Key Technology Microelectronics

The unbroken revolutionary advance of Microelectronics is the impelling force for the development of new technical products with noticeably increased functionality and productivity with simultaneously lower costs. The continued development of Microelectronics even after the year 2010 will not be constricted by physical-technological boundaries, so that the challenge will lie in the control of the development complexity - state-of-the-art technology is more than 100 million transistors on a surface area of a few square centimetres - and the profitable use of these technological possibilities.

Against this background we develop microelectronic components and systems in both digital and analog circuitry. Particular consideration is paid to massive, parallel, realisation-variants as well as to the evaluation of resource efficiency of such implementations. Here, resource efficiency means to carefully deal with the physical values room, time and energy. Our research and technology transfer activities concentrate mainly on  Cognitronics and  Mediatronics. Hand in hand with research goes the theoretical and practical education of students in the management and mastery of the key technology Microelectronics in concrete applications of Information and Automisation Technology.