SUN, Cadence and VEDA IIT to set up centre for VLSI engineering

Sun Microsystems, Cadence and VEDA IIT, a Hyderabad-based VLSI (very large scale integration) engineering institute have announced plans to build the country’s first nodal Center of Competency (CoC) for research and development in VLSI engineering, design automation and embedded system engineering in Hyderabad. The VEDA IIT CoC would offer students expertise and hands-on experience in all VLSI design and engineering functions.

“Promoting this CoC is a testament to VEDA IIT’s leadership in VLSI engineering and reiterates Sun’s commitment to creating reliable and proven Grid Computing and HPC solutions for the VLSI engineering knowledge centre,” said Andrew Lim, regional director (Education and Research-Asia South), Sun Microsystems.

The CoC will be based on Sun’s grid infrastructure technologies and EDA tools that will enable a variety of industry and business partners to use and evaluate grid, distributed management and portal technologies through a series of projects. The centre will also become a source for Sun’s ‘reference architecture’ in the areas of VLSI design engineering. Further, the Sun-Cadence-VEDA IIT collaboration aims to offer sponsorship to research students as a part of the initiative.

“More than 80 percent of major semiconductor companies in the world have set up their research centres in India. This is a good example of industry-academia synergy,” said Himanshu Singh, executive director (India & SAARC), Cadence Design Systems.