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    Placement Preparation For Analog Engineer Roles: Soumya Kanta Rana

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    The document provides guidance on preparing for analog engineer roles, including written tests and interviews. It recommends focusing on topics like circuits, signals and systems, and C programming. For interviews, it suggests practicing analysis of RC, RL, op-amp, and MOSFET circuits. Project ideas and tips for resumes and interviews are also provided, along with references for additional learning resources.

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    Placement Preparation for Analog Engineer Roles

    Soumya Kanta Rana

    October 17, 2022

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    Disclaimer

    The credits for the content in the presentation goes to the authors whose
    work has been cited here.

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    Table of Contents

    1 WRITTEN TEST PREPARATION


    2 INTERVIEW PREPARATION
    RC-RL CIRCUITS
    OP-AMP CIRCUITS
    MOSFET CIRCUITS
    3 PROJECT IDEAS
    4 OTHER RESOURCES
    5 REFERENCES

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    WRITTEN TEST PREPARATION

    Top Priority Topics


    GATE EC full syllabus and Previous Years Questions of Network
    Theory, Analog Electronics.
    Basics of Control Systems - gain margin, phase margin, steady state
    error, bode plots.
    Basics of Signals and Systems - laplace transforms, fourier transforms,
    Z transforms.
    C Programming MCQs.

    Optional Topics
    Basics of Semiconductor Device Physics.
    Other concepts of Signals and Systems - DFT, DTFT, FFT.
    Basics of Power Conversion topologies - buck, boost, buck-boost.

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    WRITTEN TEST PREPARATION(contd.)

    Tips and Resources


    Focus should not only be on final answer but also on the approach
    and complete analysis. Interviews often start with the questions one
    solved wrongly in the tests.
    Practice solving with minimal calculator usage (many a times
    calculators are not allowed in the online assessments).
    Link to gate previous years papers : [1].

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    RC-RL CIRCUITS

    Areas Tested
    Intuitive analysis of first order RC (and RL) circuits for different
    voltage and current inputs - impulse, step, ramp, square wave.
    Identifying poles and zeros for the above circuits and drawing bode
    plots.
    Charge sharing between capacitors in a switched capacitor circuit.

    Tips and Resources


    Focus on intuition and not equations - initial and final values of
    response, time constant.
    While explaining solutions to the interviewer try to go step by step.
    Resources to follow: Youtube channels of Himanshu Agarwal [2] and
    Chembiyan T[3] .

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    OP-AMP CIRCUITS

    Areas Tested
    Analysis of Op-amp circuits involving passive networks around the
    op-amp (amplifiers, negative impedance converters, data converters,
    rectifiers, V-I converters, I-V converters, schmidt triggers, oscillators).
    Negative and Positive Feedback analysis (determining sign of op-amp
    terminals for negative/positive feedback).
    Op-amp filter circuits and their pole zero analysis.

    Tips and Resources


    Practice questions from Sergio Franco’s Design with Operational
    Amplifiers and Analog Integrated Circuits[4] -chapter 2, 3, 9, 12.
    Video lectures to follow : Dr. Saurabh Saxena lectures on Analog
    Systems[5] .

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    MOSFET CIRCUITS

    Areas Tested
    Identification of region of operation of a MOSFET in a
    circuit(chapters 2 of [6], chapter 6 of [7]).
    CS, CG and CD amplifiers, cascode amplifiers - small signal analysis
    and frequency response (chapters 3, 6 of [6], chapters 7, 11 of [7]).
    Current mirrors and differential amplifiers(chapters 4, 5 of [6],
    chapters 9, 10 of [7]).
    Feedback theory, barkheusen criterion, basics of oscillators(chapters
    12, 13 of [7]).
    Advanced topics(Optional for B.Tech students) : Operational
    amplifiers - design of different topologies, frequency response and
    compensation; Bandgap references, Noise analysis(chapters 7, 9, 12
    of [6])).

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    MOSFET CIRCUITS(contd.)

    Tips and Resources


    Solve as many different types of problems from the above listed
    chapters of [6] and [7] as possible.
    Be thorough with the concepts of effective gm, calculation of output
    impedance by looking up and down at a node[6] .
    Have clarity on intuitive analysis of Differential Amplifiers/Op-Amps :
    poles-zeros, slew rate, I/O common-mode range[6], [8] .
    Perform analysis of feedback networks with and without loading
    effect, analysis of oscillators[7] .
    Video lectures to follow : Analog Electronic Circuits by Dr. Nagendra
    Krishnapura[8] .
    Lectures for advanced topics : Analog IC design by Dr. S
    Aniruddhan[9] .

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    PROJECT IDEAS AND RESUME TIPS

    Project Ideas
    Two stage op-amps, band-gap references, low dropout regulators, voltage
    controlled ring oscillators.

    Resume and Interview Tips


    List out the key specifications of the design projects undertaken
    (helps in getting the resume shortlisted).
    Be thorough with the basic concepts of the circuits designed in the
    project. Failure to do so may leave a bad impression on the
    interviewer.
    Practice thinking out loud and taking hints. While solving a problem,
    try to explain the steps on the fly. Interviewers will provide hints if
    you are stuck, so no need to be nervous - use them to arrive at the
    answer.

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    OTHER RESOURCES

    Dr. Behzad Razavi’s electronics 1 and 2 playlist[10] .


    Dr. Ali Hajimiri’s YouTube channel[11] .
    Shaik Ashek Forid and Ritayan Mitra’s blogs on Analog Intuition[12] .
    Texas Instruments analog engineer role preparation material[13] .
    Master Micro website[14] and LinkedIn page.

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    REFERENCES
    [1] GATE IIT Kharagpur. Previous Years’ Papers
    https://gate.iitkgp.ac.in/old_question_papers.html.
    [2] Himanshu Agarwal. Himanshu Agarwal’s YouTube Channel.
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpypuI1yXfnpwcyjzsSnEeg.
    [3] Chembiyan T. Electrical Sciences, Chembiyan T’s YouTube Channel.
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbASDVRKAJByMa5rz6Uv_lw.
    [4] Sergio Franco. Design with Operational Amplifiers and Analog Integrated Circuits.
    [5] Saurabh Saxena. Lectures on Analog Systems, IIT Madras.
    https://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/videolectures/doku.php?id=ee2019_2020:start.
    [6] Behzad Razavi. Design of CMOS Analog Integrated Circuits, Second Edition.
    [7] Behzad Razavi. Fundamentals of Microelectronics, Second Edition.
    [8] Nagendra Krishnapura. Lectures on Analog Electronic Circuits, IIT Madras.
    https://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/videolectures/doku.php?id=ee3002_2015nk:start.
    [9] S Aniruddhan. Lectures on Analog IC design, IIT Madras.
    https://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/videolectures/doku.php?id=ee539_2013:start.
    [10] Behzad Razavi. Electronics 1 and 2 playlist.
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyYrySVqmyVPzvVlPW-TTzHhNWg1J_0LU.
    [11] Ali Hajimiri. Ali Hajimiri’s YouTube Channel.
    https://www.youtube.com/c/AliHajimiriChannel.
    [12] Ritayan Mitra Shaik Ashek Forid. Analog Intuition.
    https://rlcanalog.blogspot.com/p/index.html.
    [13] Texas Instruments India. Preparation for Analog Engineer role.
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WVtKqh06qdAg4r0Q2qPqXbyGMCOpaq4c/view?usp=sharing.
    [14] Hesham Omran. Master Micro website
    https://www.master-micro.com/.

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