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		<title>ESL or No ESL &#8211; Who will survive?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last couple of years, if you had been to any CAD related conference or had been reading related news portals, it&#8217;d have been hard to miss the euphoria around this whole ESL thing. There are several ESL tools in the market now, including Bluespec, Catapult etc. The technology has advanced considerably to the point [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indiavlsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=773220&amp;post=17&amp;subd=indiavlsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Semiconductor companies in Hyderabad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a list of companies that work on VLSI or are primarily semiconductor companies that have a presence in Hyderabad - Tundra Semiconductors  (www.tundra.com)    Tundra established its design center in Hyderabad through the acquisition of Chip Engines Ltd., a former subsidiary of Alliance Semiconductors. Tundra works on system interconnect based bridges and other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indiavlsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=773220&amp;post=16&amp;subd=indiavlsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Semiconductor companies in Pune</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 14:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a list of companies that work on VLSI or are primarily semiconductor companies that have a presence in Pune.   LSI Logic  (www.lsi.com)     LSI&#8217;s presence in Pune came through the acquisition of Metta technologies, a multimedia SOC and software company. They do a lot of work on ASIC design and verification eInfoChips (www.einfochips.com)     [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indiavlsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=773220&amp;post=15&amp;subd=indiavlsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 08:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine, a verification expert, pointed out to me about a new verification tool that is apparently making some ripples in the design community.  The tool, Certitude, launched by Certess uses a novel mutation based identification of testbench holes. Although he hasn&#8217;t played around with it yet, my friend was so impressed with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indiavlsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=773220&amp;post=14&amp;subd=indiavlsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am trying to put together a list of companies working on semiconductor space in and around Indian cities. I thought I&#8217;ll start with Chennai and also attempted to categorize them based on whether they offer products or services. Product Companies:  Xambala (www.xambala.com)   Their website claims to provide the industry’s first message stream processing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indiavlsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=773220&amp;post=13&amp;subd=indiavlsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my conversation with a veteran technologist entrepreneur recently, I was talking about the lack of ground-breaking innovation happening in India, citing the lack of Apples and SONYs in India. He had a different interesting perspective on the topic. His argument was that Indian companies are still technically and technologically competitive but lack the marketing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indiavlsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=773220&amp;post=12&amp;subd=indiavlsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continued from the previous post (Should Bangalore be Bangalore-d &#8211; Part I) So, what are the alternatives to Bangalore? Off the top of my head, there is a bunch of VLSI companies like Cadence, Freescale, Mentor and ST who have been in the NCR (Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon etc.) for a while now. I was talking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indiavlsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=773220&amp;post=11&amp;subd=indiavlsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all its problems, Bangalore appears to be still attracting heavy investment from semiconductor industry. Either companies are blissfully ignorant of Bangalore&#8217;s travails or it has come down to a point where there is no other option. I think the latter is true to a certain extent. So, what are Bangalore&#8217;s problems now? Let us [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indiavlsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=773220&amp;post=10&amp;subd=indiavlsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently attending the Design Verification Conference (DVCon) 2007 in San Jose. My first impression was that there was lack of energy and activity. It perhaps only reflects the amount of action that is taking place in the US at this point. The attendance was far fewer compared to a similar conference back in India. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indiavlsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=773220&amp;post=9&amp;subd=indiavlsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Case for Semiconductor Product Companies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[India is expected to consume electronic equipment worth $363 billion by 2015 from $28.2 billion in 2005, pushing the total market for semiconductors to a whopping $36.3 billion by 2015. According to semiconductor market research reports by India Semiconductor Association (ISA) and Frost &#38; Sullivan, the semiconductor-driven industry is expected to create over 3.5 million [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indiavlsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=773220&amp;post=8&amp;subd=indiavlsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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