>> but if you want to do digital circuit design for a job there are plenty 
>> of opportunities in a vast range of industries.
>
> Seriously... Doing what? Everything seems to be made of off-the-shelf 
> parts (which, by definition, already exist). What's to design?

I guarantee you that if you open up any phone/monitor/TV/camera there will 
be at least one custom IC that is not an off-the-shelf part.  It's not just 
IC makers that design ICs, any company that has a relatively high-tec 
product does it.  For example we design our own driver and controller ICs 
for LCD panels, I know Canon designs their DIGIC image processing IC, I 
imagine all other camera and display makers do similar.  For TVs and 
monitors I also assume they design controller ICs, because often there is no 
off-the-shelf part to exactly fit your product.  What about specialist 
electronic test equipment?  Presumably FPGAs will need to be designed for 
that.  How about network cards and routers, someone needs to design the 
chipsets for those which are always being improved.  What about when 
Logitech develop a new mouse technology, I doubt they can just pick up an IC 
from RS that does the job.  What about the thousands of companies that offer 
FPGA and ASIC design services - who are they doing work for?  Who is working 
for them?

>> If you were degree qualified I could point you to an opening we have at 
>> the moment.
>
> Really? Are you ser- oh, wait, you work in Germany, don't you?

Yes, but this job is at our Oxford lab.

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