seeking advice on VLSI chip designing

[Anand deepa]

Hi
I am very interested in VLSI chip designing.currently am studying final b.tech in ECE stream. I don't know where to start , what to study to become chip designer.Onlything I have is passionattion towards that. So can any one suggest me that could help me a lot.

Thank you.

 

[saurabhr8here]

Start by reading the following two books: Digital Integrated Circuits by Jan Rabaey and CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective by Neil Weste and David Harris. Both are excellent textbooks, but I am not sure if they are good for self-study so I would also suggest trying to attend free online lectures from MIT/Stanford/Berkeley on these topics. You should also find stuff on Coursera, Youtube. Doing a Masters degree on VLSI Design is also an option.

Let me know if you need more pointers.

 

[andre_luis]

I've used in graduation 2 books very nice, by authors "Douglas a Pucknell / Kamran Eshraghian" to which I´m now unable to remember the title, but are quite instructive, containing lots of drawings.

Nowadays my strategy to avoid disappointment prior to purchase some book, I have a look on the sample pages, in general available on websites such as Amazon, to see if at least the publication style and the depth addressed meets to my expectations.

 

[dpaul]

You will know in due time what you have study and do! I will not bore you with book names, website links, etc.
At a very high level, I will recommend to get a Masters degree from a GOOD institution.

 

[cyrax747]

Hi deepa,

Are you intrested in coding or looking for non coding jobs ? (any way basics of any scripting language is necessary).I think you can start with weste basic for any vlsi design engineer.