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)

PROJECT IDEAS ON EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

Embedded systems have a vast variety of application realm that varies from low cost to high, consumer electronics to industrial equipments, entertainment devices to academic equipments, medical instrumentation to defence, avionics, and aerospace control systems. Embedded systems also include global positioning system (GPS), ATMs, equipments related to networking, digital vision systems, mobile communication, aerospace applications, telecom applications, etc and in different embedded systems projects. Embedded C language is used in projects, 8051/AVR/PIC microcontroller.

1. EmbeddedSystem for Detecting Reckless Driving on Highways: The main aim of this project is to design a speed checking device that identifies hasty driving on highways and informs the traffic authorities if anyone finds vehicle violating the set speed limits on highways.

2. Embedded System for Street Light Control: The main objective of this project is to detect the movement of vehicles on highways. It switches on the street lights before the vehicle enters a predefined area and switches the lights off when vehicles passes by in order conserve energy.

3. Embedded System for Vehicle Tracking: The main purpose of this project is to find the exact location of a vehicle by using a GPS modem in order to reduce vehicle robbery. The GSM modem sends an SMS to a mobile and an LCD display is used to display the location information in terms of latitude and longitude values.

4. Embedded System for Home Automation System: The aim of this project is controlling home appliances like fan, light or AC using GSM message service.

5. Embedded System for Industrial Temperature Control: The purpose of this temperature controller project is to control the temperature of any device using temperature sensors like LM35/LM34 etc. An LCD display is used to display the temperature.

Some More Embedded System Project Ideas

We at Sofcon India Private Limited, Noida offer various courses: Embedded Training, Embedded system design course, AVR Microcontroller training, ARM Microcontroller training, RTOS Training, and Embedded Robotics training, where students can upgrade their embedded system knowledge and enhance skills for growth opportunities.

SMS Based home automation using Arduino Microcontroller

Today GSM networks are widely used, either for making calls or sending SMSes. Let us discuss a project of controlling home appliances by sending sms.

There are many types of home automation systems available in the market. Some are DTMF controlled home appliances, IR remote controlled home appliances and RF based. This system executes accurate control according to the message sent by the mobile phone. Just by sending a message to the GSM modem interfaced to a Arduino microcontroller (MCU) on/off operations can be performed. Present status of the equipment is also verified through a LCD display.

Arduino Microcontroller based home automation system works off 12v power supply. Arduino microcontroller (MCU) requires only 5v but GSM modem requires 12V. A LCD display is used for receiving and displaying the messages. Here LCD is used in 4-bit mode, which means only four lines are required to display data. When you want to control equipment and show its status information, you need to send an SMS to GSM Modem. Arduino Uno reads the messaged received by the GSM modem and sends commands to control the equipments and displays its status on LCD. GSM modem sends the commands in the text mode to Arduino Uno using RS232 interface.

AT command is sent from Arduino Uno to the GSM modem as the program starts up, and the response is received from the GSM modem after a very short period of time. After receiving the command to turn on loads, the relay set performs the switching operation.

The home automation market is growing very fast and there is a need a vast range of developments is carried out. Arduino Uno along with GSM provides smart automated home system with desired buad rate of 9600 bps.

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Vocational training

Current era is of knowledge economy. Talents and skills of employees form the most critical competitive advantage for any company. 15 million job seekers enter into job market each year. On the other side companies do not get sufficiently skilled manpower. Hiring, training the right talent and retaining them with the company is huge cost. So its not possible for every employers to skill & build their talent continuously. 

Now the question arises how would the companies get trained skilled manpower for their jobs? The answer is skill training providers.

We at Sofcon India Pvt LTD has aligned our training programs on Industrial automation, PLC SCADA, Embedded systems AVR Microcontrollers HVAC control, HVAC Design and drafting, VLSI, Building automation, Electronics surveillance, Hydraulics & Pneumatics trainings with industry requirements. Our training programs are also aligned with QPNOS (Qualification pack National occupation standards). QPNOS are set of standards set by NSDC for variety of job roles for different industries.

Where there is high attrition rate, employers are unwilling to pay for training for the candidates. Although they are willing to re-train and pay for already trained candidates. Now it becomes necessary for fresher entering into job-market to acquire the necessary skills mandatory for entry into a job role.

Engineers trained on PLC SCADA systems are given practical experience on hardware & software design. They know about different types of sensors and final control elements. These engineers are suitable for project engineer, design engineer & commissioning engineers job. A week time on job is enough for them to do justice to their assigned job role. Consumption of electronics tabs, mobile, pcs have increased many-fold which has pushed promising technology job opportunities for embedded system engineers, AVR/ARM Microcontroller training, VLSI, System verilog, VHDL trained engineers.

Industry is showing signs of recovery. India is going to be world leader in automotives. Hydraulics training, pneumatics training plays very important role in filling skill gaps of automotive and other industries. We are fastest developing country in the world. Our infrastructure sector is going to have huge growth potential. HVAC control & HVAC Design & drafting are key skills needed for mechanical engineers wanting to enter this segment.

Be it designing of air conditioning system, ducting, load calculation, HVAC control system, Building automation system. Learning of engineer’s undergone practical training is much faster and they can be assigned independent project design, project execution jobs.

Skill India: Myriads of Job Opportunity

B.Tech fresher’s who passed out their engineering in Electrical & Electronics, Electronics and Communication, Instrumentation and Control, Mechanical & Automation Engineering should convert this golden opportunity to make their career in the core field of Industrial Automation, Building Automation, Embedded System and VLSI, HVAC Control & HVAC Design and Draughting.

Migration of Non CS/IT students into IT or ITES field should be an alternative choice of the fresher because of his passion and love for computer science and IT and not because of unavailability of opportunities and lack of employment.

Sofcon Group is bridging the gap between academics and industry since 2006 and successfully placing the students since its inception. After the affiliation of Sofcon, with NSDC and other sector skill councils, our pledge to provide employment to the students irrespective of their academic, social or financial status has become strengthened.

Courses with 100% placement assurance for B.Tech EE/EC/EI are:

Industrial Automation: PLC/SCADA, Motion Control (Motors and Drives), Panel Designing, Auto CAD, Process Instrumentation, HMI, DCS, Industrial Network & Wireless Network.

Building Automation: HVAC Control, Fire Detection and Alarm System, Access Control System and CCTV Surveillance System, Public Address System, Gas Suppression System

CAD/CAM Courses: Auto CAD 2D, 3D, Catia, Solidwork

Industrial Mechanical Engineer: Hydraulic, Pneumatic, PLC, Hydraulic/Pneumatic Control with PLC, HVAC Design & Drafting, Auto CAD 2D

Global Industrial Automation Control & factory Automation Market

As people are moving away from traditional systems towards integrated networks, global industrial control and factory automation market has been witnessing growth. Global Industrial Automation Control & factory Automation Market by 2021 is expected to reach 257 billion USD.  Integrated networks include both hardware as well as software consisting of PLC SCADA, Variable Frequency Drives, Instrumentation, Motion & robotics systems, DCS Systems, industrial networks etc.  Currently Global Industrial Automation Control & factory Automation Market size in 2016 is approximately 200 Billion USD and is witnessing 12.6% year on year growth. The increasing trend is penetrating across society and global economy. All types of process & manufacturing industries, aerospace, defense, transportation, Electrical, electronics, food & Beverages, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals and water management are all focusing towards complete automation.

Nuclear power plants and control & Automation, Surveillance and Communication

Nuclear power plants deploy cutting edge advanced instrumentation and advanced automation control systems for regular operations, special inspections and maintenance activities. Most advanced surveillance and communication systems are deployed to ensure safety and security of sensitive nuclear installations. The centralized control room in nuclear power plant is vital location housing highly sophisticated state of art display panels, operating consoles, plant lay outs, SCADA Consoles, video coverage of critical locations and plant emergency communication systems.

As part of security and surveillance requirements inside the plant areas, access control systems are installed to prevent unauthorized entry. Entire plant is provided with graded security monitoring and access control systems. 

Job opportunities in the area of automation instrumentation surveillance and communication

The existing and future nuclear power plants provide enormous job opportunities especially in the areas of Instrumentation, automation, surveillance and communication sectors. These systems deployed in plants are acquired from suppliers on engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning basis package contracts. Thus skilled automation person will have job opportunities at different stages starting at the manufacturing, assembling, testing stage at suppliers location, at the site while erection of the equipment, calibration and commissioning activities and later on in support system for operation and maintenance.

Due to strict regulations & safety instructions, there is a periodic replacement of equipments takes place. There is a sustained enormous employment opportunity for Industrial Automation, surveillance & communication trained engineers.

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Building Automation System & HVAC

Building Automation System, BAS is experiencing a boom globally. It is also known as Energy Monitoring Control System (EMCS), Facility Management System (FMS), and Energy Management System (EMS). India’s current GDP is 7+. We are expecting a robust economy with nearly 10% GDP, which means there will be additional requirement of millions of millions of square feet area. Our infrastructure sector will boom, better airports, better metro systems, more industries, better transportation, hotels, commercial buildings, buildings for offices, ware houses etc. This will translate into more requirements of Building automation systems, Building management systems, Fire detection and alarm systems, Auxiliary power systems, HVAC control system, parking management systems, access control system, CCTV Surveillance system.

These topics are briefly touched under college education system. This development is going to create a vacuum, where there will be a huge gap between demand and supply.

We at Sofcon India Pvt ltd are committed to fill this gap. Our practical training on BMS, HVAC control system, HVAC Design & Drafting, Building automation system equips budding engineers with knowledge required to work in this area. Engineers who undergo training are well versed with practical aspects of job roles and get ready in a week’s time to be job ready independently.  Post training jobs are available in projects design, project commissioning, maintenance, operations, applications etc.

In the building automation domain are HVAC systems, as well as automatic control systems for lighting, security systems, elevators, escalators, automatic doors and all communications infrastructure. If all these systems are able to communicate with each other with help of wired or wireless communication systems like LonWork, BACNet and Profibusthen that building can be referred to as an Intelligent Buildings.

For Example: A multiplex can adjust the effort done by the compressor of the air conditioning unit on the data taken by the computer system from where the tickets are booked.

Example 2: In a mall, the engineer can choose between the electrical energy supplied from the electricity board or DG set on the basis of lowest cost in any period of time of that day.