What Does a Hardware Design Engineer Do?

The position of Hardware Engineer requires to be familiar with the computer market; develop a computer assembly plan; be able to purchase the hardware equipment required for assembly and reasonably configure and install computers and peripherals; install and configure computer software systems; maintain hardware and peripherals; Describe the computer software and hardware failures that occurred.

hardware engineer

The position of Hardware Engineer requires to be familiar with the computer market; develop a computer assembly plan; be able to purchase the hardware equipment required for assembly and reasonably configure and install computers and peripherals; install and configure computer software systems; maintain hardware and peripherals; Describe the computer software and hardware failures that occurred.

Chinese name

Computer product hardware design

2. Understanding calculations

1. Computer software and hardware installation and commissioning;

2. Network installation and commissioning based on TCP / IP protocol;

3. Installation and commissioning of peripheral products;

Learn and master

1. Familiar with circuit design, PCB layout, circuit debugging, and proficiency in circuit design software such as PROTEL;

2. Familiar with common electronic components, and proficient in searching for various component materials;

3. Grasp common hardware design tools and use methods of debugging instruments;

4. Familiar

Proficient in the installation, commissioning and networking of computer software and hardware, peripheral products;

As a hardware engineer, you need both solid hardware knowledge and good software knowledge. Now with the use of device updates, the requirements for software are getting higher and higher.

Learn and master the motherboard

basic knowledge

Purpose: To understand and master the most basic knowledge of becoming a qualified hardware engineer in detail based on actual experience and actual projects.

1); Basic design specifications

2); CPU basic knowledge, architecture, performance and selection guide

3); MOTOROLA's PowerPC series basic knowledge, detailed performance and selection guide

4); Basic knowledge, architecture, performance and selection of network processors (INTEL, MOTOROLA, IBM)

5); Basic knowledge and performance of commonly used buses

6); detailed performance introduction, design points and selection of various memories

7); Basic knowledge, performance, design points and selection of commonly used physical layer interface chips in the fields of Datacom and Telecom

8); Key points and essence of common device selection

9); Detailed performance introduction, design points and selection guide of FPGA, CPLD, EPLD

10); VHDL and Verilog; HDL introduction

11); network foundation

12); hardware research and development process of large domestic communication equipment companies;

Guide to the most popular EDA tools

Proficiency and use of the latest and most popular professional design tools in the industry

1); ViewDraw, PowerPCB, Cam350 by Innoveda

2) Orcad, CADENCE, Allegro, Spectra

3); MAX + PLUS of Altera; II

4); Learn to use VIEWDRAW, ORCAD, POWERPCB, SPECCTRA, ALLEGRO, CAM350, MAX + PLUS; II, ISE, FOUNDATION and other tools;

5); FOUNDATION, ISE from XILINX

One. Overall hardware design

Master the hardware design experience and design ideas necessary for the overall hardware design

1); product demand analysis

2); development feasibility analysis

3); System solution research

4); Overall architecture, CPU selection, bus type

5); Mainstream CPUs in the field of data communication and telecommunications: M68k series, PowerPC860, PowerPC8240, 8260 architecture, performance and comparison;

6); the overall hardware structure design and issues that should be paid attention to;

7); choice of communication interface type

8); task decomposition

9); minimum system design;

10); PCI bus knowledge and specifications;

11); how to avoid fatal errors in the overall design phase;

12); How to reasonably perform task decomposition to achieve more results with less effort?

13); Project examples: medium and low-end routers, etc.

two. Hardware schematic design technology

Purpose: Through detailed project cases, carry out all the experience of schematic design in detail, and reveal the key points and essence of the design.

1); Principle design experience and essence of mainstream CPUs (M68k, PowerPC860, 8240, 8260, etc.) in the field of telecommunications and data communications;

2); The essence of the schematic design of the Intel PC motherboard

3); Principle design experience and essence of network processor;

4); Experience and essence of bus structure principle design;

5); Experience and essence of memory system principle design;

6); Principle design experience and essence of general physical layer interface in the field of data communication and telecommunications;

7); Principle design experience and essence of WATCHDOG commonly used in telecommunications and data communication equipment;

8); Telecom and data communication equipment system live plugging principle design experience and essence;

9); Experience and essence of crystal oscillator and clock system principle design;

10); Experience and essence of schematic design of PCI bus;

11); Project examples: medium and low-end routers, etc.

three. Hardware PCB drawing design

Purpose: To reveal all the experience of PCB design through specific project cases, so that you can quickly grow into an excellent hardware engineer

1); PCB design experience and essence of high-speed CPU board;

2); Design points and essence of ordinary PCB

3); PCB design essence of MOTOROLA's PowerPC series

4); PCB design essence of Intel's PC motherboard

5); The essence of PCB design experience for PC motherboards, industrial computer motherboards, and telecommunication equipment motherboards;

6); PCB design specifications and workflows of well-known domestic communication companies;

7); Relevant requirements for production and processing technology in PCB design;

8); Transmission line problems in high-speed PCB design;

9); PCB design experience and essence of the mainstream CPU (PowerPC series) in the field of telecommunications and data communications;

10); PCB design experience and essence of universal physical layer interface (100M, Gigabit Ethernet, ATM, etc.) in the field of telecommunications and data communications;

11); PCB design experience and essence of network processors;

12); The topology of the PCB step line is extremely important;

13); PCB design experience and essence of PCI step line;

14); SDRAM, DDR; PCB design experience and essence of SDRAM (125 / 133MHz);

15); Project case: PCB design of mid-range router

four. Hardware debugging

Purpose: To teach hardware debugging and testing experiences and points with specific project cases

1); hardware debugging is equivalent to black box debugging, how to quickly analyze and solve the problem?

2); Passing on a lot of debugging experience;

3) How to speed up the hardware debugging process

4); How to quickly resolve hardware debugging issues

Fives. Software and hardware joint debugging

1); How to judge the fault of the software?

2); How to perform joint debugging with the software?

3); Passing on a lot of joint debugging experience;

Purpose: To clarify the direction and positioning of career development, to truly understand the requirements of large enterprises for talents, and to clarify the direction of individual efforts in vocational skills.

1); Career consulting and guidance

2); How to become a good hardware development engineer and get a high salary and vocational level?

3); Dilemma and Outlet for Hardware Engineers

4); Standard for Excellent Hardware Engineer

The salary of hardware engineers is generally 3000-25000.