There are many skills (such as communications, leadership, planning, and others)

that are transferable and applicable to what you want to do in your new career.

TOPICS TO REVISE

1) Typing skills
Typing speed should be at-least 20 words per minute
Ref:Free typing tutor software on the
Internet like: moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank" title="This external link
will
open in a new window">www.rapidtyping.com/downloads.html

2) Fundamentals of Logic design - (BE Undergrad. Level)

Ref: " Digital Fundamentals" Tenth edition by Thomas L Floyd, Pearson publicatio
ns
1. Combinational Logic - Number systems,conversions(binary to octal
etc.,),Logic gates,Boolean algebra and logic simplifications like K-MAP,
Universal gates, Mux, Dmux, Decoder, Encodes, comparators.
2. Sequential Logic - Latches, FlipFlops, Difference between latch
and flipflops, registers, counters, shift registers, memories
3. Practice answering True/False quiz and Self test given at the end of
each chapters of the Ref book
4. Practice answering below questions of each chapter of the Ref book

Chapter 1: Section 1-1:Q.1, 1-2:Q.7, 1-4:Q19 & Q20

Chapter 2: Section 2-2:Q6&Q7, 2-3:Q11&Q12, 2-5:Q22,
2-6:Q23&Q28
2-8:Q37&39, 2-9:Q43&Q45, 2-10:Q47
Chapter 3: Section 3-1:Q1, 3-2:Q8, 3-3:Q17, 3-7:Q33&Q35&Q37
Chapter 4: Section 4-3
Chapter 5: Section 5-2:Q11&Q13, 5-3, 5-5:Q29&Q30
Chapter 6: Section 6-2:Q5&Q7, 6-4:Q13, 6-8:Q22, 6-10
Chapter 7: Section 7-1:Q2, 7-2:Q8&Q15 7-3:Q25
Chapter 8: Section 8-1:Q1, 8-2:Q5
Chapter 9: Section 9-1, 9-2:Q4
Chapter 10: Section 10-1:Q3&Q4, 10-6:Q17

3) CMOS VLSI Fundamentals - Graduate level course in

BE/BTech
1. NMOS, PMOS and CMOS circuits, differences, characteristic equations,
responses, regions of operation
2. MOSFET configurations, VI characteristics
3. Basic gates, stick diagrams, layouts of basic gates

Ref1: Electronic principles (7th edition) - Malvino and

Bates
Chapter: 14
Ref2: CMOS VLSI Design - Neil Weste, David Harris and
Ayan Banerjee
Chapters: 1, 2 and 3

4) Network Analysis
1. Basic circuit elements and its characteristics
2. Solving networks with KCL/KVL and network theorems

Ref:Networks and systems (2nd Edition)

- D Roy Chaudry
Chapters: 1, 3 and 9

5) Basic Programming skills in C/C++

1. Data types, arrays, strings, pointers, loops, conditional
constructs
2. Classes, objects, inheritance, polymorphism

Ref1: Let us C - Yashwanth Kanetker (8th edition)

Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12
Ref2: Let us C++ - Yashwanth Kanetker (2nd edition)
Chapters: 1, 3, 4, 8, 9