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India Chip program launched in Pune

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PUNE: ‘National Seminar on DSP VLSI Design and Applications’(DVDA-2001)

was organized by the Department of Electronic Science (DOES), University of Pune

and Integrated Circuit and Information Technology (ICIT) Pvt. Ltd.

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Chairman and managing director of SCL Chandigarh, Dr. M. J. Zarabi,

inaugurated the two- day National Seminar on DVDA- 2001. He gave an overview of

semiconductor technology in India and announced the India Chip Program.

The keynote address was delivered by Dr. Vijay Bhatkar of ETH, Pune, who

emphasized on hardware design entrepreneurship. The DSP-VLSI design represents a

huge market potential worldwide which is driving innovation. Digital Signal

Processing (DSP) and Very Large Integration Circuits (VLSI) Design are gearing

up in our country. Large number of industries are dealing in these areas and lot

of opportunities exist and trained manpower is needed.

The seminar was addressed by eminent speakers representing academic

institutions and corporate houses from all over India covering topics like DSP

Algorithms, DSP Architectures, VLSI design strategies, EDA tools, DSP

Applications, Technology trends, Cost effectiveness and limitations, DSP in

instrumentation and Industrial control, Machine Vision.

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Amongst the speakers were Nayan Suthar —C-DAC, Sunil Kumar Sahu, National

Instruments, Bangalore, Malay Vyas from Texas Instruments, Bangalore, Arun

Chandorkar, Madhav Desai, Dr. Vikram Gadre all from IIT, Mumbai, Dr. Vishwas

Udpikar, Wavelet, Pune. They delivered talks focussing on the current status,

design trends, contemporary R&D activities and futuristic growth directions.






Speakers stressed on the fact that the integrated circuit (chip) design industry
is pegged to grow into a multi-million dollar market in India. Chips and

processors are now used in almost everything —from aerospace to computers,

complex electronic gadgets to everyday applications, mobile phones, dishwashers

and so on. It is the Very Large Scale Integration design engineer’s efforts

that make these work. They conceive and designs miniscule chip and later send

them for manufacturing. The reason why this sector is outsourcing its

requirements to Indian companies is the fact that though integrated circuit or

IC falls into the hardware category, the IC design work is a ‘soft’ job and

can be exported even over the Net. Even if the market dips in this cycle, the

demand for chip design engineers holds steady.

The VLSI territory is vast and unexplored and the rewards are good for those

who get specialized training in VLSI design. Moreover, the industry analysts

have estimated that semiconductors will become a $400 billion industry in the

year 2002. There is going to be unlimited need for professionals trained in VLSI

design with companies like IBM, Intel, Texas, Motorola, Wipro etc. Texas is

already setting up their design centers in India. Integrated Circuit and

Information Technology (ICIT) Pvt. Ltd. ICIT has joined hands with DOES to

ensure best possible training in this field through a certificate course.

The ASIC design industry has grown many fold during the last decade and the

design process these days requires a thorough knowledge of such design tools and

the demand for promising young designers equipped with in-depth knowledge of

VLSI design tools is ever-increasing. The panel concluded that system level

Intellectual Property cores should be generated with an increased

entrepreneurship attitude and proper emphasis should be given on training of the

young talent.

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