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Electronics Design Automation
VAISHALI UMREDKAR
Products and services from well-known companies and also see for career
opportunities and skill sets.
Companies Listed
1. Cadence Design Systems (I) Pvt Ltd
2. MAGMA Design Automation India Pvt. Ltd.
3. Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd
4. SoftJin Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
5. Atrenta
6. Silicon Interfaces
7. Embedded Systems Solutions Pvt Ltd
8. Poseidon Design Systems
lectronics Design Automation (EDA) is the set of
Esoftware tools used for chip design. With the
growing use of semiconductor devices in India,
EDA industry is witnessing an ample growth.
The key focus areas for the EDA industry will be new
design for manufacturing technologies as designs
move to advanced nodes; verification and
verification IPs and multicore processing support
for EDA flows as a result of increased integration.
EDA industry has to be a step ahead of the
technology and continue to innovate and develop
design methods and tools capable of addressing
new phenomena and design problems.
Here we take a pleasure to introduce some of the
leading EDA companies providing effective design
tools which can rectify some of the challenges
facing the industry today.
Cadence Design Systems (I) Pvt Ltd (Since 1988)
Rahul Arya
Marketing &
Technical Sales Director
Cadence enables global electronic design
innovation and plays an essential role in the
creation of today's integrated circuits and
electronics. The company is headquartered in
San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design
centers, and research facilities around the world
to serve the global electronics industry.
EDA Products & Services: Cadence offers solutions for advance node, low power and
mixed signal design, enterprise verification, system development, and software as a service.
Cadence offers products across the breadth and depth of VLSI design, include products for
system design and verification, functional verification, logic design, custom design, digital
implementation, RF design, PCB and IC packaging design and manufacturing signoff.
Contact: Noida office: Plot 57A, B & C, NSEZ , Noida Special Economic Zone, Noida,
201305 India Phone: +91-120-398 4000
Email: communications_india@cadence.com Website: www.cadence.com
MAGMA Design Automation India Pvt. Ltd. (Since 2003)
Vivek Raghavan
Managing Director
& VP (CDBU)
Magma Design Automation is one of the largest,
fastest-growing providers of Electronic Design
Automation (EDA) software. Magma's EDA
software for IC implementation, analysis,
physical verification, circuit simulation and
characterization is recognized as embodying
the best in semiconductor technology, enabling
the world's top chip companies to "Design
Ahead of the Curve" while reducing design
time and costs
EDA Products & Services: Magma Design Automation provides EDA software that
provides chip designers with the “Fastest Path to Silicon,”(tm) enabling them to meet critical
time-to-market objectives, improve chip performance and handle multimillion-gate designs.
Key product lines include the Talus IC implementation system, the Titan custom/mixed-signal
design platform and the Quartz analysis and verification products. Fab analysis products
include Camelot and YieldManager.
Contact: Prestige Tech Park, Jupiter (2A) Block, 2nd Floor, Sarjapur-Marathahalli Ring Road,
Kadabeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli, Bangalore 560 103,
Tel: +91-80-40242 700
Email: sales-india@magma-da.com, Website: www.magma-da.com

EDA
Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd (Since 1986)
Toshihiko Tanaka
President
Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd (FMAL)
was established in 1986 to provide
semiconductor sales and support solutions to
customers in Southeast Asia, India and Oceania.
FMAL offers a diverse array of applicationoriented
semiconductor products and solutions
such as ASIC, ASSPs, microcontrollers /
microprocessors (FR-V), System Memory
(FRAM / FCRAM) and System LSIs (DVD MPEG
Source Decoders / MPEG –2 Encoders).
EDA Products & Services:
• Wafer Foundry Service • ASICs(Semicustom)
• Microcontrollers - FR Family, F²MC Family, Development Environment
• ASSPs - WiMAX, H.264, Graphics Controllers, 1394 Automotive, USB 3.0-SATA Bridge
ICs, SSCG, Power Management ICs
• System Memory - FRAM, FCRAM
Contact : Unit No. 3, Level 8, Innovator, International Tech Park, Whitefield Road
Bangalore, India 560066 Phone No.: (91) 80-28419990
Email:sg.enquiry@fmal.fujitsu.com Website: www.fmal.fujitsu.com
SoftJin Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (Since 2000)
Kamal Aggarwal
VP – Marketing and
Strategy
SoftJin is a growing technology company that
provides innovative, customized software and
design solutions enabling semiconductor
design and manufacturing.
SoftJin has a hybrid business model composed
of mix of high-end R&D Services and
differentiated Software Products. SoftJin offers
customized Electronic Design Automation
(EDA) software development solutions using a
combination of EDA building blocks and custom
software services.
Contact: 102, 1st Floor, Mobius Tower, SJP iPark, EPIP, Whitefield
Bangalore – 560 066 Tel.: 91-80-41779999
Email: sales@softjin.com Website: www.softjin.com
EDA Products & Services: SoftJin has expertise and experience in developing tools that
span the entire design spectrum including System design automation, Logic Design
Automation, Physical Design Automation, Post Layout tools. SoftJin also has deep expertise in
the areas of complex GUI development, OpenAccess based tool development, Design Flow
and Validation Services. SoftJin offers EDA products in Post Layout and Mask Manufacturing
Area. SoftJin's products in Post Layout areas include:
NxCompare is a fast and versatile comparison tool that can be used to compare any two
Layout or Mask databases.
NxDAT is software for efficient Analysis, Classification and Trend Analysis of Defects
identified by Mask Inspection Systems.
Nirmaan is a unique software development toolkit for EDA tool developers for accelerating
the development of optimized Post-Layout EDA tools, including DFM/DFY tools.
SoftJin offers EDA Components targeted for FPGA and other Programmable Platform fabrics.
Atrenta (Since 2001)
Sushil Gupta
Vice President and
Managing Director
Atrenta is the leading provider of Early Design
Closure® solutions to radically improve design
efficiency throughout the IC design flow.
Customers benefit from Atrenta tools and
methodologies to capture design intent, explore
implementation alternatives, validate RTL and
optimize designs early, before expensive and
time-consuming detailed implementation.
Atrenta provides the most comprehensive
solution in the industry for Early Design Closure.
EDA Products & Services: Atrenta's SpyGlass® and 1Team® product lines form a
complete, proven solution to achieve Early Design Closure. Atrenta tools provide an
environment to achieve certification of RTL/Netlist and constraints for predictable
implementation. These product families address issues with architecture capture, IP import
and chip assembly, synthesizability, CDC, power management, constraints management,
DFT and area, timing and power estimates. Atrenta's GuideWare reference methodologies
allow Early Design Closure solutions to easily fit into your existing design flows.
Contact: A-9, Sector 4, Noida, 201 301, UP (India) Tel: +91-120-309-7800
Email: moreinfo@atrenta.com Website: www.atrenta.com
Silicon Interfaces (Since 1990)
Manoj Singh
Officer
Business Operations
Silicon Interfaces is India's premium Design
Services company and provider of quality IP’s in
t h e W i r e l e s s N e t w o r k i n g a n d D a t a
Communication space.
In brief Silicon Interfaces ® offers Design,
Verification and Backend Services that include:
• Domain expertise in Wireless, Networking,
Communication and Interconnect.
• HDL implementation in SystemVerilog/
Verilog/ VHDL/SystemC.
• Targeted to SoC, ASIC and FPGAs.
• Proven, Mature Plug & Play Design IP Cores.
• Verification IPs in SystemVerilog /e based on
OVM/URM/ eRM Methodology.
• IC Physical Implementation, FPGA Validation
services & EDA Product Support Services.
Available IP’s:
• Wireless - 802.11 a/b/g MAC, Bluetooth Baseband
• Communication - USB2.0 Function Controller, USB On-the-Go, 1394, 8530, UART
• Networking - Gigabit Ethernet MAC, 7990, SONET STS 1/3 Framer
• Interconnect - Infiniband, Rapid IO
• Microcontroller – 8051
Verification IP’s:
• OVCs - GEMAC, 1394
• SV VMM - USB2.0
• uVCs - 1394
• eVCs / eRM - 1394, UART
Contact: 606 Nirman Kendra, E-Moses Road, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai - 400011, India
Tel.: (+91-22) 2491 3024 / 2206 9450
Email: manoj@siliconinterfaces.com Website: www.siliconinterfaces.com

EDA
Embedded Systems Solutions Pvt Ltd (Since 1996)
Gurunatham G V
Managing Director
Vendors for Hardware & Software Development
Tools for Embedded Systems
The company is Value Added Resellers in India
for ALTIUM Ltd., Australia (www.altium.com)
EDA Products from ALTIUM are : Altium
Designer, NanoBoard 2 and Nanoboad 3000.
Contact: #37, ‘Embedded Home’, 36th Cross, II
Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore-560010
Tel: (91) 80 23521165, 23577924, 23126100
Email: sales@embeddedindia.com
Website: www.embeddedindia.com
EDA Products & Services:
Altium Designer – A single solution to develop hardware, programmable hardware and
software allows to take designs from concept to manufacture within a single unified
environment.
Nanoboard 2 : The NanoBoard NB2 enhances your ability to design, implement and debug an
entire FPGA-based system design before moving to a production PCB. Use the NanoBoard
as a system prototyping and development platform, as an educational hands-on teaching tool,
or as a complete test bed for FPGA-based embedded system design. Its power, flexibility and
tight integration with Altium Designer open up the exciting possibilities of soft system design to
you today.
Nonoboard 3000 : The NanoBoard 3000 is a programmable design environment, supplied
complete with hardware, software, ready-to-use, royalty-free IP and a dedicated Altium
Designer Soft Design license.
Poseidon Design Systems (Since 2002)
Shrikant Shingane
Co-founder & Director
Poseidon Design Systems provides innovative
Electronic System Level (ESL) solutions for
embedded system design. Poseidon offers
breakthrough technologies in hardware/
software analysis, co-simulation, and hardware
synthesis to help reduce the complexity and cost
of designing Systems on Chips (SoCs) and
Systems on FPGA's.
Poseidon's team represents convergence of four
vital areas: system architecture, hardware
design, software design and development.
Poseidon's products are built upon its unique
Architectural Description methodology, powerful
retarget able tool generation technology and
innovative hardware-software partitioning
technology.
Contact: #1546 & 1547, 19th Main Road,
HSR Layout Sector 1, Bangalore - 560102
Phone & Fax - +918025721449
e-mail :Shree@poseidon-systems.com
Website : poseidon-systems.com
EDA Products & Services
Poseidon's Triton Tool Suite: Tuner and Builder: Poseidon's Triton Tool Suite,
enables you rapidly and predictably analyzes, optimize, and accelerate processor-based
architectures. With Triton Tuner's SystemC simulation environment, you can develop robust
efficient processor architectures. The Triton tool suite enables design architects to achieve
higher system throughput, reduced power consumption, and cost, as well as shorten design
cycles.
Poseidon's C2RTL Tool: Poseidon's C2RLT is a high level synthesis tool for ASIC and
FPGA market. The Poseidon's C-to-RTL High level synthesis framework takes in behavioral
ANSI-C code as input and produces highly optimized, correct by construction RTL code. This
framework allows system designers to explore and design hardware subsystem with various
communication interfaces by enabling Hardware Designers to interactively and quickly
explore different micro-architecture and communication interface design space.
Poseidon offers following services in EDA & ESL domain:
• Consulting to establish ESL tools flow • System modeling & virtual prototype creation
• System validation • FPGA Prototyping • VLSI Design services
• Embedded Real Time Software / Hardware Development and Consulting Services
• Development of Tool chain (Complier, Assembler, Linker, Simulator & Binutil
development & GCC porting)
EDA career: Scope & Skill Sets
Rahul Arya
Marketing & Technical Sales Director
Cadence Design Systems (I) Pvt Ltd
EDA provides a challenging career to engineering
students from the electronics / computer science
fields. There is challenge and excitement of working
in a high-technology semiconductor design &
software development and there is the added
advantage of exposure to customer's methodology &
project designs, which gives an all-round
perspective.
Skill Sets
Bachelor's / Master's / PhD degree in Electronics
Engineering / Computer Science + course / elective in VLSI
design, or advanced diploma course in VLSI design.
Shrikant Shingane
Co-founder & Director
Poseidon Design Systems
Most of the EDA company's & system design
company's have set up there subsidiaries or branches
in India. Indian student are known for there
analytical& technical ability hence sought after
worldwide to provide highly technical & skilled EDA
services. Indian defence organizations are
developing lot of systems where EDA tools are used
creating opportunity for EDA jobs.
Skill Sets
Strong algorithm development skills, Knowledge of
computer architecture, Understanding of ASIC & FPA design
flow, Exposure to EDA tool flow is added advantage.

GREEN IT
Vivek Raghavan
Managing Director & VP (CDBU)
MAGMA Design Automation India Pvt. Ltd.
EDA Industry caters to a 240 billion dollar
Semiconductor Industry. With increasing portion of
designs been taped out from India of the big
semiconductor companies, the opportunity for EDA
careers in India is also increasing. Number of EDA
companies compared to semiconductor companies
is much less hence this industry demands for the best
of the engineering community who are driven by high
passion of technology success.
Skill Sets
As one of the top EDA companies, Magma looks for the
following qualifications when considering engineering
graduates: a B.Tech/M.Tech/Ph.D from a reputed school in
Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or Electronics
and Communication Engineering or in Microelectronics.
Students should be very strong on programming techniques
and concepts and alogorithms. Good hold on “C” is
preferred. The knowledge, circuit design, VLSI,
microprocessor, Digital signal processing etc is added plus..
Manoj Singh
Officer - Business Operations
Silicon Interfaces
Today, India is one of the Business HUB of all the
leading EDA Giants. Now all EDA companies are
tapping Indian Market by promoting their EDA tools
& Design/Verification Methodology Knowledge with
Special Program offerings to the Indian
Semiconductor Industry /Universities (Academics) &
Training Institutes in India.
So I would say in the coming future even sky wont be
the limit for any India Engineering Student Choosing
EDA Career, with the presence of Unlimited Scope &
Excellent Job Opportunity within the Country.
Skill Sets
The company is recruiting candidates with minimum 2+ yrs
relevant experience in VLSI Design/EDA Tools.
The student should have understanding of Basic Logic
Design Concepts, HDL language (Verilog, VHDL, S.V),
along with basic knowledge of EDA training tool either in their
academic or through some Training Courses.
Attend the Training Program offered by Silicon Interfaces
through Silicon Institute of Technology ( SIT) advanced
VLSI/EDA Tool training program, their complete course
modules are based on the present real world Global
Semiconductor Industry requirements.
Kamal Aggarwal
VP – Marketing and Strategy,
SoftJin Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
EDA presents an interesting cross-functional career
option for Indian engineering students. EDA is a
domain that involves core competence in Computer
Science & Engineer and at the same time knowledge
of the VLSI/Semiconductor design. The domain is
very dynamic with new technical challenges to solve
as the requirements from the semiconductor /
electronics design industry change.
Skill Sets
The Basic skill sets include the core Computer Science and
Engineering skills such as Algorithm and Data Structure
Design, C/C++ Software development, specific techniques
to handle huge design data, compilers and GUI
development. Also, familiarity and knowledge of VLSI
Design is a must.
Sushil Gupta
Vice President and Managing Director
Atrenta
The scope of EDA career for Indian engineering
students is very bright. The big and several small EDA
companies are always on the lookout for bright
people with EDA experience.
Skill Sets
The basic skill sets required are a sound knowledge of
electronic design principles specially digital design and
computer science. The company hire Electronics and
Computer Science students from premier engineering
institutes.
Gurunatham G V
Managing Director
Embedded Systems Solutions Pvt Ltd
For Diploma students, EDA tool becomes part and
parcel of Hardware Design. They can contribute as
assistants to Hardware Designers. As far as Degree
Students are concerned their orientation towards
EDA will add strength to their Hardware Design.
Exposure to EDA Tools will help in career path in
electronic hardware designs.
Skill Sets
Knowledge on Hardware Design, Embedded systems
Design, Electronic Component Libraries, Schematic capture
and net list concepts, placement & routing etc.