What does a career in VLSI/Chip Designing entail?

What does a career in VLSI/Chip Designing entail?


The full form of VLSI is Very Large Scale Integration. It is also called as Chip Designing.

• They are basically semiconductors which connect numerous transistors and other components.

• It is a branch of electrical engineering and also computer engineering.

• The chip forms the base for an Integrated Circuit.

• It is for those students who want something more challenging and exciting than other engineering related fields.

• It is a field which needs students apt with continuous technological changes and up gradation.

• If a student wants to pursue this field, he /she needs to continuously pursue this to keep up with the dynamic environment.

• A chip designer is responsible for the designing the architecture of chips, create designs, prepare layouts and run them and then evaluate the sample prototype once it comes back from the lab.

• A chip designer’s job may vary from,
- Architecture
- Design
- Circuit design
- Physical design
- Testing
- Verification

• He/she completes the research and then measures the cost with the competitors market.

• There is high potential for this job as it is needed in almost every field.

• The most promising thing about this career is that you can patent your work and there is huge scope for research in this field.
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