Akhtar W. Alam is a B.Sc (Physics, Mathematics) from PU, India, and obtained B.Tech (Electronics), from IT-BHU, India. He has one USA patent on Circuit Design Methodology, granted in 2008. He started his professional career with Motorola as a circuit design engineer in the year 2000, and currently working with ARM Embedded Technologies as a Staff Design Engineer. He has also worked with SanDisk as a Senior design engineer, and with Interrasystems as a Project Leader.
Keynote-1 July 9
09.30 AM - 10.15 AM
From emerging to emerged economy: Need for a Technology Infrastructure in India
Speaker: Dr.Bobby Mitra, President and MD, Texas Instruments India
Dr.Biswadip (Bobby) Mitra has been with Texas Instruments for over 23 years and is currently the President and Managing Director of Texas Instruments India. In this role, he leads all of TI’s Research and Development, as well as Sales and Marketing activities in India.
Today he is actively involved in working with several hundred OEMs in India who are developing innovative products for India and the export market using semiconductor solutions.
Prior to his current role, Dr. Mitra was the Director of the Americas Wireless Communication Product Development activities at Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas. While in Texas Instruments at Dallas, he also led TI's ultra-low power DSP core, which was selected by EDN as the Best product of 15 years.
Dr. Mitra has also been instrumental in driving the culture of innovation at Texas Instruments. With nearly 630 US patents from India to its credit – the highest amongst all companies in the country - Texas Instruments India today is driving Analog and Embedded Processing innovations for applications from Medical Electronics to Energy Efficiency, Surveillance etc.,
Dr. Mitra has been instrumental in playing a pioneering role in creating the India semiconductor ecosystem – with key partnerships with the industry and the academia. Under his leadership, Texas Instruments has established partnerships with over 700 universities in India.
Dr. Mitra leads several activities of the Indian semiconductor industry as the President of the VLSI Society of India and NASSCOM Executive Council Member & Chairman of the Embedded Systems activities. He has also been the Executive Council member of India Semiconductor Association and MAIT, and plays an active role in several key semiconductor policies.
The Dallas Morning News, a leading Texas daily, featured Dr. Mitra as a 'Success Story'. He was also a recent recipient of the award for being one of the top three R&D visionaries of India.
Dr. Mitra has a B.Tech (1985) in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering and a Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering (both from IIT Kharagpur). He also holds an Executive MBA degree from the University of Texas, Austin, where he was a recipient of the Dean's Award for Excellence.
10.15 AM - 11.00 AM
Embedded Systems : Growing complexity and augmented role of software
Speaker: V.R.Venkatesh, Sr. VP - Product Engineering Services, Wipro Technologies
V.R.Venkatesh is the Senior Vice President and Head of Product Engineering Services of Wipro Technologies.
Venkatesh joined Wipro Infotech R&D in 1984 focusing on development of Computer Systems and related subsystems. Initial development was in the area of Computer Graphics. He was part of the core team which was responsible for technology assimilation, manufacturing and development of add-on systems for Sun Micro Systems range of Workstations and Servers which were offered to the Indian market by Wipro. During this time, significant customization and enhancements were carried out for these products to suit Indian market requirements as well as price points.
As Wipro’s R&D team made foray into international market for providing R&D services, Venkatesh was involved in many assignments for development of system software to various technology product companies. In 1993 , he was heading an Offshore Development Center (ODC) at Wipro for a computer server company developing and maintaining system software for a range of server products and soon the role involved engineering operations for multiple customers of Wipro in platforms and systems software area. He was based in Cupertino-USA, for two years leading Wipro’s Lab for providing product realization services to Technology customers in the area of Data communications and System software. This included a bunch of start-up customers in the emerging high speed networking technology areas.
Venkatesh was heading a Business Unit focusing on Embedded Systems development for various industry verticals in 1999 which was part of Wipro’s Global R&D division and since then has held multiple positions involving solution delivery and business development within Product Engineering Solutions division of Wipro.
In a career at Wipro that spans close to 25 years, Venkatesh has seen Wipro transforming itself into a Global Provider of Services and Products. He had the unique opportunity to work with customers engaged in multiple technology areas during this period.
Product Engineering Services headed by Venkatesh is organized with special focus on design services & solutions for vertical like Automotive Electronics, Consumer Electronics, Mobile Devices, Industrial Automation, Avionics, Medical Devices, Peripheral Equipment and Embedded Plaforms. The design services team has more than 6500 developers engaged in silicon & system design as well as embedded software development.
Venkatesh did his M.Tech from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1983.
09.30 AM - 10.30 AM
Need for Energy Efficiency and Smart grids: Role of Semiconductors in future
Speaker: Sunit Tyagi, CEO, InSolare Energy Private Limited
Abstract: Semiconductors have been primary driver for the Information Age which has resulted in advancement in productivity, health care and leisure. However, the challenge ahead is to balance the increasing concerns for Global climate change while ensuring development of humanity. To enable sustainable growth and lifestyle it is imperative to generate electricity without emissions and drive energy efficiency into all appliances.
This talk will discuss the role of semiconductors and VLSI in coming decade.
Dr. Sunit Tyagi is the founding CEO of InSolare Energy Private Limited, a company with vision to create clean solar energy. Prior to this, he was the Director of Technology with Intel India Technology Pvt Ltd., responsible for next generation technologies for microprocessor used in servers and enterprise computing platforms. Where he led the development of first microprocessor designed in India, for servers using advanced 45 nanometer technology. Dr. Tyagi joined Intel in 1991 and led the development of transistor for 65nm logic process technology. For his pioneering work in developing leading edge technologies, Sunit has thrice been awarded company’s highest technical recognition, the Intel Achievement Award. He has numerous technical papers and 25 patents issued and is recognized as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. Prior to his post-graduate studies, Sunit worked in Schlumberger Wireline Services in the field of oil exploration.
He got his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Bombay in 1984 and his M.S and PhD. in Electrical, Computers and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer, Troy, New York in 1987 and 1991 respectively.
2.30 PM - 3.00 PM
How to Accommodate Design Changes using Standard Cell Library
Speakers: Radhika V. Guttal, Harish Venkatesh, and Akhtar W. Alam, ARM Embedded Technologies Technologies
Abstract: Due to the shorter design cycle, we need smart Library which can take care of Engineering Change Order. ARM ECO-kit provides an overall solution of the ECO issue. In this paper/presentation, we would talk about the features and usage of the ARM ECO library and will discuss how to accommodate design changes using standard cell library: ECO-Library.
Radhika V. Guttal is working at ARM Embedded Technologies Pvt.Ltd. as a Layout Designer since March 2007. Her professional experience includes a stint at Wipro Technologies. She graduated with B.E (Instrumentation and Electronics) and Diploma in VLSI Design.
Harish Venkatesh is working at ARM Embedded Technologies Pvt.Ltd. as a Layout Designer since September 2007. He has earlier worked for TechForce Engineering Service Pvt.Ltd. He graduated with B.E (E&C) , and completed M.S in VLSI System Design.
