vlsi design : trends, career and opportunities
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VLSI DesignTRENDS, CAREER AND OPPORTUNITIES
OVERVIEW
Market analysis
Research & Development
How to enter the market
Job perspectives
MARKET RESEARCH
Where does India stand?
Are there any govt. initiatives?
What is the status of jobs and career?
200+ semiconductor companies are already
here23 of the top 25 semiconductor companies in the
world have a strong presence in India
India to host $400 billion electronics market by 2020
Do you know Wipro, Infosys and L&T are
already intoVLSI design?
Almost all major IT companies have started investing in chip designing
With GDP of only 5.8%, annual growth of chip design industry is estimated 10%!!
Intel Xeon processor designed at Intel India (Bangalore)
Government initiatives
National Policy on Electronics, 2012
National Electronics Policy, 2014
Two new fabrication plants to be set up
Aurangabad to become next Electronic Manufacturing Cluster
Special manpower development programme (SMDP) to introduce VLSI
and the news goes on and on and on…
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 players
Research areas
Key players
Intel
AMD
ARM
IBM
Qualcomm
Texas Instruments
Cadence
Synopsys
Cypress semiconductor
and many more…
Research areas
Reconfigurable computing using FPGA
Heterogeneous computing
Low power design
Hardware security
and the list is endless…
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?
Digital design
HDL (VHDL, Verilog or SystemVerilog)
Sound understanding of VLSI design flow
Basic EDA tools (Modelsim, Xilinx ISE, Virtuoso, QuestaSim, etc)
Short-term courses and certification
What makes your resume special?
Industry standard projects
Thesis and research
Benefits with post-graduation
Better package
Higher placement probability
Wider options
JOB PERSPECTIVES
Job profile
Public vs Private?
Packages and growth
Job profile
Design engineer
Product engineer
Verification engineer
Test engineer
Applications engineer
Process engineer
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 lacs INR per annum
Fresher (Post-graduate): 6 – 8 lacs per annum
Fresher (PhD holder): 11 – 18 lacs per annum
Source: http://goo.gl/Wx7xGf
SUMMARY
Future of Indian Electronics industry is VLSI design
Government will ensure that ESDM sector grows
It holds a bright career with excellent growth opportunity
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“ Questionsand
Queries?
Presented by Siddharth Dwivedi
Email me at siddharth@xorlabs.in
Join our VLSI Design training courses at www.xorlabs.in/training
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