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Jun 21, 2016

Reason for limited entry scope for Freshers in VLSI


Most of candidate who are looking for career in VLSI says one line
"VLSI industry looking for experienced person in design/verification/PD , there are no jobs for freshers. Without working in Industry, How can be freshers get experience ? "

If that is true then after 20 or 30 years , there will be no VLSI professional as those who are working in VLSI industry , will be retired after 30 years and since there is no freshers hiring,  Most of the position will be vacant.

Everyone knows this situation will not be coming, this is unrealistic situation, but what does it means ?  Freshers are getting job in VLSI ?

Yes, they are getting job in VLSI industry.

Everyone , once in lifetime will get an opportunity for an interview in VLSI industry and most of time , they didn't succeed. Ask below question to do failure analysis.

Q1. How much  you know about VLSI industry ?

Q2. What are the different field you want to work , your area of interest ?

Most of you will answer as describe below.

Answer for Q2 ->
I want to go in VLSI industry , I love chip designing. I want to be a designer.

Answer for Q1 ->
It's all about Chip designing  .. (that's all for VLSI industry ?)

Now my question to you is ... Are you really wanna go in VLSI Industry?

If your answer is Yes , then you have to be very focused on different fields on VLSI .. VLSI is just not about chip designing.


Even if you are very focused, but still there are very less VLSI job opening for Freshers .. anyone knows reason ? Why VLSI companies are reluctant to hire a freshers ? There are certain reasons which I believe they are true.

1. During education, Study is not focused on VLSI, most of us have done engineering in Electronics (and Telecommunication)  (my assumption) and have gone through many subject like material science, control system, Civil drawing, labs , and many more subjects , did you get any exp about scripting , which is one of the basic fundamentals in design and verification.

2. There are no practical labs which are focused on industry standard... In most of the collage , Students are still doing projects in SPI or I2C , does anyone did projects in PCIe Gen3 controller ?  I know answer is  "NO".

3. In software, If you made mistake, there is scope of reloading the software or prepare a patch to fix the bug in software, In hardware, There is no scope of any mistake (knowingly or unknowingly). This is where the experience come in picture. An experienced person knows where is the gap and where and what to look out. This is the main reason for limited job openings for freshers. One mistake can scrap the whole millions dollars project. 

4. Many people just dont want to share his/her experienced, I dont know the reason but this will defiantly make some limitation to students.

So , How to fill the gap and prepared for entry in VLSI  ?

Below are the few suggestions .

  1. Include industry standard projects during your education,  look for the list below. 
  2. Read semiconductor related articles ,blog 
  3. Explore more what is there in VLSI industry, it's not just chip designing.
  4. Explore your interest , Go through VLSI companies site to see what products they have. 
  5.  Talk to your seniors/relatives who are in VLSI to know how industry work. 
  6. Person should be having good attitude, Sometime interviewer check how much patience you have and they try to screwed you, but be calm and give your answers with confident. 
  7. Try to work on logical reasoning also, Being an designer, you will be checked for logical reasoning , try to solve more aptitude questions.
VERILOG PROJECTS 

Below are the different fields where one can focus on the related skill set required.

1. Digital design - including micro-architecture, writing RTL code, simulation
2. Verification - OVM/UVM based , assertions , verification plan, BFM
3. Physical Design  - Place and route, physical verification
4. Formal verification
5. Timing analysis - STA , Power calculation
6. DFT - Design for test
7. Validation  - Lab testing
8. Synthesis/STA  - knowledge about technology, pros/con , upcoming node

Scripting will be required for all field , tcl or perl.



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Write to me  @ rahul.achates@gmail.com if you need any "technical" help.
I am sharing my experience, hope someone will get benefit out of this, I have been in VLSI for more than 11 years and journey is still continue.

Thanks for reading my blog.

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