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

lectronics Design Automation (EDA) is the set of Esoftware tools used for chip design. With the growing use of semiconductor devices in India, EDA industry is witnessing an ample growth. The key focus areas for the EDA industry will be new design for manufacturing technologies as designs move to advanced nodes; verification and

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 technology and continue to innovate and develop design methods and tools capable of addressing new phenomena and design problems.Here we take a pleasure to introduce some of the leading EDA companies providing effective design tools which can rectify some of the challenges facing the industry today.

VAISHALI UMREDKAR

Electronics Design Automation

EDA

1. Cadence Design Systems (I) Pvt Ltd 2. MAGMA Design Automation India Pvt. Ltd.3. Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd4. SoftJin Technologies Pvt. Ltd.5. Atrenta6. Silicon Interfaces7. Embedded Systems Solutions Pvt Ltd8. Poseidon Design Systems

Companies Listed

Cadence Design Systems (I) Pvt Ltd (Since 1988)Cadence enables global electronic design innovation and plays an essential role in the creation of today's integrated circuits and electronics. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world to serve the global electronics industry.

Rahul Arya

Marketing &

Technical Sales Director

EDA Products & Services: Cadence offers solutions for advance node, low power and

mixed signal design, enterprise verification, system development, and software as a service.

Cadence offers products across the breadth and depth of VLSI design, include products for

system design and verification, functional verification, logic design, custom design, digital

implementation, RF design, PCB and IC packaging design and manufacturing signoff.

Contact: Noida office: Plot 57A, B & C, NSEZ , Noida Special Economic Zone, Noida,

201305 India Phone: +91-120-398 4000 Email: communications_india@cadence.com Website: www.cadence.com

EDA Products & Services: Magma Design Automation provides EDA software that

provides chip designers with the “Fastest Path to Silicon,”(tm) enabling them to meet critical time-to-market objectives, improve chip performance and handle multimillion-gate designs. 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 include Camelot and YieldManager.

MAGMA Design Automation India Pvt. Ltd. (Since 2003)Magma Design Automation is one of the largest,

fastest-growing providers of Electronic Design

Automation (EDA) software. Magma's EDA

software for IC implementation, analysis,

physical verification, circuit simulation and

characterization is recognized as embodying

the best in semiconductor technology, enabling

the world's top chip companies to "Design

Ahead of the Curve"™ while reducing design

time and costs

Vivek Raghavan

Managing Director

& VP (CDBU)

Contact: Prestige Tech Park, Jupiter (2A) Block, 2nd Floor, Sarjapur-Marathahalli Ring Road,

Kadabeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli, Bangalore 560 103, Tel: +91-80-40242 700Email: sales-india@magma-da.com, Website: www.magma-da.com

Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd (Since 1986)Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd (FMAL)

was establ ished in 1986 to provide

semiconductor sales and support solutions to

customers in Southeast Asia, India and Oceania.

FMAL offers a diverse array of application-

oriented semiconductor products and solutions

such as ASIC, ASSPs, microcontrollers /

microprocessors (FR-V), System Memory

(FRAM / FCRAM) and System LSIs (DVD MPEG

Source Decoders / MPEG –2 Encoders).

Toshihiko Tanaka

President

EDA Products & Services:Wafer Foundry Service ASICs(Semicustom)

Microcontrollers - FR Family, F²MC Family, Development Environment

ASSPs - WiMAX, H.264, Graphics Controllers, 1394 Automotive, USB 3.0-SATA Bridge ICs, SSCG, Power Management ICs

System Memory - FRAM, FCRAM™

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EDA Products & Services: SoftJin has expertise and experience in developing tools that

span the entire design spectrum including System design automation, Logic Design Automation, Physical Design Automation, Post Layout tools. SoftJin also has deep expertise in the areas of complex GUI development, OpenAccess based tool development, Design Flow and Validation Services. SoftJin offers EDA products in Post Layout and Mask Manufacturing Area. SoftJin's products in Post Layout areas include:

NxCompare is a fast and versatile comparison tool that can be used to compare any two

Layout or Mask databases.

NxDAT is software for efficient Analysis, Classification and Trend Analysis of Defects

identified by Mask Inspection Systems.

Nirmaan is a unique software development toolkit for EDA tool developers for accelerating

the development of optimized Post-Layout EDA tools, including DFM/DFY tools.SoftJin offers EDA Components targeted for FPGA and other Programmable Platform fabrics.

SoftJin Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (Since 2000)SoftJin is a growing technology company that provides innovative, customized software and design solutions enabling semiconductor design and manufacturing. SoftJin has a hybrid business model composed of mix of high-end R&D Services and differentiated Software Products. SoftJin offers customized Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software development solutions using a combination of EDA building blocks and custom software services.

Kamal Aggarwal

VP – Marketing and

Strategy

Contact : Unit No. 3, Level 8, Innovator, International Tech Park, Whitefield Road

Bangalore, India 560066 Phone No.: (91) 80-28419990Email:sg.enquiry@fmal.fujitsu.com Website: www.fmal.fujitsu.com

Contact: 102, 1st Floor, Mobius Tower, SJP iPark, EPIP, Whitefield

Bangalore – 560 066 Tel.: 91-80-41779999 Email: sales@softjin.com Website: www.softjin.com

Atrenta (Since 2001)

Sushil Gupta

Vice President and

Managing Director

EDA Products & Services: Atrenta's SpyGlass® and 1Team® product lines form a

complete, proven solution to achieve Early Design Closure. Atrenta tools provide an

environment to achieve certification of RTL/Netlist and constraints for predictable

implementation. These product families address issues with architecture capture, IP import

and chip assembly, synthesizability, CDC, power management, constraints management,

DFT and area, timing and power estimates. Atrenta's GuideWare™ reference methodologies

allow Early Design Closure solutions to easily fit into your existing design flows.

Available IP’s: Wireless - 802.11 a/b/g MAC, Bluetooth Baseband

Communication - USB2.0 Function Controller, USB On-the-Go, 1394, 8530, UART

Networking - Gigabit Ethernet MAC, 7990, SONET STS 1/3 Framer

Interconnect - Infiniband, Rapid IO

Microcontroller – 8051

Verification IP’s:OVCs - GEMAC, 1394

SV VMM - USB2.0

uVCs - 1394

eVCs / eRM - 1394, UART

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Silicon Interfaces (Since 1990)Silicon Interfaces is India's premium Design

Services company and provider of quality IP’s in

t h e W i r e l e s s N e t w o r k i n g a n d D a t a

Communication space.

In brief Silicon Interfaces ® offers Design,

Verification and Backend Services that include:

• Domain expertise in Wireless, Networking,

Communication and Interconnect.

• HDL implementation in SystemVerilog/

Verilog/ VHDL/SystemC.

• Targeted to SoC, ASIC and FPGAs.

• Proven, Mature Plug & Play Design IP Cores.

• Verification IPs in SystemVerilog /e based on

OVM/URM/ eRM Methodology.

• IC Physical Implementation, FPGA Validation

services & EDA Product Support Services.

Manoj Singh

Officer

Business Operations

Contact: A-9, Sector 4, Noida, 201 301, UP (India) Tel: +91-120-309-7800

Email: moreinfo@atrenta.com Website: www.atrenta.com

Contact: 606 Nirman Kendra, E-Moses Road, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai - 400011, India

Tel.: (+91-22) 2491 3024 / 2206 9450

Email: manoj@siliconinterfaces.com Website: www.siliconinterfaces.com

Atrenta is the leading provider of Early Design

Closure® solutions to radically improve design

efficiency throughout the IC design flow.

Customers benefit from Atrenta tools and

methodologies to capture design intent, explore

implementation alternatives, validate RTL and

optimize designs early, before expensive and

time-consuming detailed implementation.

Atrenta provides the most comprehensive

solution in the industry for Early Design Closure.

EDA

Embedded Systems Solutions Pvt Ltd (Since 1996)Vendors for Hardware & Software Development Tools for Embedded SystemsThe company is Value Added Resellers in India for ALTIUM Ltd., Australia (www.altium.com)EDA Products from ALTIUM are : Altium Designer, NanoBoard 2 and Nanoboad 3000.

Gurunatham G V

Managing Director

EDA Products & Services: Altium Designer – A single solution to develop hardware, programmable hardware and software allows to take designs from concept to manufacture within a single unified environment. Nanoboard 2 : The NanoBoard NB2 enhances your ability to design, implement and debug an 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, 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 you today. 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 Designer Soft Design license.

Contact: #37, ‘Embedded Home’, 36th Cross, II

Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore-560010

Tel: (91) 80 23521165, 23577924, 23126100

Email: sales@embeddedindia.com

Website: www.embeddedindia.com

Poseidon Design Systems (Since 2002)Poseidon Design Systems provides innovative Electronic System Level (ESL) solutions for embedded system design. Poseidon offers breakthrough technologies in hardware/ software analysis, co-simulation, and hardware synthesis to help reduce the complexity and cost of designing Systems on Chips (SoCs) and Systems on FPGA's. Poseidon's team represents convergence of four vital areas: system architecture, hardware design, software design and development. Poseidon's products are built upon its unique Architectural Description methodology, powerful retarget able tool generation technology and innovative hardware-software partitioning technology.

Shrikant Shingane

Co-founder & Director

EDA Products & Services

Poseidon's Triton Tool Suite: Tuner and Builder: Poseidon's Triton Tool Suite,

enables you rapidly and predictably analyzes, optimize, and accelerate processor-based architectures. With Triton Tuner's SystemC simulation environment, you can develop robust efficient processor architectures. The Triton tool suite enables design architects to achieve higher system throughput, reduced power consumption, and cost, as well as shorten design cycles.

Poseidon's C2RTL Tool: Poseidon's C2RLT is a high level synthesis tool for ASIC and

FPGA market. The Poseidon's C-to-RTL High level synthesis framework takes in behavioral ANSI-C code as input and produces highly optimized, correct by construction RTL code. This framework allows system designers to explore and design hardware subsystem with various communication interfaces by enabling Hardware Designers to interactively and quickly explore different micro-architecture and communication interface design space.

Poseidon offers following services in EDA & ESL domain:Consulting to establish ESL tools flow System modeling & virtual prototype creation

System validation FPGA Prototyping VLSI Design services

Embedded Real Time Software / Hardware Development and Consulting Services

Development of Tool chain (Complier, Assembler, Linker, Simulator & Binutil

development & GCC porting)

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Contact: #1546 & 1547, 19th Main Road,

HSR Layout Sector 1, Bangalore - 560102 Phone & Fax - +918025721449e-mail :Shree@poseidon-systems.com Website : poseidon-systems.com

EDA career: Scope & Skill Sets

Rahul Arya Marketing & Technical Sales Director Cadence Design Systems (I) Pvt Ltd

EDA provides a challenging career to engineering students from the electronics / computer science fields. There is challenge and excitement of working in a high-technology semiconductor design & software development and there is the added advantage of exposure to customer's methodology & project designs, which gives an all-round perspective.

Bachelor's / Master's / PhD degree in Electronics

Engineering / Computer Science + course / elective in VLSI

design, or advanced diploma course in VLSI design.

Skill Sets

EDA

Shrikant Shingane Co-founder & DirectorPoseidon Design Systems

Most of the EDA company's & system design company's have set up there subsidiaries or branches in India. Indian student are known for there analytical& technical ability hence sought after worldwide to provide highly technical & skilled EDA services. Indian defence organizations are developing lot of systems where EDA tools are used creating opportunity for EDA jobs.

Strong algorithm development skills, Knowledge of

computer architecture, Understanding of ASIC & FPA design

flow, Exposure to EDA tool flow is added advantage.

Skill Sets

GREEN IT

Vivek RaghavanManaging Director & VP (CDBU)MAGMA Design Automation India Pvt. Ltd.

EDA Industry caters to a 240 billion dollar

Semiconductor Industry. With increasing portion of

designs been taped out from India of the big

semiconductor companies, the opportunity for EDA

careers in India is also increasing. Number of EDA

companies compared to semiconductor companies

is much less hence this industry demands for the best

of the engineering community who are driven by high

passion of technology success.

As one of the top EDA companies, Magma looks for the

following qualifications when considering engineering

graduates: a B.Tech/M.Tech/Ph.D from a reputed school in

Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or Electronics

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,

microprocessor, Digital signal processing etc is added plus..

Skill Sets The Basic skill sets include the core Computer Science and Engineering skills such as Algorithm and Data Structure Design, C/C++ Software development, specific techniques to handle huge design data, compilers and GUI development. Also, familiarity and knowledge of VLSI Design is a must.

Skill Sets

Kamal Aggarwal VP – Marketing and Strategy, SoftJin Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

EDA presents an interesting cross-functional career option for Indian engineering students. EDA is a domain that involves core competence in Computer Science & Engineer and at the same time knowledge of the VLSI/Semiconductor design. The domain is very dynamic with new technical challenges to solve as the requirements from the semiconductor / electronics design industry change.

Manoj SinghOfficer - Business OperationsSilicon Interfaces

The company is recruiting candidates with minimum 2+ yrs relevant experience in VLSI Design/EDA Tools. The student should have understanding of Basic Logic Design Concepts, HDL language (Verilog, VHDL, S.V), along with basic knowledge of EDA training tool either in their academic or through some Training Courses. Attend the Training Program offered by Silicon Interfaces through Silicon Institute of Technology ( SIT) advanced VLSI/EDA Tool training program, their complete course modules are based on the present real world Global Semiconductor Industry requirements.

Skill Sets

Today, India is one of the Business HUB of all the leading EDA Giants. Now all EDA companies are tapping Indian Market by promoting their EDA tools & Design/Verification Methodology Knowledge with Special Program offerings to the Indian Semiconductor Industry /Universities (Academics) & 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 & Excellent Job Opportunity within the Country.

Gurunatham G V Managing DirectorEmbedded Systems Solutions Pvt Ltd

For Diploma students, EDA tool becomes part and parcel of Hardware Design. They can contribute as assistants to Hardware Designers. As far as Degree Students are concerned their orientation towards EDA will add strength to their Hardware Design. Exposure to EDA Tools will help in career path in electronic hardware designs.

Knowledge on Hardware Design, Embedded systems

Design, Electronic Component Libraries, Schematic capture

and net list concepts, placement & routing etc.

Skill Sets

Sushil GuptaVice President and Managing DirectorAtrenta

The basic skill sets required are a sound knowledge of

electronic design principles specially digital design and

computer science. The company hire Electronics and

Computer Science students from premier engineering

institutes.

Skill Sets

The scope of EDA career for Indian engineering

students is very bright. The big and several small EDA

companies are always on the lookout for bright

people with EDA experience.