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Opportunities in the Semiconductor Design SectorVTU

May 16, 2009Ramkumar SubramanianSales and Marketing Vice PresidentAMD 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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1969Founded

Sunnyvale, CAHeadquarters

Approx. 11,000 worldwide

Employees

78% internationalSales Mix

$5.6 billion1 2006 Revenue

TheCustomer-CentricInnovationCompany

AMD At-a-Glance

A leader in microprocessors, graphics and chipsets

1As 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 billion1


Computing

Today’s AMD: Partners and Products


AMD in India

HyderabadR&D Centers: 2

Sales & Marketing

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BangaloreR&D Centers: 2

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AMD India customers

AMD India Engineering


Team Composition by Experience


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!!


Tremendous growth in capabilities

DFT

CAD

Arch

RTL

Impl

Layout

Verif

SOC

SiliconDebug

Ckt DFT

CAD

Arch

RTL

Impl

Layout

Verif

SOC

SiliconDebug

Ckt

Verif COEAMS COE

L2CoEDFT COE

Ramping

Demonstrated Capability

Nov 2004 Now


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Semiconductor Market in the World Economy

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Source: IC Insights; Not to scale

$213B

$1,000B

$37 Trillion

$326B

$1,340B

$43 Trillion

2004 Worldwide 2008E Worldwide

Semiconductors

Electronics

GDP


Semiconductor Revenue by Industry Vertical

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Source: iSuppli

Y2001: $139B Y2006: $261B


Plenty of Growth Ahead

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Semiconductor Revenue Breakdown by Product Segment

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2010E

Source: Gartner Research


Semiconductor Industry Value Chain

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Design

Backend

Systems

Products

Design

IP/library

EDA

Design implementation

Wafer Manufacturing

Wafer testing

Assembly

Packaging

Manufacturing


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29.1%

CAGR

Strong IC Design Revenue Growth Strong IC Design Revenue Growth

30.9%CA

GR

IC Design revenues ($bn)Global Market share (%)

India is Fertile Ground for IC Design Innovation

India Semiconductor Consumption ($Billions)

India Semiconductor Consumption ($Billions)

Chip Vendors

EDA Tool Companies

VLSI design services

Silicon IP and Design Verification Companies

Fabrication

Fab equipment companies

Assembly & Packaging

Product testing:

Quality Testing


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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.

– Back-end: Strong basics in Logic design, Transistor level design, knowledge of transistor level simulators (Hspice, etc), Logic/Circuit timing analysis


What it does take…..

• 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.


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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•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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•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.


Q&A and More information

For further information:

Ravikanth Penugonda, Verification Team,

[email protected]

Shodhna Shetty, HR,

[email protected]


Backup


Some Top VLSI Graduate ProgramsDisclaimer: 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• University of California at Berkeley• Massachusetts Institute of Technology• University of Texas at Austin• University of Southern California, Los Angeles - • University of illinois, Urbana Champaign• University of Wisconsin, Madison• California Institute of Technology (CalTech)• Duke University• Northwestern University• University of California, Los Angeles• Iowa State University• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY• Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor• Arizona State University• Pennsylvania State University• Purdue University• Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)


Some Design Services Companies in IndiaDisclaimer: This is for information purposes only and is not to meant to be a comprehensive list

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Accel Transmatic Ltd. Indra Networks, Inc. QualCore Logic, Inc.

Allgo Embedded Systems Pvt. Ltd. Indrion Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd. Quicklogic India

Aricent, Inc. Ingot Systems, Inc. Sankalp Semiconductor Pvt. Ltd.

Bisquare Systems Pvt. Ltd. IntelliProp, Inc. Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd.

CG-CoreEI Programmable Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Ittiam Systems Pvt. Ltd. Satyam Computer Services Ltd.

ChipTest Labs Pvt. Ltd. iWave Systems Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Silicon Interfaces Pvt. Ltd.

Cognizant Technology Solutions KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd. SiRF Technology (India) Pvt. Ltd.

DCM Technologies Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd. SPI Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

D'gipro Systems Pvt. Ltd. Microchip Technology Designs (India) Pvt. Ltd. StellarIP Solutions, Inc.

DigiBee Microsystems Pvt. Ltd. MindTree Consulting Ltd. Synopsys (India) Pvt. Ltd.

eInfochips Ltd. NitAl Computer Systems Pvt. Ltd. Tallika Corporation

Elven Microcircuits (India) Pvt. Ltd. nSys Design Systems Pvt. Ltd. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

embWiSe Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Patni Computer Systems Ltd. TechForce Engineering Services Pvt. Ltd.

Global Edge Software Ltd. Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd. TES Electronic Solutions

HCL Technologies Ltd Pixtel Media Technology TTM India Pvt. Ltd.

Ikanos Communications (India) Pvt. Ltd. Poseidon Design Systems, Inc Wipro Technologies Ltd.

Processor Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd.


A Sample List of Global Semiconductor Companies

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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


Manufacturing Plans of Companies in India

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