The B.Tech program in ECE with VLSI Specialization deals with solid state semiconductor devices and modeling, analog/digital integrated circuit chip design, RF IC design, mixed signal IC design, ASIC design, FPGA based system design, System on Chip (SoC) based design, VLSI Digital Signal Processing, architectures & hardware structures, verification, power reduction techniques in circuit design, high speed integrated circuit design and integrated circuits and systems for communication systems. The primary aim of this program is to provide skill based education for the students to make them industry-ready engineers. The future of the VLSI industry is in leveraging innovative technologies like internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI). This specialized program also offers courses like AI and IoT which will be helpful for the students to become successful in VLSI & semiconductor industries.
Apart from a bright scope to pursue higher education and research, this specialization can provide excellent placements in leading core companies like Intel, Microsemi, IBM, Texas Instruments, NXP, Wipro, GE, Motorola, Honeywell, HCL Technologies, Tata Elxsi, RBEI, TATA, DELPHI and all R&D organizations involving VLSI Systems Design and Developments.
This specialised program covers the key aspects of design & development for VLSI circuits and systems such as high speed and low power integrated circuits, RF circuit design, ASIC design, FPGA & SOC based system design verification, Reconfigurable computing and artificial intelligence chips (AI Chips).
This program also focuses on the semiconductor device modeling, material properties and the process of fabricating integrated circuits and challenges in miniaturization of nanoscale transistors.
Semiconductor industry is marching towards Artificial intelligence (AI) chips, which incorporate AI technology and are used for machine learning. Therefore, this program also offers courses like Artificial intelligence and Machine learning which will help the students to meet the needs of VLSI industries.
This specialization opens up many opportunities such as industry internships, industry projects and placements.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES:
Semiconductor Design Industry
Telecommunications industry
Healthcare and biomedical
Automotive
Consumer electronics industry
Intel
Qualcomm
Broadcom
Texas Instruments
National Semiconductors
Honeywell
Nvidia
PMC Sierra
Juniper Networks
On Semiconductors
Synopys
Cadence
Mentor Graphics
Analog Devices
Applied Micro
Sandisk
FreeScale
Rambus
IBM
And many more.....
Design Engineer
Verification Engineer
EDA/CAD Engineer
Application Engineer
Layout Design Engineer
RF Engineer
AMS (Analog Mixed Signal) designer
ASIC Front-End Designer
Fab/Foundry Engineer