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HOW TO SPECIALIZE IN THIS FIELD?
After acquiring basic required degree in Electronics Engineering or
allied Branches or Postgraduate degree in Physics one can choose
specialization in this field. In US:
If you wish to do post graduate degree in US you will have to
take up GRE, TOFEL Then follow the required procedure to get into MS and
start with MS in VLSI Designing.
To choose colleges offering MS in
VLSI designing go to websites like http://www.campustours.com/ http://www.petersons.com/ http://www.kaplan.com/ And do
comparative analysis of schools offering courses in VLSI. You can
search for VLSI and then go to the respective department of grad school to
find out the research areas and check if they match to your areas of
interests.
In
India: Post Graduate
Degree For the people who have passion for Chip Designing
and want to learn it in India you need not get disappointed. Though major
job opportunities are available in US nowadays all big companies are
opening their offices in India and most of them are located in Bangalore
and Hyderabad. So there is good future in this field in India also. If
you wish to pursue post graduate degree here in India you need to take up
GATE (conducted by Indian Institute of Technology on second Sunday of
every February) in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering. Then after
clearing GATE you can apply for MTech course. There are different
specializations available at each IIT school. For more details you can
go to websites of IIT IIT Delhi
IIT Bombay IIT Madras IIT Kanpur IIT Kharagpur IIT Guvahati IIT Rurki
Post Graduate Diploma Here
in India you have one more option to do specialization in this field. But
that is not in depth as MS or Mtech but those are Diploma courses offered
by CDAC CDAC offers 2 Diploma courses for Electronics/Electrical
Engineers or Engineers of related branches who want to make a career in
digital IC designing. The courses are of short duration and not in-depth
like Degree courses obliviously but good one to enter in this field.
What Is CDAC? C-DAC and ACTS Established in March 1988, as a
Scientific Society of the Department of Information Technology, Government
of India, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), is
primarily an R&D institution involved in design, development and
deployment of advanced Information Technology (IT) based solutions
including a range of high performance parallel computers known by the PARAM series.
C-DAC's Advanced Computing Training School (ACTS) is dedicated to
creating high quality manpower in IT through a network of more than 100
Authorized Training Centres (ATC) in India, besides C-DAC's own centres in
Pune, Delhi, Hyderabad & Bangalore.
DVLSI: : DIPLOMA IN VLSI
DESIGNING
Course
Focus The Diploma in Very Large Scale Integration Design (DVLSI)
is a course intended to launch present and future electronic designers
into the vast field of Electronic Design Automation. The course contents
have been designed keeping in view the emerging trends in the field of
VLSI design technology and emerging needs for skilled manpower. For more
details go to http://acts.cdacindia.com/vlsimain/vlsimain.htm
DESD : DIPLOMA IN
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS DESIGN
Course Focus This course is more useful for the
people who have interest in their respective stream of Engineering like
communications, Process control , Consumer Electronics as well as Software
. This course gives equal emphasis on hardware and software thus enabling
Electronic design Engineers to meet needs of Electronics and IT Industry
for the development of the Embedded Systems. For more details go to http://www.cdacindia.com/html/misc/desd/desd.asp
Further
Information For further information you can mail directly
to webmaster@cdacindia.com acts@cdac.ernet.in Or visit
website www.acts.cdacindia.com
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AFTER ALL THIS EDUCATION AND YEARS OF HARD WORK IN
ENGINEERING COLLEGE, IS THE MONEY WORTH IT?
Well, that
really is a matter of personal choice. For those who want to be ambitious
engineers, let us level the field of expectations! A fresh college
graduate entering the VLSI field can expect a starting salary in the range
of $45,000 to $55,000 per year. In India, the range is Rs. 2 lakhs upwards
per year depending on the company, the need and the skill level
demonstrated. Design engineers are the most sought after because of the
industry’s emphasis on continuous new product development, miniaturization
and innovation in integration. Typically, a graduate with a Master’s
degree can expect about 10% higher than the one with a Bachelor’s and
someone with a Ph.D. can expect a wide range. As you gain the experience,
this field offers one of the best growths potential, both on the technical
as well as management ladder. Salary surveys can be found on-line at www.ieee.org
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WHAT ARE THE TYPICAL COMPANIES I CAN SEARCH FOR ON THE
WEB TO GET MORE INFORMATION ON JOBS?
Most of the big and
established companies in the VLSI field are based in the USA. Intel, IBM,
Texas Instruments, Motorola, National Semiconductor, Maxim, Linear
Technology, Siemens, Qualcomm, are some of the biggest names just to
mention a few. All have impressive websites and loads of information.
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WHERE TO FIND MORE RESOURCES FOR MORE INFORMATION ON
VLSI?
If you are charged up and wish to explore resources
available for VLSI then for technical information, your best starting
place is the university web pages. You can also vist the link below for
all resources available for VLSI http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/3184/
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Courtsey
Mr. Tanmay Bhide
Mr.
Kaustubh Chaporkar. Web Administrator CDAC India
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