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Howdy Folks,
I just came across this little snippet from Europe
(http://www.edn.com/article/CA486519.html):
"While Meyr saw substantial promise in SOC design, Professor Hannu Tenhunen
of the University of Turku, Finland was not at all sanguine about the future
of SOC design, at least in Europe. In his presentation, Tenhunen said that
VLSI and ASIC design died in Europe during the 1990s and that SOC design had
died by 2004. The use of platform design and networks on chip (NoCs) might
not work out at all and might only be applicable to a very few mainstream
applications.
However, Tenhunen was not saying that chip design was dead all over the
world. His focus was on the educational programs in European universities
that were still producing VLSI and ASIC designers at a time when chip design
was clearly moving to Asia. Tenhunen compared the need for more European
ASIC and VLSI designers to the need for more machine-screw, bolt, and nut
designers: "It's not a growth market, merely a replacement market."
Consequently, Tenhunen is looking towards more cooperative educational
programs with Asian countries, especially China, with the intent of doubling
the number of SOC designers in the world, but not in Europe."
So, as a recent graduate with a B.Sc. Computer Engineering, what are my
prospects for starting a career as an ASIC design engineer?
I am very very interested in becoming a mixed-signal/SoC design engineer,
and would love to do work as such.
As people "out there" in the working world, what do you see for someone who
is trying to get started? Do I have a chance? Should I switch my focus to
more embedded hardware/software codesign?
I just came across this little snippet from Europe
(http://www.edn.com/article/CA486519.html):
"While Meyr saw substantial promise in SOC design, Professor Hannu Tenhunen
of the University of Turku, Finland was not at all sanguine about the future
of SOC design, at least in Europe. In his presentation, Tenhunen said that
VLSI and ASIC design died in Europe during the 1990s and that SOC design had
died by 2004. The use of platform design and networks on chip (NoCs) might
not work out at all and might only be applicable to a very few mainstream
applications.
However, Tenhunen was not saying that chip design was dead all over the
world. His focus was on the educational programs in European universities
that were still producing VLSI and ASIC designers at a time when chip design
was clearly moving to Asia. Tenhunen compared the need for more European
ASIC and VLSI designers to the need for more machine-screw, bolt, and nut
designers: "It's not a growth market, merely a replacement market."
Consequently, Tenhunen is looking towards more cooperative educational
programs with Asian countries, especially China, with the intent of doubling
the number of SOC designers in the world, but not in Europe."
So, as a recent graduate with a B.Sc. Computer Engineering, what are my
prospects for starting a career as an ASIC design engineer?
I am very very interested in becoming a mixed-signal/SoC design engineer,
and would love to do work as such.
As people "out there" in the working world, what do you see for someone who
is trying to get started? Do I have a chance? Should I switch my focus to
more embedded hardware/software codesign?