Career in VLSI Domain for Electronics & Communication Engineers

Electronics & Communication engineers who have deep knowledge in Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) are highly sought after by product development companies in India and abroad. People who seek opportunity in this field need to be highly skilled as they have to design chips with maximum number of transistors. The more numbers of transistors you can plug in, the more number of functions you can achieve. In early 60’s the low density fabrication processes classified under Small Scale Integration in which transistor count was limited to about 10. As a result of continuous miniaturization the number of transistor count in a single chip is increasing very fast. Transistors are becoming smaller, faster and consume less power and also its getting cheaper to manufacture due to advancement of technology. Scaling down cannot go on forever because transistors cannot be smaller than atoms.

Texas Instruments (TI), USA may be termed as pioneer in this field as they began their journey in early 50’s and have grown along with the technology, also the leader since then. Analog Devices, USA started their business little late when compared to TI but they also a huge market share. The above two companies along with Intel, Qualcomm, NVIDIA and ARM are other major companies in VLSI domain.  Though indirectly India is contributing to this field, we do not have any indigenous company which could make an impact and manufacture its own products till date.

Candidates with following skills and attributes can make great rewarding career in VLSI domain

• Excellent basics and fundamentals
• CMOS Design
• Timing concepts
• Combinational Circuit Concepts
• Scripting and Strong programming knowledge
• Short term courses to enhance skills
• Small projects using above knowledge to master the art
• Should have worked on EDA tools using VLSI concepts
• Habit of present research papers in various platforms
• Participating in competition’s to gain and exhibit knowledge
• Target a good company and build skills as per their requirement and grab an internship
• A project in a product company is really worth irrespective of stipend
• Persistence with good network and reference

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