I am an Mtech final year student. My interest research fields are semiconductor devices, VLSI Designs and FinFETs. Recently, I joined Intel Corporation as an structural design intern for my final year. For the past two months as an intern, I learnt and trained in Synopsys Fusion Compiler. I am just starting to join the one year intern and I have more to learn. My original goal is to do PhD in the above research field. My real intention to join this intern is to get the industrial knowledge on VLSI Design as Engineering research requires both theoretical and industial experience. So, my question is, will this intern be worth for my PhD? Will working in Synopsys help my knowledge on Semiconductor research?
Computer aided design tools for the integrated circuits are required to tackle the design of complicated circuits. So, it is always requested from the integrated circuit designer to master some CAD design tools.
However mastering the tools does not mean that you are a professional designer.
In order to design electronic circuits you must be also capable to manually analyse and synthesize the electronic circuits.
The simplest example is that using the calculator for computation does not mean that you are good in math. Tools can not make every thing for you as they only can aid you.
Best wishes
Computer aided design tools for the integrated circuits are required to tackle the design of complicated circuits. So, it is always requested from the integrated circuit designer to master some CAD design tools.
However mastering the tools does not mean that you are a professional designer.
In order to design electronic circuits you must be also capable to manually analyse and synthesize the electronic circuits.
The simplest example is that using the calculator for computation does not mean that you are good in math. Tools can not make every thing for you as they only can aid you.
Best wishes
Hello,
Santosh. congrats for your intern position at Intel and it's great to know that you are aiming for a PhD. Being form the same research domain myself, I strongly believe that an industrial exposure to such an IC giant like Intel will readily boost your profile when you go for a PhD. Though PhD is considered academic, industrial knowledge always helps, and about Synopsys I'll say it's an awesome tool for Device modeling, characterizations and Device circuit co-optimization and so it's almost indispensable to the VLSI industry. I'll sincerely recommend you to learn the tool properly and grasps as much concepts as you can .
Good luck !
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