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Ashokraj
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3 years ago

what is the path or skills required to become a RTL engineer or to enter the FPGA domain?

Hi,

I am currenlty working as an Electronics Engineer with 6 years of experience.I want to enter into FPGA field. While I am looking in the job market there are divided into RTL design/integration and Verfication. My doubts are:

1. can one enter directly into RTL design engineer without working as a verification engineer?

I am familiar with Verilog.

Apart from verilog what are the basic skills required to enter into FPGA and to pursue FPGA as a long time career?

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  • RichardT_altera's avatar
    RichardT_altera
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    3 years ago

    The simple answer is yes, one can become RTL designer without working as verification engineer.


    You may checkout reddit as the community there is larger and you may get more opinion from a variety of people.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comments/syqr0j/what_else_can_i_learn_to_get_better_as_an_fpga/

    https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comments/idmowd/what_are_essential_rtl_skills_to_have_on_your/


    At the same time, do some job research to grasp an understanding on what kind of job you want and what do they do.


    Would like mention that this is a disclaimer and the reply is just general advice. I am not speaking on Intel behalf.


    Best Regards,

    Richard Tan


    p/s: If any answer from the community or Intel Support are helpful, please feel free to give best answer or rate 9/10 survey.



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    RichardT_altera
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    3 years ago

    I believe I have answered your question. I will now transition this thread to community support. If you have a new question, Please login to ‘https://supporttickets.intel.com’, view details of the desire request, and post a feed/response within the next 15 days to allow me to continue to support you. After 15 days, this thread will be transitioned to community support. The community users will be able to help you on your follow-up questions.

    Thank you.

    Best Regards,

    Richard Tan

    p/s: If any answer from the community or Intel Support are helpful, please feel free to give best answer or rate 4/5 survey.