M.Tech. VLSI Design and Microelectronics, a four-semester Work Integrated Learning Programme, is designed to cater to the needs of working professionals in the semiconductor industry. It is a specialized postgraduate program focused on the design, development, and application of integrated circuits and semiconductor devices. It covers key areas like digital and analog VLSI design, semiconductor physics, fabrication technologies, and the use of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools. The program emphasizes hands-on experience with industry-standard tools and labs, preparing students for real-world challenges in designing complex ICs. The program provides an interdisciplinary approach, combining hardware and software knowledge for solving complex problems in the industry.

 

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Career Break

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Last date to apply

Last date to apply

December 23 , 2024

Fees per semester

Fees per semester

INR 66,750

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Programme Highlights

  1. The programme will also enable working professionals to attend contact classes from anywhere over a technology-enabled platform. The contact classes will be conducted mostly on weekends or after business hours.
  2. The final semester includes a practical Dissertation (Project Work) for real-world application.
  3. Emphasizes experiential learning with lab exercises, assignments, case studies, and work-integrated activities
  4. The programme offers courses covering back-end and front-end microelectronics, including Processor & SoC Design, Chip Design, VLSI CAD Tool Development, and Semiconductor Fabrication.
  5. Participants can access Remote Labs for hardware and software tools used in designing and testing embedded and VLSI systems on platforms like Keil, Multicore STM32, Cadence EDA tools, Vivado, and Xilinx FPGA.
  6. Employs Continuous Evaluation to provide ongoing feedback and support.
  7. Become a part of elite and global BITS Pilani Alumni community.

UGC Approval

BITS Pilani is an Institution of Eminence under UGC (Institution of Eminence Deemed to be Universities) Regulations, 2017. The Work Integrated Learning Programmes (WILP) of BITS Pilani constitutes a unique set of educational offerings for working professionals. WILP are an extension of programmes offered at the BITS Pilani Campuses and are comparable to our regular programmes both in terms of unit/credit requirements as well as academic rigour. In addition, it capitalises and further builds on practical experience of students through high degree of integration, which results not only in upgradation of knowledge, but also in up skilling, and productivity increase. The programme may lead to award of degree, diploma, and certificate in science, technology/engineering, management, and humanities and social sciences. On the recommendation of the Empowered Expert Committee, UGC in its 548th Meeting held on 09.09.20 has approved the continued offering of BITS Pilani’s Work Integrated Learning programmes.

Programme Curriculum

Participants need to take at least 12 courses towards coursework and complete one Project/ Dissertation. The coursework requirement for the programme would consist of a set of core courses and electives. Core courses are compulsory for all participants, while electives can be chosen based on individual learning preferences.

  • MOS Devices and Microfabrication Technology
  • Analog IC Design
  • CAD for VLSI Design Flow
  • VLSI Design
  • VLSI Architecting, the RTL Way
  • Elective 1
  • Elective 2
  • Elective 3
  • Elective 4
  • Elective 5
  • Elective 6
  • Elective 7
  • Dissertation

Pool of Electives

  • Basket – 1 Advanced Digital Systems
    • Machine Learning for Electronics Engineers
    • Hardware Software Formal Verification Techniques
    • System on Chip Design
    • Testability for VLSI
    • Reconfigurable Computing
    • Digital Signal Processing
    • Advanced Digital Signal Processing
    • High Speed SerDes Design
    • Advanced VLSI Design
    • Advanced VLSI Architectures
  • Basket -- 2 Advanced Analog-Mixed Signal-RF
    • RF Microelectronics
    • Digitally Assisted Analog Circuits
    • Phase and Frequency Synthesis of Analog Circuits
    • Advanced Analog and Mixed Signal Design
    • Data Converters
  • Basket – 3 Other Electives
    • Introduction to MEMS
    • Optoelectronic Devices, Circuit & Systems
    • Wireless & Mobile Communication
    • Real Time Operating Systems
    • Hardware Security
    • Embedded System Design
    • Novel Memory Concepts and Technology
    • Real Time Systems
    • In-Memory Computing
    • CAD for IC Design
    • Hardware Software Co-Design
    • Network Embedded Applications

For more information on programme curriculum download the programme brochure.

Choice of Electives is made available to enrolled students at the beginning of each semester. A limited selection of Electives will be offered at the discretion of the Institute.

Note: Elective courses have been notionally bucketed. Set of electives will be identified from the pool for a given corporate partner basis of their requirement in consultation. Choice of Electives is made available to enrolled students at the beginning of each semester. A limited selection of Electives will be offered at the discretion of the Institute.

For detailed programme curriculum, download the brochure.

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Mode of Learning

The Mode of Learning is based on a powerful educational approach called Work Integrated Learning. For detailed description of work integrated learning Click here

The benefits of the Work Integrated Learning Mode are as follows:

1) It enables Working Professionals to pursue the programme without any career break and along with their jobs.

2) The programme curriculum is designed for high relevance to sectors, industries and organisations the students are presently employed in.

3) Learning experience design also endeavours to integrate support and value addition by the Industry Mentors and employer organizations.

4) Enables working professionals to attend live-lectures from anywhere over an online technology-enabled platform. For the benefit of working professionals these live lectures are conducted by faculty mostly on weekends or after business hours.

5) Leverages the latest educational technologies to provide easy access to asynchronous learning materials, Learner support services and peer to peer collaboration etc.

6) Great emphasis on experiential learning by providing access to state of the art remote labs, virtual labs and cloud labs and simulations as applicable to individual courses.

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

The programme prioritizes experiential learning, enabling learners to apply classroom concepts in simulated and real work scenarios through remote and virtual lab exercises.

 
Virtual & Remote Labs

The remote labs provide you with remote access to hardware and software tools that are used for designing and testing embedded systems on various platforms such as Keil, Multicore STM32, Cadence EDA Tools, Vivado-ML, Xilinx FPGA boards.

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT

The assessment includes graded assignments/quizzes, mid-semester and comprehensive exam.

CASE STUDIES AND ASSIGNMENTS

Carefully chosen real-world cases & assignments are both discussed and used as problem-solving exercises during the programme.

DISSERTATION/ PROJECT WORK

The fourth semester offers an opportunity for learners to apply their knowledge gained during the programme to a real-world like complex project. The learner is expected to demonstrate understanding of vital principles learnt across semesters and their ability to successfully apply these concepts.

Mode Of Examination

Mode of Examinations applicable for students admitted in Batch starting in January 2025 :

Semester 1, 2 and 3 have Mid-Semester Examinations and Comprehensive Examinations for each course. These examinations are mostly scheduled on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Students need to appear in person for taking the examinations at the institution’s designated examination centres as per the examination schedule, Instructions, rules and guidelines announced before every examination. 

Students can take their examination at any of our 25 designated examination centres in India at the following locations:

South Zone: Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mysore, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram and Coimbatore.

North Zone: Delhi NCR, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Lucknow and Pilani.

West Zone: Mumbai,Pune, Goa, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Indore and Nagpur.

East Zone: Kolkata, Guwahati, Jamshedpur and Bhubaneshwar.

In addition to these locations, the Institution also has a designated examination centre in Dubai.

During these semesters, in addition to the above mentioned Mid-Semester and Comprehensive examinations, there will also be Quizzes/Assignments conducted online on the Learning Management System (LMS) as per the course plan in which the students need to participate.

In Semester 4 (Final Semester), the student will be doing Dissertation/Project Work as per the Institution’s guidelines.

For International Students: 

  • In addition to the above locations, the institution also has a designated international examination centre, located in Dubai.
  • To facilitate the learning of international students, applying from any other location except India and Dubai, the mode of examinations will be online, which can be availed by meeting the requirements of the institute.
  • To know more about the requirements for online examinations, Click here
  • Indian students, who are temporarily based out of India, can also avail of online examinations on request by meeting the above-mentioned requirements of the institute.

Eligibility Criteria

Employed professionals holding Bachelor of Engineering in EEE / ECE / ENI / Computer Science or equivalent with at least 60% aggregate marks and minimum one year of work experience in relevant domains.

Fee Structure

The following fees schedule is applicable for candidates seeking new admission during the academic year 2024-2025

  • Application Fees (one time) : INR 1,500
  • Admission Fees (one time) : INR 16,500
  • Semester Fees (per semester) : INR 66,750

The one-time Application Fee is to be paid at the time of submitting the Application Form through the Online Application Centre.

Admission Fee (one-time) and Semester Fee (for the First Semester) are to be paid together once admission is offered to the candidate. Thus, a candidate who has been offered admission will have to pay INR 83,250/-. You may choose to make the payment using Netbanking/ Debit Card/ Credit Card through the Online Application Centre. Option to pay fees using an easy EMI with 0% interest and 0 down payment. Click here to learn more.

Semester Fee for subsequent semesters will only be payable later, i.e. at the beginning of those respective semesters.

Any candidate who desires to discontinue from the programme after confirmation of admission & registration for the courses specified in the admit offer letter will forfeit the total amount of fees paid.

For the examination centre at Dubai, in addition to the semester fees, for each semester there will be an examination centre fees of 1000 UAE Dirhams or equivalent per semester out of which 500 UAE Dirhams is to be paid at the time of appearing in Mid-semester examinations at Dubai Centre for that semester and the remaining 500 UAE Dirhams is to be paid at the time of appearing in comprehensive examinations at Dubai centre for that semester.

All the above fees are non-refundable.

Important: For every course in the program institute will recommend textbooks, students would need to procure these textbooks on their own.

How to Apply

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  2. Once you have logged in, you will see a screen showing 4 essential steps to be completed to apply for the programme of your choice.
  3. Begin by clicking on Step 1 - ‘Fill/ Edit and Submit Application Form’. This will enable you to select the programme of your choice. After you have chosen your programme, you will be asked to fill your details in an online form. You must fill all the details and press ‘Submit’ button given at the bottom of the form.
  4. Take the next step by clicking on Step 2 - 'Download Application PDF Copy’. This will download a pdf copy of the application form on your computer.
  5. Now, click on Step 3 - 'Pay Application Fee’ to pay INR 1,500/- using Netbanking/ Debit Card/ Credit Card.
  6. Take a printout of the downloaded Application Form and note down the Application Form Number displayed on the top-right corner of the first page. This Application Form Number should be referred in all future correspondence with BITS Pilani.

  7. In the printout of the downloaded Application Form, you will notice on page no. 3 a section called the Employer Consent Form. Complete the Employer Consent Form. This form needs to be signed and stamped by your organisation’s HR or any other authorised signatory of the company.

    Important: In view of work-from-home policies mandated by many organisations, a few candidates may not be able to get the physical forms signed by their HR/ other authorised organisational representative. Such candidates may instead request an email approval to be sent to their official email ID by the HR using the format available through this link.

  8. Further on page no. 4 of the printed Application Form is a section called the Mentor Consent Form. The Mentor Consent Form needs to be signed by the Mentor. Click here to know who could be a Mentor.

    Important: In view of work-from-home policies mandated by many organisations, a few candidates may not be able to get the physical forms signed by their Mentor. Such candidates may instead request an email approval to be sent to their official email ID by the Mentor using the format available through this link.

  9. Further on page no. 5 of the downloaded Application Form, is a Checklist of Enclosures/ Attachments.
  10. Make photocopies of the documents mentioned in this Checklist.
  11. Applicants are required to self-attest all academic mark sheets and certificates.
  12. Finally, click on Step 4 - 'Upload & Submit All Required Documents’. This will allow you to upload one-by-one the printed Application Form, Mentor Consent Form, Employer Consent Form, and all mandatory supporting documents and complete the application process. Acceptable file formats for uploading these documents are DOC, DOCX, PDF, ZIP and JPEG.
  13. Upon receipt of your Application Form and all other enclosures, the Admissions Cell will scrutinise them for completeness, accuracy and eligibility.
  14. Admission Cell will intimate selected candidates by email within two weeks of submission of application with all supporting documents. The selection status can also be checked by logging in to the Online Application Centre.

Who Should Apply

Ambitious engineers in the Semiconductor industry seeking expertise in system on Chip design, Processor design, IC fabrication, and VLSI CAD. Electronics industry professionals, Micro-Architects, EDA Tool Engineers, and Analog/Digital/Mixed Signal Chip Designers.

Programme Objectives

  • To design and analyze analog, digital and RF CMOS integrated circuits fundamentals and new paradigms that practicing engineers need to master as a working professional employed in the VLSI domain.
  • To develop both a solid foundation and methods of designing, analyzing and optimizing circuits using EDA tools.
  • To combine theoretical rigor with practical hands-on labs, real-world problem-solving capabilities, lead and innovate in the landscape of semiconductor devices, fabrication technologies, and VLSI design
  • To emphasize on the intricacies of smart technologies, high speed and low power design technologies using industry standard EDA tools to master design and analysis of complex integrated circuits
  • Equip participants with the knowledge, skills, and aptitude needed for long-term career growth and increased workplace responsibilities.

Learning outcomes

  • Learn fundamental scientific principles governing the operation, design, and fabrication of complex integrated circuits
  • Ability to Identify the key requirements, challenges, constraints, and metrics of evaluation of VLSI systems in the context of one’s work area and develop efficient, resource optimized system
  • Demonstrate expertise in state-of-the-art VLSI design and simulation tools to develop, test, and optimize Digital, Analog, RF circuits suitable for industry
  • Develop VLSI systems and architecture and programmable logic designs with FPGA, integrating intelligent system functions for smart
  • Apply knowledge of intelligent systems to VLSI platforms, enhancing low power computing and hardware acceleration for robust, AI-driven applications
  • Leverage advanced computer architecture and semiconductor memory technologies to innovate and improve electronic device

Labs

Virtual labs providing cloud-based access to Cadence EDA tools, Vivado-ML, Keil software. Remote labs providing remote access to STM-32 kits, Zedboards, PYNQ boards from Xilinx

Batch Profile

M.Tech. VLSI Design and Microelectronics - Batch Profile

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FAQs

M.Tech. Microelectronics is a BITS Pilani Work Integrated Learning Programme (WILP). BITS Pilani Work Integrated Learning Programmes are UGC approved.

This programme is designed for working professionals. At the time of submitting the application, candidates must be employed in another organization. Professionals who are owners of a registered business are also eligible to apply. For detailed information, including academic background, work experience, etc. refer to the programme eligibility criteria.

Contact classes are conducted over a technology enabled platform. These classes can be attended via the internet using a computer from any location. These contact classes offer similar levels of interactivity as regular classrooms at the BITS Pilani campus. These are conducted usually over weekends or after business hours for a total of 7-8 hours per week. If you miss a lecture, you can also access the recorded lecture on the internet.

Upon successful completion of the programme, participants will receive a degree certificate from BITS Pilani.

The Degree of Master of Technology in Microelectronics

Each semester has a Mid-semester Exam and a Comprehensive Exam for each course, which are conducted over weekends. Students will need to appear in-person to take these exams at exams centers in the following locations:

India Centers:

South Zone: Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mysore, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram and Coimbatore.

North Zone: Delhi NCR, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Lucknow and Pilani.

West Zone: Mumbai,Pune, Goa, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Indore and Nagpur.

East Zone: Kolkata, Guwahati, Jamshedpur and Bhubaneshwar.

International Centers: Dubai

In case students are unable to take an exam due to work-related commitments, there is also a provision of appearing for Make-up Exams 

The programme provides a high degree of interactivity between students and the faculty members and programme instructors. Q&A sessions during the contact classes (which you can attend from anywhere over a technology enabled platform) allow participants to pose questions to the faculty members, and seek guidance through voice and chat. Further interaction with faculty members and peers is enabled through the e-learning portal, by using discussion forums and message boards.

The programme features high usage of experiential learn components such as Simulations, Virtual Labs, and Remote Labs, in order to mimic the on-campus experience.
Participants will be given access to portals, that will allow them to access both cloud-based labs, as well as Campus-based physical labs. Using leading industry-recognised Software tools, Programming languages, and Simulation software, participants will be able to perform experiments and run simulations to advance their knowledge

Candidates applying to the programmes must choose a Mentor, who will monitor the academic progress of the candidate, and act as an advisor & coach for successful completion of the programme. Candidates should ideally choose the immediate supervisor or another senior person from the same organisation. In case a suitable mentor is not available in the same organisation, a candidate could approach a senior person in another organisation who has the required qualifications. For detailed information, please refer to the programme brochure.
Kindly note that BITS Pilani does not assign Mentors to programme participants.

The programme is designed for working professionals, and participants are not required to travel to a BITS campus. However, certain programme offer Campus Immersion Modules such as workshops or seminars, which are highly recommended but not mandatory. 

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