Semiconductor is a huge field, and one of its biggest areas is IC designing. IC or Integrated Circuits contains several transistors fabricated on a single chip. A VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) system integrates millions (30000 – 1000000) of “electronic components” in a small area (few mm²-> few cm²).To design anything we need like a Microprocessor, Microcontroller, Memory, Printer, Mobile, Digital security lock in a word everything of our day-to-day use needs a chip. This chip is the ultimate design of a VLSI design flow. Which actually goes through as following way: We need idea-> Specification-> design architecture-> Functional verification-> Logic design-> Logic verification-> Circuit Design-> Circuit Verification-> Physical design-> Layout verification-> Fabrication & testing-> IC chip.

To perform this whole flow we need EDA (electric design automation) tools. From lots of EDA tools, we focused on Cadence EDA tools. It covers the whole design of an IC chip.

Furthermore, the field of opportunities of VLSI is huge, we can take a glance as mentioned here: