A Sneek Peak
into the VLSI
World
Who am I?
• xMEC EEE 2016
• [Link] VLSI System, NIT Trichy
• ASIC Design Engineer, NVIDIA
What is VLSI Industry? What is its scope in the current
era.
What are the different verticals in VLSI design?
What are the different type of roles/skill-set for which
a graduate is hired?
What are we gonna What it takes to compete for a graduate opening in
look at?
the vlsi industry?
What is the technical knowledge you need to get in?
From where/how can I learn them?
What are the practical options available to enter
semiconductor industry upon graduation.
QnA
What is VLSI?
Earlier Now
Where do we use it?
COMPUTER AND COMPUTER CONTENT/MEDIA BIOMEDICAL DATA SCIENCE
MOBILE GRAPHICS FOR CREATION APPLICATION
PROCESSORS GAMING
ARTIFICIAL LOGISTICS AUTOMOTIVE
INTELLIGENCE
APPLICATIONS
Overview of the VLSI Design Flow
Front End Design Back End Design
System Logic Physical
Specification Circuit Design Verification
Verification
Functional
(Architecture)
Design
Functional Circuit Physical
Logic Design
Verification Verification Design
Different Graduate Job Roles in HW VLSI Industry
RTL/Logic Design (Digital and
Analog)
Design Verification
DFT (Design for Testability)
Physical Design
Post Silicon Validation
1. Digital System Design Fundamentals
2. Advanced Digital Electronics –
Combinational and Sequential Logic Design
Technical 3. Basics of MOSFET Device physics and Digital
design using MOSFET
Knowledge 4.
5.
Hardware Descriptive Language – Verilog
Basics of ASIC Design Flow
Needed 6.
7.
DFT (Design for Testability)
Timing Analysis
8. Basic C programming and Data Structures
Logic gates
Digital System Design Fundamentals Digital number systems
K-MAP
Solving problem statements using combinational circuits
Advanced Digital Electronics –
Flip-Flops
Combinational and Sequential Logic Shift Registers, counters (synchronous and asynchronous)
Design Circuit design using sequential elements
Lectures – Digital System Design Lecture NPTEL series by Prof.
Where do I learn this from? S. Srinivasan, IITM.
Books – Digital Logic and Computer Design by Morris Mano
Basics of MOSFET Device physics and Where do I learn this from?
Digital design using MOSFET
Internal Structure, working and characteristics CMOS VLSI Design by Neil Weste ( Just the 5 chapters
Different technical factors/phenomenon's affecting should be sufficient)
MOSFET performance
Basic Logic Design using MOSFETs.
Hardware Descriptive Language – Verilog Where do I learn this from?
Different technical factors/phenomenon's affecting Verilog HDL by Samir Palnitkar
MOSFET performance
Verilog constructs
Combinational and Behavioral coding
Blocking and non-blocking style coding
Case statement-based coding (Very handy for FSM’s)
DFT: Where do I learn this from?
Fault models VLSI physical design by Prof. Indranil Sengupta,
Pattern generation for fault models IIT KGP
Boundary scan
BIST, LFSR
Basics of ASIC Design Flow Where do I learn this from?
Different stages of ASIC design VLSI physical design by Prof. Indranil Sengupta,
Different types of ASIC design models IIT KGP
ASIC by Michael J Smith
Timing Analysis Where do I learn this from?
Setup and Hold time violations STA in [Link]
Design methods to fix violations
Calculation of setup/hold violations/slack and
also max. frequency of circuits
C Programming Where do I learn this from?
Good understanding of C concepts and decent mycodeschool Youtube Channel
programming knowledge
[Link]
Basic understanding of different data structures
Options available to get into the industry
Campus Placement upon
graduation
Higher Studies in VLSI -> Campus • MS abroad (Preferably US)
Placement upon post-grad • [Link] in VLSI through GATE
Summer/Final year internships in
VLSI companies
Joining VLSI training institutes • If performed well, can get into a good VLSI services
which offers PG Diploma Courses company
How to reach me
Linkedin – Mohammed Akhil P R
Email – akhilparakkat@[Link]
Mobile – 8921286284
Questions?
