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“Career Opportunities for

Engineers in Semiconductor

Industry”

- Srinivas Raju. J Divisional Head, UTL Technologies Ltd.


Semiconductor Industry: A sunrise sector

Application Areas

VLSI and Embedded Design Life Cycles

Career Opportunities

Industry Expectations

Q & A

Contents


Semiconductor Industry – A Sunrise Sector


The semiconductor sector comprises Pre-Fabrication, Fabrication (FAB) and Post-Fabrication verticals.

In the last four years, the Indian semiconductor market has grown from about US$ 2.1 billion to about US$ 4.1 billion.

Further, semiconductor market is expected to reach US$ 23.3 billion in 2012.

India accounted for 1.3% of the global semiconductor revenue in 2007, and is expected to reach 1.62% by 2009

Semiconductor – A Sunrise Sector

Source: www.ibef.org


Embedded Electronics Value Chain1. System Level

Verification2. Identifying Sub

blocks3. RTL Code and

Structural Code

4. Logic Synthesis and Library Mapping

5. Digital Simulation

6. Place and Route (Cell)

7. Post layout simulation

8. Place and Route (Top Level)

9. Top level verification

10. Tape out


Semiconductor Design Industry in India


Reasons for growth in the semiconductor sector

The growing demand for IT hardware and office automation

products, and consumer electronics products such as mobile phones, automotive

products, etc., is spurring the demand for semiconductor and a

full-fledged semiconductor ecosystem in India

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Competitive landscape in semiconductor designing in India Top 10 Fabless Design Companies

19 of the top 25 semiconductor companies

125+ IC Design Companies

500+ Embedded Companies (MNCs and SMEs)

Strong Growth in Related Verticals (Automotive, Consumer electronics and durables, Telecommunications, Office automation, & IT Hardware)

Strong Academia (Large pool of Engg. workforce)

Cost Savings (Low operation cost)


Application Areas


Embedded Systems in a Automobile


Today, a car's electronics

cost more than the steel

used to build it, and high-end

cars can have more than 100 CPUs


Everything is Getting Connected


Apple Airport II

with iMac

The Connected Home

Sharp NC20Internet Screen Phone

Sony AirBoard IDT-LF1 Wireless

Internet TV

CMI Digital IceBoxKitchen Appliance

Polaroid CeivaInternet Picture Frame

Toshiba SD-9200DVD Player

Fuji Film FinePix 40iDigital Camera

Compaq iPaq Music Center

Digital Jukebox

Sony NW-E3Network Walkman

Media Server Gateway

B&O HDTV


Space Explorations:


Embedded in Smart Toys

Smart Toys


Medical Instruments More than one million patients

diagnosed with cancer in India every year

The CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System is the world's only roboticradiosurgery system designed to treat tumors anywhere in the body non-invasively

CyberKnife System to deliver high-doseradiation with pinpoint precision, which minimizes damage to surrounding healthy tissue and eliminates the need for invasive head or body stabilization frames

CyberKnife Radiosurgery


Innovative Products of the Year - PC World

Innovation isn't always about being smaller, better, and faster


The Future…


Design Life Cycle- VLSI Design- Embedded Systems Design


VLSI Design Flow

Advance DigitalDesign

DesignUsing VHDL

HDL / RTL Simulation

Post SynthesisSimulation

Implementation

Packaging Fabri-cation

PhysicalDesign

TechnologyMapping

Synthesis

SpecificationsSpecifications High-levelDescription

High-levelDescription

FunctionalDescription

FunctionalDescription

Placed& RoutedDesign

Placed& RoutedDesign

X=(AB*CD)+ (A+D)+(A(B+C))Y = (A(B+C)+AC+ D+A(BC+D))

Gate-levelDesign

Gate-levelDesign

LogicDescription

LogicDescription


Design Requirements Greater Complexity Less Area Increased Performance Low Power High Speed Design For Testability COST Time to Market


Design Challenges Today

Developers piece together various silicon building blocks to build systems

Development tools and RTOS for system components are traditionally from different suppliers

• System integration is an issue

New silicon technologies are driving this complexity• DSP/CPU hybrid instruction sets• Multicore architectures


Silicon Building Blocks

Good for generic control

Flexible use Widely adopted and

understood Combined with

peripherals for specific applications

Great for signal processing

Optimized for algorithmic calculations (MAC)

ISA optimized for specific applications

Low power

Parallel implementations

Reconfigurable hardware

Very fast Best throughput for

hardwired algorithms

†In this context CPU = GPP = traditional 32-bit processor


From Silicon to Systems

System complexity reduced through software abstraction e.g. RTOS

Concentrate on application, not underlying hardware topology

Support programming of multiple silicon building blocks in same system Common tools, common RTOS

services


Development Environment


Career Opportunities


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Career Opportunities in VLSI Industry

* Profiles mentioned in the pyramid may vary from company to company


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Career Opportunities in Embedded Systems Industry

* Profiles mentioned in the pyramid may vary from company to company


IndustryExpectations


Industry expectations


VLSI Companies….


VLSI Companies INTEL TATA ELXI Conexant

Technologies Dexcel Electronics

Designs Real Time Techno

Solutions Robert Bosch Synopsys India Pvt.

Ltd

CISCO Samsung (I)

Software Operations Pvt. Ltd.

SanDisk India Device Design Centre Pvt. Ltd.

Sasken Communication Technologies Limited

Sequence Design (India) Pvt. Ltd.


If you have any further queries, you can reach me at [email protected]

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