VLSI skill set

  1 FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY (FPGA) DESIGN: Field programmable gate array( FPGA) is a fully fabricated IC chip in which the interconnections can be programmed to implement different functions. An FPGA chip has thousands of logic gates which are to be connected to be implement any logic function. A typical FPGA architecture is shown in fig. It has the following three main components: 1.   1 .    I/O buffers 2.     2.    Array of configurable logic blocks(CLBs) 3.      3. Programmable interconnects.     Fig:Typical FPGA architecture Picture Source/courtesy: wikipedia In the FPGA- based design ,first a behavioural netlist is written to describe the functionally of the design. This is done using the hardware description languages such as Verilog or VHDL. Then the netlist is synthesized to come up with the gate level design. The next step is to map the logic blocks in to available lpgic cells. This progress is called the technology – mapping. This is followed by placement

VLSI is huge area of expertise as it requires good experience and many cutting edge skills to grow .There are very few colleges or universities which provide that kind of exposure to masters students in india ,so you need to be careful about that.Secondly, the scope for  VLSI in India is limited to only handful of metro cities like Delhi,Bangalore,chennai and Hyderabad.Companies like AMD,ST Micro,intel and qualcomm hiring for VLSI engineers are very specific about their requirements and it is somewhat difficult to crack them. Why it is difficult to fresher to enter in VLSI field ? less number of VLSI companies in india Even in those companies mostly recruit B.tech/M.tech mostly from IIT's and NIT's. Lack of required skills in the students. Scope and job opportunities : Electrical/Electronic students can easily enter in the field.From some profiles Computer science students can also get the job. Now a days because so many startups are working in the field.So the opportunities ar

  If we talk about VLSI skill set required to become a good VLSI engineer then there are some mandatory as well as add on set of skills. Mandatory Skills: One should have good knowledge of digital electronics , mostly focus should be on combinational circuits & Sequential Circuits, Logic gates and basics of Finite State machine. Comlplete knowlege of ASIC flow and related topics . Should be expert in Verilog/VHDL coding , one of them will be suffcient. Basic understanding of the Timing Analysis(STA) and all its related concepts will require. C programming and hands on experience of at leastone scripting language that are TCL and Perl.  Coding of SystemVerilog(Only for Asic Verification) and knowledge on verification Environment using Methods like OVM/UVM. Should know protocols like Advanced Peripheral Bus (APB), Inter-Integrated Circuit. Additional Skills:- Understanding of  Assertions and Functional Coverage as well as Code Coverage. Basic understanding on Design For Testification

Career in VLSI industry, skills required and different helpful tools:   Actually, there are basically two tracks in the VLSI, 1)digital  2)analog They both require same basic concepts but they are totally different things once you start getting into it.   As a first step we first need to decide whether you choose analog or digital track. These two options have good job opportunities and both of these are equally interesting. There is one more option which is Analog Mixed Signal which include both analog part as well as digital. You can think of digital design, analog and RF design, functional verification and recent fields such as mixed signal verification for which you require a specialized skill set.   The next point is that you need to have very good understanding about the subjects/topics such as CMOS, different logic family, basic knowledge over writing and simulating in Verilog or VHDL and other software such as Spice, automation with Unix or pearl. You need to be good enough in

  A SURVEY ON VLSI SKILL SET (survey done till 11th dec,2020 11.59PM) QUESTIONS AND RESPONSES OF SURVEY:          From the above survey the following points be concluded that,          The for doing career in VLSI industry we must be perfect in the core subject of Elecctronic Engg. and we must be have good command on programming skills like verilog and must have experience of doing / working project on VLSI inndustry as intern or apprentship. As from survey one more point is clear that there is scope of VLSI Test Engg. The following is the way of VLSI Design is as follows: VLSI  Design:          A .Chip Devloping Process         B.VLSI Cicuit Design Processor          C. Design Flow         D. Design Styles Introduction:     VLSI design is a sequential process of generating the physical layout of an IC, starting from the specification of that circuit it can be fully or semi-automated using numerous software called electronic design automation(EDA) or computer aided design (CAD) tools.