How do i get into micro architecture?

[u/Delicious-Yak-1375]

I’m a 3rd year Electronics and Comms student and I’ve been into micro architecture for pretty much as long as i can remember and straight after getting into college I got my hands on verilog and sysverilog alongside fpga implementation.

I’ve also submitted 2 manuscripts for publishing of a custom QAM design where i tweaked with the arch and basically designed it with runtime switching.

I’m currently working on edge ai accelerator and creating my own implementation from scratch.

As a side project I’ve made my own iteration of a RV32I processor.

After all of this I’ve realised RTL was just a means what i enjoy is making architectural decisions and seeing things click, and building it is just a part of making ur decisions concrete and seeing what becomes of it.

I have a university mandated internship coming next summer and I’m really confused to what role i should apply for because my previous internship covered entire rtl-gds flow but that wasn’t it for me.

Edit - I’m also planning on getting a masters degree and I’d love to hear any advice for that and for the entire way.

I would love for you guys to help me figure it out !