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“Career
Opportunities for
Engineers in
Semiconductor
Industry”
- Srinivas Raju. J
Divisional Head,
UTL Technologies Ltd.
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Contents
 Semiconductor Industry: A sunrise
sector
 Application Areas
 VLSI and Embedded Design Life Cycles
 Career Opportunities
 Industry Expectations
 Q&A
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Semiconductor
Industry –
A Sunrise Sector
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Semiconductor – 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
Source: www.ibef.org
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Embedded Electronics Value Chain
1.
System Level
Verification
2. Identifying Sub
blocks
3. 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
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Semiconductor Design Industry in India
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Reasons for growth in the
semiconductor sector
Significant
Export Potential
Growth in the
Chip Design
Industry
Increased
Semiconductor
Content in the
Electronic &
Allied Industry
Unprecedented
growth in
Domestic
Consumption of
electronic
goods
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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)
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Application Areas
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Embedded Systems in a Automobile
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Today, a car's electronics
cost more than the steel
used to build it, and high-end
cars can have more than 100
CPUs
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Everything is Getting Connected
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The Connected Home
Sony AirBoard
IDT-LF1 Wireless
Internet TV
CMI Digital IceBox
Kitchen Appliance
Fuji Film FinePix 40i
Digital Camera
Polaroid Ceiva
Internet Picture Frame
B&O HDTV
Media Server Gateway
Sharp NC20
Internet Screen Phone
Toshiba SD-9200
DVD Player
Apple Airport II
Compaq iPaq Music
Center
Digital Jukebox
Sony NW-E3
Network Walkman
with iMac
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Space Explorations:
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Embedded in Smart Toys
Smart Toys
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Medical Instruments
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CyberKnife Radiosurgery
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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
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Innovative Products of the Year - PC World
Innovation isn't always about being
smaller, better, and faster
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The Future…
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Design Life Cycle
- VLSI Design
- Embedded
Systems Design
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VLSI Design Flow
Advance Digital
Design
High-level
Description
Specifications
Functional
Description
Design
Using VHDL
Synthesis
Physical
Design
HDL / RTL Simulation
Placed
& Routed
Design
Technology
Mapping
Gate-level
Design
Logic
Description
Post Synthesis
Simulation
Packaging
Fabrication
Implementation
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X=(AB*CD)+
(A+D)+(A(B+C))
Y = (A(B+C)+AC+
D+A(BC+D))
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Design Requirements
 Greater Complexity
 Less Area
 Increased Performance
 Low Power
 High Speed
 Design For Testability
 COST
 Time to Market
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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
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Silicon Building Blocks
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Good for generic
control
Flexible use
Widely adopted and
understood
Combined with
peripherals for
specific applications
†In
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Great for signal
processing
Optimized for
algorithmic
calculations (MAC)
ISA optimized for
specific applications
Low power
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Parallel
implementations
Reconfigurable
hardware
Very fast
Best throughput for
hardwired algorithms
this context CPU = GPP = traditional 32-bit processor
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From Silicon to Systems
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System complexity reduced
through software abstraction
 e.g. RTOS
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Concentrate on application, not
underlying hardware topology
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Support programming of multiple
silicon building blocks in same
system
 Common tools, common RTOS
services
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Development Environment
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Career
Opportunities
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Career Opportunities in
VLSI Industry
Design Engineer
Implementation
Engineer
Verification
Engineer
Test Engineers
Back-end
Engineer
FAE
* Profiles mentioned in the pyramid may vary
from company to company
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Career Opportunities in Embedded
Systems Industry
Embedded
Software
Developer
BSP
Developer
Test / Verification
Engineers
Hardware Design
Engineers
Embedded Design
Engineer
Board System
Design Engineer
* Profiles mentioned in the pyramid may vary
from company to company
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Industry
Expectations
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Industry expectations
Engineering
Concepts
Programming
Skills
Communication
Skills
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Aptitude
Technology &
Domain Skills
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VLSI Companies….
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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.
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If you have any further queries, you can reach me at
[email protected]
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