This document discusses career options and opportunities in VLSI and embedded systems for ECE students. It outlines potential career paths in telecommunications, consumer electronics, semiconductor companies, and embedded systems. It also describes the different types of companies - product based companies that build their own products and service based companies that build products for other companies. The rest of the document provides more details on specific roles and responsibilities in areas like ASIC design, FPGA design, EDA software, fabrication plants, and embedded systems. It lists the necessary skills for roles such as design engineers, verification engineers, EDA engineers, application engineers, and technical support. Finally, it discusses the growth prospects in the embedded systems domain.
3. o Product Based Company – Building their own
product and selling it in market
o Service Based company – Building product,
application or part of them, for other companies
and their clients
4.
5. o Telecom equipment R&D, manufacturing
companies are purely under Embedded Systems
and VLSI Industry
o Telecom Equipments built on embedded
platforms with advanced micro processors called
network processors
Ex. Products: Modem, Routers, Switches, Firewalls etc
Ex. Companies: Agere Systems, Broadcom, Infineon and
Cisco etc.
o Monitoring Network 24x7
Ex: Airtel, Idea, Reliance, Tata Indicom etc
6.
7. o EDA Company – Electronics Design Automation
Software development
Ex. Synopsys, Cadence, Mentor, Xilinx etc.
o ASIC Design Company – Application Specific
Integrated Circuit
Ex. Texas Instruments, Intel, Cisco, Xilinx, Altera etc.
o FPGA Design Company – Programmable Logic
Devices like FPGA and CPLD Design
Ex. Xilinx, Altera, Tejas Network, Cisco etc.
o Fab/Foundry – IC manufacturing/fabrication
Ex. Intel, STMicro, IBM, TSMC, UMC, TI and Samsung etc
11. o Software designed and developed to serve
ASIC Design, FPGA Design, Analog Mixed
signal and Circuit design community
o Software IP designs
o Etc.
12. o Specialization is required in Microelectronics
from some premier institutions
o Semiconductor fabrication plants (fab) is a
factory where devices such as integrated
circuits are manufactured
16. • Proficient in C, C++, Java
• Data Structures
• C/Java Debugger
• Understanding of ASIC/FPGA flow
• HDL (VHDL, Verilog, SV etc)
Knowledge
• Scripting Language CShell, Perl, Tcl
and Python etc
EDA/CAD
Engineer
17. •Proficient in Digital Electronics Design
•FPGA Architecture
•RTL coding using HDL (VHDL, Verilog, System
Verilog)
•Test bench writing using HDL
•Verification Methodologies like OVM, VMM
•Protocol knowledge
•Knowledge of ASIC/FPGA frontend tools (Synthesis,
Simulation, FV etc)
•Scripting Language CShell, Perl, Tcl and Python etc
•Knowledge of C
ASIC/FPGA
Frontend
Design &
Verification
18. •Exposure with Cadence, Magma or Synopsys backend
tools
•Digital circuit to transistor level design translation
•Floor planning, power grid analysis, placement and
routing
•CTS (clock tree synthesis), DRC-LVS (layout versus
schematic) closure, timing closure, signal integrity
•Layout design and verification
•Scripting Language like CShell, Perl and Tcl
•Knowledge of C
ASIC
Physical
Design &
Verification
19. •FPGA Architecture
•Exposure with FPGA backend tools
•Floor planning, power grid analysis,
placement and routing
•CTS (clock tree synthesis), timing closure,
signal integrity
•Debugging on FPGA board
•Scripting Language like CShell, Perl and Tcl
•Knowledge of C
FPGA
Backend
Design &
Verification
20.
21. o Embedded system is combination of
hardware (micro-computer) and software,
either fixed in capability of programmable,
Specifically designed for particular
functionality
Ex applications: Industrial Machines, automobiles,
medical equipment, Space, cameras, household
appliances, agriculture, airplanes, vending
machines, cellular phone, PDA and toys etc.
22. •Automotive embedded (Includes robotics)
•Healthcare devices
•Telecommunications
(Mobiles,2G,3G,4G,LTE, Data
Communications)
•Satellite communications
•Avionics (Aeroplanes ...)
•Testing and Measurement
Sub
Domains
23.
24. o Embedded systems opportunity is expected
to touch $36 billion in terms of the
semiconductors by 2015.
o The jobs in embedded space will increase
ten-fold from the current 60,000
professionals to over 6 lakh people by 2015.
-According to survey by Frost and Sullivan