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Analog Electronics
Verilog/VHDL
Microprocessor
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Microcontroller 8051
Computer
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DESIGN ENGINEER

VERIFICATION ENGINEER

CAD ENGINEER

APPLICATION ENGINEER

IN THE VLSI DOMAIN, IF YOU ARE REALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT

ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING, YOU WOULD PERFORM WELL AND
GROW FAST. IT’S STRAIGHTFORWARD TO DIFFERENTIATE
YOURSELF FROM OTHERS BECAUSE YOU ARE COMPETING ONLY
WITH THE OTHER ELECTRONICS ENGINEER.
 RESOURCES TO STUDY THE SUBJECTS:

DIGITAL ELECTRONICS: – BOOK BY MORRIS MANO FOR THEORY &

GATE PREVIOUS YEAR QUESTIONS FOR NUMERICALS.

CMOS DIGITAL ELECTRONICS: – FROM JAN M. RABAEY, IIT R LECTURE

SERIES ON CMOS VLSI DESIGN.

VERILOG HDL: – FROM SAMIR PALNITKAR, CHIPVERIFY.COM BLOGS,

TECHNOBYTE BLOG.

COMPUTER ORGANISATION AND ARCHITECTURE:-

PIPELINING
AMDAHL’S LAW
CACHE MEMORY
VIRTUAL MEMORY

YOU ARE ONE GOOGLE SEARCH AWAY FROM THESE TOPICS.

VISIT: HTTPS://VLSIRESOURCES.COM/
MICROPROCESSOR AND MICROCONTROLLERS:-

MP 8085/86 ARCHITECTURE- BLOGS @ GFG, TUTORIALS POINT

AND TECHNOBYTE.

MICROCONTROLLER 8051 ARCHITECTURE- BLOGS @ GFG,

TUTORIALS POINT AND TECHNOBYTE.

ANALOG ELECTRONICS: -
DIODES, CLIPPERS, CLAMPERS, BJT, MOSFET, OP-AMPS, FILTERS,
AMPLIFIERS ETC.
BOOKS- BEHZAD RAZAVI.
VIDEOS- ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS 1 & 2 BY DR. BEHZAD RAZAVI
AND ALL ABOUT ELECTRONICS YT CHANNEL.

MEMORY: -

ROM (BASICS),FPGA BASICS RAM- SRAM (6T) AND DRAM (1T)

(COMPLETE OPERATION), PROTOCOLS- UART, I2C,SPI ETC.
FOR THOSE WHO WANTS TO DIVE DEEPER INTO THIS FIELD: -

STATIC TIMING ANALYSIS: -

FROM VLSIEXPERTS.COM

SYSTEM VERILOG: -
CHIPVERIFY.COM BLOGS, A BOOK BY CHRIS SPEAR ON SYSTEM
VERILOG.

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING (OOPS): -

YOU CAN REFER BLOGS BY GFG AND TUTORIALS POINT OR
CHIPVERIFY.COM .

FOR INTERVIEW PURPOSE : -

CRACKING DIGITAL VLSI VERIFICATION INTERVIEW - A BOOK BY

RAMDAS MOZHIKUNNATH & ROBIN GARG.
SOME OTHER TOPICS TO BE READ:-

FIFO DEPTH CALCULATION

FSM SEQUENCE DETECTOR

FREQUECY DIVIDER (F/2, F/3, 2F/3, F/0.5 ETC.)

METASTABILTY

SCRIPTING LANGUAGE LIKE PYTHON/PERL WILL GIVE YOU AN

EDGE.

YOU ARE ONE GOOGLE & YOUTUBE SEARCH AWAY FROM THESE
TOPICS.
IF YOU HAVE ENOUGH TIME LEFT WITH YOUR CURRICULLUM,
THEN YOU CAN ALSO READ SOME OF THE ADVANCED CONCEPTS
LIKE VERIFICATION OF ELECTRONICS CIRCUITS USING UVM-
UNIVERSAL VERIFICATION METHODOLOGY (NOT NECESSARY).

SOME OF THE KEY CONCEPTS OF VERIFICATION:

WHAT IS FUNCTIONAL COVERAGE?

WHAT IS ASSERTION BASED COVERAGE??
WHAT IS POWER AND CLOCKING??

OPERATING SYSTEM: - WINDOWS OR LINUX (EDGE)

TOOLS FOR DESIGN AND VERIFICATION:

SYNOPSYS, CADENCE OR SIEMENS EDA TOOLS LIKE MODELSIM
OR QUESTASIM ETC.
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