Electrical Engineers

Tools and Technology

Tools Include:

• Accelerometers
• Laboratory safety furnaces (Annealing furnaces)
• Scanning probe microscopes (Atomic force microscopes)
• Spectrometers (Auger electron spectrometers)
• Computer servers
• Corona treaters (Cylindrical corona testers)
• Diffractometers
• Laboratory safety furnaces (Diffusion furnaces)
• Oscilloscopes (Digital oscilloscopes)
• Digital camcorders or video cameras (Digital video cameras)
• Voltage or current meters (Digital voltmeters DVM)
• Tube furnaces (Doping tubes)
• Flow sensors (Electrical flow meters)
• Spectrometers (Electrochemical CV dopant profilers)
• Laboratory evaporators (Electron beam evaporators)
• Thickness measuring devices (Ellipsometers)
• Laboratory evaporators (Filament evaporators)
• Semiconductor process systems (Fog chambers)
• Frequency counters or timer or dividers (Frequency counters)
• Frequency calibrator or simulator (Frequency drives)
• Isolation glove boxes (Glove box systems)
• Spectrographs (Imaging spectrographs)
• Electrical inductance sensors (Inductance capacitance resistance LCR meters)
• Notebook computers (Laptop computers)
• Laser printers
• Laser measuring systems (Laser ranging systems)
• Semiconductor process systems (Linearization testbeds)
• Laboratory evaporators (Low pressure chemical vapor deposition LPCVD systems)
• Laboratory evaporators (Metal evaporation systems)
• Laboratory balances (Microbalances)
• Microwave core equipment (Microwave automatic load-pull tuners)
• Power meters (Microwave power meters)
• Oscilloscopes (Mixed signal oscilloscopes)
• Semiconductor process systems (Molecular beam epitaxy MBE systems)
• Multimeters
• Network analyzers
• Electrical frequency meters (Noise figure meters)
• Laboratory safety furnaces (Oxidation furnaces)
• Tube furnaces (Oxidation tubes)
• Electronic measuring probes (Parameter analyzers)
• Transistor transistor logic TTL (Pattern generator systems)
• Personal computers
• Computed tomography CT or CAT radiotherapy simulators (Photolithography equipment)
• Spectrometers (Photoluminescence spectrometers)
• Semiconductor process systems (Plasma ashers)
• Reactors (Plasma reactors)
• Plotter printers (Plotters)
• Surface testers (Profilometers)
• Signal generators (Programmable function generators)
• Level generators (Pulse generators)
• Voltage or current meters (Pulsed current-voltage IV analyzer)
• Pyrometers
• Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers (Rapid thermal annealers RTA)
• Ion implantation equipment (Reactive ion etch systems)
• Oscilloscopes (Sampling oscilloscopes)
• Scanning electron microscopes (Scanning electron microscopes SEM)
• Scanning probe microscopes (Scanning tunneling microscopes STM)
• Spectrometers (Secondary ion mass spectrometers SIMS)
• Frequency calibrator or simulator (Signal analyzers)
• Signal generators
• Spectrometers
• Frequency analyzers (Spectrum analyzers)
• Semiconductor process systems (Spin-coaters)
• Magnetic spin bars or stir bars or stirring beads (Spinners)
• Oscillographs (Sweep oscillators)
• Signal generators (Synthesized continuous wave CW generators)
• Thermocouples
• Semiconductor process systems (Tube etchers)
• Tube furnaces
• Transistor circuit testers (Universal microwave transistor test fixtures)
• Semiconductor process systems (Vacuum chambers)
• Laboratory evaporators (Vacuum system/thermal evaporators)
• Signal generators (Vector signal generators)
• Tube furnaces (Vertical furnaces)
• Semiconductor process systems (Wafer steppers)
• Semiconductor process systems (Wet chemical clean benches)
• Semiconductor process systems (Wire bonders)
• X ray generators (X ray guns)
• Spectrometers (X ray photoemission spectrometers)

Technologies Include:

• Analytical or scientific software

• Automated material handling software
• Powersim PSIM
• Reliability analysis software
• Power analysis software
• APLAC Solutions Corporation software
• ReliaSoft Weibull++ 6
• Signal integrity simulation software
• Circuit simulation software
• Availability prediction modeling software
• Simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis SPICE
• Synopsis Design Compiler
• Synopsys PrimeTime
• Tektronix EZ-TEST
• Test automation software
• The MathWorks MATLAB
• The MathWorks Simulink
• Optimization software
• Microwave circuit simulation software
• Digital timing diagram editing software
• Dynamic object-oriented requirements system DOORS
• Mentor Graphics ModelSim
• Electromagnetic analysis software
• Time and motion analysis software
• Electronic engineering calculator
• Embedded systems testing software
• Failure mode and effects analysis FMEA software
• Failure mode effects and criticality analysis FMECA software
• Failure reporting analysis and corrective action FRACAS software
• Fault modeling software
• Fault tree analysis FTA software
• Finite difference time domain FDTD software
• Finite element method FEM software
• Mean time between failures MBTF software
• Functional verification software
• Hewlett-Packard HP Semiconductor Parameter Analyzer
• Isograph Markov
• Mean time to failure MTTF software
• Life cycle cost software
• Logic synthesis software
• Matrix calculation software
• Systems analysis programs for hands on integrated reliability evaluation software SAPHIRE

• Computer aided design CAD software

• Agilent Advanced Design System ADS software
• Physical design software
• Autodesk AutoCAD software
• OrCAD Capture
• Floor planning software
• Cadence Allegro Design Entry software
• Cadence Encounter Test
• Chip design software
• Printed circuit board design software
• Computer aided design CAD software
• Electronic design automation EDA software
• MAGIC layout editor
• Mento Graphics software
• Schematic design entry software
• Field programmable gate array FPGA design software
• ViewLogic software

• Computer aided manufacturing CAM software

• Rapid prototyping software

• Development environment software

• Altera hardware description language AHDL
• Advanced boolean expression language ABEL
• Ada
• Programmed logic controller PLC code generation software
• Hardware description language HDL
• Microsoft Visual Basic
• Microsoft Visual Studio
• Eclipse IDE software
• National Instruments LabVIEW
• Verilog
• VHSIC hardware description language VHDL
• C

• Object or component oriented development software

• Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
• Python
• JHDL
• C++
• Sun Microsystems Java

• Operating system software

• Microsoft Windows Server
• UNIX

• Presentation software

• Microsoft PowerPoint

• Program testing software

• Defect tracking software
• Debugging software

• Project management software

• Microsoft Project

• Requirements analysis and system architecture software

• Requirements management software

• Spreadsheet software

• Microsoft Excel

• WAN switching software and firmware

• ATD protocol
• X.25 Protocol

• Word processing software

• Microsoft Word

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