CAREER READINESS PROGRAMME – Career Prospects IN VLSI ENGINEERING
This training program is arranged to develop the skills that may be necessary for fresh engineers to pursue careers in high-technology VLSI Engineering domain. Subsequent to the successful completion of this program placement assistance will be provided to pursue further their employment prospects in VLSI & Embedded Design companies.
LOGIC DESIGN:
Normally, a fresher is given the work of Logic Verification. As the candidate gains experience, the candidate moves into other domains based on candidate’s expertise and available opportunities at that time. The candidate progressively moves up the ladder and becomes an experienced professional.
The main job functions in the industry Logic Design can be any of the following:
- Design Verification
- RTL Design
- Chip Architecture
- Implementation (Synthesis)
- Gate level simulations
- Emulation
- Pre-silicon and Post-silicon Validation
- System Modeling
- HW, SW Co-verification
- FPGA Implementation
- Silicon Characterization
- Low Power Design
- DFT Implementation/Verification
- Stating Timing Analysis and Timing closure
PHYSICAL DESIGN:
Normally, a fresher is given the work in ECO phase of Physical design or Place & Routing. As the candidate gains experience, the candidate moves into other domains based on candidate’s expertise and available opportunities at that time. The candidate progressively moves up the ladder and becomes an experienced professional.
The main job functions in the industry Physical Design can be any of the following:
- ECO Engineering
- Place & Route Engineering
- Static Timing Analysis and Timing-closure
- Front-end and back-end Implementation
- Power Analysis
- Low power Design Engineering
- Physical verification
- Signal Integrity
- Design For Manufacturing
- Library Development and Characterization
- VLSI CAD/Methodology development Engineering
- Package Engineering
ANALOG DESIGN:
Normally, a fresher is given the work in Analog circuit simulation or analog verification. As the candidate gains experience, the candidate moves into other domains based on candidate’s expertise and available opportunities at that time. The candidate progressively moves up the ladder and becomes an experienced professional.
The main job functions in the industry Physical Design can be any of the following:
- Analog Circuit Simulation/Verification
- SERDES IPs
- Phase Locked Loops
- ADCs and DACs
- Regulators, LDOs
- Charge pump circuits
- IO drivers design
- Memory
- ESD circuits
CUSTOM LAYOUT DESIGN:
Normally, a fresher is given the work in Layout design & verification. As the candidate gains experience, the candidate moves into other domains based on candidate’s expertise and available opportunities at that time. The candidate progressively moves up the ladder and becomes an experienced professional.
The main job functions in the industry Custom Layout Design can be any of the following:
- Layout Design of standard cells
- Layout verification of standard cells
- Analog Circuit layout
- Analog Circuit Layout Verification
- Mixed signal Design Layout
- Block level verification
The candidate can competently grow to Senior Engineer, Project lead, Manager, etc. positions in the career.