Digital IC design, after learning Verilog syntax, what else do you need to learn?

Due to the current figures IC There are many design directions , The main ones are ：CPU Design ,GPU Design ,MCU Design , Audio and video codec design , Interface design , Mobile phone chip , Whole chip scheme, etc .

Each professional design field needs to master different skills , It is also difficult for a junior engineer to master all these skills , Most of the time, design engineers are working in a professional direction , such as CPU,GPU Such design .

There is more knowledge to learn ,

Like you said Verilog Is the current mainstream hardware description language , It is the core that design engineers must master ,Verilog It belongs to the knowledge of programming language , except Verilog In terms of language, there are VHDL（ In the field of military industry ）, also SystemVerilog（ Future trends ,SV The design 、 Validation and assertion are unified ）, also UPF（ Power description , It is the core technology of low power design ）.

in addition , Design engineers also have to learn some scripting languages , such as Shell、 Makefile、 Perl、 Python etc. .

Besides these , And protocols and architectures , such as ：ARM CPU framework 、 AMBA bus protocol 、 MIPI agreement 、 DDR agreement 、 PCI-E Agreements, etc .

So in addition to the theoretical knowledge listed above , It is important to have project experience , Even if it is IP Level design project , It's also very important , Especially those accumulated in the project debug Experience .