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EE of 15 years. If you want to “learn” chips design and verification no easy way out except to go to a decent uni and get degreed. Wish there were boot camps on

EE of 15 years. If you want to “learn” chips design and verification no easy way out except to go to a decent uni and get degreed. Wish there were boot camps one could attend( like for Webdev) but unfortunately for ASIC/ FPGA) design a degree(need not be from top notch) is a prerequisite. That is IF you want to get a job. If you don’t want to get a job you still need uni courses to get your prerequisite fulfilled. No easy way out.

the_only_law 5y ago
> If you don’t want to get a job you still need uni courses to get your prerequisite fulfilled. If I don’t want to get a job, why the hell would I pay for the university courses when I could follow their curriculum, books, etc. in combination with things like MIT OCW. Assuming that I’m the sort of person who can keep on top of that sort of autodidactism. I mean I suppose yeah there’s a lot of stuff you can’t do on your own (I imagine VLSI is out of the question), but you can get your hands on FPGA dev boards, etc. That seems to be good enough for designing custom hardware as a hobbyist, along with playing with discrete components.