Author:Xin Wang
On Oct 29th, 2022, DFWCIA hosted a seminar for our community “Chip Design Art & Engineering”.
First our host executive committee officer Gerry Huang introduced the meeting agenda. Then president Xin Wang introduced DFWCIA, why we come to DCIA: to network with many of the IT talents who have various skill sets, and dynamic industries background and experience. We share knowledge, information, and job opportunities. We can learn soft skills and technical skills via seminars, career mentorship, workshops, or taking certificates. DCIA fosters an environment for lifetime learning. Last but not least, we will expand our vision and perspectives, and grow our career to the next level.
We are honored to have two chip design experts as our speakers, Liu Yang is a leading engineer from Broadcom. Yang introduced the analog part of the chip design. Yang gave many helpful tips to the students who want to choose chip design as their career in the future. He also gave suggestions for the engineers that just joined the industry such as being clear about the design specification, and reading high quality papers to follow new design ideas.
Our second speaker Bennette Lau is a senior engineer from Texas Instruments. Bennette graduated from Purdue University with a computer engineering B.Sc. degree and Rice University with an electrical engineering M.Eng. degree and has 15+ years industry experience. Bennette introduced the digital design process: system definition, digital design, design verification, physical design and sign off. After introducing the process, Bennette mentioned why it matters to IT professionals. He also gave a lot of useful career advice, “identify a mentor in your career who is willing, capable and available” “Go beyond the know-how’s and understand the why’s” and ”Strike a good balance of working independently v.s. asking for help”.
During the Q&A session, the audience were interested to know what the top companies in the chip design field and how easy it is to trouble shoot in real world products. This seminar helps to enlarge our knowledge scope in the hardware level and definitely helps many professionals in our IT community.