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VLSI sector to generate 75,000 jobs by 2015

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HYDERBAD, INDIA: The International VLSI and Embedded Systems community converged together for the Silver Jubilee Conference in HICC, Hyderabad on Monday to reveal the latest trends and market figures, share best practices and address industry challenges.

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The city is known globally for developing World's First Fusion chip for Net book & Tablets, Audio Platform for Apple including single chip developed for multimedia mobile phones like LG by a team of design specialists from Indian Design Teams, said a press release.

VLSI and embedded industry would employ 750,000 professionals by 2015 with about 680,000 for embedded systems, 75,000 for VLSI design and the remaining 10,000 in manufacturing.

Dasaradha R Gude, convener of the conference, said: “Embedded systems market, which is one of the key drivers of Indian research and development (R&D) offshoring and is currently pegged at around $25 billion globally, is growing at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16 per cent”.

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As many as 50 eminent speakers are delivering lectures at the silver jubilee conference with the theme ‘Embedded Solutions for Emerging Markets — Consumer, Energy, Automotive’, in which 450 delegates from around the world are participating.

Embedded systems market, which is one of the key drivers of Indian R&D off shoring and is currently pegged at around US$ 25 billion globally, growing at a 16 per cent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) and this is one the important reason for the growth of size of the Indian Embedded System market, the release added.

The inaugural key note was from Jaswinder Ahuja, Cadence who delivered a presentation on 'Indian Golden Age of Electronics: The best is yet to come'. This will be followed by a key note' Emerging Trends in Process Technologies' by Jean Boufarhat, AMD.

Other keynote include Challenges in Automotive Cyber Physical Systems Design by Samarjit Chakraborty, TU Munich, Germany, Parmeswaran, University of New South Wales, 'A History of VLSI Design Conference' by Vishwani Agarwal, Auburn University, USA, and '15 Billion by 2015- Transformation of Embedded Systems to Intelligent Systems by Ravi Kuppuswamy, Intel.

The conference is supported by VLSI Society of India, IEEE, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Conference Publishing Services, VEDA IIT and sponsored by AMD, Qualcomm, Xilinx, Mentor Graphics, Intel, Magma, Infotech, Smartplay, Cypress, ARM, Soctronics, Whizchip, Agilent Technologies, Cadence, Synopsys and Microsemi, the release added.

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