Domain
Post-Silicon Validation
Post-silicon engineers bring up new chips on boards, run validation suites, correlate with pre-silicon models and root-cause bugs.
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Daily work
- Lab bring-up and debug
- Write validation test content
- Characterise across voltage/temperature
- File and track silicon bugs
Required skills
- Lab instruments
- Python automation
- Protocol knowledge
- Debug methodology
Career roadmap
- Digital + embedded basics
- Lab instrumentation
- Debug flows
- Automation frameworks
Future scope
Critical role in every product company; strong growth in India design centres.
Learning path for Post-Silicon Validation
Beginner roadmap
- Boards & instruments
- Protocol analysers
- Automation
- Failure analysis
Recommended books
- Post-Silicon Validation and Debug — Mitra et al.
Practice projects
- Automated bring-up script for a dev board
- Voltage-temperature shmoo plot