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President’s message
February 21 & 22 2011 Hotel Taj West End, Bangalore An Overview Dear Leader, The excitement is building up as the day draws closer. We have a line-up of world-class speakers on both the days of Vision Summit; there are sector-specific sessions that will focus on opportunities, market trends, and policy directives; and overseas delegations are expected. The theme for Vision Summit 2011 is Electronic Systems Innovation: India’s opportunity to drive global markets. Speakers from industry, government, and academia will provide a vision for the industry for the years ahead. ISA has been fostering an environment of innovation and entrepreneurship in the country. You will find focused sessions on these areas. The coveted ISA Technovation Awards 2011 that recognize and honor innovation will be presented during the conference. We’re delighted to see the excellent response from delegates for the conference. Support from the government, sponsors, and ISA members has been great. I look forward to seeing you at Vision Summit 2011. We are confident you’ll find it inspiring, insightful, and useful. Best wishes,
Special Guest of honor:
ISA Vision Summit, the flagship annual conference of ISA, is entering its sixth year in 2011. The conference is on 21 and 22 February 2011 at Hotel Taj West End, Bangalore. ISA Vision Summit 2011 is slated to be a high-powered conclave with the participation of global and Indian leaders from the Electronic Systems, Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) industry. Over 300 business delegates from across the world attended ISA Vision Summit 2010. The conference this year is expected to draw global business and technology leaders, influencers, policy-makers, entrepreneurs, and the media. The conference will have focused sessions on sector opportunities, market trends, and policy directives; exclusive sessions with innovators and business networking opportunities. ISA will present the prestigious Technovation Awards 2011 at the conference.
Keynote address: Market & business dynamics in emerging markets Sessions: • Healthcare & education: Next frontier in multi-disciplinary system design • Telecom & consumer products: Driving global markets through local innovations • Energy efficiency: Energy saved is energy produced Inauguration of Technovation Exhibition Ashok Kumar Manoli, IAS, Principal Secretary, Department of IT & BT, Government of Karnataka
Electronic Systems Innovation: India’s opportunity to drive global markets
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Chief guest: Dr. N Seshagiri Former Special Secretary, Department of IT and Planning Commission and Founder Director General, National Informatics Centre Government of India Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt Chair, UK India Business Council (UKIBC)
Aerospace & Defence Industrial
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Guest of honor: Poornima Shenoy President - ISA
Dr. Ajay Kumar IAS Joint Secretary Department of Information Technology Government of India
Keynote address: • Fueling the next wave of innovation & growth Sessions: • Idea to product to markets: Entrepreneur’s journey. Two sides of the same coin • Innovation for masses: disruptive technologies, a key market driver
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‘India is well-positioned to leverage the extreme benefits of programmable platforms’ • What is the ‘programmable imperative’ and will the trend of PLDs gaining marketshare from ASICs and ASSPs continue? ‘Programmable imperative’ describes the critical need for programmability to address the myriad challenges customers face when developing products in today’s competitive environment. A product must have differentiated capabilities, while being the first to market. ASSPs have enabled customers to get their products to market quickly but it cannot provide the differentiated features necessary to compete in today’s marketplace. ASIC development is expensive and hence impractical, except for high volume designs. ASICs also suffer from long development cycles and, ultimately, significantly hinder time-to-market. The ROI for custom silicon can only be justified for a small set of ultra-high volume applications. The continued decline in both ASIC and ASSP design, and the precipitous decline of the overall ASIC market has been visible over the past few years. In contrast, in 2010 the programmable logic market grew at a rate four times greater than the ASIC market, and twice that of the ASSP market. Our ability to invest and fully exploit the benefits of the industry’s leading-edge semiconductor technologies is fueling its adoption. The result is an FPGA that is highly disruptive when compared to an ASIC or ASSP built using a more mature semiconductor manufacturing process node. The disparity in the underlying semiconductor process technology can significantly change the cost equation—rendering the programmability benefits of FPGA virtually free. We can draw a parallel between FPGA and digital photography. As digital photography approached the cost and quality of traditional 35mm photography, it made the 35mm-film obsolete. We expect a similar trend in the FPGA market. Increasingly, FPGAs have become the de facto standard for low-cost innovation in low- to mid-volume applications. We expect this trend to accelerate in 2011 with the rollout of next-generation 28nm device platforms. Financial analyst Hans Mosesmann of
Raymond James asserts that the PLD industry is “on the cusp of taking ownership of a US$15 to US$20 billion market formerly in the camp of ASICs”.
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February 21 & 22 2011 Hotel Taj West End, Bangalore VS Platinum sponsor Moshe Gavrielov, President & Chief Executive Officer, Xilinx Inc. speaks to IQ on programmable logic taking over as the semiconductor technology of the future Programmable logic holds the promise of enabling India to play a more significant role in the broader electronics equipment industry as it is truly the industry’s lowest cost platform for innovation and product development. ASIC development requires large up-front investments in software tools, nonrecurring engineering and sizable engineering teams with expertise in a multitude of areas associated with the detailed fabrication of a chip. In contrast, FPGAs require only a modest investment in software tools, and there are no non-recurring costs or investments in engineering teams typically associated with ASIC chip design.
Programmable logic holds the promise of enabling India to play a more significant role in the broader electronics equipment industry as it is truly the industry’s lowest cost platform for innovation and product development.
Indian companies have fewer shackles associated with ‘the previous way of doing things’ or the need to amortize large investments, such as foundries or ASIC design teams. India is well-poised to adopt leapfrogging technologies, such as programmable platforms, to catapult its participation in the electronics industry. In India, over 425,000 engineers graduate annually; the majority of them are wellversed in FPGA design. India generates over US$2.5 billion in EMS revenue annually; a large portion of this workforce is competent in FPGA design. India is well-positioned to leverage the extreme benefits of programmable platforms, enabling the country to play an even greater role in fostering innovation across a broad range of applications and end markets currently served by the semiconductor industry.
• Please outline the growth potential for the programmable and logic devices market in India and globally?
• What challenges do you expect for the FPGA industry in the near future, and how does Xilinx propose to meet these challenges?
Moshe Gavrielov
President & Chief Executive Officer Xilinx Inc.
Prospects are bright for Xilinx and our industry, globally and in India. In 2010, consensus among analysts was that the PLD market would shatter its previous high water mark set in 2000 at US$3.8 billion, emerging as the third fastest growing segment of the semiconductor industry and growing by about 45 percent to US$4.8 billion. By 2014, IC Insights projects the PLD market to more than double from 2009 levels to US$7 billion.
Xilinx will continue to invest in three key areas to foster low cost innovation and bring the benefits of programmability to a broader base of engineers. • Improved ease of use: Targeted Design Platforms reduce design time through the use of ‘Socketable IP’ and platform-based solutions that deliver many of the lower level IP building blocks that can consume
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UKTI-ISA partnership: reach out to, warm up, and help high-tech high-growth Indian companies
February 21 & 22 2011 Hotel Taj West End, Bangalore
Sunish Jauhari, Senior Trade and Investment Adviser, UKTI, Bangalore talks to IQ on what the future holds for the UKTI-ISA relationship
Sunish Jauhari
Senior Trade and Investment Adviser UKTI, Bangalore
• What are some of the technology and marketing strategies of UKTI for India in the semiconductor and electronics space? Semiconductors and electronics is one of the priority segments in the UKTI ICT marketing strategy for India. UKTI is working closely with the private and public sectors to identify opportunities for UK and Indian companies to join hands, bring innovation on board, and develop products and solutions for the Indian and the overseas markets. UKTI’s Enabling Innovation India program, which was launched by Dr. Vince Cable, UK Business Secretary, in July 2010 in Bangalore, aims at providing all the support to SMEs with cutting-edge technology, and know-how to develop appropriate solutions for the massive Indian market. To achieve this, UKTI will work with partners such as ISA to reach out to, warm up, and help the high-tech high-growth Indian companies. The program is a win-win approach to creating sustainable cross-border partnerships and is already delivering good results.
• India is viewed as a gateway to other economies. How does UKTI plan to leverage the unique needs of India in the various market verticals? UK is rich in innovation. Indian companies have remarkable talent, ambition, and scale. The marriage of UK innovation, and Indian scale and talent has potential to create solutions not only for the Indian market, but for many other markets that Indian companies already have or are likely to have a presence in. UK technology, which has a unique mix, is well-equipped to serve the different needs of the various market verticals. Both high value as well as high volume product development is being catered to with companies like PicoChip and ARM impacting the high value technology segment. Companies like BP Solar represent UK’s contribution in developing high volume and socially responsible businesses.
• Could you highlight some of UKTI’s key initiatives to boost trade between India and UK in the semiconductor and electronics sectors in 2011? UKTI’s Enabling Innovation India program is a key initiative launched in July 2010. This will help UK and Indian companies to create solutions for the
Indian and the overseas markets. The other programs include UKTI’s R&D Programme, which helps Indian companies with their R&D needs, and also the Global Entrepreneurs Programme that helps young high tech high growth start-ups in setting up their ecosystem by introducing strategic funding sources, technology mentors, and partners. UKTI’s Global Value Chain program helps large Indian service providers, system integrators and manufacturers by identifying and facilitating technology partners that could enhance their competitiveness in global markets.
• What kinds of UK companies are participating at Vision Summit 2011 and what are your expectations from the Summit? UK companies participating at ISA Vision Summit include companies from electronic systems design and consulting, independent hardware testing, security and surveillance, digital radio communications, electronics systems education, and leadership training segments. Our expectation is to bring business value to the participating UK companies by conducting fruitful interactions through one-onone meetings and networking events, knowledge and market intelligence through the conference, and market experience for first-time visitors.
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meaningful R&D design time and effort with limited return. • Deliver new programmable platforms: The 7-series FPGA family is based on state-of-the-art 28nm semiconductor process technology. The 7-series FPGAs will continue to fuel the ‘programmable imperative’, by setting a new bar in the industry in power-efficiency, capacity, performance, and system bandwidth. • Extend our technologies to address the needs of the embedded market: Based on the ARM processor, the Extensible Processing Platform will appeal to both FPGA hardware designers and embedded systems designers. FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY
• With digital lifestyle fast becoming a reality across the globe, what opportunities do you see for the FPGA market? A digital lifestyle is leading to an insatiable demand for bandwidth. According to current estimates, it would take 72 million years to watch all video content expected to cross global IP networks in 2014. And with ‘everything over IP’ going mobile, the demand will tax the wired and wireless infrastructure. This demand for bandwidth is bringing the global communications infrastructure ‘to its knees’. The cost, complexity, and lengthy design cycles associated with custom chip design are being abandoned in favor of
programmable – FPGA – technologies. FPGAs deliver system level bandwidth, performance, flexibility, and time-to-market that are critical to this rapidly growing and evolving market. Wireless carriers now demand platforms based on software defined radio with performance footprints that can only be addressed using FPGAs. A communications infrastructure based on FPGAs will address the requirements in India as it prepares to deploy 3Gwireless networks. Moreover, as the world continues to move towards an ‘everything digital’ lifestyle, whether it’s in equipment driving content creation, or content consumption, it’s a safe bet that you will find programmable logic inside that equipment.
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ISA delegations Indian electronics industry representatives in UK
Sony team visits India
A high-level delegation from Sony Japan visited ISA member companies in Bangalore and NCR during January 11-13.
UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) and ISA have been working towards increased collaboration between universities and companies in both the countries. ISA organized a delegation from the Indian electronics industry to UK during December 2010. The delegation had two main objectives: providing an appropriate platform in both the countries for networking among SMEs and exploring areas of technical collaboration. Delegates participated in Technology World 2010 (TW10), an international event organized by UKTI in London.
The team comprised of Makoto Ishii, Senior General Manager, Sony Corp. Japan; Yoshihito Kondo, General Manager, Sony Corp. Japan; Masanobu Okabe, General Manager, Sony Corp. Japan; Dr. Sandeep Chennakeshu, Senior Advisor, Sony Corporation of America; and Koji Hasegawa, Division Head, Software Architecture Division (SARD), Bangalore.
Delegation to MAP 2010, Fukuoka
The delegates had networking opportunities with representatives from business schools, technology companies, UK business community, and the UK government. Rt. Hon Patricia Hewitt, Chair, UKIBC, spoke on leveraging the strengths in India and UK for mutual benefit. She also encouraged partnerships between Indian and British entrepreneurs. The four-day visit included a VIP networking lunch hosted by UKTI and addressed by Lord Brittan, Trade Advisor to the UK Prime Minister. There was also a roundtable discussion on ‘Experiences of UK India Technology Collaboration’ hosted by His Excellency, Nalin Surie, IFS, High Commission of India, and chaired by Hon’ble Minister, Sachin Pilot.
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ISA led a delegation to Microelectronics Assembly and Packaging (MAP) Fukuoka, Japan during November 15-19. It was undertaken as part of the 2008 MoU between ISA and Asia Semiconductor Trading Support Association (ASTSA). Delegates included Dr. Saji Salkalachen, Additional GM- Semiconductor Devices and Photovoltaics, BHEL, Bangalore; Dr. Vidya Mulky, ISA; Anil Gupta, MD & CEO, Metalogic Circuits; and Nachiket Urdhwareshe, CEO, Softjin Technologies. As part of the ‘Invited Talks’ series, ISA was invited to make a presentation that was well-received by the delegates. The presentation was on Electronic Systems Design & Manufacturing (ESDM) landscape: vision of ISA. There was a panel discussion on the ASTSA-ISA MoU to discuss the future course and possible areas of collaboration. Panelists included Zhihua Wang, Head- Beijing Semiconductor Industry Association (BSIA); Dr. Vidya Mulky, ISA; Head, IMAPSKorea and Zabidi Mahbar, Director- MIDA- Malaysia. ISA also presented a case study of the collaborations with Country Partner UK, which includes research report, events, delegations, and Technovation Awards. Officials of the ASTSA, Fukuoka City Prefecture and Kyushu Economic Research Center KERC appreciated the efforts undertaken. The delegation also held one-on-one meetings with Tokuyama Corporation (LED) and Nikon Tec (wafer manufacturing equipment). Both the companies expressed interest in exploring business opportunities in the Indian market. Factory visits to HydroTec (Fukuoka) and Mitsubishi Corporation (Nagasaki) were also part of the four-day event. Mitsubishi Corporation is a business unit focusing on manufacturing solar PV modules.
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Research ISA report on medical electronics
Study on attracting investments for semiconductor fab The Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India, along with Keystone Strategy LLC, is conducting a study to formulate a comprehensive strategy that can enhance a thriving semiconductor fab industry in India. The fab industry will fill the gaps in the current semiconductor ecosystem. The study is expected to complete by mid2011. The deliverables of the study are: • A comprehensive study for attracting investment for setting up semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities in the country. • Current semiconductor fab landscape and the value an Indian fab hub could add to the ecosystem so that the Indian design capabilities can also be better leveraged to increase value addition in the electronics products manufactured in the country.
In December 2010, ISA released a sector report stating the opportunities available in the Indian medical electronics field. Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty, Chairman, Narayana Hrudalaya, and ISA medical electronics segment adviser released the report. Also present at the event were Poornima Shenoy, President, ISA; Dr. Bobby Mitra, Chairman, ISA, and Vivek Sharma, Convenor, ISA medical electronics segment. The main conclusions of the report were: • The overall healthcare market in India is valued at Rs. 300,000 crore, of which medical electronics is valued at Rs. 3850 crore.
• Optimal models for how the government can partner with industry to optimize incentives, foster innovation and enable a self-sustaining industry • Relevant inputs on potential investors, their future plans, willingness to set up such facilities outside, including India, infrastructure requirements, Government support etc.
Report on semicon and embedded design services ISA-DIT-EYI report
• The growth in the Indian medical electronics market is mainly due to the following key factors:
The Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India, together with Ernst & Young India carried out a study that is due for release in April 2011. The main objectives of the study are to:
> Changing demographics and an age profile which is conducive for increased healthcare spending,
• Conduct a comprehensive study on semiconductor and embedded design services industry
> Rising number of lifestyle diseases and the consequent need for diagnosing the same,
• Analyze the global semiconductor design and embedded software industry and India’s positioning therein at present and in future
> Public-private partnerships being used to fill in the gaps in healthcare infrastructure,
• Projections for the industry revenues and investments in the short-term (1-2 years) and mid-term (3-4 years), with analysis and bring out the growth opportunities
• Semiconductors are an essential part right from power supply to display in medical equipment.
> Rise in medical tourism, > Increase in healthcare insurance, and thereby, increased healthcare expenditure, and > Corporate entry into the healthcare arena Dr. Vidya Mulky, Head-Research, ISA expects the medical equipment electronics market to grow at a CAGR of 17 percent by the end of 2015, touching US$2 billion, an increase from US$ 0.8 billion in 2009. Vivek Sharma states that with 17 percent of the world’s population living in India, there are immense opportunities to enhance people’s lives as well as grow business. Medical electronics is a critical enabler for the semiconductor industry with the introduction of telemedicine, nanotechnology, and innovative semiconductor devices. The industry is now well poised to thrust India into the next level of quality by capitalizing on the dimensions of accessibility and affordability.
• Estimate the workforce demand/supply scenario over the next 3-5 years and suggest measures to address the gap • Study the status of intellectual property in India and make suggestions to enhance creation of IP in India • Serve as a useful reference for various interest groups such as, the education segment, the industry segment and the government (from policy perspective) The primary expectations of the study are to draw key industry insights. It would include an analysis of the Indian and global semiconductor design and the embedded software and services industry. It would benchmark India with leading countries to evaluate the ecosystem preparedness for the next step. And it would contain a set of recommendations and a roadmap to achieve the next growth stage.
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Research ISA-Frost & Sullivan: India semiconductor market update, 2010-2012 The report, which is scheduled for an April release, has the following objectives: • Market estimation and forecasts for various semiconductor products till 2012 to be provided • Highlights key growth areas for the period, 2010-2012 • Contract manufacturing and its contribution to the domestic market • Application segments studied include mobile devices, telecom, IT & OA, consumer electronics, industrial electronics, automotive electronics, and others (aerospace, defense, medical electronics and smart cards.
ISA Member Directory 2011 ISA Member Directory is an annual publication of ISA. The ISA Member Directory 2011 is the sixth edition in the series. The directory gives a comprehensive list of all member companies as on January 30, 2011. The directory is the only comprehensive compilation of companies in the semiconductor industry in India. ISA members include design companies, the emerging manufacturing sector of ATMPs and solar fabs, legal firms, venture capitalists, and academic institutes. The directory is a one-point reference for data on member companies. Data provided includes the company profile, products and services offered, segments addressed, number of employees, patents filed and issued, awards and certifications won by the member companies.
ISA-DIT-EYI report Core Initiative Group
> MindTree Ltd. • Vinod Deshmukh (Convener)
> HCL Technologies Ltd. • Manjunath Hebbar
> IBM (I) Pvt. Ltd.• M Harish
• Vivek Tyagi (Convener)
> L&T-IES (Integrated Engineering Services) • Ramesh Babu
• Raghavan S • Samir Sawant • Guruprasad
> LSI India Research & Development Pvt. Ltd. • Guna Bala > MindTree Ltd. • Subrata Saha
> Element14 (I) Pvt. Ltd. > Freescale Semiconductor (I) Pvt. Ltd.
> Infineon Technologies (I) Pvt. Ltd.
> Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd. • P Sridhar
> Synopsys (I) Pvt. Ltd. • Dr. H V Ananda
> Texas Instruments (I) Pvt. Ltd. • Narendra Nath > Wipro Technologies • Prasad Bhatt
ISA-F&S: India semiconductor market update, 2011-2013
> Analog Devices (I) Pvt. Ltd.
> Arrow Electronics
• Rajiv Kapoor
> Cosmic Circuits Pvt. Ltd.
• R Chandran
> Broadcom (I) Pvt. Ltd.
• Rajesh Gopalakrishna
> Avnet
• Samson Sudhir
> Audiocodes
• CM Menon • K. Sunil
• Rupak Ghayal
> DAC International
• DA Mohan
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• Ramesh Babu
> NatSem India Designs Pvt. Ltd. • Narendra Badve
> NXP Semiconductors (I) Pvt. Ltd
• Ashok Chandak • Nischal Muchakani • Vishal Suresh
• Ajesh Kapoor
Core Initiative Group
• Sanket Bandyopadhyay
> Microchip Technology (I) Pvt. Ltd.
• Sanat Rao
> Maxim India Integrated Circuit Design Pvt. Ltd.
• Ravi Kishore • Senthil Srinivasan • Amit Agrawal
> Intel Technology (I) Pvt. Ltd.
> Qualcomm (I) Pvt. Ltd. • Mukul Tikotkar
• Ravi Pagar
> Osram (I) Pvt. Ltd.
• Pradeep Kumar • R V Puranik • Deepak Agrawal
> Texas Instruments (I) Pvt. Ltd.
• Dr. Aloknath De
> STMicroelectronics Pvt. ltd.
• Yashoranjan KV
> ST - Ericsson (I) Pvt. ltd.
• Anil Kempanna
> Renesas Electronics Singapore Pte Ltd.
• Sanjeev Keskar
> Qualcomm (I) Pvt. ltd.
• Padmanabha Gowda
> PMC-Sierra (I) Pvt. Ltd.
• Srinivasa Kasa
> Xilinx India Technology Services Pvt. ltd.
• Neeraj Varma
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ISA events CXO conclave
Women’s Forum meeting
The ISA CXO Conclave was held on January 13, 2011 in Bangalore. The topic for discussion was ‘New applications in semiconductors (smart grid & secure transactions) – role semiconductors play to make our society a better place!’. The speaker for the event was Dr. René Penning de Vries, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, NXP Semiconductors. Dr. René Penning de Vries touched upon the role semiconductors play in two of the societal mega trends: energy and security.
ISA Women’s Forum organized an interactive session with Steve Lyle, Director, Diversity and Workforce Development, Texas Instruments. The meeting was in Bangalore on December 1. The main objectives of the ISA Women’s Forum are to provide visibility to promising role models, create networking opportunities among women executives of ISA member companies, and develop a pipeline of talent within the ESDM and the semiconductor industry.
The ISA CXO conclave event was a success in terms of the member participation. The event started with a networking breakfast and concluded with a book signing.
NCR chapter: distinguished speaker series
Lyle spoke about the unique practices that encourage and help in implementing diversity and inclusion in companies. Sharada Satrasala from Texas Instruments, who is the convenor of the forum, chaired the meeting. Dr. Kiranmai Pendyala (AMD), Chitra Hariharan (Concept2Silicon), Dr. Lakshmi (IEEE), Nivruti Rai (Intel) and Viji Ranganna (Qualcomm) made presentations. Other members who attended the session were Rejeena Rani (Bharat Electronics), Dr. Moitreyee Roy (IBM), Shanthi Narayanan (Qualcomm), and Champaka Ramachandran (Synopsys). Poornima Shenoy, President, Dr. Vidya Mulky, Chandrika Anil and Suriya Kala represented ISA. Sanjay Bhan, Director HR, Texas Instruments introduced Lyle and spoke about his contributions in the area of diversity and inclusion in the company.
The solar future in India Solarplaza organized a conference with the support of ISA. The solar PV conference focused on the Indian market, incentives, industry, and power plants. It was held in New Delhi on January 24-25. ISA members of the solar and renewable energy group participated in the event as speakers and delegates.
ISA NCR chapter organized the Distinguished Speaker Series at Cadence Design Systems, Noida on November 1. Jayaram Bhasker, Architect, eSilicon Corporation was the main speaker for the event. He spoke on ‘Story of HDLs : My Perspective’. Bhasker is a well-known author and an expert in the area of hardware description languages and RTL synthesis. He has several publications in journals and conferences and he has also written many books on VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog, SystemC, and more recently, on static timing analysis. The areas under focus for the Distinguished Speaker Series were hardware description languages and RTL synthesis. Around 80 members of the NCR chapter attended the event. Attendees also included senior design engineers, design managers, EDA professionals, graduate level students, and faculty of engineering institutes On December 7, the NCR chapter organized another session. Dr. Walden C. Rhines, Chairman & CEO of Mentor Graphics, addressed the session hosted at the company’s facility in Noida. Dr. Rhines spoke on the dynamics of the design automation industry. Around 40 members of the NCR chapter attended the event.
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New members CSR (I) Pvt. Ltd.
Maverick Wireless Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Maxim (I) Pvt. Ltd.
Excel Industries Ltd.
Saffron Embedded Software Labs Pvt. Ltd.
Harman International (I) Pvt. Ltd.
Secure Meters Ltd.
K&S Partners
Seer Akademi Pvt. Ltd.
Osram (I) Pvt. Ltd.
Varroc Enginnering Pvt. Ltd.
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ISA events ISA members’ meet
The Pinkerton lecture
ISA held a members’ meet in Bangalore on November 17. The objective of the meeting was to discuss a proposal for changes in the association’s name and the membership fee structure. The members’ meet was supported by National Instruments India. A panel discussion on various segments followed the meeting. The following individuals presented updates on the various activities and initiatives in their respective segments during the event: Nischal Muchakani - NXP (automotive), Jitendra Chaddah - Intel (education), Arun Jain - Texas Instruments (industrial), Dr. Anand Anandkumar - Cellworks (medical electronics), Dr. Madhusudan Atre Applied Materials (solar), and Anirudh Mathuria - Nokia India (telecom).
ISA was the supporting association partner for the Pinkerton Lecture held on November 26 in Bangalore at Infosys Technologies Ltd. The Pinkerton Lecture is held in honor of John Pinkerton, who developed the world’s first computer designed for business applications. The topic for the lecture was ‘The relentless march of the microchip’. The main speaker was Professor Steve Furber, University of Manchester, UK. Infosys Founder & Chairman, N. R. Narayana Murthy was present at the event.
Karnataka Semiconductor Policy workshop The Department of IT & BT and KBITS, Government of Karnataka organized a half-day workshop in Bangalore on January 28. The Government of Karnataka had announced the State Semiconductor policy at ISA Vision Summit 2010 last February. The workshop was organized to discuss the modalities of the semicon policy and create awareness about it among the stakeholders. The key issues addressed during the workshop were: • Brief about industrial scenario in Karnataka and Karnataka facilitation act procedures • Brief about the activities of STPI and SEZ schemes • Facilities at characterization lab • Initiatives of semiconductor policy • Fiscal incentives offered as per Karnataka Industrial Policy 2009-14, along with details of procedures for claiming the incentives • Procedures on filing and obtaining patent • Scope and incentives to solar farms • Procedures to avail the financial assistance • Details of Karnataka Semiconductor Fund
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Monday February 21, 2011 9.45 am to 10.15 am Senate Hall
Celebrating Excellence in Electronics...
Inauguration of Technovation Exhibition Ashok Kumar Manoli IAS Principal Secretary, Department of IT and BT Government of Karnataka
6.30 pm onwards Prince of Wales lawns
ISA Technovation Awards 2011 & CEO Networking Reception Guests of Honor Dr. Debesh Das Minister in Charge, Department of IT Government of West Bengal Richard Hyde British Deputy High Commissioner, Bangalore
Banquet Speaker and Chief Guest Technovation Awards 2011 Viswanathan Anand Indian Chess Grandmaster and World Chess Champion
The ISA Technovation Awards 2011 winners
ISA Technovation Awards Jury Chairman Ashok Soota Executive Chairman MindTree Ltd. Members Prof. Ashok Misra Chairman Intellectual Ventures India Dr. Anil Menon President, Globalization and Smart Connected Communities Cisco Systems Inc.
ISA - UKTI TechnoVisionary Award Prof. Rao R Tummala
Professor & Director 3D Systems PRC, Georgia Institute of Technology
ISA - Webel TechnoMentor Award
Rajiv Mody Chairman and CEO Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd.
Prof. Vikram Kumar
Professor, Department of Physics & CARE, IIT Delhi
Start-up to Watch E-Parisaraa Pvt Ltd. Bangalore Rural District
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REVOLO Hybrid Electric Motor Solution KPIT Cummins & Bharat Forge Pune
Honorable Mention
High Voltage Relay Driver ASIC Bharat Electronics Ltd. Bangalore
• Student Category Low power wideband A/D converter Vikas Singh IIT Madras
Honorable Mention
Device for detection of diabetic neuropathy
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Special Mention for serial innovator
M K Narang
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