Integrated Circuit Design Technology/Technician
Integrated circuit design, or IC design, is a subset of electronics engineering, encompassing the particular logic and circuit design techniques required to design integrated circuits, or ICs. ICs consist of miniaturized electronic components built into an electrical network on a monolithic semiconductor substrate by photolithography.
IC design can be divided into the broad categories of digital and analog IC design. Digital IC design is to produce components such as microprocessors, FPGAs, memories (RAM, ROM, and flash) and digital ASICs. Digital design focuses on logical correctness, maximizing circuit density, and placing circuits so that clock and timing signals are routed efficiently. Analog IC design also has specializations in power IC design and RF IC design. Analog IC design is used in the design of op-amps, linear regulators, phase locked loops, oscillators and active filters. Analog design is more concerned with the physics of the semiconductor devices such as gain, matching, power dissipation, and resistance. Fidelity of analog signal amplification and filtering is usually critical and as a result, analog ICs use larger area active devices than digital designs and are usually less dense in circuitry.
Modern ICs are enormously complicated. An average desktop computer chip, as of 2015, has over 1 billion transistors. The rules for what can and cannot be manufactured are also extremely complex. Common IC processes of 2015 have more than 500 rules. Furthermore, since the manufacturing process itself is not completely predictable, designers must account for its statistical nature. The complexity of modern IC design, as well as market pressure to produce designs rapidly, has led to the extensive use of automated design tools in the IC design process. In short, the design of an IC using EDA software is the design, test, and verification of the instructions that the IC is to carry out.
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Scholarships for Integrated Circuit Design Technology/Technician Majors
Regeneron Science Talent SearchSociety for Science and the Public |
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award Up to $250,000 |
deadline November 07, 2024 |
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Edith Nourse Rogers STEM ScholarshipU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs |
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award Up to $30,000 |
deadline Varies |
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Trustey Family Scholars ProgramUniversity of Notre Dame |
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award $25,000 |
deadline January 01, 2025 |
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Stinson Scholars ProgramUniversity of Notre Dame |
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award $25,000 |
deadline January 01, 2025 |
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Besio Family ScholarshipUniversity of Notre Dame |
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award $25,000 |
deadline January 01, 2025 |
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Engineering Honors Scholarship - Greenville UniversityGreenville University |
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award $20,500 |
deadline Varies |
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Wellington HBCU Scholars Program-Scholarship/InternshipWellington Management Company LLP |
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award Up to $15,000 |
deadline September 27, 2024 |
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ASHRAE Presidents ScholarshipAmerican Society of Heating, Refrigerating and AC Engineers (ASHRAE) |
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award $12,500 |
deadline December 01, 2024 |
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Alice P. Gast STEM ScholarshipLehigh University |
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award $12,500 |
deadline January 01, 2025 |
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BrandSource x Foster Love ScholarshipFoster Love |
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award Up to $11,000 |
deadline Varies |
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