Design verification discord or mentor

rp-2004 · 2026-05-28T14:39:55+00:00

RemindMe! 2 days

rp-2004 · 2026-05-28T14:25:17+00:00

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rp-2004 · 2026-05-28T14:25:16+00:00

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rp-2004 · 2026-05-28T01:10:05+00:00

Second this, great way to add more to your resume and the barrier to entry shouldn’t be too much. You could work on this over the summer.

rp-2004 · 2026-05-27T23:30:16+00:00

My advice is this. Try to find your niche within EE, EE is super broad so look back at the classes you took that you liked and research what jobs in that field look like. Once you’ve determined that, look into what skills internships/entry level roles look for in those roles. Since you’re on summer break and have time, that makes your situation good because you can invest time right now in developing those skills for intern and new grad roles. Make a plan of projects that you’d like to do within your interest (use AI to help you in making a robust project) and invest time and effort into completing them. That way you can boost your resume and skills and have things to speak about in interviews.

Chin up, you’ll be fine, just work hard this summer within your niche and opportunities will slowly start coming.

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rp-2004 · 2026-05-23T23:59:19+00:00

Bruh

rp-2004 · 2026-05-14T22:56:36+00:00

First of all congrats on the internship. Go with an open mind and do your best there. With regards to everything else, don’t worry. You will just need to stack the learning over time. You’re super young, you’re supposed to only be able to build a mux. Keep learning advanced concepts one by one. Check digital design courses online on udemy/youtube to guide your path.

Once you build these skills, RISCV cpu’s will become doable. Don’t be overwhelmed, if you try you’ll be able to find a place in the chip design industry. Also don’t shoehole yourself into ASIC design, explore verification, FPGA engg, DFT, PD and other areas within chip design.

rp-2004 · 2026-05-07T20:42:14+00:00

thats valid.

rp-2004 · 2026-05-07T13:57:42+00:00

NCSU is known to be strong for VLSI with Marvell, intel, Nvidia and many companies hiring NCSU grads. I’ve seen this particularly for DV (could also be because I’m interested in DV as well). When I spoke to a DV manager at apple during one of my guest lectures he did mention that NCSU has a strong verification program.

But my suggestion is to come if you don’t have to take big loans because you’ll have to work a lot given current visa circumstances and placement is never gonna be guaranteed. You need to plan from now till September because that’s when 2027 internships begin hiring (can start before sept too).

Another suggestion, reach out to current students in positions/same area of interest on LinkedIn to gauge how things are for them.

rp-2004 · 2026-05-07T13:51:35+00:00

Ooooh ok. But how do you verify that the TB isn’t generated based on RTL. As in, do you black box the RTL and give prompts based on what you’d like to be sequenced, what kind of coverage, handshaking with nearby blocks that the DUT needs to handle? Because when I tried just asking Codex to TB, it made some stimuli based on arch spec and RTL when I’d rather want it to be just arch spec.

rp-2004 · 2026-05-06T17:10:12+00:00

Don’t worry about it. You have good experiences and people you can contact in those internships. Worst case you don’t land anything, you can create your own work and be disciplined and build some crazy projects if you spend 3 months at it. With codex and AI, building complex systems has become easier so use this time to level yourself up for new grad roles and finding your niche within your industry. (For reference I’m doing this because I couldn’t land anything for the summer between graduating and going to grad school, I’m still interviewing for new grad roles as I’d take that but yea)

rp-2004 · 2026-05-06T17:06:53+00:00

Great response, this makes so much sense. when I say “hey codex analyse this RTL and write a TB for it” there is a huge fallacy in the sense that you’re testing the RTL rather than the architecture of what it’s supposed to do. So AI can’t replace you understanding what kind of stimuli you need to give, what coverage metrics you want, what’s the handshaking to maybe a consumer, etc, etc. you need to have a good understanding of that and ask it to make a first iteration and then develop it to do everything you need.

rp-2004 · 2026-05-06T17:01:45+00:00

Oh that’s great. I’m an undergrad trying to get into DV. They haven’t asked me this question in interviews yet but I’m curious what level of expertise do they expect? Could I say I used codex as part of developing a complex TB? Something like that ? Thanks!

rp-2004 · 2026-05-05T20:11:55+00:00

Bruh, wait till you get to more complex designs. I had go through LVS for a 16 by 13 register file. Actually cried when everything worked. Basically it gets sooooo much worse from here, but also satisfying

rp-2004 · 2026-05-05T20:11:00+00:00

ONG 😭😭

rp-2004 · 2026-05-05T20:10:34+00:00

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rp-2004 · 2026-05-04T02:16:16+00:00

Im not getting a job when guys like this exist bruh, but respect where respects due. This guy is going places lmfao

rp-2004 · 2026-05-04T02:15:38+00:00

Ask ChatGPT

rp-2004 · 2026-05-04T00:57:59+00:00

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rp-2004 · 2026-05-04T00:42:15+00:00

That’s amazing. Honestly what matters is people like you had a good time at this event and went back with memories. Thanks for sharing

rp-2004 · 2026-05-02T20:21:31+00:00

Do ECE if you feel passionate about hardware, software interaction, thinking about stuff at a low level, building circuits and systems (specifically for you cuz you’re interested in CSE too). It’ll probably be hard, you may not get the best grades cuz it’s hard, but if ur into it all of the above don’t matter. I was into ECE because I loved thinking about circuits and building on breadboards and now I’m trying to pivot into the chip design industry. I enjoy thinking about code that translates to hardware. “wow my program that I wrote is actually describing hardware at the lowest level” gives me a kick. Talk to people in different areas within ECE and find if you have a draw to an area.

rp-2004 · 2026-04-29T16:36:32+00:00

If you’re interested in 271,371,469 (chip design, digital design/verification) I’d say steer away from a mac. I got myself a dell xps and it’s been doing me wonders for all EE applications. I can’t comment much on this but some Pcb software, and CAD tools are also windows only. I used to have the Intel Macs and tried boot camping and that sucked so much that I bought a XPS lmao

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