Saankhya Labs nominated for EETimes ACE Awards

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Bangalore based startup, Saankhya Labs’ Universal TV demodulator chip has been nominated as one of the finalists for the prestigious ACE awards instituted by UBM (publisher of EETimes and EDN) in the SoC category.

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Building an Autonomous and Scalable Semiconductor VLSI Business by Dr. T.R. Ramachandran

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Dr. Ramachandran also presented this at the 2011 VLSI conference. They have posted it online.

Click here to download the PDF.

This event is jointly brought to you by PuneChips and LSI Corporation.

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Free Event: Advanced System Verilog Tips Including OVM & UVM Tips by Cliff Cummings

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SystemVerilog Guru Cliff Cummings is back in town and he will be holding another seminar on April 19th at the MCCIA auditorium on Senapati Bapat Road from 4:00pm to 7:30pm. Most recently, Cliff was here in November 2009 and this seminar gives a great opportunity for engineers to  re-engage with him. This event is completely free, but registration is required. Please visit this link to register and view the agenda.

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Chip Design Verification: Test-plan/Coverage Plan

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This is the second in the blog series titled Field Manual for Verification Planning written for PuneChips by Suhas Belgal . The blogs deal with functional verification of digital ICs and cover mostly the pre-silicon verification phase.  

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Cadence Acquires Taray

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FPGA as the PCB's Grand Central Station

Earlier this week, Cadence Design Systems acquired an EDA startup, Taray, Inc. Financial terms were not disclosed.

This is important because it is an Indian EDA product company story.  While Taray, Inc. is a California corporation, the entire 7Circuits business plan, strategy, product definition and development was conceived in Hyderabad; even their CEO was in Hyderabad till he decided to move to the Silicon Valley to push the sales and marketing process. On top of it, this was a bootstrapped operation with no venture money involved. While Western companies have purchased Indian product companies in the past, majority of the deals haven been in the IT services, BPO, KPO or web 2.0 fields. An Indian EDA product company getting acquired has to be a watershed event.

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Introduction to Chip Verification Planning

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This is the first in a series of blogs written for PuneChips by Suhas Belgal titled Field Manual for Verification Planning. The blogs deal with functional verification of digital ICs and cover mostly the pre-silicon verification phase.     

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