Comment Ideas are worthless. Execution - priceless. (Score 1) 539
Ideas are worthless. Execution - priceless.
Comment Mostly irrelevent replies... (Score 1) 834
Most of the replies are irrelevant as they address different fields. While an MS is less useful than work experience in many fields, that's not nearly as true in Elec Engg, or Comp Engg. or any math-heavy fields.
I've done my MS in the Elec. dept. If your MSCE is like CE at my school, then it's going to be a lot of Comp. Arch., VLSI, Solid State, Analog Elec., Signal Processing, etc. which you CANNOT learn on the job. My rule of thumb - heavier the math in a course, lower the probability that you can learn it on the job. Very few employers let you learn on the job - and math-heavy stuff is far easier to learn at school.
An MS is a minimum qualification to get into the mid-level of places like Qualcomm, Analog Devices, TI, Intel, AMD, etc. So my advice? Do an MS CE, make sure you do interns at every possible opportunity. Or if you're near a school which lets you do a part-time MS, start working, and start your MS too. Not doing an MS will get you stuck very soon!
Submission + - Breaking the transistor miniaturization barriee
krishn_bhakt writes: "http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&arti cleID=742A3381-E7F2-99DF-3D54A13380979044&ref=rss says:
Last week Intel and IBM both announced that they had figured out a way to further shrink the size of transistors, the tiny on-off switches that power computers. The trick, according to Intel, is introducing the metal hafnium into the mix — an addition that marks the first major change in transistor materials in four decades. Hafnium-based computer circuits would likely be denser, faster and consume less power than existing microprocessors.
The article of Osburn on which this is based can be found at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/i el5/55/21142/00981318.pdf and http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/i el5/55/21142/00981318.pdf"
Last week Intel and IBM both announced that they had figured out a way to further shrink the size of transistors, the tiny on-off switches that power computers. The trick, according to Intel, is introducing the metal hafnium into the mix — an addition that marks the first major change in transistor materials in four decades. Hafnium-based computer circuits would likely be denser, faster and consume less power than existing microprocessors.
The article of Osburn on which this is based can be found at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/
Submission + - Dive into the Xilinx ML403 Out-of-Box Experience
IdaAshley writes: In this new series, Lewin Edwards unpacks the Xilinx ML403 Embedded Development Kit and sorts out some of its idiosyncrasies. Discover reasons you might choose an FPGA-based system over a traditional hard-IP microcontroller, and identify the learning curve programmers face when meeting RAM-based programmable logic for the first time.
