The reason why VSD-HDP students are considered as first options for placements at top companies is because VSD flows are close to what industry needs. I was very fortunate to have worked with design and CAD companies both, which enabled VSD to provide the right curriculum for Physical Design. So what is the right curriculum which would match what industry needs?

 

First and foremost - you would need foundry IPs and you would need a digital design which uses those foundry IPs. If you are a professional reading this email, you must be aware that foundry IPs cost millions. If you are a student or fresher reading this email, you might want to find out how much a foundry IP costs. This was a deadlock situation a few years back for any institute running a Physical design class. Without IPs, we just cannot demonstrate a real industry level physical design flow

 

How did VSD solve this problem? We built foundation analog IPs from scratch, developed an in-house RISC-V based processor, built a design which closely matches what industry needs and then built a Physical design curriculum around this. Hence VSD Physical design classes are recognized for being close to an industry flow and that's what make industries to recruit from VSD

 

 

 

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rvmyth integration with PLL, DAC and SRAM using Sky130 {Project code - RPDS}	RISC-V based SoC design, implementation and tapeout using VSD Sky130 IPs

 

 

 

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