JOBS OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE IN VLSI

Being as Electronics/ECE student, we study Digital-Electronics, Micro-Electronics, VLSI as a subject in our Engineering. Digital Electronics tells us how we can make flip-flops, registers, different types of counters etc. and VLSI explains the structure of BJT, MOSFET, how can we reduce the power consumption, what factors should one keep in mind while designing different kinds of gates through BJT or MOSFET etc. Whereas Microelectronics describes the chip formation, how a silicon ingot is converted into useful chips and what are the fabrication steps that take place before tape-out. Tape-out is a process where a final chip is ready to release in market.

We all are aware about I.T. industry. We know on which language they are currently working, what opportunities we have, but can we exactly say about VLSI? Can you tell me what VLSI industry is, on which technologies we are working, what kind of opportunities we have in this field, what the basic tools we must learn. So, here is a brief description about that. If you are interested to make career in this field, you must know 

•      VERILOG/VHDL language ie., hardware description language.

•      Along this, you must have great knowledge of Digital Electronics, FSM Designing etc.

You can do the following with your VLSI knowledge i.e.,

•      Digital Design.

•      ASIC:-Application specific integrated circuits (ASICs).

•      Systems- on-a-chip (SoCs).

•      Reconfigurable computing.

Here is a list of job opportunities that are available in VLSI field.

ASIC frontend designer FPGA frontend designer ASIC physical design engineer AMS (Analog Mixed Signal) designer Library developer IP design engineer Verification Engineers Front-end verification engineer FPGA Back-end verification engineer Application Engineer Technical Support Tech Support Engineer Product Application Engineer (PAE) Reliability Engineer  Fab/Foundry Engineer

Physical design verification engineer AMS verification engineer EDA tool validation engineer IP verification engineer Board validation engineer EDA/CAD Engineers Software Development Engineer Software Test Engineer Regression and Automation Engineer  Build and Release Engineer Application Engineers Field Application Engineer (FAE) Corporate Application Engineer (CAE)