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Aug 21, 2021

Which has better career growth, back end vs front end VLSI ?

This is very common question for freshers when they start searching for jobs and looking for opportunities, the Question is , which is better place to go .. Front-End  or Backend 

Let's discuss it one by one.

FrontEnd:-

FrontEnd mostly deals with RTL Design,ASIC(SOC/IP) Verification,Synthesis,Timing analysis profiles of VLSI.

Incase of RTL design you need to have good knowledge of HDL and Coding on VHDL,Verilog and C.Now most recently SystemVerilog has also been used as a standard for HDL.Moreover you will get a good understanding on the specification of a chip or IC and industry related protocols.

In case of ASIC Verification profiles,similar to RTL design you need to be well versed with the coding and HDVL like SystemVerilog and methodologies like UVM/OVM.

But the difference of ASIC Verification with RTL design is that as a verification engineer you mostly deals with catching of bugs,creation of testbench to debug the RTL block and also to create coverage reports.

So if you are fond of Hardware coding and have inclination towards implementation of logic,loves debugging and want to have a sound understanding about the functionality of IC or chip you should definitely go for Front End.

Moreover with the recent emergence of Artificial intelligence,genetic algorithm and it's implementation towards VLSI opens up a huge scope of work for Front end.

So that summarizes the Front End.

BackEnd:-

If we look at the ASIC flow starting from Specification, Functional Simulation, Synthesis, Timing Analysis is consumed in FrontEnd and then Floor Planning, Placement, Routing, ATPG insertion, Back annotation, DFT, SPEF analysis are consumed for Backend.

Now to have knowledge on all the aspects of ASIC flow mentioned above for Backend you need to well equipped with the concepts of CMOS,Analog Circuits,Scripting knowledge for automation,memory characterisation,SRAM,DRAM memories,Complete Hands on Tools for layout,physical design.

If the above mentioned skills interests you then you can opt for Backend and there might be a chance to work in Foundary as well wearing the Bunny suits.

The important point each and every domain and it's subdomains has its own advantages and it's completely up to you which one to choose depending on your interest as both of them provides good career growth.



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