Opportunities in
the Semiconductor Design Sector
VTU
May 16, 2009
Ramkumar Subramanian
Sales and Marketing Vice President
AMD India
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Today’s Agenda
Introduction and About AMD
Semiconductor Industry Market overview
The Indian semiconductor design industry
Educational Opportunities
Career Opportunities
What does it take to be a good semiconductor design engineer?
Q & A
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Today’s Agenda
Introduction and About AMD
Semiconductor Industry Market overview
The Indian semiconductor design industry
Educational Opportunities
Career Opportunities
What does it take to be a good semiconductor design engineer?
Q & A
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1969
Founded
Sunnyvale, CA
Headquarters
Approx.
11,000
worldwide
Employees
78% international
Sales Mix
$5.6 billion
1
2006 Revenue
The
Customer
-
Centric
Innovation
Company
AMD At
-
a
-
Glance
A leader in microprocessors, graphics and chipsets
1
As a result of Spansion Inc.’s initial public offering (IPO) in December 2005, financial results for
periods in 2006 and 2007 compared to periods in 2005 do not correlate directly. In this
document, all references to and comparisons with periods in 2005 exclude the results of the
company’s former Memory Products segment.
2007 Revenue
$6.0 billion
1
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Computing
Today’s AMD: Partners and Products
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AMD in India
Hyderabad
R&D Centers: 2
Sales & Marketing
Kolkata
Sales & Marketing
New Delhi
Sales & Marketing
Mumbai
Sales & Marketing
Chennai
Sales & Marketing
Bangalore
R&D Centers: 2
Sales & Marketing
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IndiaR
evi ewA
l berto
Vi sit10
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AMD India customers
AMD India Engineering
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Team Composition by Experience
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Team Overview
Delivering on CEG Roadmap
Focused on design of x86 products for Server/Client families
Established Credibility
Successful ramp and execution has attracted other design teams and all
Microprocessor projects are building presence in India
Demonstrated Capability
Architecture to GDS.
Technical Recognition
Patents
–
15+
Papers/Tutorials
–
17
Conference Chairs/Panelists/Invited talks
–
24+
First x86 MPU
design team
in AMD
outside US
Four x86
tape
-
outs
in 4 years
and still
counting!!
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Tremendous growth in capabilities
DFT
CAD
Arch
RTL
Impl
Layout
Verif
SOC
Silicon
Debug
Ckt
DFT
CAD
Arch
RTL
Impl
Layout
Verif
SOC
Silicon
Debug
Ckt
Verif
COE
AMS COE
L2CoE
DFT COE
Ramping
Demonstrated Capability
Nov 2004
Now
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Today’s Agenda
Introduction and About AMD
Semiconductor Industry Market overview
The Indian semiconductor design industry
Educational Opportunities
Career Opportunities
What does it take to be a good semiconductor design engineer?
Q & A
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Semiconductor Market in the World Economy
1
3
Source: IC Insights; Not to scale
$213B
$1,000B
$37 Trillion
$326B
$1,340B
$43 Trillion
2004 Worldwide
2008E Worldwide
Semiconductors
Electronics
GDP
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Semiconductor Revenue by Industry Vertical
1
4
Source: i Suppli
Y2001: $139B
Y2006: $261B
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Plenty of Growth Ahead
1
5
-
5
5
15
25
35
45
55
65
Source: US Census Bureau; IC
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Insights; TSMC estimates
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11
World Population (Billion)
Semi $ / Person
5
6
7
8
9
‘80
‘85
‘90
‘95
‘00
‘05
‘10
US Semi / Person = ~$250
245
255
265
China & India Semi / Person = ~$20
4
Worldwide average semiconductor $ per person
World Population
…
…
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Semiconductor Revenue Breakdown by Product Segment
1
6
2010E
Source: Gartner Research
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Semiconductor Industry Value Chain
1
7
Design
Backend
Systems
Products
Design
IP/library
EDA
Design implementation
Wafer Manufacturing
Wafer testing
Assembly
Packaging
Manufacturing
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Today’s Agenda
Introduction and About AMD
Semiconductor Industry Market overview
The Indian semiconductor design industry
Educational Opportunities
Career Opportunities
What does it take to be a good semiconductor design engineer?
Q & A
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1
9
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Strong IC Design Revenue Growth
IC Design revenues ($bn)
Gl obal Market share (%)
India is Fertile Ground for IC Design Innovation
India Semiconductor Consumption
($Billions)
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Today’s Agenda
Introduction and About AMD
Semiconductor Industry Market overview
The Indian semiconductor design industry
Educational Opportunities
Career Opportunities
What does it take to be a good semiconductor design engineer?
Q & A
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What it does to make a good semiconductor engineer
Education:
–
Bachelors/Master/Doctorate in Electrical or Electronics or Comp Sc.
Skills:
–
Front
-
end: Strong basics in Comp Architecture, Logic design,
Programming(C/C++),
Perl scripting, knowledge of hardware
description language(Verilog/VHDL) demonstrated through projects,
any knowledge of DFT/ATPG desirable, knowledge of Unix OS and so
on.
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Back
-
end: Strong basics in Logic design, Transistor level design,
knowledge of transistor level simulators (Hspice, etc), Logic/Circuit
timing analysis
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What it does take…..
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Qualifications:
•
Worked on microprocessor/DSP type of projects
•
Minimum requirements:
•
Bachelors/Masters/Doctorate degree from a reputed institution
with good academic record in Electrical or Electronics or Comp Sc
disciplines.
•
Good knowledge of microprocessor/microcontroller/DSP with some
of the skill set mentioned above.
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What it does take…
Soft Skills:
Communication: Fluent in English and clear in
communication
Project management skills: Ability to manage and motivate
teams to accomplish goals. Provide a career development
path to team members.
Cross
-
cultural communication: Good ability to communicate
across sites and cultures.
People management: Resolving day to day people issues,
morale issues, dealing with under performers, etc.
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Today’s Agenda
Introduction and About AMD
Semiconductor Industry Market overview
The Indian semiconductor design industry
Educational Opportunities
Career Opportunities
What does it take to be a good semiconductor design engineer?
Q & A
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Educational Opportunities
•
Graduate / master’s degree from one of the engg. Colleges
•
VLSI design courses from:
•
CDAC, Hyderabad: Certificate course in Digital and Analog design
(CDAD)
•
Sandeepani School of VLSI Design, Bangalore and Hyderabad:
Post
-
Graduate Diploma in VLSI Design
•
Veda IIT: MS and Diploma in VLSI and Embedded Systems
•
Cranes Software, Bangalore: Embedded System Certification
•
Vedant , Chandigarh, Lucknow: Course in front
-
end and back
-
end
design including Analogue & Mixed signal design
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Today’s Agenda
Introduction and About AMD
Semiconductor Industry Market overview
The Indian semiconductor design industry
Educational Opportunities
Career Opportunities
What does it take to be a good semiconductor design engineer?
Q & A
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Career Opportunities
•
AMD India has a well defined career path for employees in
•
Technical
•
Management functions.
•
Typically, an engineer takes about 5
-
6 years to reach the position of a Senior
Design Engineer.
•
Post this he can decide either to continue in the technical function or move to
a management function,
•
What counts most is the innovation that an engineer can bring to AMD’s
leading products & technologies.
•
AMD provides the opportunity to innovate and bring in market leading
technologies is tremendous.
•
In addition, employees have the option of moving laterally
and also across
sites within India and even to other AMD sites worldwide. This is subject to
need, suitability of requirement and appropriate fit for the position.
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Q&A and More information
For further information:
Ravikanth Penugonda, Verification Team,
ravikanth.penugonda@amd.com
Shodhna Shetty, HR,
shodhna.shetty@amd.com
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Backup
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Some Top VLSI Graduate Programs
Disclaimer: This is for information purposes only and is not to meant to be a comprehensive list or serve as
rankings of any kind
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Stanford University
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University of California at Berkeley
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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University of Texas at Austin
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University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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•
University of illinois, Urbana Champaign
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University of Wisconsin, Madison
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California Institute of Technology (CalTech)
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Duke University
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Northwestern University
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University of California, Los Angeles
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Iowa State University
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech)
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Arizona State University
•
Pennsylvania State University
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Purdue University
•
Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)
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Some Design Services Companies in India
Disclaimer: This is for information purposes only and is not to meant to be a comprehensive list
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Accel
Transmati c
Ltd.
Indra
Networks, Inc.
Qual Core Logi c, Inc.
Al l go
Embedded Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Indri on
Technol ogi es (Indi a) Pvt. Ltd.
Qui ckl ogi c India
Ari cent
, Inc.
Ingot Systems, Inc.
Sankal p Semi conductor Pvt. Ltd.
Bi square
Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Intel l i Prop
, Inc.
Sasken
Communi cati on Technol ogi es Ltd.
CG
-
CoreEI
Programmabl e Sol uti ons Pvt. Ltd.
Itti am
Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Satyam Computer Servi ces Ltd.
Chi pTest
Labs Pvt. Ltd.
i Wave
Systems Technol ogi es Pvt. Ltd.
Si l i con Interfaces Pvt. Ltd.
Cogni zant Technol ogy Sol uti ons
KPIT Cummi ns
Infosystems
Ltd.
Si RF
Technol ogy (Indi a) Pvt. Ltd.
DCM Technol ogi es
Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd.
SPI Software Technol ogi es Pvt. Ltd.
D'gi pro Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Mi crochi p Technol ogy Desi gns (Indi a) Pvt. Ltd.
Stel l arIP
Sol uti ons, Inc.
Di gi Bee Mi crosystems Pvt. Ltd.
Mi ndTree
Consul ti ng Ltd.
Synopsys (Indi a) Pvt. Ltd.
eInfochi ps Ltd.
Ni tAl
Computer Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Tal l i ka
Corporation
El ven Mi croci rcuits (Indi a) Pvt. Ltd.
nSys
Desi gn Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Tata Consul tancy Servi ces Ltd.
embWi Se Technol ogi es Pvt. Ltd.
Patni
Computer Systems Ltd.
TechForce
Engi neeri ng Servi ces Pvt. Ltd.
Gl obal Edge Software Ltd.
Persi stent Systems Pvt. Ltd.
TES El ectroni c Sol uti ons
HCL Technol ogi es Ltd
Pi xtel
Medi a Technol ogy
TTM Indi a Pvt. Ltd.
Ikanos Communi cati ons (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Posei don Desi gn Systems, Inc
Wi pro Technol ogi es Ltd.
Processor Systems (Indi a) Pvt. Ltd.
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A Sample List of Global Semiconductor Companies
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2
Type
Companies
Manufacturing & Design
Intel, AMD, Samsung,
Hynix
, Toshiba, IBM
Microelectronics, TI, Infineon, Sony,
Sandisk
, NEC,
Matsushita,
Nanya
, Motorola
Manufacturing Only
TSMC, UMC, SMIC,
Powerchip
,
Inotera
Design Only
Numerous
fabless
companies, notable among which
are:
Freescale
, Qualcomm, Broadcom,
nVidia
, Xilinx,
Altera
, ARM, others
Semiconductor Equipment Manufacturing
ASML, Applied Materials, Canon, KLA
Tencor
, Novellus,
Nikon, others
CAD Tool Companies
Cadence, Magma, Mentor, Synopsys, and more
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Manufacturing Plans of Companies in India
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