M.E (VLSI Design)

M.E in VLSI Design at MSIS, Manipal, is a two-year, AICTE-approved, industry-oriented postgraduate degree program. The VLSI Design program aims at imparting the knowledge and enhancing the skill sets required to work in the rapidly growing "Electronic Design Automation" (EDA) and VLSI Design industries. Students are taught how to use industry standard EDA tools such as Cadence, XILINX, MENTOR GRAPHICS, and Altera to design, verify, and test efficient integrated circuits that meet specified design constraints and specifications. The program is supported by Infineon, ARM, and MIRAFRA Technologies.

Career Prospects

Adequate knowledge is given to design and develop both digital and analog ICs that are optimized for low power. Students are introduced to data structures, efficient algorithms, and various CAD methods in the development and enhancement of EDA tools. This makes them equally competent for both the VLSI design and EDA industries. Extensive training is also provided in VLSI design verification to enable the students to easily enter the ample verification job market. Interested students can also do research.

The course will equip students to pursue the following job profiles:

• Analog Design Engineer

• Application Field Engineer

• ASIC Design Engineer

• CAD Engineer

• Digital Design Engineer

• Firmware Verification Engineer

• Graphics Hardware Engineer

• Physical Design Engineer

• RTL Engineer

• SOC Design Engineer

Placement Details

Course Outline

All M.E. Programs

Campus Life

• A course on professional skill development (PSD) to train students for internship placement including mock interviews from industry experts.

• Industry-oriented curriculum leading to industry certification (Microsoft / Intel / AWS/ EC Council)

• Opportunity to carry out industry-driven mini projects.

• A guaranteed internship at the time of joining the course (Embedded Systems/ VLSI Design/ Microelectronics and VLSI Technology) for the selected candidates by Infineon Pvt. Ltd.

• Opportunity to get the fees refunded after the candidate has been converted into an employee in a few companies.

• Opportunity to learn from industry-experienced / industry-certified faculty.

• Opportunity to carry out the second-year project work in industry as a paid internship.

• 20% of the Course fee for the candidates admitted to the program under the GENERAL category.

• GATE scholarship for students with valid GATE score

• Seed money for research

• Financial support for conference and journal publications

• Opportunities for research incentives

• Start-up and incubation support