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Ranjith

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Hello Everyone,

I am a new graduate student. I wanted to know how i can start off for
my thesis. I am interested in IC Design. It would be of great help if
you guys can suggest me on how to look for a topic or suggest me some
pointers which will help me in this.

Thanks in Advance,
ranair123
 
Here are two suggestions :

Designing a PLL for Radio
Designing an ALU

You can make it as detailed as you wish.

Ranjith wrote:
Hello Everyone,

I am a new graduate student. I wanted to know how i can start off for
my thesis. I am interested in IC Design. It would be of great help if
you guys can suggest me on how to look for a topic or suggest me some
pointers which will help me in this.

Thanks in Advance,
ranair123
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"Ranjith" <ranair123@softhome.net> wrote in message
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Hello Everyone,

I am a new graduate student. I wanted to know how i can start off for
my thesis. I am interested in IC Design. It would be of great help if
you guys can suggest me on how to look for a topic or suggest me some
pointers which will help me in this.

Thanks in Advance,
ranair123
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Unless you're really burning for a topic I'd suggest you start by finding a
thesis advisor who you _really_ like _first_. Then if they have something
that they want to do you'll have a topic that your advisor likes.
 
"Ranjith" <ranair123@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:72fd1051.0403181230.2c601d80@posting.google.com...
Hello Everyone,

I am a new graduate student. I wanted to know how i can start off for
my thesis. I am interested in IC Design. It would be of great help if
you guys can suggest me on how to look for a topic or suggest me some
pointers which will help me in this.

Thanks in Advance,
ranair123
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10 GS/s ADC?

Funky
 
Funky wrote:
"Ranjith" <ranair123@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:72fd1051.0403181230.2c601d80@posting.google.com...

Hello Everyone,

I am a new graduate student. I wanted to know how i can start off for
my thesis. I am interested in IC Design. It would be of great help if
you guys can suggest me on how to look for a topic or suggest me some
pointers which will help me in this.

Thanks in Advance,
ranair123


10 GS/s ADC?

Funky
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24-bit, of course.


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____________________________________
Christopher R. Carlen
Principal Laser/Optical Technologist
Sandia National Laboratories CA USA
crcarle@sandia.gov
 
On 18 Mar 2004 12:30:33 -0800, ranair123@softhome.net (Ranjith) wrote:

I am a new graduate student. I wanted to know how i can start off for
my thesis. I am interested in IC Design. It would be of great help if
you guys can suggest me on how to look for a topic or suggest me some
pointers which will help me in this.
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The really hot field now is an analytical lab on a chip.

At the nanometre level for microchip fabrication it is invading the
realm of individual organic molecules. A random search turns up
http://www.devicelink.com/ivdt/archive/02/07/002.html
Microfluidic Chip-Based Immunoassays. Microfluidics is one of
the most important innovations in biochip technology.
Since microfluidic chips can be combined with mass spectrometric analysis,
a microfluidic device has been devised in which an electrospray interface
to a mass spectrometer is integrated with a capillary electrophoresis channel,
an injector, and a protein digestion bed on a monolithic substrate.3
This chip thus provides a convenient platform for automated sample processing in proteomics applications.
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and there is a lot more where that came from.
 
news2020 wrote:
Here are two suggestions :

Designing a PLL for Radio
Designing an ALU

You can make it as detailed as you wish.
Click to expand...

Who is this guy really? The news2020 I know wouldn't propose such
things, for he didn't even have a frame of reference for knowing that
these are perhaps appropriate suggestions. These suggestions hint at
more substantial knowledge of electronics than exhibited by news2020,
unless he was just pulling our legs all along.

Good day!


--
____________________________________
Christopher R. Carlen
Principal Laser/Optical Technologist
Sandia National Laboratories CA USA
crcarle@sandia.gov
 
Tim Wescott wrote:
"Ranjith" <ranair123@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:72fd1051.0403181230.2c601d80@posting.google.com...

Hello Everyone,

I am a new graduate student. I wanted to know how i can start off for
my thesis. I am interested in IC Design. It would be of great help if
you guys can suggest me on how to look for a topic or suggest me some
pointers which will help me in this.

Thanks in Advance,
ranair123


Unless you're really burning for a topic I'd suggest you start by finding a
thesis advisor who you _really_ like _first_. Then if they have something
that they want to do you'll have a topic that your advisor likes.
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Indeed. I find it odd to be having to pull thesis topics out of thin
air. Even in my undergrad experience, I was exposed to enough of the
basic research world to have an idea of what kind of neat topics were
going on to get involved with. Of course, perhaps in engineering things
are more "make something" oriented than they were in a natural science
like Chemistry.

I'd suggest first making a fundamental decision about whether your
interest is in making some gadget to demonstrate a synthesis of the
engineering principles learned, or whether to seek out a research
project on some cutting edge aspect of modern EE, and choose from the
palette of possible projects offered by the investigator of that research.

Good day!


--
____________________________________
Christopher R. Carlen
Principal Laser/Optical Technologist
Sandia National Laboratories CA USA
crcarle@sandia.gov
 
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:12:49 +0000, Tim Wescott wrote:

"Ranjith" <ranair123@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:72fd1051.0403181230.2c601d80@posting.google.com...
Hello Everyone,

I am a new graduate student. I wanted to know how i can start off for
my thesis. I am interested in IC Design. It would be of great help if
you guys can suggest me on how to look for a topic or suggest me some
pointers which will help me in this.

Thanks in Advance,
ranair123

Unless you're really burning for a topic I'd suggest you start by finding a
thesis advisor who you _really_ like _first_. Then if they have something
that they want to do you'll have a topic that your advisor likes.
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I would really have to second this opinion. The first step for the OP, if
he (or she?) doesn't have any idea what he wants to do anyway, should be
to find an advisor. The advisor will probably have some suggestions for
topics. The various suggestions in this group sound pretty good. I've
heard that PLL design is a financially rewarding specialty, so maybe that
is a good suggestion.

I should point out that I myself don't have a masters, but I sort of know
how the graduate student world works, at least here in the USA. ;-)

--Mac
 
Hi All

What about Programmable Analog Chips. Anadigm, Lattice (ISPAC) and Cypress
(PSCOS). They all have their merits but as many shortcomings. Connectivity
adpatability is limiting in all of them which is most of the reason to go
to a programmable solution. Include this with assorted specification
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limitations. The nature of analoge parts I suppose. But.............

EPAC is another one; but that died. Why, none of them have really delivered
what is anticipated of them.

Stefan

"KLM" <klmok88@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:fsdk50d9jd4ai8m2c31gipf8ask0l2646s@4ax.com...
On 18 Mar 2004 12:30:33 -0800, ranair123@softhome.net (Ranjith) wrote:

I am a new graduate student. I wanted to know how i can start off for
my thesis. I am interested in IC Design. It would be of great help if
you guys can suggest me on how to look for a topic or suggest me some
pointers which will help me in this.



The really hot field now is an analytical lab on a chip.

At the nanometre level for microchip fabrication it is invading the
realm of individual organic molecules. A random search turns up
http://www.devicelink.com/ivdt/archive/02/07/002.html
Microfluidic Chip-Based Immunoassays. Microfluidics is one of
the most important innovations in biochip technology.
Since microfluidic chips can be combined with mass spectrometric
analysis,
a microfluidic device has been devised in which an electrospray interface
to a mass spectrometer is integrated with a capillary electrophoresis
channel,
an injector, and a protein digestion bed on a monolithic substrate.3
This chip thus provides a convenient platform for automated sample
processing in proteomics applications.

and there is a lot more where that came from.
Click to expand...
 
Chris Carlen <crcarle@bogus.sandia.gov> wrote:
news2020 wrote:
Here are two suggestions :

Designing a PLL for Radio
Designing an ALU

You can make it as detailed as you wish.


Who is this guy really? The news2020 I know wouldn't propose such
things, for he didn't even have a frame of reference for knowing that
these are perhaps appropriate suggestions. These suggestions hint at
more substantial knowledge of electronics than exhibited by news2020,
unless he was just pulling our legs all along.
Click to expand...
Maybe they've changed from killing beams to learning beams.
 
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