Hyderabad to host meet on VLSI design

The design of the chip used in iPod was done at Hyderabad, Naresh Reddy Mallipeddi, COO (India operations), Conexant Systems India said. Hyderabad, once a place where work in VLSI was outsourced, is now doing 'core activity for the future' at its own development centres, he added.

The 19th international conference on very large scale integration (VLSI) design and the fifth international conference on embedded systems will be held in Hyderabad from January 3-7, 2006. The five-day conference "" 'Mobile Embedded Systems' "" will be sponsored by VLSI Society of India (VSI), Union ministry of information technology, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA).

Mallipeddi, told reporters, "The international conference held in 1997 in Hyderabad set the trend for the industry to look at Hyderabad as the destination. A large number of players later set up shop in Hyderabad. We expect the conference to have similar significance."

From about three companies then in Andhra Pradesh, it has now risen to between 15 and 20, he said.

The first two days of the conference will give a glimpse of where the future in VLSI and embedded systems lies. The actual conference will be held over the remaining three days.

A state-of-the-art exhibition aimed at VLSI professionals will also be held wherein several of top VLSI design and embedded systems' companies, including Cadence, Conexant, Texas Instruments, Portalplayer, ATI Technologies, and Freescale will showcase their products and services.

About 1,000 delegates are expected to participate in the conference and 128 technical papers will be presented. The conference covers the entire spectrum of activities underpinning the semiconductor industry and provides participants a chance to meet and interact with innovators in the VLSI industry.