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What do computer hardware engineers help make?
Besides making hardware for computers and phones, what else do these engineers make? What is the hardware applied to?
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Krishanth’s Answer
Hi Yaritza!
Thanks for your great questions. There are so many more uses for computer hardware engineering than we can list, and it often overlaps with software engineering. I studied Computer Hardware Engineering, and now I work on creating digital designs for high-speed circuits. These are key for fast and reliable communication in protocols like PCIe and Ethernet.
You could work on IoT devices, microcontrollers for toys, or design chip layouts. I personally have also been involved with design PCBs with Altium for Mars Rovers. You might also help with design verification, which is crucial to make sure chips work well, especially for big companies like Synopsys, Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and Apple, where millions of customers rely on them.
The possibilities are endless. You could even create hardware systems for future humanoid robots!
Thanks for your great questions. There are so many more uses for computer hardware engineering than we can list, and it often overlaps with software engineering. I studied Computer Hardware Engineering, and now I work on creating digital designs for high-speed circuits. These are key for fast and reliable communication in protocols like PCIe and Ethernet.
You could work on IoT devices, microcontrollers for toys, or design chip layouts. I personally have also been involved with design PCBs with Altium for Mars Rovers. You might also help with design verification, which is crucial to make sure chips work well, especially for big companies like Synopsys, Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and Apple, where millions of customers rely on them.
The possibilities are endless. You could even create hardware systems for future humanoid robots!
John Easton CEng FIET FBCS CITP
Design large computer systems for companies
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Hi Yaritza
Remember that there is a lot of different hardware out there. It's not just the computers themselves, there are things like disk drives, network devices like routers and switches. If you look at large systems then you will have computers as controllers inside the larger devices. All of these need to be made and designed. Hardware engineers do this.
I don't know whether you'd also thought of chip design as part of this too. The likes of Intel, ARM, Nvidia, AMD etc all design chips that get used to make computer systems. Someone has to design these chips too. And while we're on chips, what about memory chips or graphics chips.
Basically hardware designers get to create lots of cool stuff ;-)
Remember that there is a lot of different hardware out there. It's not just the computers themselves, there are things like disk drives, network devices like routers and switches. If you look at large systems then you will have computers as controllers inside the larger devices. All of these need to be made and designed. Hardware engineers do this.
I don't know whether you'd also thought of chip design as part of this too. The likes of Intel, ARM, Nvidia, AMD etc all design chips that get used to make computer systems. Someone has to design these chips too. And while we're on chips, what about memory chips or graphics chips.
Basically hardware designers get to create lots of cool stuff ;-)