TI to outsource VLSI projects to Veda IIT

HYDERABAD: Veda IIT based in Hyderabad is negotiating with Texas Instruments (TI), which has its R&D center in Bangalore, to get live projects for the students of Veda IIT to work with. Veda IIT is the country's first institute for Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) engineering being set up in association with industry players like Sun Microsystems, Cadence, Magma, Adaptech, etc.






In an attempt to focus on product design orientation among students, the institute along with the industry has recently set up a Center for Competency (CoC) for R&D in VLSI engineering, design automation and embedded system engineering. "As part of the two-year training program, we offer students to work on the live projects for companies and so far Veda IIT is associated with the development of seven chips for various companies," informed chairman of Veda IIT Dasaradha R Gude.





Generally, students would be allowed to work on the projects given by the companies simultaneously with the employees of the respective company and the students could also be later absorbed. The institute strongly believes that this is how the students actually gain hands-on experience while getting trained. Of the major semiconductor companies in India, all have associated with Veda IIT except TI and Intel. While Intel has chips that are developed internally, the institute is betting high on TI.





"We are still negotiating with TI for the same and by this year end, we are optimistic that it would associate with the institute. Besides possessing requisite EDA tools, distributed management, the institute has all capabilities required for developing chips on 130 nanometer technology and we are spearheading to work on 90 nanometer technology soon," added Veda IIT director Prof. Subbarangaiah.





Presently, about 100 students every year specialize in VLSI engineering and with the demand for VLSI designing increasing, the institute is expecting more student intake and is looking out to expand the infrastructure. "But all said and done, we don't intend to churn out more quantity of students thereby losing quality," quipped Gude.