hi!i am very much interested in chip manufactuing and i am planning to do a computer engineering from the US and wanted to know if even comp engg have a role in chip design or is it in the domain of only eleectronic engineers
RE:engineer
by bali on Jun 17, 2005 07:47 PM Permalink
If you think that you will take some course that will prepare you for a chip design job, you will be dissapointed.
Chips cost $1mn or more to fabricate, so as others have pointed out in this thread, companies are very reluctant to take a chance on someone fresh out of college.
The most important thing is to get experience. Take as many courses that require hands on project work as possible. Work with FPGAs. Many universities have partnerships with chip fabs, which will allow students to make test chips. The more experience you get the better. But, be warned, the chip industry, at least in the U.S., has been a bad slump of late. It may still be very difficult to find a job, at least in the US.
In India, there are many institues like IITs, NITs, RECs, CDAC and many top engg and tech institues having VLSI Design as the subject in electronics enginneering. Here many students are ready to work in the field of chip design...they do the projects based on VLSI during there academics. But in India..there is the rare chance to the talents of VLSI to get a job. Here very few companies are working inthe field of VLSI/integrated chip design. so poor future for the students or research scholars. many scholars are struggling to enter into VLSI industries but there is no response from VLSI companies.
