EDA Electronics Design Automation VAISHALI UMREDKAR

Products and services from well-known companies and also see for career opportunities and skill sets.

Companies Listed 1. (I) Pvt Ltd 2. MAGMA Design Automation India Pvt. Ltd. 3. Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd 4. SoftJin Technologies Pvt. Ltd. 5. Atrenta 6. Silicon Interfaces 7. Embedded Systems Solutions Pvt Ltd 8. Poseidon Design Systems

verification IPs and multicore processing support for EDA flows as a result of increased integration. EDA industry has to be a step ahead of the lectronics Design Automation (EDA) is the set of technology and continue to innovate and develop Esoftware tools used for chip design. With the design methods and tools capable of addressing growing use of semiconductor devices in India, new phenomena and design problems. EDA industry is witnessing an ample growth. Here we take a pleasure to introduce some of the The key focus areas for the EDA industry will be new leading EDA companies providing effective design design for manufacturing technologies as designs tools which can rectify some of the challenges move to advanced nodes; verification and facing the industry today.

Cadence Design Systems (I) Pvt Ltd (Since 1988)

Cadence enables global electronic design EDA Products & Services: Cadence offers solutions for advance node, low power and innovation and plays an essential role in the mixed signal design, enterprise verification, system development, and software as a service. creation of today's integrated circuits and electronics. The company is headquartered in Cadence offers products across the breadth and depth of VLSI design, include products for San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design system design and verification, functional verification, logic design, custom design, digital centers, and research facilities around the world implementation, RF design, PCB and IC packaging design and manufacturing signoff. to serve the global electronics industry. Contact: Noida office: Plot 57A, B & C, NSEZ , Noida Special Economic Zone, Noida, 201305 India Phone: +91-120-398 4000 Rahul Arya Email: [email protected] Website: www.cadence.com Marketing & Technical Sales Director

MAGMA Design Automation India Pvt. Ltd. (Since 2003)

Magma Design Automation is one of the largest, EDA Products & Services: Magma Design Automation provides EDA software that fastest-growing providers of Electronic Design provides chip designers with the “Fastest Path to Silicon,”(tm) enabling them to meet critical Automation (EDA) software. Magma's EDA time-to-market objectives, improve chip performance and handle multimillion-gate designs. software for IC implementation, analysis, Key product lines include the Talus IC implementation system, the Titan custom/mixed-signal design platform and the Quartz analysis and verification products. Fab analysis products physical verification, circuit simulation and include Camelot and YieldManager. characterization is recognized as embodying the best in semiconductor technology, enabling Contact: Prestige Tech Park, Jupiter (2A) Block, 2nd Floor, Sarjapur-Marathahalli Ring Road, the world's top chip companies to "Design Vivek Raghavan Kadabeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli, Bangalore 560 103, Managing Director Ahead of the Curve"™ while reducing design Tel: +91-80-40242 700 & VP (CDBU) time and costs Email: [email protected], Website: www.magma-da.com EDA

Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd (Since 1986)

Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd (FMAL) EDA Products & Services: was established in 1986 to provide • Wafer Foundry Service • ASICs(Semicustom) semiconductor sales and support solutions to • Microcontrollers - FR Family, F²MC Family, Development Environment customers in Southeast Asia, India and Oceania. • ASSPs - WiMAX, H.264, Graphics Controllers, 1394 Automotive, USB 3.0-SATA Bridge FMAL offers a diverse array of application- ICs, SSCG, Power Management ICs oriented semiconductor products and solutions • such as ASIC, ASSPs, microcontrollers / System Memory - FRAM, FCRAM™ microprocessors (FR-V), System Memory Contact : Unit No. 3, Level 8, Innovator, International Tech Park, Whitefield Road Toshihiko Tanaka (FRAM / FCRAM) and System LSIs (DVD MPEG Bangalore, India 560066 Phone No.: (91) 80-28419990 President Source Decoders / MPEG –2 Encoders). Email:[email protected] Website: www.fmal.fujitsu.com

SoftJin Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (Since 2000)

SoftJin is a growing technology company that EDA Products & Services: SoftJin has expertise and experience in developing tools that provides innovative, customized software and span the entire design spectrum including System design automation, Logic Design design solutions enabling semiconductor Automation, Physical Design Automation, Post Layout tools. SoftJin also has deep expertise in design and manufacturing. the areas of complex GUI development, OpenAccess based tool development, Design Flow SoftJin has a hybrid business model composed and Validation Services. SoftJin offers EDA products in Post Layout and Mask Manufacturing of mix of high-end R&D Services and Area. SoftJin's products in Post Layout areas include: differentiated Software Products. SoftJin offers NxCompare is a fast and versatile comparison tool that can be used to compare any two customized Electronic Design Automation Layout or Mask databases. (EDA) software development solutions using a NxDAT is software for efficient Analysis, Classification and Trend Analysis of Defects Kamal Aggarwal combination of EDA building blocks and custom VP – Marketing and software services. identified by Mask Inspection Systems. Strategy Nirmaan is a unique software development toolkit for EDA tool developers for accelerating Contact: 102, 1st Floor, Mobius Tower, SJP iPark, EPIP, Whitefield the development of optimized Post-Layout EDA tools, including DFM/DFY tools. Bangalore – 560 066 Tel.: 91-80-41779999 SoftJin offers EDA Components targeted for FPGA and other Programmable Platform fabrics. Email: [email protected] Website: www.softjin.com

Atrenta (Since 2001)

Atrenta is the leading provider of Early Design EDA Products & Services: Atrenta's SpyGlass® and 1Team® product lines form a Closure® solutions to radically improve design complete, proven solution to achieve Early Design Closure. Atrenta tools provide an efficiency throughout the IC design flow. environment to achieve certification of RTL/Netlist and constraints for predictable Customers benefit from Atrenta tools and implementation. These product families address issues with architecture capture, IP import methodologies to capture design intent, explore and chip assembly, synthesizability, CDC, power management, constraints management, implementation alternatives, validate RTL and optimize designs early, before expensive and DFT and area, timing and power estimates. Atrenta's GuideWare™ reference methodologies time-consuming detailed implementation. allow Early Design Closure solutions to easily fit into your existing design flows. Sushil Gupta Atrenta provides the most comprehensive Contact: Vice President and solution in the industry for Early Design Closure. A-9, Sector 4, Noida, 201 301, UP (India) Tel: +91-120-309-7800 Managing Director Email: [email protected] Website: www.atrenta.com

Silicon Interfaces (Since 1990)

Silicon Interfaces is India's premium Design Available IP’s: Services company and provider of quality IP’s in • Wireless - 802.11 a/b/g MAC, Bluetooth Baseband the Wireless Networking and Data • Communication - USB2.0 Function Controller, USB On-the-Go, 1394, 8530, UART Communication space. • Networking - Gigabit Ethernet MAC, 7990, SONET STS 1/3 Framer In brief Silicon Interfaces ® offers Design, • Interconnect - Infiniband, Rapid IO Verification and Backend Services that include: • Microcontroller – 8051 • Domain expertise in Wireless, Networking, Verification IP’s: Communication and Interconnect. Manoj Singh • OVCs - GEMAC, 1394 Officer • HDL implementation in SystemVerilog/ • SV VMM - USB2.0 Business Operations / VHDL/SystemC. • • Targeted to SoC, ASIC and FPGAs. uVCs - 1394 • • Proven, Mature Plug & Play Design IP Cores. eVCs / eRM - 1394, UART • Verification IPs in SystemVerilog /e based on OVM/URM/ eRM Methodology. Contact: 606 Nirman Kendra, E-Moses Road, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai - 400011, India • IC Physical Implementation, FPGA Validation Tel.: (+91-22) 2491 3024 / 2206 9450 services & EDA Product Support Services. Email: [email protected] Website: www.siliconinterfaces.com EDA

Embedded Systems Solutions Pvt Ltd (Since 1996)

Vendors for Hardware & Software Development EDA Products & Services: Tools for Embedded Systems Altium Designer – A single solution to develop hardware, programmable hardware and The company is Value Added Resellers in India software allows to take designs from concept to manufacture within a single unified for ALTIUM Ltd., Australia (www.altium.com) environment. EDA Products from ALTIUM are : Altium Nanoboard 2 : The NanoBoard NB2 enhances your ability to design, implement and debug an Designer, NanoBoard 2 and Nanoboad 3000. entire FPGA-based system design before moving to a production PCB. Use the NanoBoard as a system prototyping and development platform, as an educational hands-on teaching tool, Contact: #37, ‘Embedded Home’, 36th Cross, II or as a complete test bed for FPGA-based embedded system design. Its power, flexibility and tight integration with Altium Designer open up the exciting possibilities of soft system design to Gurunatham G V Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore-560010 Managing Director Tel: (91) 80 23521165, 23577924, 23126100 you today. Email: [email protected] Nonoboard 3000 : The NanoBoard 3000 is a programmable design environment, supplied complete with hardware, software, ready-to-use, royalty-free IP and a dedicated Altium Website: www.embeddedindia.com Designer Soft Design license.

Poseidon Design Systems (Since 2002)

Poseidon Design Systems provides innovative EDA Products & Services Electronic System Level (ESL) solutions for Poseidon's Triton Tool Suite: Tuner and Builder: Poseidon's Triton Tool Suite, embedded system design. Poseidon offers enables you rapidly and predictably analyzes, optimize, and accelerate processor-based breakthrough technologies in hardware/ architectures. With Triton Tuner's SystemC simulation environment, you can develop robust software analysis, co-simulation, and hardware efficient processor architectures. The Triton tool suite enables design architects to achieve synthesis to help reduce the complexity and cost higher system throughput, reduced power consumption, and cost, as well as shorten design of designing Systems on Chips (SoCs) and cycles. Systems on FPGA's. Poseidon's C2RTL Tool: Poseidon's C2RLT is a high level synthesis tool for ASIC and Poseidon's team represents convergence of four FPGA market. The Poseidon's C-to-RTL High level synthesis framework takes in behavioral Shrikant Shingane vital areas: system architecture, hardware Co-founder & Director ANSI-C code as input and produces highly optimized, correct by construction RTL code. This design, software design and development. framework allows system designers to explore and design hardware subsystem with various Poseidon's products are built upon its unique communication interfaces by enabling Hardware Designers to interactively and quickly Architectural Description methodology, powerful explore different micro-architecture and communication interface design space. retarget able tool generation technology and innovative hardware-software partitioning Poseidon offers following services in EDA & ESL domain: technology. • Consulting to establish ESL tools flow • System modeling & virtual prototype creation Contact: #1546 & 1547, 19th Main Road, • System validation • FPGA Prototyping • VLSI Design services HSR Layout Sector 1, Bangalore - 560102 • Embedded Real Time Software / Hardware Development and Consulting Services Phone & Fax - +918025721449 • Development of Tool chain (Complier, Assembler, Linker, Simulator & Binutil e-mail :[email protected] development & GCC porting) Website : poseidon-systems.com

EDA career: Scope & Skill Sets

Rahul Arya Shrikant Shingane Marketing & Technical Sales Director Co-founder & Director Cadence Design Systems (I) Pvt Ltd Poseidon Design Systems

EDA provides a challenging career to engineering Most of the EDA company's & system design students from the electronics / computer science company's have set up there subsidiaries or branches fields. There is challenge and excitement of working in India. Indian student are known for there in a high-technology semiconductor design & analytical& technical ability hence sought after software development and there is the added worldwide to provide highly technical & skilled EDA advantage of exposure to customer's methodology & services. Indian defence organizations are project designs, which gives an all-round developing lot of systems where EDA tools are used perspective. creating opportunity for EDA jobs.

Skill Sets Skill Sets Bachelor's / Master's / PhD degree in Electronics Strong algorithm development skills, Knowledge of Engineering / Computer Science + course / elective in VLSI design, or advanced diploma course in VLSI design. computer architecture, Understanding of ASIC & FPA design flow, Exposure to EDA tool flow is added advantage. GREEN IT

Vivek Raghavan Kamal Aggarwal Managing Director & VP (CDBU) VP – Marketing and Strategy, MAGMA Design Automation India Pvt. Ltd. SoftJin Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

EDA Industry caters to a 240 billion dollar EDA presents an interesting cross-functional career Semiconductor Industry. With increasing portion of option for Indian engineering students. EDA is a designs been taped out from India of the big domain that involves core competence in Computer semiconductor companies, the opportunity for EDA Science & Engineer and at the same time knowledge careers in India is also increasing. Number of EDA of the VLSI/Semiconductor design. The domain is companies compared to semiconductor companies very dynamic with new technical challenges to solve is much less hence this industry demands for the best as the requirements from the semiconductor / of the engineering community who are driven by high electronics design industry change. passion of technology success. Skill Sets Skill Sets The Basic skill sets include the core Computer Science and As one of the top EDA companies, Magma looks for the Engineering skills such as Algorithm and Data Structure following qualifications when considering engineering Design, C/C++ Software development, specific techniques graduates: a B.Tech/M.Tech/Ph.D from a reputed school in to handle huge design data, compilers and GUI Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or Electronics development. Also, familiarity and knowledge of VLSI Design is a must. and Communication Engineering or in Microelectronics. Students should be very strong on programming techniques and concepts and alogorithms. Good hold on “C” is preferred. The knowledge, circuit design, VLSI, Sushil Gupta Vice President and Managing Director microprocessor, Digital signal processing etc is added plus.. Atrenta

The scope of EDA career for Indian engineering Manoj Singh students is very bright. The big and several small EDA Officer - Business Operations companies are always on the lookout for bright Silicon Interfaces people with EDA experience.

Today, India is one of the Business HUB of all the Skill Sets leading EDA Giants. Now all EDA companies are The basic skill sets required are a sound knowledge of tapping Indian Market by promoting their EDA tools electronic design principles specially digital design and & Design/Verification Methodology Knowledge with computer science. The company hire Electronics and Special Program offerings to the Indian Computer Science students from premier engineering Semiconductor Industry /Universities (Academics) & institutes. Training Institutes in India. So I would say in the coming future even sky wont be the limit for any India Engineering Student Choosing EDA Career, with the presence of Unlimited Scope & Gurunatham G V Excellent Job Opportunity within the Country. Managing Director Embedded Systems Solutions Pvt Ltd Skill Sets For Diploma students, EDA tool becomes part and The company is recruiting candidates with minimum 2+ yrs parcel of Hardware Design. They can contribute as relevant experience in VLSI Design/EDA Tools. assistants to Hardware Designers. As far as Degree The student should have understanding of Basic Logic Students are concerned their orientation towards Design Concepts, HDL language (Verilog, VHDL, S.V), EDA will add strength to their Hardware Design. along with basic knowledge of EDA training tool either in their Exposure to EDA Tools will help in career path in academic or through some Training Courses. electronic hardware designs. Attend the Training Program offered by Silicon Interfaces through Silicon Institute of Technology ( SIT) advanced Skill Sets VLSI/EDA Tool training program, their complete course modules are based on the present real world Global Knowledge on Hardware Design, Embedded systems Semiconductor Industry requirements. Design, Electronic Component Libraries, Schematic capture and net list concepts, placement & routing etc.