Course detail

Microelectronics and Assembly Technology

FEKT-BPC-MTSAcad. year: 2025/2026

The subject deals with the new, modern electronics components and technologies (hardware) with the impact on understanding of microelectronic passives and actives. Interconnection and packaging with new integration solutions are objectivesduring the whole life cycle starting with design, going through production processes and finishing with liquidation. It´s concerned to Surface Mount Technology and Hybrid Integrated Circuits, which are based on thick and thin film technologies. New performances of packaging, as Multi Chip Modules,, Chip Scale Packages, Flip Chips and Wafer Level Packages etc. are described and discused including modern semiconductor chips, going to 3D packages. Regarding to recieve the complex wiev for praxis in microelectronics technology area, selected parts from quality and environmental managment are included. The subject offers also good base about electronics hardware, in the whole cycle from design , production, use, servis and liquidation. That gives for student the possibility to involve in the praxis as well to continue in master degree study.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Entry knowledge

The subject knowledge on the secondary school level is required.

Work in the laboratory is subject to a valid qualification of "instructed person", which students must obtain before starting classes. Information on this qualification can be found in the Dean's Directive Acquainting Students with Safety Regulations. 

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Up to 42 points for work in the semester.

Up to 58 points per exam.

Practical excercises are situated in Laboratory of microelectronic technologies and packaging, always in groups of maximum 6 students according to timetable set at the beginning of the semester. Compensation is possible only after personal agreement with teacher in exceptional cases (on the basis of a medical certificate).



Lab exercise :
1. Design of a hybrid integrated circuit.
2. Practical realization of hybrid integrated circuit.
3. Measurement of thick film resistors by four-wire method.
4. Trimming od thick film resistors and their statistical evaluation.
5. Soldering and measuring of temperature profiles.
6. Packaging and interconnection.

Aims

The goal is to introduce students to knowledge about technology of microelectronics components, circuits and systems, that they will be able to join praxis as well to continue in the master study.
Basic knowledge and orientation in the field of design and manufacture of modern electronic circuits, devices and systems (hardware), which will enable the student to define, describe and also explain and possibly calculate basic parameters from the above mentioned problems.

Student after passing the subject:
1. Enables the basic issues of electronic hardware, its importance, its composition and its basic use
2. Understand and explain the basic nature of individual electronic components and describe their principles of implementation and use
3. Explains the theoretical function of basic hardware components and identifies its most commonly used types, names their parameters in relation to use in various applications
4. Is able to design hybrid integrated circuits, demonstrate and clarify the basic principles of their implementation and execution
5. Undertakes or supports an opinion on its own application in manufacturing, service and design institutions in the field of microelectronics and electrotechnics, and also develops basic prerequisites for master's studies

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

AXELEVITCH, Alexander. Thin Films Technology: Practical Manual For The Laborat. Thin Films Technology: Practical Manual For The Laborat, 2021. ISBN 9789811246326 (CS)
SESHAN, Krishna, SCHEPIS, Dominic. Handbook of Thin Film Deposition. 2024. ISBN 0443135231 (CS)
SZENDIUCH, Ivan. Mikroelektronika a technologien součástek. Skriptum VUR vBrně, ÚMEL, ISBN 978-80-214-3960-3. (CS)
SZENDIUCH, Ivan. Základy technologie mikroelektronických obvodů a systémů. Brno: VUTIUM, 2006. ISBN 80-214-3292-6. (CS)
TUMMALA, Rao. Fundamentals of Microsystems Pacakaging. McGraw-Hill, New York, 2001, ISBN 0-07-137169-9. (EN)

Recommended reading

SZENDIUCH, Ivan. Mikroelektronické montážní technologie. VUTIUM, 1997. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BPC-NCP Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
  • Programme BPC-MET Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

Microelectronics ant its development
Semiconductor chips - principle and their production
Basic performance of semiconductor chips and packaging
Thin and Thick Film Technology
Hybrid Integrated Circuits
SMD components for surface mount technology
Surface mount technology - technological operations
Technology of assembly (SMT)
Reliability Statistic Process Quality and cerfification in electronic production
Microelectronics and environment

Fundamentals seminar

12 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

Basic temperature simulation of microelectronic structure in the ANSYS Workbench. Orientation in technical datasheets with a focus on electronic component packages.

Laboratory exercise

12 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

HI´C design and HIOCAD
Screen printing and Thick Film firing
Resistors trimming and ultrasonic bonding
Reflow soldering and its temperature profile, lead free solders
Basic operation in SMT, assembly process

Project

6 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

Design of a hybrid integrated circuit.