ECE 557 - Analog Test & Product Engineering
- Credit Hours: 3R-3L-4C
- Term Available: F
- Graduate Studies Eligible: No
- Prerequisites: ECE 300 and ECE 351 and Graduate standing; or with a grade of B or better in both courses, or consent of instructor
- Corequisites: None
Fundamental skills necessary to be an industrial integrated circuit test engineer or product engineer. Includes the economics associated with testing, impact of fabrication variation on devices, instrumentation associated with industrial testing, turning a data sheet into a test plan, industrial testing techniques for analog circuits, trade-offs between test time and test accuracy, statistical analysis of the data and statistical process control, the use of device interface boards necessary to control device loading for different tests. Integral labs with an industrial grade automatic tester (ATE).