Opportunities inthe Semiconductor Design Sector

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Opportunities in the Semiconductor Design Sector

• VTU
• May 16, 2009

• Ramkumar Subramanian
• Sales and Marketing Vice President
• AMD India

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Todays Agenda
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AMD At-a-Glance
A leader in microprocessors, graphics and chipsets
2007 Revenue
6.0 billion1
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
companys former Memory Products segment.
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Todays AMD Partners and Products
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AMD in India
New Delhi Sales Marketing
Kolkata Sales Marketing
Hyderabad RD Centers 2 Sales Marketing
Mumbai Sales Marketing
Bangalore RD Centers 2 Sales Marketing
Chennai Sales Marketing
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AMD India customers
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• AMD India Engineering

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Team Composition by Experience
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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!!
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Tremendous growth in capabilities
Nov 2004
Now
Arch
Arch
Verif COE AMS COE L2CoE DFT COE
RTL
Verif
RTL
Verif
DFT
Ckt
DFT
Ckt
Impl
Impl
CAD
Layout
CAD
Layout
SOC
SOC
Demonstrated Capability
Ramping
Silicon Debug
Silicon Debug
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Semiconductor Market in the World Economy
326B
Semiconductors
213B
1,340B
Electronics
1,000B
43 Trillion
GDP
37 Trillion
2004 Worldwide
2008E Worldwide
Source IC Insights Not to scale
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Semiconductor Revenue by Industry Vertical
Y2001 139B
Y2006 261B
Source iSuppli
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Plenty of Growth Ahead
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255
US Semi / Person 250


245
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65
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55
9
45
Semi / Person
8
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World Population (Billion)
25
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China India Semi / Person 20
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5
5
4
-5
80
85
90
95
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05
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Worldwide average semiconductor per person
World Population
Source US Census Bureau IC-Insights TSMC
estimates
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Semiconductor Revenue Breakdown by Product Segment
2010E
Source Gartner Research
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Semiconductor Industry Value Chain
Systems
Design
Products
Design
IP/library
Manufacturing
EDA
Design implementation
Wafer Manufacturing
Wafer testing
Backend
Assembly
Packaging
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India is Fertile Ground for IC Design Innovation
Strong IC Design Revenue Growth
India Semiconductor Consumption (Billions)
IC Design revenues (bn)
Global Market share ()
30.9CAGR
29.1 CAGR
Key IC Companies
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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

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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/D
  SP with some of the skill set mentioned above.

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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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Educational Opportunities

• Graduate / masters 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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Career Opportunities

• 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 AMDs 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.

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QA and More information

• For further information
• Ravikanth Penugonda, Verification Team,
• ravikanth.penugonda_at_amd.com
• Shodhna Shetty, HR,
• shodhna.shetty_at_amd.com

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• Backup

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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

• 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)

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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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A Sample List of Global Semiconductor Companies
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Manufacturing Plans of Companies in India