How can you be ready for VLSI Interview?

As fresher, we apply for Jobs day-in and day-out. First of all, getting a call is not an easy task and if you get it - a cracking Interview is not that easy.

Daily applying for Jobs or Internships in almost 10 companies, Weekly 1 Interview & Still not able to crack anyone. Is it your story?

If, yes - You should seriously think "Are you ready for the Interview"?

A lot of students ask me this question & they request Mock Interviews. I have done this with several candidates and found out that there is a Basic Gap, They don't know whether they are ready or not.

I have divided candidates into different categories.

1. Overconfident: They think they know everything. Actually, they even don't know what's required for VLSI Industry.
2. Unawareness: This category belongs to candidates who have the capability to be ready for Industry if someone provides them with direction.
3. Lack Of Confident: Their preparation is good, they have prepared a lot of things. They have the skill set but they don't have confidence whether their preparation is sufficient or not as per Industry requirements.

All of the candidates, have one thing common. They need someone to tell - Whether they are ready or not for VLSI Interview.

I am helping Individuals with this for the last several years but as you know, I have only 24Hrs in a day. So, sometimes not able to fulfill every candidate's expectations. I am in the process of creating an automated way for this, but things take time.

As a start, you can find a few free papers on different topics at paper.vlsiexpert.com.

Request you to attempt all assessment papers which are freely available on the VLSI Expert portal. These will not only help you to understand your weak area but also help you to know if you are ready for the interview process or not. (Yes - if you think questions are really helping you then you can buy another bunch of papers for your practice :) )

Currently, free Papers are:

1. Unix
2. Verilog
3. System Verilog
4. Static Timing Analysis
5. Aptitude

• Note: A few more papers are in pipeline. Remember, these papers are based on Industry patterns.

Now, the next question comes what will happen if you find gaps in your understanding. The below material can help you up to a certain limit.

For Static Timing Analysis -

1. Articles (Free) - https://www.vlsi-expert.com/p/static-timing-analysis.html
2. Videos (Free) - https://youtu.be/c8Lz1ZZ_ErY
3. Videos - Udemy Course (Paid) - Fundamental Of Static Timing Analysis (Part 1)
4. Interview on STA (Kindle version - Paid) - VLSI Interview Question - Static Timing Analysis
5. Practice Papers (Paid) - Static Timing Analysis (STA) Papers (Also Include reference material - like Videos and Slides)

For Foundry Manufacturing Effects & Parasitic Extraction -

1. Articles (Free) - https://www.vlsi-expert.com/p/parasitic-extraction.html

For Digital Basics and CMOS Concepts -

1. Articles (Free) - https://www.vlsi-expert.com/p/vlsi-basic.html

For VLSI Interview Questions -

1. Articles (Free) - VLSI Interview Question

Apart from this - sometime we would like to study using books - which I personally recommend - Here are a few recommended books. Books

For any other topic which you want to include or need details, please drop me a message and I will try my best to add here.

If anyone wants to associate with me in this initiative, please let me know.

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