Computer Hardware Engineers
Tools and Technology
Tools Include:
- Power meters (Alternating current AC power analyzers)
- Low voltage alternating and direct current AC DC panelboards (Alternating current AC power sources)
- Digital testers (Bit error ratio testers BERT)
- Circuit tester (Circuit memory testers)
- Circuit tester (Circuit testers)
- Plotter printers (Color plotters)
- Network analyzers (Communications analyzers)
- Oscilloscopes (Communications signal analyzers)
- Scanners (Computer scanners)
- Desktop computers
- Integrated circuit testers (Digital analysis systems DAS)
- Low voltage alternating and direct current AC DC panelboards (Direct current DC power supplies)
- Frequency calibrator or simulator (Dynamic signal analyzers)
- Feeler gauges
- Frequency counters or timer or dividers (Frequency counters)
- Signal generators (Function generators)
- Impedance meters (Impedance analyzers)
- Capacitance meters (Inductance capacitance resistance LCR meters)
- Magnifiers (Inspection scopes)
- Isolators
- Notebook computers (Laptop computers)
- Integrated circuit testers (Logic analyzers)
- Electronic measuring probes (Logic probes)
- Mainframe computers
- Multimeters
- Oscilloscopes
- Signal generators (Pattern generators)
- Personal computers
- Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers (Personal digital assistants PDA)
- Power meters (Power sensors)
- Electronic measuring probes (Probe card devices)
- Electronic measuring probes (Probe stations)
- Protocol analyzers
- Protocol analyzers (Protocol exercisers)
- Level generators (Pulse generators)
- Calibrated resistance measuring equipment (Resistance meters)
- Oscilloscopes (Sampling oscilloscopes)
- Signal generators
- Frequency calibrator or simulator (Signal source analyzers)
- Frequency analyzers (Spectrum analyzers)
- Heated walk in environmental or growth chambers (Thermal chambers)
- Network analyzers (Traffic generators)
- Signal generators (Universal source generators)
- Voltage or current meters (Voltage sensors)
- Wave generators (Waveform generators)
Technologies Include:
- Analytical or scientific software
- Application-specific integrated circuit ASIC logic synthesis software
- ASSET JTAG ScanWorks
- Automatic test program generation ATPG software
- Boundary scan insertion software
- Built-in self-test BIST debugging software
- Cadence Dracula
- Cadence PSpice
- Cadence Virtuoso Spectre Circuit Simulator
- Computer diagnostic software
- Computer simulation software
- Data acquisition systems
- Design-for-testability DFT insertion software
- Discrete Fourier transform DFT analysis software
- Failure analysis software
- Fast Fourier transform FFT analysis software
- Field programmable gate array FPGA logic synthesis software
- Integrated circuit simulation software
- Joint test action group JTAG software
- Logic synthesis software
- LogicVision icBIST
- M-Sim
- MAGIC
- Magma Design Automation Blast Create
- Magma Design Automation Blast FPGA
- Mentor Graphics BSDArchitect
- Mentor Graphics Calibre
- Mentor Graphics LeonardoSpectrum
- Mentor Graphics Precision RTL
- Microarchitecture simulation software
- Monte Carlo software
- SAS software
- Simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis SPICE
- SoftICE
- Synopsys Design Compiler
- Synopsys Hercules
- Synopsys HSIM
- Synopsys HSPICE
- Synopsys TetraMax ATPG
- Synplicity Synplify
- The Mathworks Control System Toolbox
- The Mathworks Data Acquisition Toolbox
- The Mathworks Embedded Target software
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- The MathWorks Real-Time Workshop
- The MathWorks Signal Processing Toolbox
- The MathWorks Simulink
- The MathWorks Simulink DSP Blockset
- The MathWorks Simulink Fixed-Point Blockset
- The MathWorks Symbolic Math Toolbox
- The MathWorks Wavelet Toolbox
- Timing analysis software
- Verification software
- Xilinx Synthesis Technology XST
- Compiler and decompiler software
- Cadence Encounter RTL Compiler
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Allegro software
- Cadence Concept
- Cadence OrCAD
- Cadence Schematic Composer
- Cadence Virtuoso software
- Complementary-symmetry/metal-oxide semiconductor CMOS layout software
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Electronic design automation EDA software
- Mathsoft Mathcad
- PARTHENON
- Place-and-route software
- Schematic editors
- State diagram software
- Xilinx ISE Foundation
- Xilinx ModelSim
- Data base user interface and query software
- Database software
- Microsoft Access
- Structured query language SQL
- Development environment software
- Boundary scan description language BSDL
- C
- Cadence Opus
- Freescale CodeWarrior Tools
- Hardware description and verification language
- Hardware description language HDL
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- National Instruments LabVIEW
- Register transfer language RTL
- SystemVerilog
- Tool command language Tcl
- Verilog
- Very high-speed integrated circuit VHSIC hardware description language VHDL
- Information retrieval or search software
- Internet search engine software
- Internet browser software
- Web browser software
- Object or component oriented development software
- C++
- Microsoft Visual C# .NET
- Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
- Python
- SKILL
- Office suite software
- Microsoft Office software
- Operating system software
- Linux
- Shell script
- UNIX
- Pattern design software
- Block diagram software
- Program testing software
- Windows kernel debuggers
- Project management software
- Project management software
- Spreadsheet software
- Spreadsheet software
- Word processing software
- Word processing software
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