VLSI stands for “very large scale integration” determines integration levels. Apparatus of transistor was the driving factor of growth in the VLSI Technology. VLSI is a Technology by which 10000-1 Million Transistors can be assembles on a single chip.

VLSI has many advantages:
1. Curtail the size of Circuits.
2. Curtail the efficient cost of the devices.
3. Escalation the Operating breeze of circuits.
4. Crave less power than Discrete factor.
5. Bigger Reliability

Verilog is a Hardware Description Language which is used to model complex electronic components. It is standardized as 1364. It is commonly used for two purposes. They are:
Design.
Verification of digital circuits.
It is basically used for verification of analog circuits and mixed-signal systems. Verilog as Hardware Description Language includes signal strengths and considers way of describing the propagation time which differentiates it from the software programming language. Verilog HDL is easier to learn as compared to VHDL due to emphasis on C language.

Verilog HDL is also case-sensitive and is not strongly typed. It has very simple data types but lacks the library management as compared to VHDL. It is a very important sub domain of VLSI and forms part of front end.

 

VLSI as an industry is highly rewarding for engineering students who have good grasp of the concepts and performing ability. The students trained in VHDL are in huge demand in India and abroad. According to the industry experts and joint report of India Semiconductor Association (ISA) and Ernst & Young, the semiconductor industry is expected to grow at 17.4% to reach around $10 billion in 2014.

There is a huge demand for skilled engineers to develop Field Programmable Field Array (FPGA), Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) and SOCs, so it becomes quite obvious that students should foray their career in this industry and get exposed to patent filing, invention disclosures and applied research.

MODULE – HDL & Digital Design

1. Digital Design
    Logic Gates
    Combination Logic
    Synchronous Sequential Logic
    Asynchronous Sequential Logic
    Register and Counters
    Memory and Programmable Logic

2.VERILOG
    Introduction of HDL
    Hierarchical Modeling Concepts
    Basic Concepts
    Modules and Ports
    Gate-Level Modeling
    Dataflow Modeling
    Behavioral Modeling
    Task and Functions
    Timing and Delays
    Switch-Level Modeling
    User-Defined Primitives
    FSM
    Test bench Simulation
    Logical Synthesis

Lab session And Project
    AND ,OR ,NOR,XOR,NOT Gate
    HALF Adder
    FULL Adder
    Half Subtractor
    Full subtractor
    Encoder
    MUX
    Asynchronous Rest MUX
    Synchronous MUX
    Decoder
    Comparator
    Priority encoder
    Asynchronous Reset D Flip Flop
    Asynchronous Reset T Flip Flop
    Synchronous D flip Flop
    Synchronous T Flip Flop
    Asynchronous Reset JK Flip Flop
    Synchronous JK Flip Flop
    Up counter
    Down counter
   Up and down counter
   Divide by N counter
   Parallel loadable counter
   Ripple counter
   Ring counter
   Shift Register
   Moore machine
   Mealy machine

The application of VLSI is used in Product companies, EDA companies, Design service industry and the companies using it are:
Intel
Cadence
Synopsys
Xilinx
Free scale
QUALCOMM.
These are some prominent companies which provide job opportunities to budding engineers. These companies provide immense growth rate and well research and development labs.