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    Jobs that don't require sitting all day

    Applications engineers(AEs) in the semiconductor industry could fit most of your criteria. I agree with the embedded programming suggestion from donpacino which is what most apps engineers in semiconductor companies do. Also, if you've strong object-oriented programming background, with a...
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    E.Engr running out of ideas to enter the world of physics

    hariyo, OK. I'm talking about DSP theory/DSP processor design.
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    E.Engr running out of ideas to enter the world of physics

    hariyo, If you're asking about digital signal processing(DSP) then no it has nothing to do with physics. DSP is all math. It involves a lot of Fourier transforms, z-transforms, time-frequency domain transformations, FIR filter, FFT design...stuff like that.
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    E.Engr running out of ideas to enter the world of physics

    Folks, I do Logic design and verification of Multi-core chips for a living (4th year in Semiconductor/Computer HW industry). I don't have much of a background in Physics outside my high school and some Applied Physics courses that I took in BS-EE and MS-EE. I don't covet a PhD in Physics, all I...
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    Engineering How can a chip design engineer become a physicist?

    TMFKAN64, Thanks for your valuable suggestions. -Dan
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    Engineering How can a chip design engineer become a physicist?

    TMFKAN64, Thanks for the response. In terms of my actual physics background, you're right. My BS is also in EE, but I took classic mechanics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and elctrogmagnetics and engineering physics. In my MS I took 3 semiconductor device physics courses. Given that info...
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    Engineering How can a chip design engineer become a physicist?

    Dear physics lovers, I've been working as a chip design engineer (designing SoCs for ultra-low power audio/medical applications) for the last 3 years at one of the top-5 semiconductor companies in the world. For the first couple of chip design cycles (~2.5 years) I was solving some really...