Preparing for a career in analog electronics

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Preparing for a career in analog electronics

• Analog vs. Digital Electronics
• Courses offered
• Companies you can work for
• Types of things you can do
• Questions

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Analog vs. Digital Electronics
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Analog vs. Digital Electronics
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Analog vs. Digital Electronics
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Analog vs. Digital Electronics
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Analog vs. Digital Electronics
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Analog vs. Digital Electronics
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Analog vs. Digital Electronics
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What courses do I need to take?

• Required courses
• ECE 210 - Electric Circuits I
• ECE 211 - Electric Circuits Lab I
• ECE 212 - Electric Circuits II
• ECE 213 - Electric Circuits Lab II
• ECE 310 - Fundamentals of Electronics
• ECE 311 - Fundamentals of Electronics Lab

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Technical Electives (Strongly Recommended)

• ECE 410 - Advanced Electronics
• ECE 411 - Advanced Electronics Lab
• Multistage amplifiers
• Feedback
• Frequency response of electronic circuits
• The fundamentals of designing an op-amp

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Technical Electives

• ECE 412 Analog Filter Design
• The design of filters circuits containing passive
  (Rs, Ls, and Cs) active elements (transistors,
  op-amps, etc.)
• Lowpass, highpass, bandpass, and notch filters.
• Examples audio filters, bass, treble, crossover.
• IC and discrete circuit design

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Technical Electives

• ECE 413 - Communication Circuits
• The study of the building blocks which compose
  communication systems, and the circuits which
  compose those building blocks.
• AM and FM radio, Television, Cell phones
• Microelectronic circuit design
• Design of RF integrated circuits

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Technical Electives

• ECE 415 - Analog Integrated Circuit Design
• Basic IC building blocks for CMOS technology.
• Design of CMOS op-amps, references, and
  comparators.
• Microelectronic circuit design
• Design of integrated circuits

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Technical Electives

• ECE 416 - Applications of Linear Integrated
  Circuits
• Practical circuits using operational amplifiers,
  voltage regulators, video amplifiers, etc.
• Discrete Circuit design
• Circuit design with Off the shelf components

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Technical Electives

• ECE 417 - Pulse and Digital Circuits
• How are NAND gates, inverters, logic functions
  implemented? What are their limitations? (Speed
  and noise considerations, etc.)
• How to make a better logic gate
• Phase-locked loops, delay locked loops,
  multivibrators.
• Microelectronic circuit design
• Design of integrated circuits

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Technical Electives

• ECE 466 - Solid State Electronics
• Physical principles behind the operation of
  semiconductors such as diodes, BJT's, capacitors,
  MOSFETs, and FETs. modeling of semiconductor
  devices.
• How these devices work
• Strongly recommended for anyone interested in
  either microelectronic circuits - analog OR
  digital

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Try to do a Co-Op or an Internship
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After the degree...
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Where are our analog alumni?

• Micron (Boise)
• AMIS (Pocatello)
• Cypress
• Tektronics (Portland, Oregon)
• Maxtek
• Triquent Semiconductor (Portland)
• Hewlett Packard (Boise and all over)
• Agilent (Liberty Lake)

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Where are our analog alumni?

• Maxim (Portland, Oregon)
• Intel
• National Semiconductor
• Telcom
• Keytronics
• Texas Instruments
• Numerous small companies

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What are our analog alumni doing?

• Mixed signal circuit design.
• Analog to digital converters and conversions
  circuits
• RF and communication circuit design
• Audio/Stereo/Amplifier design
• Testing
• Product development

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Questions?