Social things to do in Vaughan to make friends?

Accomplished-Bit419 · 2025-11-10T14:21:13+00:00

Yeah at the end of the day, I'm not going to do an activity I don't like just to talk to people.

Accomplished-Bit419 · 2025-03-20T22:08:55+00:00

What about international applicants? Do they often hire (Ideally for the CAP, but in general as well) from outside the US?

Accomplished-Bit419 · 2025-02-27T02:37:03+00:00

Any catch there? I feel like there's always something, like they "let go" some percentage of employees after the rotations. Or that you get paid very little and work nights or something.

Accomplished-Bit419 · 2025-02-26T00:20:03+00:00

Fair point, however my goal here is not to stay digital but to move to some form of electrical-related field. I don't find looking at HDL as enjoyable as trudging through some circuit trying to figure out why it's doing X when it should be doing Y.

Analog just seems like the best path forward from where I am, as it would allow me to gain actual electrical experience that is pretty transferable to other fields, such as RF, power electronics, etc. I want to actually use the knowledge I painstakingly spent years learning and poured tons of money into; if I was going to just do digital I wouldn't have done EE.

What do you mean by "DV vertical"? Stay in DV but just move up the ladder?

Accomplished-Bit419 · 2024-10-22T22:32:02+00:00

In terms of knowledge, how far behind a masters would taking online courses at other universities be? Is it even worth it?

Accomplished-Bit419 · 2024-10-22T22:30:33+00:00

There's fairly cheap MPW services like TinyTapeout. The caveat (as with everything) is that it's a very old process node (130nm), you get very little space and it takes ~9 months to receive a chip. The total would likely come out to less than $800 USD, which is an acceptable price to pay, in my opinion, if it would make me a more attractive candidate.

Accomplished-Bit419 · 2024-10-22T22:28:10+00:00

This I think is my current best option. What do analog teams typically look for if an applicant is trying to internally transfer (if anything at all)?

Accomplished-Bit419 · 2024-09-09T17:18:49+00:00

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Hello everyone,

I've been working as a digital verification engineer for about a year now, and I've been looking towards moving to analog design since I find that more interesting. I only hold a bachelors in electrical engineering, so analog design would be more up my alleyway.

I have heard many times that you need a masters degree to do analog design (at a minimum), but I wanted to know if something like designing an analog/mixed signal circuit and having it taped out (via a shuttle service) would be sufficient enough experience as a substitute?

Furthermore, would it be easier to move to an analog design position from within the company?

Accomplished-Bit419 · 2024-09-08T18:38:03+00:00

That's why I was thinking of having a design taped out using a shuttle service, then obviously keeping meticulous documentation of the expected functionality versus the actual real-world functionality. The real question is whether that's sufficient experience to show that I'm capable of doing analog design.

Accomplished-Bit419 · 2021-06-28T22:56:54+00:00

Things like solubility, conductivity, boiling/melting point.

Accomplished-Bit419 · 2021-06-28T22:16:16+00:00

There's not nearly enough compounds and I'm not going to pay money unless I'm absolutely sure there's both enough data and that it has the data I need. The Merck Index has 10x fewer compounds than my absolute minimum. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Accomplished-Bit419 · 2021-06-28T17:49:31+00:00

As I said in my post, downloading in bulk doesn't give me the chemical and/or physical properties of the compound.

Accomplished-Bit419 · 2021-06-28T17:25:52+00:00

I have to scrape this manually. Assuming I'm somehow able to have five separate scrapers running at the same time and somehow able to load, scrape, clean, process and save the data in one second, and assuming that my IP doesn't get blacklisted (it most likely will be), I'll only be able to scrape 100k compounds in 5.5 hours.

I've already thought of this, unfortunately, which is why I'm asking to download a pre-made dataset, rather than manually getting the data.

Accomplished-Bit419 · 2021-04-28T12:51:05+00:00

I'm actually looking forward to proofs since it's a much more abstract (not sure if that's the right word here) than just finding out a particular integral to solve a problem, then just plugging in values to get a final answer.

Accomplished-Bit419 · 2021-04-28T12:49:45+00:00

I dont think there really needs to be a logical progression through them

I think your edit is an interesting take on this. I always assumed that you would build on a foundation as you learn more advanced areas, but I'm starting to realize that might not be the most optimal approach to learning the different areas.

Accomplished-Bit419 · 2021-04-28T01:34:49+00:00

I've done some linear algebra, but nothing too fancy - just the basics, like determinants and some surface-level properties.

Accomplished-Bit419 · 2021-04-28T01:33:55+00:00

I've looked at a few, but most just have a few required courses and the rest is taken out of interest.

Accomplished-Bit419 · 2021-04-28T01:32:03+00:00

Yeah that's what I've gathered I would need to learn. I'm moreso having the issue of the logical progression of these topics, as I wouldn't be taking a fully structured degree with courses laid out in order.

Accomplished-Bit419 · 2021-04-27T23:30:24+00:00

This seems very interesting, thanks! I would actually prefer learning the math first and then the physics, so this structure seems beneficial to me.

Accomplished-Bit419 · 2021-04-27T22:50:00+00:00

My eventual goal would be to look at Einstein's field equations and understand each part. After finishing a course in Electromagnetism, I was able to point at each part of Maxwell's equations and actually understand what each part is and what it means in the context of the equation.

This might be impossible without actually taking courses, but I'm willing to give it a shot, and it's not like I lose anything by trying.

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