u/FollowingAble2304

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Hi everyone,

I’ll be joining M.Tech in a Tier-1 college in India this August. I’m interested in VLSI and want to build my skills more seriously before and during M.Tech. Right now I know some Verilog, digital design basics, computer architecture, and I have done a few RTL/processor-related projects.

I was looking at project ideas online and saw that many people do protocol implementations like UART, SPI, I2C, etc. I understand those are important for learning basics, but since many people already do similar projects, I wanted to ask if there are any other projects/topics that would help me learn more and also be useful for industry roles.

I’m mainly interested in digital roles and I’m open to both frontend and backend. I wanted to know:

1)What kind of projects actually help during placements/interviews?

2)What skills do companies usually expect from M.Tech students in digital/VLSI roles

3)Are there any good project ideas that are a little different from the usual protocol projects?

4)Which areas should I focus more on during M.Tech if I want good opportunities in VLSI?

I've attached my projects for context. Any suggestions or guidance would really help. Thanks!

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Hey guys I got an offer for ESE, My score is 787, and I am OBC category, ESE is my second preference. I had one interview for MVLSI, ESE and EPD.My interview marks are 26.19 probably out of 30 ?, Recently I got to know from reddit that somebody with a score of 789, OBC got shortlisted for MVLSI which is actually my first preference. I thought I was just unlucky. But now the offer letter shows I am shortlisted under the GN category for the admission, so I have a few doubts, how do they assign seats ? Have they not considered my category at all ? In my application preference it showed shortlisted for MVLSI but interviewed for both ESE and EPD ? So does that mean they didn't consider me for MVLSI at all ?Had anyone else got different categories under shortlisted in your offer letters ?