verification of digital circuits. The student will become familiar with SystemVerilog and verification methodologies oriented at UVM 1.1. Students will be able to verify a circuit described in VHDL following the guidelines described by UVM 1.1.
   

The subject of Advanced Digital Architectures is the last of the Masters’ Degree in relation to the most advanced matters in digital design. Its foundation subjects are those of the first quarter " Electronic Circuits and Systems Laboratory " and "Analog and Digital Electronic Systems".
In terms of content, in the first block is reviewed from processor-based digital architectures (memory systems, multiprocessor, parallelism, pipeline, etc.) to the more oriented to the calculation of algorithms (FPGAs, ASICs, etc.) which are less flexible but more efficient from the point of view of the application. In the second part, a set of techniques is explained that allows the performance of digital descriptions to be analyzed and optimized. Without loss of generality, in the second block, applications are oriented to the efficient implementation of algorithms for digital signal processing.
At the end, the student will have an overview of the latest digital architectures, and will be able to decide in each case (application) which is the best option; combining flexibility and computing power.

Educational objectives of the course

The main educational aims of the course are:
• To know the alternatives to implementing electronic designs: generic architectures and algorithm-oriented architectures.
• Value the design options of a particular application through the commitment to: efficiency, cost, power and flexibility.
• Use the basics of digital architecture design to improve the efficiency of processing: segmentation, parallelism, parallel processing, etc.
• Be able to optimize the performance of specific systems, using examples based on the field of digital signal processing.

To whom it is addressed?

It is intended for students of the Masters’ Degree in Electronic Systems Engineering who wish to and apply the techniques currently used in the design of complex systems at a deeper level.

In this lab, students must develop a complete project including both practical and theoretical part. This project should focus on some of the subjects of the itinerary of intelligent systems and applications.

Skills:

1. Analyze the techniques for the acquisition of biomedical imaging that show not only anatomy but also provide information on the operation or biological activity of a tissue or organ.
2. Analyze the molecular imaging techniques in detail, using different markers that allow molecules or genes to be identified.
3. Apply methodologies and smart processing algorithms that enable the relevant information to be obtained in each biomedical application.

Training activities and this relationship with skills:

The course is based on the delivery of lectures to acquire the aforementioned skills. Students complete the course with a final individual project to be presented publicly as part of the activities required to acquire the application skills and the secondary skills of documentation, communication and publication.

The main objective of this course is to give students some solid knowledge into the tech-niques of pattern recognition and optimization techniques, so will serve as support an appli-cation to a wide range of scientific disciplines and techniques.
More specifically, the skills aimed to develop among the students of the subject can be de-scribed as follows:
1. Apply the techniques of automatic classification and inference for decision making, in-formation extraction and design of complex systems.
2. Draw conclusions from experimental data, whatever the field in which the researcher works.
3. Optimize classifiers, being of interest to highlight the relationship between the choice of component density functions, the number of parameters needed so as to estimate what impels that choice and the amount of data available for a task, relevant feature selection and dimension reduction of experimental vectors.
4. Critically assess the performance of systems and select the best method of classifica-tion and learning of their experimental data.
5. Apply optimization techniques based on stochastic, heuristic and evolutionary meth-ods.
6. Integrate the knowledge from different sources optimally into management according to the incomplete information available: system status, temporal context, multimodal and personal.

The overall objective of the course is that the student acquires a broad view of analog design aspects that allow both design analog circuits and systems, and understandelectronic equipment used in communications and instrumentation. Especially, the student will able to design with Operational Amplifiers and other analog integrated circuits as analog multipliers, linear voltage regulators and switched, VCOs, PLLs, etc.. Additional emphasis will be placed on the ability to assess the noise in the analog signal processing knowledge of the main limitations and consistent care when analog design.