今天在EETimes上读到一篇Custom Integrated Circuit Conference (CICC)的报道，其中的一个观点很令我警醒：

One of the observations made during the question and answer period was that, unfortunately, the unintended consequence of the introduction of Hardware Description Languages (HDL) has been that universities have produced a generation of designers that are computer scientists skilled in describing circuitry at a higher level of abstraction almost as if programming instead of designing. These engineers have no knowledge or appreciation for the physics of devices. Professor Murmann stated that Stanford has acknowledged the error and is modifying the curriculum in order to provide its graduates with the knowledge required by today's designs.

很不幸，我就恰好是这一代的数字工程师，在上学时重数电，轻模电，重逻辑，轻计算。毕竟，在学校里，数电好教好学好实验，模电则难了许多。不能怪老师，要 怪只能怪自己，没有选择“the road less taken”。

数字逻辑之外的世界才是“the real world”。记得在一本FPGA书中读到：好的数字工程师，心中少不得模拟概念。

相关链接：

Not your father's circuits

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