System Test Engineering

• Signal processing for data processing (filtering, spectral analysis,  ; ;interpolation, decimation)
• Methods and data structures for time series analysis
• Data visualization and reporting, anomaly detection, dependency System Test  ; ;modelling, clustering, classification and regression
• Event detection
• Data visualization and reporting

• EMC-aware PCB design
• Shielding and guarding
• Crosstalk and parasitic effects
• Controlled impedance routing
• Power integrity
• Impedance adjustment
• Test structures for PCB design
• Contacting (test socket, needle cards, plug connections)
• Assembly and component selection • Analysis of good and bad examples of PCB layout

• Quality and reliability: definition, assessment, indicators and planning
• System and component qualification
• ESD and latch up effect
• EMC control
• High and low temperature operating limits (HTOL/LTOL),
• Highly accelerated stress test (HAST)
• High temperature storage life (HTSL)
• Temperature humidity bias (THB)

• Software development lifecycle
• Fundamental concepts in software testing
• Testing throughout the software lifecycle
• Static and dynamic testing strategies
• Test design and management
• Testing strategies for software
• Regression test, module test and integration test
• Tools support for testing
• Firmware testing
• Versioning and documentation

• Building automated test systems based on a complex example including software,   measurement/testing equipment and hardware (sensors, PCB)
• Selection of hardware and software based on test cases and their measurement   requirements
• Implementation and automation of test systems
• Test documentation and version control
• Measurement system analysis (MSA)

• Verifying designs and testing printed circuit boards according to the JTAG standard
• Functional safety according to ISO 26262
• Quality standards such as IATF 16949
• Overview of EMC standards
• Statistical test methods and the ISO 2859 standard

Solving a technical task on the subject of testing under supervision that corresponds to the level of education.

• Project plan
• Time and resource planning
• Roles (developer, tester)
• Project phases, milestones, gates and critical path
• Interaction with quality management
• Failure management
• Implementation in case studies
• Risk analysis using the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis method (FMEA)
• Final project review (lessons learned)

• Fundamentals of information security
• Software methods for information security (e.g. encryption, certificates)
• Hardware methods for information security (e.g. side-channel attacks and   countermeasures)
• Examples of successful security attacks and possible solutions

• Terminology in engineering and information technology
• Target group oriented writing
• Readability and comprehensibility
• Design, typography, layout, information graphics, technical illustration
• Test specification, failure tracking and customer-specific reports
• Standardisation of format and language through the use of templates and  ; ;standards

• Definition of terms
• Testing of semiconductors (application example)
• Controllability, observability, accessibility of circuits
• Modularization and testing
• Test modes
• Parallel tests
• Life time management: wafer test, backend test, test of product returns (field   tests)
• Structural testing nbsp;nbsp;(White Box, Grey Box, Black Box)
• Application/functional testing
• Testing of digital circuits (scan test, JTAG, built-in self-tests)
• Testing mixed-signal circuits (built-in self-tests, IEEE 1149.4)

• Processes in electronic production and chip fabrication
• Test program development and debugging
• Remote debugging and remote development
• Compliance matrix
• Methods for test time optimization
• Test flow, test insertions
• Guard band (test-limit management)
• PAT (part average testing)
• PCB with test adapter
• Test equipment overview and architecture
• Binning and Grading
• Data Logging
• Wafer test and package test
• ATE programming
• Traceability
• Trimming and fusing

• Validation and production test
• Preparing a verification plan
• Automatic test vector generation (ATVG)
• Structural, block and system test
• Automated test
• Characterization, comparison with data sheet, Corner Testing
• Robustness validation

• Optimization algorithms (heuristic methods, interactive methods)
• Machine learning (supervised and unsupervised)
• Annotation of data, detection rate and overfitting
• Types of neural networks
• Learning of neural networks
• Verifying the performance of neural networks using test data
• Improving the performance of neural networks

• Test platforms in the automotive industry (lab vehicle, subsystems, overall   vehicle tests)
• Electrical safety (HV tests on systems and the overall vehicle)
• ESD and EMC testing
• Sensor stimulation or sensor simulation for the VIL
• Case example from the automotive industry
• Levels of automated driving according to SAE
• Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving (AD)
• Scenario-based validation of ADAS/AD

• Introduction to mechatronic systems of different complexity
• Functional relationship between the overall system and the subsystems involved
• Validation environments for mechatronic systems (MIL, SIL, HIL, test bench)
• Development and validation of models of subsystems
• Correlation between real-world tests and model-based tests
• Efficient allocation of the necessary validation tests to different test   environments
• Methods for estimating test coverage

• Interpersonal communication and communication theory in intercultural context
• Preparing and carrying out international meetings
• Presentation preparation and presentation techniques
• Web meetings
• Effective communication with multicultural groups of people in different situations

Solving a subject-specific engineering problem from the industrial environment The board examination is carried out in accordance with the requirements for final examinations of FH Master‘s degree programmes pursuant to FHStG as amended.

• Scientific methods and scientific community
• Literature search and quotation rules
• Structuring and writing scientific papers
• Planning of the necessary work steps as well as time and resource planning
• Scientific elaboration of a subject-specific task
• Presentation of interim and final result(s)
• Writing a scientific report in the form of a conference paper