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Introduction
Chip Design Services are mainly the set of tasks needed to be performed in order to design and verify a chip (or integrated circuit) before it is sent to chip manufacturing. Some of the tasks performed after chip manufacturing may also be considered as design services.

Chip Design Services business activities have been organized into many models across the semiconductor industry. From standalone corporate companies solely dedicated to commercialize design services to many custoers

Chip designers are the professionals involved in the tasks aiming on designing a chip. Typically, these tasks can be classified into four main view categories of an integrated circuit: Although sub-tasks may be placed in the blurred limits of these tasks categories, these are typical categories one may organize one Chip Design Services organization. Also, one may divide these four areas into Front-End design ( activities focused on Architectural and Functional views) and Back-end Design ( activities focused on Structural and Physical views).
 * Architectural view;
 * Functional view;
 * Structural view;
 * Physical view.

The people working in Chip Design Services usually are classified into these areas as well. The drawing bellow summarizes this classification: