(1888PressRelease)
December 04, 2008 - Chennai: VLSI Society, the organizers of India’s largest and the only international platform for the VLSI and embedded segments, today announced that it would be holding an EDA software contest across India to promote innovation. The contest which will debut at the 22nd international conference on VLSI design and embedded systems will be the first of its kind and provide a much needed platform for individuals and teams to showcase their skills and innovative ideas in the EDA arena. The software can be for the planning, design, verification and analysis of analogue, digital, or programmable circuits and systems. The winners will get prize money of INR 10,000 and a certificate. Their names will be carried across all the official communication on the VLSI Conference besides being featured on the conference website.
According to Dr. Vishwani D Agrawal, Chairman, VLSI Conference steering committee & Convenor for the contest,“EDA is a critical cog in the semiconductor ecosystem and India is already a major hub for most of the development and R&D work in this area. In the current context where there is immense pressure on costs, innovation is the best approach and we have conceptualized this contest as a catalyst to enable that. We welcome all the talented engineers across India working in the sector to put on their thinking caps and come up with newer ideas that will lead further change in this segment,” adding, “The choice of 22nd International conference on VLSI design and embedded systems is apt since it is the largest congregation of professionals and academia encompassing the entire industry and the winners will get ample opportunity and the right audience to showcase their innovation.”
About VLSI Society and the Conference on VLSI design and embedded systems
The VLSI Society of India was formed in 1989 with the noble goal of making India a strong force in VLSI. Activities in the VLSI area in India were limited at that time, and the number of professionals working in the VLSI area were also fewer. Now, over a hundred companies are working in India in the areas of chip design, embedded system design, electronic design automation, and design services. A number of workshops, symposia, seminars and conferences on VLSI-related topics are now being organized in India. The VLSI Design Conference, which has been sponsored by the VLSI Society of India, has grown significantly in the past 15 years, with the number of participants exceeding 800. It is simply the longest running and largest platform the industry that professionals across the industry and academia look forward to not just from India but across the globe as well. The VLSI Design and Test Workshops, another event sponsored by the VLSI Society of India, has also grown since its inception in 1998 and now attracts over 300 participants.
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