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Ask HN: Self-study resources for electrical engineering?

5 points by flerovium 5y ago

Jugurtha 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24050254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24050254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8862233 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8862233 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24050254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24050254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20306637 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20306637
- flerovium 5y ago
  A lot of these are "electronics" rather than theoretical electrical engineering. With a good background in physics and chemistry, I want to learn about modern chips and electronics, which is often on a much smaller scale and more chemistry and quantum mechanics than soldering.
  - Jugurtha 5y ago
    The Tony Kuphaldt course is good, and The Art of Electronics would suit you. You could do a top-down approach, from the "electronics" at the component level, to semiconductors, to dye design. If you have a background in Physics, then you'll breeze through semiconductor and solid-state physics. It depends what you want to do, but the standard way we went through was chemistry and physics, then some more atomic/nuclear physics and mineral and organic chemistry, then solid state, then circuits, control theory, measure theory, etc. You can look into MIT's EE curriculum on opencourseware, but it's a bit too light.
ultrasounder 5y ago
EE of 15 years. If you want to “learn” chips design and verification no easy way out except to go to a decent uni and get degreed. Wish there were boot camps one could attend( like for Webdev) but unfortunately for ASIC/ FPGA) design a degree(need not be from top notch) is a prerequisite. That is IF you want to get a job. If you don’t want to get a job you still need uni courses to get your prerequisite fulfilled. No easy way out.
- the_only_law 5y ago
  > If you don’t want to get a job you still need uni courses to get your prerequisite fulfilled. If I don’t want to get a job, why the hell would I pay for the university courses when I could follow their curriculum, books, etc. in combination with things like MIT OCW. Assuming that I’m the sort of person who can keep on top of that sort of autodidactism. I mean I suppose yeah there’s a lot of stuff you can’t do on your own (I imagine VLSI is out of the question), but you can get your hands on FPGA dev boards, etc. That seems to be good enough for designing custom hardware as a hobbyist, along with playing with discrete components.

5 points by flerovium 5y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24050254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24050254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8862233 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8862233 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24050254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24050254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20306637 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20306637

flerovium 5y ago
A lot of these are "electronics" rather than theoretical electrical engineering. With a good background in physics and chemistry, I want to learn about modern chips and electronics, which is often on a much smaller scale and more chemistry and quantum mechanics than soldering.
- Jugurtha 5y ago
  The Tony Kuphaldt course is good, and The Art of Electronics would suit you. You could do a top-down approach, from the "electronics" at the component level, to semiconductors, to dye design. If you have a background in Physics, then you'll breeze through semiconductor and solid-state physics. It depends what you want to do, but the standard way we went through was chemistry and physics, then some more atomic/nuclear physics and mineral and organic chemistry, then solid state, then circuits, control theory, measure theory, etc. You can look into MIT's EE curriculum on opencourseware, but it's a bit too light.

ultrasounder 5y ago

EE of 15 years. If you want to “learn” chips design and verification no easy way out except to go to a decent uni and get degreed. Wish there were boot camps one could attend( like for Webdev) but unfortunately for ASIC/ FPGA) design a degree(need not be from top notch) is a prerequisite. That is IF you want to get a job. If you don’t want to get a job you still need uni courses to get your prerequisite fulfilled. No easy way out.

the_only_law 5y ago
> If you don’t want to get a job you still need uni courses to get your prerequisite fulfilled. If I don’t want to get a job, why the hell would I pay for the university courses when I could follow their curriculum, books, etc. in combination with things like MIT OCW. Assuming that I’m the sort of person who can keep on top of that sort of autodidactism. I mean I suppose yeah there’s a lot of stuff you can’t do on your own (I imagine VLSI is out of the question), but you can get your hands on FPGA dev boards, etc. That seems to be good enough for designing custom hardware as a hobbyist, along with playing with discrete components.