Re: What's the Toughest Branch in Electronics?



On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:47:50 -0700, MooseFET <kensmith@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


On Sep 7, 8:02 pm, D from BC <myrealaddr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What's the Toughest Branch in Electronics?

Examples:
Smps design (switchers for..everything!)
Audio design (power amplifiers, analogue filters)
RF design (radio transmitters, receivers, radar, cellphones)
Digital design (computers,microcontrollers,FPGA)

I'll guess this order of difficulty.
1) RF design
2) Smps design

Smps design is RF design with diodes on the output side. You'd have
to break the topics down a little differently as in perhaps microwave
electronics design and high powered RF.

3) Audio design
You just have to put in the red LEDs to get that "tube glow" and audio
is easy. Op-amps are now so good that very little of the audio
subject is hard any more.

4) Digital design

You missed analog data acquisition. Getting high dynamic ranges at
highish speeds isn't easy.





I put digital at the #4 spot because I'm looking at digital design
from a what's-off-the-shelf point of view.
Applying fast ADC IC's can't be too nasty.. I imagine the analogue
front end gets attention as well as the pcb layout.

D from BC
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