Ask a Senior: ECE Career Questions
Questions from ECE students and answers from seniors who have been there, shared with their permission.
Questions come from ECE students in the BitForBytes WhatsApp community: internships, placements, VLSI roles, higher studies and which skills to build first. Answers are shared with the senior's permission and lightly edited.
This season
- Week 1 (Foundations): Why Computers Count in Binary, from Mon, 5 Oct, 7:30 pm IST, then Challenge #2: Half Adder on Wed, 7 Oct, 7:30 pm IST
- Week 2 (Foundations): Logic Gates, and Why NAND Can Build Everything, from Mon, 12 Oct, 7:30 pm IST, then Challenge #3: Full Adder on Wed, 14 Oct, 7:30 pm IST
- Week 3 (Building blocks): K-Maps: Simplify Logic by Drawing Boxes, from Mon, 19 Oct, 7:30 pm IST, then Challenge #4: 4-to-1 Multiplexer on Wed, 21 Oct, 7:30 pm IST
- Week 4 (Building blocks): Latches vs Flip-Flops: Memory in Hardware, from Mon, 26 Oct, 7:30 pm IST, then Challenge #5: D Flip-Flop with Enable and Reset on Wed, 28 Oct, 7:30 pm IST
- Week 5 (Systems): Counters, from Mon, 2 Nov, 7:30 pm IST