KNOWLEDGE HUB
VLSI + AI
Resource Library
Curated top resources in VLSI, semiconductor engineering, EDA, and AI for chip design.
📚 Top 10 Books
- CMOS VLSI Design by Weste & Harris
- Digital Integrated Circuits by Rabaey
- Verilog HDL by Samir Palnitkar
- SystemVerilog for Verification by Chris Spear
- Static Timing Analysis for Nanometer Designs by Bhasker & Chadha
- ASIC/SoC Functional Design Verification by Mehta
- Design of Analog CMOS ICs by Razavi
- Physical Design Essentials by Kahng et al.
- UVM Primer by Ray Salemi
- Microelectronic Circuits by Sedra & Smith
🎥 Top 10 YouTube Channels
- NPTEL – IIT lectures on VLSI & electronics
- VLSIChaps – Chip design tutorials & career guides
- ChipVerify – UVM & SystemVerilog walkthroughs
- Neso Academy – Digital electronics fundamentals
- All About Electronics – Circuit design basics
- EEVblog – Electronics engineering vlog
- Asic World – Verilog coding tutorials
- Ben Eater – Build a computer from scratch
- Phil’s Lab – PCB & hardware design
- Robert Feranec – Hardware design interviews
🌟 Top 10 Events & Conferences
- DAC – Design Automation Conference
- ISSCC – IEEE Intl Solid-State Circuits Conf
- ICCAD – Intl Conf on Computer-Aided Design
- DATE – Design Automation & Test in Europe
- Hot Chips – High-Performance Chips Symposium
- VLSI Symposia – VLSI Technology & Circuits
- ASP-DAC – Asia & South Pacific DAC
- SNUG – Synopsys Users Group
- CDNLive – Cadence User Conference
- SEMICON – Global Semiconductor Equipment Expo
🏢 Top 10 Global Companies
- TSMC – World’s largest foundry
- Intel – IDM & foundry services
- Samsung Semiconductor – Memory & logic
- NVIDIA – GPU & AI accelerators
- Qualcomm – Mobile SoC leader
- Broadcom – Networking & infrastructure
- AMD – CPU & GPU innovation
- Synopsys – EDA tools leader
- Cadence – EDA & IP solutions
- Siemens EDA (Mentor) – Verification & DFT
🔬 Top 10 Research Investors
- DARPA – US defense advanced research
- IMEC – Nanoelectronics research center
- MIT Lincoln Lab – Advanced electronics R&D
- Stanford EE Dept – Pioneering chip research
- UC Berkeley EECS – RISC-V birthplace
- KAIST – Korea’s semiconductor R&D hub
- Fraunhofer IIS – IC design research (Germany)
- A*STAR IME – Singapore micro/nanoelectronics
- CEA-Leti – French nanotech research
- IIT Bombay – Leading Indian VLSI research
🚀 Top 10 Startups
- Cerebras – Wafer-scale AI chips
- SambaNova – AI semiconductor platforms
- Groq – LPU inference chips
- Tenstorrent – RISC-V AI processors
- Esperanto – Energy-efficient AI chips
- Rain AI – Brain-inspired AI hardware
- d-Matrix – In-memory compute for AI
- Ventana Micro – RISC-V data center chips
- Rapidus – Japan’s 2nm chip foundry startup
- Agile Analog – Analog IP automation
🎧 Top 10 Podcasts
- The SemiWiki Podcast – Industry leaders discuss semiconductor trends
- EDA Cafe – EDA tool updates and design methodology
- Moore’s Lobby – Deep dives into chip manufacturing
- Analog Dialogue – Analog design insights from ADI
- The Amp Hour – Electronics engineering podcast
- Chip Chat – AI and silicon intersection discussions
- Silicon Insider – Semiconductor industry analysis
- Design Reuse Podcast – IP and SoC design talks
- Cadence ON AIR – Cadence technology podcast
- Synopsys Podcast – Innovation in chip design
🌐 Top 10 Websites & Blogs
- SemiEngineering.com – Deep technical semiconductor content
- VLSI Expert – Tutorials on VLSI design & verification
- ChipVerify.com – SystemVerilog & UVM tutorials
- EETimes.com – Electronics engineering news
- AnySilicon.com – ASIC design resources & guides
- Verification Academy – Siemens EDA training portal
- ASIC World – Verilog & SystemVerilog tutorials
- Nandland.com – FPGA & Verilog beginner tutorials
- WikiChip – Processor architecture database
- SemiWiki.com – Semiconductor industry wiki & analysis