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 Master of Science in Microelectronic Design Engineering 

offers specialised training that enables students to specify, design, validate, and use digital, analogue, and mixed-signal integrated circuits, as well as photonic integrated circuits and interfaces for MEMS technologies, in advanced microelectronic technologies.

The training is eminently practical and focuses firstly on the knowledge of design tools and techniques, which is a major demand of companies in the sector, with which the Master's degree has connections both in Spain and abroad. It is also oriented towards the most innovative applications, such as Artificial Intelligence, security, communications, high-performance computing, etc., which would allow the subsequent realization of research activities, as well as to support the growing demand for specialists in microelectronic design in numerous sectors such as telecommunications, aerospace, automotive, health, etc.

The Master of Science in Microelectronic Design Engineering offers specialised training that enables students to specify, design, validate, and use digital, analogue, and mixed-signal integrated circuits, as well as photonic integrated circuits and interfaces for MEMS technologies, in advanced microelectronic technologies.

Access to the Master's in Microelectronic Design Engineering is open to those who hold a Graduate Degree or equivalent qualification in the field of Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering or Industrial Engineering, without ruling out other related disciplines, such as other engineering fields that provide a theoretical foundation that allows the subjects taught in the Master's Degree to be approached with a sufficient academic guarantee. In general, the basic training required is specified in the following learning outcomes that must have been previously obtained:

To know the basic concepts of linear systems and related functions and transforms, electrical circuit theory, electronic circuits, physical principle of semiconductors and logic families, electronic and photonic devices, materials technology and its application to solve engineering problems.

Ability to analyze and design combinational and sequential circuits, and to use microprocessors.

The selection of students will be made on the basis of:

 required to study a Master’s at UC3M, depending on whether it is in Spanish, English or bilingual.

Once admitted to the Master’s, students with university degrees issued by a higher education institution belonging to an educational system outside the EHEA, must provide, for enrolment, the diploma, legalized by diplomatic procedures or by means of The Hague Apostille. They must also submit the transcript of records, with the grade point average, duly legalized.

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Architectures for Digital Signal Processing

Analog and Mixed Signal Integrated Circuit Design

Validation and Test of Integrated Circuits

Design of Integrated Circuits for Data Communications

Microelectronic Circuits for Artificial Intelligence

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it will be paid once the student receives notification of admission to the master’s, and deducted from the first tuition payment

the reservation fee will only be refunded if the master program is cancelled

EU students: €4,800 (€80/ECTS credit)

Non EU students: €7,200 (€120/ECTS credit)

NOTE: the indicated public prices do not include in any case, neither the ECTS corresponding to the Formative Complements that the student must take (only master's degrees with previous Formative Complements), nor the cost of issuing the master’s degree certificate.

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Program Admission Requirements

Technology Studies

Electronics

Engineering Studies

Engineering Design

UC3M is a Spanish public university that excels in research, teaching and innovation. It is among the best universities in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2025 and among the best institutions in employability, according to The Global University Employability Ranking and Survey (Geurs2024). In the latest edition of THE Impact Rankings, it was ranked 24th in the world for its commitment to peace and justice. It has more than 780 agreements with universities in 57 countries, among which there are some of the best universities in the world according to the Shanghai University ranking. 27,8% of its students are international. The University is one of the promoters of the Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE) alliance, one of the networks selected by the EU in its European Universities Initiative. UC3M is the first university in Europe to obtain the ACEEU dual accreditation for its contribution and impact on the industrial and social fabric, and it also has other accreditations and distinctions of quality such as the EUR-ACE seal in the field of engineering or the AACSB accreditation in business and finance programs. 

Master in Microelectronic Design Engineering

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