NEW DELHI, INDIA: The 22nd international conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) design and the 8th international conference on embedded systems was inaugurated on Jan. 5 with a galaxy of industry stalwarts in attendance.

The high profile international conference, the largest such event across the Southeast Asian region attracts not just the executives from across the industry but leading figures from the world of academia as well.
 
In his keynote, Abhi Talwalkar, President & CEO of multi-billion dollar LSI Corp., said, "The development of the semiconductor industry in India needs to be viewed from the strategic value it can add. There are multiple opportunities for innovation that abound for the semiconductor industry to pick and contribute. To give one example, for mobile penetration to grow beyond current levels, there needs to be towers in the remotest of areas of India. This could be made possible through advances in solar photovoltaic. There are many such opportunities across sectors like healthcare and energy among others that the semiconductor can contribute and am sure we will see that happening in the medium future."

According to Rajiv Kapur, managing director, Broadcom India and Special Sessions Chair, VLSI 2009: "The industry is unanimous in the view that there is a big opportunity and the time has come for India driven and oriented innovation. That is why for the first time we have introduced a special session called "Made for India" forum, which will showcase innovation targeted at the Indian market in the semiconductor space. There will also be deliberations on the road ahead, potential areas of focus, etc. All of which will surely catalyze some significant initiatives in this direction in the days and months ahead."

A three-day technical program starting 5th January will feature keynote and plenary talks by industry leaders, technical paper presentations that reflect the state-of-the-art in VLSI design and embedded systems. It will be followed by a two day tutorial, design contest and EDA software contest.

Sponsored by the VLSI Society of India (VSI) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) among others, the VLSI conference is a forum for researchers and designers to present and discuss various aspects of VLSI design, electronic design automation (EDA), enabling technologies, and embedded systems.

Eminent personalities of VLSI, EDA and Embedded world like Abhi Talwalkar (President and CEO, LSI), Thomas W Williams (Fellow, Synopsys), Ajoy K Bose (CEO, Atrenta) and Prof Jacob Abraham (Texas University) will present the keynotes and special invited talks.

Leading EDA and IC design companies will display their products at the technical exhibition and industry forum to be held between Jan 5-7. Also, there will be a dedicated one day event, on Jan. 7 to provide the student community the opportunity to learn more about VLSI and interact with the industry. The conference covers the entire gamut of activities under the two arms of the semiconductor industry, VLSI, and embedded systems.