Electrical Engineering Coursework
Separate course hubs with twelve study units for each electrical-engineering subject.
11 courses · 4 notes
Taxonomy
Learning areas
FPGA · RTL · Digital Verification
VHDL and SystemVerilog design with independent reference-model verification.
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STM32
A NUCLEO-F411RE biosignal track covering ECG/PPG circuits, ADC, TIM1, USART2, and CMSIS-DSP processing.
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AI · Deep Learning · Computer Vision
Separate learning paths for discriminative AI, vision, and generative models.
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PADS · PCB Design
Schematic, PCB library, layout, DRC, and Gerber workflow.
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mmWave · FMCW Radar
TI mmWave tooling, FMCW radar processing, and physiological-signal alignment.
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Research · Papers · Project Logs
Paper reading, experiments, implementation, and validation boundaries.
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Series
Study sequences
VHDL Digital Logic Foundations
Small combinational and sequential designs leading to self-checking testbenches.
SystemVerilog Delay Logic and DV
Compares multiple RTL structures against one cycle-delay contract and independent checker.
Embedded Integration and Data Paths
Documents communication and output boundaries in a physical two-node prototype.
CNN and Discriminative AI
I compare PPG-HRV classification results after checking dataset splits and metric conditions.
2024 OUTTA AI Bootcamp Basic
My study sequence from data exploration and autodiff through CNNs, language models, RNNs, and BERT using the saved notebooks and outputs.
2025 Generative Models Intensive
My study sequence from generative-model foundations through autoregressive models, VAE, GAN, Pix2Pix, and diffusion.
PADS PCB Design
Logic, library, footprint, layout, DRC, and Gerber using only publishable user-created artifacts.
DC Motor Control
Connects the motor model, H-bridge, cascaded current/speed loops, and saturation boundaries.
RF and Microwave
From transmission lines and matching to archived Cadence results for Wilkinson and branch-line circuits.
FMCW Radar Signal Processing
From chirps, range FFT, and phase to ECG-anchored beats and candidate-timing boundaries.
Engineering Record Lineage
Connects archive, rerun, redraw, and release records to public pages.
Latest
Recent study and implementation notes
PCB Research Publication Workbench public mirror
The PCB inspection figure atlas and lightbox flow verified on the local 8765 portal are now reflected in the GitHub Pages blog and project hub.
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Cascaded PI Control and Field Weakening for a DC Motor in PSIM
My study note on the H-bridge, nested current and speed loops, and switching-frequency comparison in an archived motor-control report.
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Reading an SOIC Footprint and a PPG Schematic as Separate PADS Examples
My notes on a six-pin SOIC decal and an OPA2333, filter, logic, and layout capture as two separate PADS examples.
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From a 3.5 GHz Microstrip to Wilkinson and Branch-Line Networks
My review of alumina microstrip calculations and stored Cadence divider and hybrid screens.
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Reading the Mealy 101 Detector and 8-to-1 MUX Sources
My source-level review of overlapping 101 transitions and a decoder-based multiplexer from stored VHDL coursework.
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OUTTA Basic — Organizing BERT, Hugging Face, and Gemini Safely
I focused on tokenization, attention masks, BERT output shapes, and environment-based credential handling for Gemini.
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OUTTA Basic — Following the Time Axis in RNNs and Seq2Seq
I revisited hidden states, sequence shapes, train-test divergence, and teacher forcing through retained RNN learning curves.
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OUTTA Basic — Connecting Language Models, Embeddings, and Autoencoders
I connected TF-IDF cosine similarity, dense embeddings, and an autoencoder latent space as different representation-learning tools.
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OUTTA Basic — PyTorch CNN and Handwritten-Digit Error Analysis
I traced convolution shapes and read retained loss, accuracy, correct-sample, and misclassification plots together.
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OUTTA Basic — Neural Networks for Function Approximation and Nonlinear Classification
I compared sigmoid-basis function approximation, spiral decision boundaries, and a stalled classifier to understand network capacity and training failure.
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OUTTA Basic — From Data Exploration to Autodiff and Linear Regression
I revisited scatter plots, loss surfaces, gradient descent, and normalization using the linear-regression outputs retained in my notebook.
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From DDPM to Latent Diffusion and DiT
Notes connecting forward noise, reverse denoising, latent space, and a transformer backbone.
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From GANs to Pix2Pix
Notes connecting alternating generator and discriminator updates with Pix2Pix conditioning and L1 loss.
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VAE ELBO and Reparameterization
Notes on why the encoder predicts a mean and variance and how reconstruction and KL losses interact.
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Autoregressive Factorization and MLE
Notes connecting joint-probability factorization, teacher forcing, log-likelihood, and cross entropy.
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Starting with Generative Models and Data Distributions
My notes comparing discriminative and generative models before checking tensor shapes and visualizing data.
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Preserving evaluation conditions for AUC and F1 in PPG-HRV classification
Why subject splits, folds, preprocessing, confusion matrices, and paper-reported metrics are not merged into one performance value.
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Sensor-to-alarm data path in a two-node Raspberry Pi drowsiness monitor
My map of the PPG node, camera/EAR node, TCP/IP, file IPC, GPIO, I2C LCD, and alarm paths.
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Interpretation boundary for radar AO/AC candidates after ECG-anchored beat alignment
ECG R-peaks, SCG references, FMCW phase morphology, and the distinction between candidate timing and direct valve measurement.
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Verifying cycle-delay equivalence between shift-register and circular-queue designs
Comparing RTL architectures with one interface contract, an independent reference model, expected cycles, and 26 regression checks.
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