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Look at the people around SiFive and RISC-V at UC-Berkeley and look at the transistor guys at UMich. Both groups do lots of work that directly tapes out or work
by wcunning 4y ago
Look at the people around SiFive and RISC-V at UC-Berkeley and look at the transistor guys at UMich. Both groups do lots of work that directly tapes out or works with companies who do. My digital logic prof at UMich took sabbatical to do a startup that netted him a bunch of money on… I forget the details now, but they did a smaller tape out to prove the concept before selling to Intel. It’s not that uncommon.
- nickelpro 4y agoUCB and UM are top 5 schools for this, with maybe MIT sitting above them because of Lincoln Lab. UCB literally invented RISCV (among a million other fundamental CS and CE technologies). They are not representative of the typical state school or even well funded private schools. I'm at NYU Tandon and they are a decade behind on most stuff, the single VLSI course is an elective even for ECEs. I work with students from state schools all across the country, and the most common reaction I get with rising seniors coming from EE and ECE programs is "I have never seen any of this stuff before". What I'm trying to say is: I've yet to meet an ECE senior who couldn't write Hello World in C or perform linear DC analysis, but it's surprisingly rare to find one who can layout a ring oscillator.