VLSI DESIGNTRENDS, CAREER AND OPPORTUNITIES

DEEPAK KUMAR RA, VLSI DESIGNER

OVERVIEW VLSI DESIGN

Design Modules Tools and Vendor Company

Market analysis Research & Development How to enter the market Job perspectives

VLSI DESIGN

Implementation of the million switches at small area Switches should have low power consumption , high speed ,low

area and low noise. Switches – MOS Switch

Motive of VLSI DESIGN Fast design Low power design Low area design

DESIGN FLOW Problem Behaviour /truth table/gate level/logic level HDL (VERILOG,VHDL) Simulation Verification STA(static time analysis) DFT (design for testability) Cell characterization/Physical level/switch/transistor level Functional simulation Layout Floor planning, routing & placement Fabrication

Front-end

Back-end

Idea

VLSI CAD TOOL MENTOR

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DESIGN ANALYSIScompilation/

synthesis

VHDL / Verilog / SystemC

device layout find wire routesmask layout patterns

design schematics

tape out

mask writer masks

wafer

printing

die

dice

mask layout patterns

test and packaging

chip

MARKET RESEARCH

Where does India stand?Are there any govt. initiatives?

What is the status of jobs and career?

200+ semiconductor companies are already here

23 of the top 25 semiconductor companies in the world have a strong presence in India

Do you know Wipro, Infosys and L&T are

already intoVLSI design?

Almost all major IT companies have started investing in chip designing

Intel Xeon processor designed at Intel India (Bangalore)

What about the jobs?

NPE (2011) aims to create employment for around 28 Million people

75,000 jobs waiting in the year 2015

* IITs and NITs together satisfy only 25% of the job requirement in chip design

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

Key playersResearch areas

Key players

Intel AMD ARM IBM Qualcomm Texas Instruments

Cadence Synopsys Cypress semiconductor ST microelectronics freescale and many more….

Research areas

High speed design Low power design Low area design

HOW TO ENTER THE MARKET

What are the skills required?What should be in the resume?

Does post-graduation and PhD counts?

What are the skills required? Sound understanding of VLSI design flow Digital design , Basic electronics HDL (VHDL, Verilog or SystemVerilog) Basic EDA tools (Modelsim, Xilinx ISE, Virtuoso, QuestaSim, Tanner ,ADS

etc) Short-term courses and certification

What makes your resume special?

Industry standard projects Thesis and research IEEE research paper work

JOB PERSPECTIVES

Job profilePublic vs Private?

Packages and growth

Job profile

Design engineer Product engineer Verification engineer Test engineer

Cell characterization Layout designer Packaging engineer CAD engineer

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Apart from multinationals, thegovernment also hires chip designers for space and defence research

There is a huge potential in government sector from academics to research

ANINDYA SUNDAR DHAR, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND FACULTY ADVISOR,

MICROELECTRONICS AND VLSI DESIGN, IIT KHARAGPUR

Packages and growth

Fresher (Graduate): 4.5 lacs INR per annumFresher (Post-graduate): 6 – 8 lacs per annum Fresher (PhD holder): 11 – 18 lacs per annum

SUMMARY

Future of Indian Electronics industry is VLSI design Government will ensure that semiconductor sector grows It holds a bright career with excellent growth opportunity

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andQueries?

Presented by Deepak KumarEmail me at deepak@cmcncr.com +91-9971555458

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