Semiconductor industry: functional verification of digital ICs languages: VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog, incl. SVA & FC good command of UVM  software for IC design/simulation (QuestaSim, Incisive and others) familiarity with various bus protocols (AXI, AHB, APB) Programming and general computer science: scripting languages: TCL and Unix/Linux shell  basics of programming in Python, Java and C/C++ (incl. OOP)  revision control systems (CVS, SVN, Hg, Git)