Courses in Spring semester 2025

█ Program on Integrated Circuit Design

▒ Advanced Analog Integrated Circuit Layout Technique │   Lu, Chih-Wen

Chinese‧In Person(Intensive time Courses)

Inst. Code-Serial Number：M1-005

Credit：1

This course enables students to understand the operating principles, manufacturing processes and layout of fin field effect transistors, and is paired with complete simulation and layout practice. The course content includes the following table.

▒ Electronic System Level Design Methodology – Practice with AI System Design │  Su, Alan P. (Industry Expert)

Chinese‧In Person

Inst. Code-Serial Number：M1-006

Credit：3

An entry class for training system architects. The lecture contains the fundamental principles of electronic system architecture modeling and design, and the theory of software/hardware interactions.  We utilize an industrial-level system-level simulator provided by an EDA company, to design a virtual AI SoC with RISC-V ISS, TLM 2.0 bus and RAM plus a student-made SystemC IP. Students are also required to compose trap.S, ISR, IP driver, and an AI application and uploaded to the virtual SoC to complete an embedded system. This project exercises the theories in Electronic System Level design.

▒ Biomedical-domain chip system application with AI computing │  Lee, Shun-Yuh

Chinese‧In Person(Intensive time Courses)

Inst. Code-Serial Number：M1-007

Credit：3

The course includes 3 parts：

1: Introducing knowledge, tools, and analysis techniques related to the biomedical-domain chip system application with AI computing in a lecture format. The industry will be invited to lecture on physiological signal medical knowledge and data, physiological signal acquisition tools and display, physiological signal edge computing, and disease analysis, allowing students to become familiar with data, acquisition, and analysis capabilities in 6 hours each over three weeks.

2: They are using practical methods to operate the relevant instruments, wearable devices, and edge computing platforms required for the biomedical-domain chip system application with AI computing, allowing students to become familiar with the software, firmware, and software of data acquisition, data analysis, and disease identification in three weeks and 6 hours each.

3: Thematic production of the course of biomedical-domain chip system application with AI computing is carried out specially. Through cross-domain matching, unique production, and industry guidance, students in the course can form teams to carry out innovative and practical creative output to participate in relevant competitions. Allow students to establish teamwork, solve field problems, and conduct practical demonstrations for 6 hours each in three weeks.

▒ Advanced SoC Design: AI Accelerator and Edge Computing │  Lee, Gwo-Giun

English‧In Person

Inst. Code-Serial Number：M1-007

Credit：3

This course is designed for graduate and senior students who are interested in the design of advance System-on-a-Chip (SoC) AI accelerators for edge computing systems in visual and signal processing applications.  Together with real world state-of-the-art examples, the lectures aim at establishing fundamental and central concepts of Edge AI and design for visual computing systems in machine learning including Deep Learning. The coherency and interaction between algorithm and architecture design in visual and signal processing systems will be emphasized. These rudimentary design methodologies will subsequently be reinforced by AI Accelerator and 3D video design cases should time allows.

█ Program On Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology

▒ Advanced Optoelectronic Devices │   Shyamal Kumar Saha

English‧In Person

Inst. Code-Serial Number：M2-005

Credit：3

The first part of this course will provide the basic concepts of semiconductor devices including fundamentals of semiconductors (intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors, p-type and n-type doping, p-n junction diode, forward and reverse bias characteristics, depletion region, current-voltage characteristics, semiconductor heterojunctions, ohmic and Schottky junctions etc.) The second part of the course will provide basic principles of photovoltaics, photoluminescence and electroluminescence. The course will also provide fabrication and characterization of advanced optoelectronic devices including solar cell and organic light emitting diodes.

 █ Program on Semiconductor Packaging and Testing

▒ Smart Factory Information System │ Hsieh, Yu Ming

Chinese‧In Person

Inst. Code-Serial Number：M3-007

Credit：3

This course introduces the planning, procedures, and solutions for building a smart factory, which includes technologies such as Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Statistical Process Control (SPC), Recipe Management System (RMS), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) ), Automatic Handling System (AMHS), Engineering Data Analysis (EDA) Platform, and Advanced Process Control (APC) System, etc. To enable students to have a clearer understanding of how information technology is used on the production sites.

▒ E-Manufacturing │ Hsieh, Yu Ming

English‧In Person

Inst. Code-Serial Number：M3-008

Credit：3

E-Manufacturing is advanced manufacturing that takes advantage of Internet and information technologies to efficiently integrate the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and Equipment Engineering System (EES) within a company (intra-company integration), and the Supply Chain (SC) and Engineering Chain (EC) among member companies (inter-company integration). With e-Manufacturing, the productivity, yield, and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) of the complete production platform can be improved, the cycles of time-to-market (T2M) and order-to-delivery (O2D) can be shortened; and further the goal of improving agility, efficiency, and decision-making for the entire semiconductor manufacturing processes can be reached.

█  Program on Key Materials

▒ Semiconductor Optoelectronic Physics and Devices │ Lee, Ya-Ju

English‧In Person

Inst. Code-Serial Number：M4-005

Credit：3

The objective of this course is to provide students having a comprehensive knowledge of optoelectronic semiconductors, ranging from the physical fundamentals to device applications. Hence, this course is designed to give a brief review of solid-state optoelectronic physics in the first part. Consequently, the working principles (as well as the potential applications) of several paramount optoelectronic devices developed in recent semiconductor industries will be lectured, in the second part of this course.

▒ Physical Optics  │ Chou, Ming-Chi Mitch

English‧In Person

Inst. Code-Serial Number：M4-006

Credit：3

This course is intended for the material science and electrical engineering students who wish to pursue a profession in the in optics and electro-optics devices field. This course will cover the fundamentals of classical optics, wave equations, polarization, interference, and modern optics.

█  Program on Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing

▒ Integrated 3D nano and Micro fabrication │ JUN MIZUNO

English‧In Person

Inst. Code-Serial Number：M5-008

Credit：3

This course introduces Integrated Nano and micro fabrication based microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) processes. At the end of this course, students will be able to propose new idea of Nano and micro fabrication or devices and acquire skills in preparing a research proposal and making oral presentation through group work. Students will be expected to spend 1.5 hours on preparing and reviewing each class. Grading will be decided based on presentation (100%). To pass this course, students must earn at least 70 points out of 100.

▒ Intelligent modelling and control in renewable energy systems │ Ou, ting-chia

Chinese‧In Person

Inst. Code-Serial Number：M5-009

Credit：3

Promoting energy conservation and carbon reduction and increasing the proportion of renewable energy is an important development project of Taiwan's energy policy. Its planning and promotion include energy conservation, energy creation, energy storage, and smart system integration. It is expected to achieve Taiwan's sustainable energy development vision of ensuring energy security, developing a green economy, taking into account environmental sustainability and implementing social equity, as stated in the "Energy Development Agenda". Among them, solar photovoltaic generates more electricity in summer, which can provide peak electricity demand, and wind power generates more electricity in winter, which can reduce coal-fired power generation and help reduce pollution. It is in line with electricity consumption characteristics and takes into account environmental protection. In addition, the power generation technologies of the two are relatively mature. Therefore, Taiwan takes solar power generation and wind power generation as its main development projects. Recently, it has actively developed the development and application of battery energy storage and smart grid-related technologies.

▒ Introduction to Nuclear and Green Energy Technology  │ Ou, ting-chia

English‧In Person

Inst. Code-Serial Number：M5-010

Credit：3

Green energy or clean energy refers to energy that does not emit pollutants. The similar definition is renewable energy (referring to renewable energy sources of raw materials, such as hydropower, wind power, solar energy, biomass (biogas), geothermal energy, ocean tide energy, seawater temperature difference power generation, etc.), Taiwan has set a goal of reaching an energy consumption fueled 30% by coal, 50% by natural gas, and 20% by renewables by 2025. In order to achieve the ambitious goal of 20% renewable energy, Taiwan has made changes in their energy policies. In the "Renewable Energy Development Regulations" of Taiwan, Renewable energy is defined as: solar energy, wind power, biomass energy, geothermal energy, ocean energy (tidal energy), non-pumped storage hydropower, domestic general waste and general business waste, etc. directly utilized or generated energy, or Other energy sources recognized by the central competent authority that can be used sustainably. In the global trend of attaching great importance to the issue of climate change and pursuing sustainable development, the application of green energy has become a key development area for all countries in the world, and it is also an emerging industry that competes with each other in the strategic layout of energy in various countries. Because renewable energy has no possibility of energy depletion, it is increasingly valued by many countries, especially countries with energy shortages. According to the latest definition of the US Department of Energy, nuclear energy is also included as one of the clean energy sources.

In recent years, global climate change and air pollution issues have sparked heated discussions on energy and power issues. In this context, replacing fossil energy power generation with green energy power generation such as wind power, photovoltaics and fuel cells (hydrogen energy) has become an important issue for power construction in various countries.