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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Mobile Networks - Moving from 3G to 4G

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This is a PuneChips event, a forum for Pune people interested in semiconductors design/apps/EDA

What: Talk by Gandhar Gokhale on Moving from 3G to 4G
When: Saturday, 26th March 2011, 10:30 am to 12:00 noon.
Where: Venture Center, Classroom E, NCL Innovation Park, Pashan Road

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Pune Area Hi-Tech Investments At $1B

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On November 11, 2010, Pune Mirror did a story on investments related to Storage, Networking and Computing chips in Pune. The story is not available online unfortunately, but can be read in the e-Paper version, under ‘City’ section, Page 07. For those who are interested in reading this article, we are uploading a scanned copy of this story. Read it here: Pune Area Hi-Tech Investments Total [...]

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Howard Goldstein on Storage Networking

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Howard Goldstein spoke to the PuneChips community on Storage and Networking Protocols earlier this month. His presentation is now available here as a PDF file. Please download as required.

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Electronics Packaging Presentation now available

Sandeep Sane has shared his presentation with PuneChips. Please download here: Electronics [...]

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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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Event: InCSIghts 2010 Panel on Future Devices and Convergence by Computer Society of India, Pune Chapter

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What: Panel discussion on Future Devices and Convergence as a part of InCSIghts 2010 organized by Computer Society of India, Pune Chapter
When: Saturday, 27th March 2010, 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm.
Where: Suman Mulgaonkar Auditorium, ICC Towers, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune 411016
Registration and fees: This is a paid event. Registration is required.

About InCSIghts:

InCSIghts is the annual CSI IT roundup and will be held this year on March 27, 2010. The event will showcase a broad range of topics that IT professionals and academicians shouldn’t miss.

This event will try to give audiences a sneak peek into technologies that will dominate the future and analyze their impact on IT professionals. It will also focus on issues relevant to industry needs today, both business and technical. InCSIghts is Pune’s premier annual event that delivers an informative and actionable perspective of the issues shaping our industry with a peek at the future of technology. This year, InCSIghts brings you some of the most respected names on Pune’s IT scene with a cuisine of thought-provoking items on the agenda.

We have planned four sessions this year – Technology, e-Governance, Computer Science Research and Future of Mobile Devices and Convergence. Here are details:

Future of Devices and Convergence:

A new breed of mobile devices that offer tremendous productivity boost to the average user is just around the corner. As we are just starting to get used to the ubiquity of constantly connected mobile smart phones, future mobile devices promise a significantly enhanced feature set over the existing ones. Devices such as the iPad from Apple, Kindle from Amazon or the Adam from Notion Ink are some examples that highlight this new trend.

These advances bring new challenges to the software development community which has hitherto been focused on programming for personal computers. It is quite obvious that the software developers must embrace new trends in order to survive and prosper. This panel discussion is the ideal setting to start the conversation between the hardware makers and the software developers, as the focus of the discussion will be on various technologies/platforms/form-factors that will be prevalent in newer devices. The attendees can expect a spirited discussion on the following topics:

1) Awareness of current and future technologies/platforms/form-factors

2) Consideration on power, usability, ubiquity which are not that important in PC programming

3) Programming platforms and programming tools

4) Marketing your software product

5) Considerations for building the hardware

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The Datacenter Evolution

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On January 15, 2010, LSI hosted its Datacenter Evolution 3.0 forum in Pune. The Pune center is certainly getting a lot of prominence within LSI as the top two LSI execs, Abhi Talwalkar, CEO and Jeff Richardson, EVP Semiconductor Solutions Group, were hobnobbing with the attendees. VP and LSI India MD, Pravin Desale was the EmCee. Talwalkar has a strong personal connection to Pune – he was born here! He has presided over a complete makeover of the company where all internal manufacturing has been completely eliminated. LSI now is a silicon, systems and software Technology Company playing in the Storage and Networking verticals. Obviously, datacenters are a very important market.

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Event: Wavelet Transform & its Applications in Image Processing

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This is a PuneChips event, a forum for Pune people interested in semiconductors design/apps/EDA.

What: Talk by Ganesh Bhokare on Wavelet Transform & its Applications in Image Processing   
When: Saturday, 6th March 2010, 10:00 am to 12:00 noon.   
Where: Venture Center, NCL Innovation Park, Pashan Road       
Registration and fees: This event is *FREE* for all to attend. No registration required.

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SystemVerilog and Designer Productivity

The most recent PuneChips event was easily the most successful one in the short history of the group. Over 50 engineers attended the “SystemVerilog” talk by Clifford Cummings (See Cliff’s Linked-in profile here), President of Sunburst Design and SystemVerilog industry guru. A big thank you to a few folks who made this possible is in order; first off Parag Mehta of Qlogic for connecting us with Cliff; secondly in addition to Parag, Pravin Desale and Deepak Lala of LSI, and Jagdish Doma of Virage Logic for driving the attendance. Last, but not the least, we must also thank Cliff for taking us through a complex topic in a very engaging manner. Cliff certainly held the audience in rapt attention through an hour of highly technical discussion. The Q&A session was also very engaging. Of course, Cliff being the industry celebrity that he is, was mobbed by engineers asking questions after his speech. 

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