Transcript What is EE?
Facets of EE: A career point of view! Plan of presentation Sign posts! What is EE? Some branches of EE A generic future plan! Conclusive remarks Introduction and sign post Interrupt me whenever and where-ever you want! At any point, if you feel bored, feel free to leave quietly! What is EE? Electronics: control of electron-flow! Controlling factor: electric field/magnetic field (weak force! What other forces??) 1882: Darmstad University of Technology : first faculty in EE 100+ years : 100+ sub-branches Three main branches Power Communication Instrumentation Power Generation Transmission Distribution Communication Signal/Information Source Destination Link Instrumentation What is an instrument? Measurement devices : instruments… e.g.?? Measurement control Some fancy things! DSP (ASP??) VLSI AI Robotics Complexity! DSP Why digital? What is signal? Usages?? Image, Speech, Any signal from a sensor (e.g. radar/sonar/biomedical/camera/mobile… )! Robotics and AI Strictly speaking its not a part of any existing faculty! What is intelligence? Imitate human intelligence?? Weak AI Strong AI (consciousness!) Is it possible via. Classical logic system? "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." Some more fancy topics Soft computing ANN Fuzzy logic Evolutionary computing (e.g. genetic algorithm, ant-search algorithm etc.) Complexity Complex vs. complicated “Complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts” -WW “Difficult to analyze or understand” – WW Complex: total > the sum of parts! e.g. human brain, ant-hill, stockmarket(?), swarm, life(!) Some writers for a lighter read! Paul Davis Roger Penrose David Bohm Alan Turing VLSI Manufacturing technology (> 10 000 transistors in a single chip) Device level engineering (solid state physics) Application/Design engineering (elect. Design automation or EDA tools) Moore’s law Number of transistors in a chip double every 18 months “In terms of size [of transistor] you can see that we're approaching the size of atoms which is a fundamental barrier, but it'll be two or three generations before we get that far— but that's as far out as we've ever been able to see. We have another 10 to 20 years before we reach a fundamental limit. By then they'll be able to make bigger chips and have transistor budgets in the billions ” (Manek Dubash, 2006) Designing VLSI chips?? EDA tools (electronic design automation tools) Chip-EDA gap Thrust on testing (This is what most of the so called VLSI-jobs consist of!) e.g. Digital VLSI design PROM (e.g. erasable PROM or EPROM) Floating gates to make/brake contact Next device was PLA/PAL Ref. http://ece.ut.ac.ir/classpages/F85/LogicLab/FPGA.pdf Programmable connection (staticRAM/anti-fuse/EEPROM technology and many more) : root to semiprogrammable chips Logic-blocks/IO-cell/macro-cell Hence the idea of programming by netlist files (come in many names/flavors!) If a tool knows the PLA structure and how to match functionality to that: we can program at a higher level! Higher level programming Compiler (device/fab specific) netlist file ASIC Hardware description languages Mainly VHDL/Verilog As easy (or difficult) programming language A little different approach as any IPs and SoC Intellectual property (IP) Soft chip! e.g.ARM System on chip (SoC) Some inter-faculty topics Biomedical-elect. Mechatronics! MEMS Chemical sensors Computer integrated (CIM) Bio-informatics manufacturing Some activities in our department Research Groups Communication and Advance DSP Biomedical and Speech Processing Control and Instrumentation VLSI Image Processing and Computer Vision Communication and Advanced DSP Faculty Involved: Prof. A. Mahanta, Prof. A. K. Gogoi, Dr. R. Bhattacharjee and Dr. K. Rakhesh Singh, Dr. P.R. Sahu, Dr. A. Mishra, Mr. Rajesh A., Research Areas: DSP based Communication systems, Wireless Mobile Systems, Communication Networks, Antennas, Microwave Engineering, Fiber Optics Biomedical and Speech Processing Faculty Involved: Dr. S. Dandapat, Dr. J. S. Sahambi, Dr. H. Nemade, Dr. S. R. M. Prasanna and Dr. R. Sinha Research Areas: Biomedical Signal Processing, Medical Electronics, Biomedical Instrumentation, Medical Image Processing, Voice Disorders, Stressed Speech Analysis, Speech Recognition, Speaker Recognition. Control and Instrumentation Faculty Involved: Dr. S. Majhi, Dr. C. Mahanta and Dr. H. Nemade. Research Areas: Control Systems, Control Theory Applications, Stochastic Systems, Robotics, Industrial/Ultrasonic instrumentation, Underwater acoustic. VLSI Faculty Involved: Dr. R. Paily, Prof. A. Mahanta, Dr. Abhijit Mitra and Dr. A. Mishra Research Areas: Development of VLSI Architectures for Signal Processing and Communication Algorithms, VLSI Design and Hardware Verification Image Processing and Computer Vision Faculty Involved Prof. P. K. Bora, Dr. S. Dandapat and Dr. S. R. M. Prasanna Research Areas Image Processing, Computer Vision, Video Processing, Pattern Recognition, Biometric Person Authentication: Face Identification, Face Recognition Laboratory Facilities Electronic Circuits Laboratory Control & Instrumentation Laboratory Embedded Systems Laboratory DSP & Communication Laboratory Antennas,Microwave & Radio Frequency Laboratory Electro Medical and Speech Technology Laboratory Image & Signal Processing Laboratory VLSI Laboratory System Simulation Laboratory Carrier planning Should be done ASAP Should be at least in terms of 10-15 years Landmarks and revision of plan! A generic career plan 4-6 years Improving skills Higher education Initial experiences 4-6 years Rise in corporate ladder Increasing contacts 2-3 years Incubation period Be your own CEO/CTO Some useful sites! http://www.ieeeusa.org/volunteers/committees /SPAC/ http://gb.espacenet.com/search97cgi/s97_cgi. exe?Action=FormGen&Template=gb/en/home. hts http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/ElectricalEngineering-and-Computer-Science/index.htm www.theiet.org www.ieee.org Conclusive remarks Take-homes • Some possible areas of research • Some possible areas where you might be working in another 3-4 years • Long term planning “Don’t follow the trends, set new trends!” Many Thanks!