About me
Hey! My name is Sam Chowdhury (on the right). As of completing this course in April 2022, I have
also completed my second year in Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto.
In my upper years, I will be specializing in audio signal processing,
analog and digital electronics, VLSI, and energy systems. I will also be completing a minor in
engineering business.
I completed this project with two teammates, Sujith and Justin (left and centre, respectively),
who are in the same year and program as me. Our team was the first to have a working prototype
and design, as well as the first team to finish the entire design cycle for this project.
I learned a lot through this project, so I decided to make a website showcasing everything we
did in the four-month design cycle. Since this was the first time this project was offered,
I thought it'd be nice to show future students what
they can achieve in this course, and show employers what I've learned.
If you'd like to learn more or contact me, head to
my website 
for links to my platforms and other projects.
About the project
ECE295: Hardware Design and Communication, is a new course offered to second-year ECE students
since 2022. It is an electrical design course which is the counter-offering to ECE297,
a software design course where computer engineering students design and optimize
their own maps software. The software design course had been offered as the only choice for
second-years to learn design and communication for many years, which gave electrical engineering
students a disadvantage in electrical design.
Both courses introduce industry-level practices while allowing students to design practical
devices. In ECE295, multiple teams of three design one of six SDR subsystems on PCBs. At the end
of the course, functional designs are placed on a motherboard to interface with one another and create
a working SDR. At the end of the inaugural offering of this course, we had two fully functional
SDRs, meaning at least a third of the teams were successful with their designs.
The Motherboard
Our Subsytem C design on the motherboard
The teaching team's reference designs on the motherboard
The Class
Award-Winning
Prizes were given to teams based on teamwork performance. My team was awarded an honourable mention for having the best design and testing process in the course. Over 30 teams completed the project in its inaugural offering in the 2022 winter semester.
