[soravux]

In my university, both machine (and deep) learning and FPGA + chip design are specialties of the electrical engineering department. We just launched earlier this year an industry-oriented AI masters degree. Taking your extra classes in chip design would give you a solid foundation to perform this.

[godelmachine]

Would you kindly provide the link to the particular course of your university? Thanks :)

[soravux]

The master's program in AI I was referring to is only available in French (Laval University, Québec City).

The chip design expertise is provided by most electrical engineering departments, with courses usually named VLSI design, FPGA/ASIC development or microelectronics.

If you apply for a master's degree (in AI, for example), you can often mix-and-match speciality classes and ask for those chip design courses to be added to your cursus.

If you are a hands-on person curious about the matter, you can buy an FPGA (~50$ for entry-level) and follow a Verilog or VHDL tutorial online. Quickly put, an FPGA is a chip that can be "rewired" at will, very useful to learn or prototype before building a production chip.

[godelmachine]

Thanks for the info :)

Hope it will be available in English soon enough.