What is VLSI design and its importance

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What is VLSI?

Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) usually known as chip design, is process of developing an integrated circuit (IC) where thousands of transistors are combined into a single chip. Underlying benefit of VLSI is the reduction in size of a chip accommodating numerous components year by year.

 


Importance of VLSI and opportunities-  

As we know, most of the devices are connecting and communicating to each other these days. Can you imagine someone without a smartphone and an electronic computer without a processor/controller?

With rapid increase in the use of such electronic gadgets and edge devices in the fields of communications, automation, health industry, cyber security etc. demand of VLSI has achieved a significant growth lately and is expected to grow even more in the upcoming years to satisfy applications of high performance, heavier graphic processing and portability of devices.

VLSI design is a world beyond transistors and their integrations. Backbone of VLSI domain is digital circuit design which include basic knowledge of truth tables, encoder, multiplexers, logic gates etc. Its never easy to get a job in VLSI domain is completely a myth. At times freshers think that way due to the lack of awareness of what potential and rapid growth does VLSI industries carry. Few big players in VLSI are Qualcomm, Intel, AMD, Nvidia etc.

Since there is huge demand and less availability of skilled VLSI professionals, one can acquire jobs in the best companies out there with required knowledge in semiconductor domain.

So, one who is choosing to start his/her Career in the VLSI industry needs to have proper knowledge about jobs and other opportunities. However more than anything, one has to have passion of designing system on chips (SoCs) and embedded systems used in robotic systems!

By- Siddhant Verma





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