Integrated circuit design is a subject of electronic engineering and computer engineering. Its main content is to design an integrated circuit (IC) by using professional logic and circuit design technology.

Integrated circuit design involves both hardware and software expertise. Integrated circuit design involves the manufacture of electronic devices such as transistors, resistors, capacitors, etc. ) and the interconnection between devices. All devices and interconnects need to be placed on a piece of semiconductor substrate material, and these components are placed on a single silicon substrate through semiconductor device manufacturing process (such as lithography, etc.). ), thus forming a loop.

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1, integrated circuit layout designer

The main responsibility of the layout designer of integrated circuit is to design and verify the layout of the back end of integrated circuit through EDA design tools, and finally generate GDSII data for integrated circuit manufacturing. Layout designers usually need to communicate and cooperate with digital design engineers and analog design engineers at any time to complete their work.

An excellent layout designer should not only have the ability of circuit design and understanding, but also have excellent process knowledge.

2. Analog design engineer

As a key figure in the design process, the analog design engineer's job is to complete the circuit design of the chip. Because different design platforms are adopted by different design enterprises, different materials and products have different requirements for circuit design, so the core skill of analog design engineers is to have the knowledge and experience of circuit design required by enterprises and rich theoretical knowledge of analog circuits.

At the same time, it is necessary to guide the layout design engineer to realize the layout design of analog circuits.