- Recently, few months back I joined the PG Level Advanced Certification Programme in Micro and Nanoelectronics from IISc as described here: Certification Program in Micro and Nano Electronics | IISC | TalentSprint
- Modules that it covers: Basics of Semiconductor Devices and Technology, Semiconductor Technology, VLSI Design Overview for Fab/Semiconductor Engineers, Physics and Design of Transistors, Reliability of Nanoscale circuits and systems, Design of Power Semiconductor Devices, Microelectronics Lab
- It is a 9 month course with excellent teaching by IISc faculty with heavy focus on concepts, mathematics, numerical, practical and to some extent research papers. It culminates in a residency at IISc for a lab component at Bangalore / Bengaluru.
- We have covered till now Basics of Semiconductor Devices and Technology and currently we just finished Physics and Design of Transistors. This certification is completing the loop of understanding the whole lifecycle of electronics and technology from the physics to hardware to technology / software.
- First module included various types of semi-conductor materials, physics behind the semiconductors like Fermi level, band gaps, conduction / valence bands, understanding of quantum physics, bonds, mathematics behind all this with numerical, doping, barriers, PN junction diode / it’s biasing and much more. We had an open book quiz at the end of the module.
- Second module is on MOSFETs, BJTs, FINFETs and more. We recently finished it. I will provide more updates as we progress in the course.
- Thankful to Prof. Mayank Shrivastava & TalentSprint for this opportunity. I would encourage others who are interested in electronics to pick up this certification as the teaching is good and the platform plus team of TalentSprint is very helpful. I was always keen on learning things from the technology world cutting across areas and this course is helping me complete that requirement.
- Email me: Neil@HarwaniSystems.in
My learnings from IISc – PG Level Advanced Certification Programme in Micro and Nanoelectronics – Part 1
