Cognitave Inc's Advanced Electronics Design

This course is designed to introduce microelectronics professionals to modern design, fabrication and simulation design flows available as open source or under license software tools and products. The tools instructed are industry standards and used across the globe for modeling, manufacturing and testing of electronic and computing devices that go into systems in consumer electronics, warfare, defense and aerospace.

The focus of this this course is to introduce participants to electronics knowledge base and open source tools they can download from internet free of charge and build devices and systems in software environment, simulate and model their functionality and performance, and send out to foundries for production. For example, numerical codings that are typically scripted in industry standard Mathematics Laboratory (MATLAB) by Mathworks Inc are developed in a free of charge, open source alternative—OCTAVE 8. Links to numerous exercised and projects in Github are provided to enable audience to have a head start with their learning and project development.

The unique feature of this learning experience is learning about an ecosystem of software and coding tools that author will outline and present how they are use in various stages of design, simulation and modeling. There are usually more than one design flow depending on the access and skill sets of user when it comes to what toolbox or toolset to use. For instance, one design flow for developing a microelectronic circuit board would be to start on paper and have a sketch of overall system design according to principles and concepts thought in core courses in Electrical and Computer Engineering. An analytical understanding of problem is fundamental is developing the project forward. A numerical analysis is usually implemented in Octave8 (Matlab or Mathematics) to obtain required design and implementation parameters and factors. A circuit is implemented next in an SPICE based tool such as LTSpice, KiCAD/ngSpice, or QSPICE. The latter is offered by Analog Devices Inc only available for Microsoft Windows based PCs. In this course, the EDA (Electronics Design Automation) software for design flow include KiCAD, FreeCAD, OpenEDA, and QucsStudio. Alternatively, someone with access to resource to secure license can use EDA software from Keysight Technologies for ADS (Advanced Design Systems), RFIC, RFpro, and SystemVue. AWR Microsoft Office will be used as part of design flow for certain exercise project which enable certain signal processing analysis key to developing system level designs.

The course is self-contain in the sense that it is made certain that the participant of this course will find all required material inside. However, additional in-depth studies encouraged.

Most probably the undergrad and graduate level students in the field (Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering) will find novel and valuable content in this course. The course is not restricted to engineering of the subject field here and various specialized teams and disciplines from biotechnology to computer science to finance use advanced design flows in microelectronics to develop their devices and systems.

Trending fields of Large Language Models, Quantum Computing, Crypto mining and Trading terminal based on Analog Computing are tied to specialized circuit boards with novel computer architectures that require in-house simulation modeling prototyping design and fast paced prototyping, fabrication and manufacturing. Access to open source products and design flows outlined in this course will allow professionals to develop novel products with large cost and time savings.