Future Development of Analog Designer...?

[Syukri]

Well from many paper that I've read that we are going from the 20th century age of electron to the age of Biotechnology in the 21th century...

The question is what we got to do with it?

from many article I've read, one conclucion...We need to know some biological basis besude a good knowledge in EE field...from what this sound it means that we have to gave extra time and effort in understanding two field in order to set a device that understand biological reaction.

Now we need a very high precission devices and mixed signal is a good start for the 21st century revolution.

what can we say, this world is analog anyway

 

[sp]

but we like digital more... as it is more convenient and easy...

sp

 

[Syukri]

who doesn't like digital? But the mean time we need things like ADC in order to make our devices connected to real world...

Further more, wireless technology can't be directly involvved with digital gadget. That is why Analog LAyouter who's many in 70's era decreasing when digital come and now we need them back...

Just an opinion :|

 

[skal81]

From my point of view, it is no more possible to make a clear distinction between a digital designer and an analog designer.
For example, analog circuit make more and more use of digital calibration and error correction. To find the good algorithm you need to understand the analog non idealities, and to make an efficient circuit, the digital knowledge is necessary.
As for "purely" digital circuit, well.... Can we really consider it possible to call digital a 1GHz signal? For me it looks very much like an analog signal....

I think from there there will be an unified approach, and we need to to up-to-down design working by blocks.

So it might mean that those block will also have MEMS or bio parts.... Who knows?
Anyhow the next years looks quite challenging for us, don't you think?

 

[jwcc]

So is the demand for analog designers increasing or decreasing? What is your opinion on that? Seems like there are people supporting both sides of the argument.

 

[skal81]

I would say the demand is increasing. Especially the demand RF designer. Best is to have both knowledge of RF and baseband.
And btw, I also think some software knowledge are becoming necessary. By software I mean C-like language and scientific (Matlab) langage. Looks like more and more system have a uP so it might become necessary to understand what's happening. At least the interface.
That's just an opinion, and I'm curious to know what u guys think.

 

[lichengcao]

the real word is analog
whatever the digital developed.the blocks of analog circuit such as:ADC,DAC,PA,LNA cannot be replaced by digital circuit.

 

[Syukri]

Well it's nice to know that the study of our filed has now braod to not only sensing current, heat or light but we are now start talking to sense proteion and colibrating with life science..

Till when can we stop learnig ....Never the answer is never