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Part 1 - Basics

Character Encoding

Character (computing) Universal Character Set IEEE 1394 ASCII

Math

Bitwise operation Signed number representations IEEE floating point Operators in C and C++ De Morgan's laws Booth's multiplication algorithm Binary multiplier Wallace tree Dadda multiplier Multiply–accumulate operation Big O notation Euler's identity

Basic Electronics

Series and parallel circuits RLC circuit Transistor Operational amplifier applications

Signal Processing

Signal processing Digital filter Fast Fourier transform Cooley–Tukey FFT algorithm Modified discrete cosine transform Digital signal processing Analog-to-digital converter

Error Detection/Correction

Parity bit Error detection and correction Cyclic redundancy check Hamming code Hamming(7,4) Convolutional code Forward error correction Noisy-channel coding theorem Modulation Signal-to-noise ratio Linear code Noise (electronics)

Part 2 - Hardware

Hardware

Logic family Multi-level cell Flip-flop (electronics) Race condition Binary decision diagram Circuit minimization for Boolean functions Karnaugh map Quine–McCluskey algorithm Integrated circuit design

Programmable Logic

Standard cell Programmable logic device Field-programmable gate array Complex programmable logic device Application-specific integrated circuit Logic optimization Register-transfer level Floorplan (microelectronics) Hardware description language VHDL Verilog Electronic design automation Espresso heuristic logic minimizer Routing (electronic design automation) Static timing analysis Placement (EDA) Power optimization (EDA) Timing closure Design flow (EDA) Design closure Rent's rule

Assembly/Test

Design rule checking SystemVerilog In-circuit test Joint Test Action Group Boundary scan Boundary scan description language Test bench Ball grid array Head in pillow (metallurgy) Pad cratering Land grid array

Processors

Computer architecture Harvard architecture Processor design Central processing unit Microcode Arithmetic logic unit CPU cache Instruction set Orthogonal instruction set Classic RISC pipeline Reduced instruction set computing Instruction-level parallelism Instruction pipeline Hazard (computer architecture) Bubble (computing) Superscalar Parallel computing Dynamic priority scheduling Amdahl's law Benchmark (computing) Moore's law Computer performance Supercomputer SIMD Multi-core processor Explicitly parallel instruction computing Simultaneous multithreading

Redundancy & Reliability

Dependability Active redundancy Dual modular redundancy Triple modular redundancy High-availability Seamless Redundancy N-version programming RAID Fault tolerance Fault-tolerant computer system Watchdog timer Redundant array of independent memory

Memory

Computer data storage Memory controller Memory management unit Static random-access memory Dynamic random-access memory Synchronous dynamic random-access memory DDR2 SDRAM Flash memory Memory scrubbing Data striping Hard disk drive performance characteristics Disk sector

Part 3 - OS, Software, Testing, AI

Operating Systems

Operating system Multiprocessing Concurrent computing Computer cluster Distributed computing Trusted computing base Embedded system In-circuit emulator Real-time operating system Comparison of real-time operating systems Rate-monotonic scheduling Earliest deadline first scheduling Least slack time scheduling Deadline-monotonic scheduling Round-robin scheduling O(1) scheduler Thread (computing) Concurrency control Synchronization (computer science) Mutual exclusion Device driver

Software Development

Software development process Software requirements specification Spiral model Agile software development Behavior-driven development Cowboy coding Lean software development Extreme programming Structured systems analysis and design method List of software development philosophies Programming language generations Comparison of programming languages Printf format string Programming paradigm Object-oriented design Software documentation Software design document Object-oriented programming Concurrent Versions System Software maintenance Revision control Software configuration management Software release life cycle MIL-STD-498 Software assurance Systems development life cycle Software quality Software quality management Relational database ACID List of data structures Semipredicate problem Application Interface Specification Homoiconicity Domain-specific modeling Unified Modeling Language

Test/Integration

Software testing Test-driven development Acceptance test-driven development Integration testing Software walkthrough Code review Software inspection Software verification Functional testing Software testing White-box testing Black-box testing Gray box testing Verification and validation (software) Correctness (computer science)

AI & Robotics

Speech processing Image processing Computer vision Robotics Speech recognition

Part 4 - Information Theory, Encryption, Networking, and Security

Information Theory

Information theory Channel capacity Shannon–Hartley theorem Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem Shannon's source coding theorem Zero-order hold Data compression Modulation order Phase-shift keying

Encryption

Hash function List of hash functions String searching algorithm Avalanche effect Rabin–Karp algorithm Burst error-correcting code Cryptography Cryptographic hash function Public-key cryptography Viterbi algorithm

Networking

Computer network List of network buses Wide area network Local area network Network science Non-return-to-zero Manchester code Ethernet Internet OSI model Transmission Control Protocol Point-to-Point Protocol Exposed node problem Circuit switching Fiber-optic communication Capacity management Bandwidth management Bandwidth (computing) Throughput Networking hardware Wireless network IEEE 802.11 Complementary code keying Session Initiation Protocol Message authentication code Port Control Protocol Network monitoring Simple Network Management Protocol Measuring network throughput Reliability (computer networking) Channel access method Time division multiple access

Security

Computer security Separation of protection and security Information security Information security management system Internet security Hacker (computer security) DMZ (computing) Firewall (computing) Stateful firewall Intrusion detection system Denial-of-service attack IP address spoofing

Part 5 - Misc

Multiple-criteria decision analysis

References

1. "NCEES PE Electrical and Computer Exam Specifications(note: requires updating every 6 months)" (PDF). National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying. https://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/FINAL_PE-Electrical_Computer_Oct_2025.pdf ↩