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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 Analog vs. Digital Electronics Analog vs. Digital Electronics Analog vs. Digital Electronics Analog vs. Digital Electronics Analog vs. Digital Electronics Analog vs. Digital Electronics Analog vs. Digital Electronics 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 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 Technical Electives ECE 412 – Analog Filter Design The design of filters circuits containing passive (R’s, L’s, and C’s) active elements (transistors, op-amps, etc.) • Lowpass, highpass, bandpass, and notch filters. • Examples: audio filters, bass, treble, crossover. • IC and discrete circuit design 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 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 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” 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 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 Try to do a Co-Op or an Internship After the degree... 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) Where are our analog alumni? Maxim (Portland, Oregon) Intel National Semiconductor Telcom Keytronics Texas Instruments Numerous small companies 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 Questions?