Circuit Building Blocks for Communication Systems
CBBC is a master level course offered by TU Darmstadt. It is a completely digitalized course, meaning, that no presence in a lecture hall of TUDa is required.
Teaching content: Methods and Algorithms for the Circuit Implementations in communication systems
Learning objectives
A student is, after successful completion of this module, able to understand
1. the essential circuit building blocks of a communication system and able to describe them on transistor level
2. Protocols and hardware-implementations of high-speed bus-systems
3. Clock/data recovery techniques (DLL, PLL, Timing Recovery)
4. Aspects of error-detection and – avoidance.
Please contact us by email (Klaus.Hofmann@ies.tu-darmstadt.de). The course is fully digitalized, and can therefore be started any time. There will be a written exam by about mid-end of Feb 2026, which is physically done in Darmstadt, but participation remotely is possible. Students should contact their home university in advance to obtain information about the possible recognition of Credit Points for the course.