Open-Silicon: Enabling Customers to Focus on Their Core Differentiators through Innovation at Every Stage of Designing Date:   Friday , June 26, 2015 Founded in 2003, Open-Silicon, Inc. transforms ideas into system-optimized ASIC solutions with flexible engagement models within right time-to-market parameters. Right from its inception, Open-Silicon has grown in India-based sites with a majority of its engineering teams in India. India\'s engineering culture is ingrained in Open-Silicon\'s genes and Indian design centers form the company\'s beating heart. The company empowers its employees to learn and enhance their competencies in all aspects of engineering including architecture, design, implementation, R&D, systems, hardware, software, IP design,and associated management. This is because the company\'s Indian design centers own design and implementation aspects of its ASIC/SOCs in addition to the R&D facets dedicated to innovations towards achieving lower power, higher performance, lower cost, and faster time-to-market. Excellent Benefits Ensuring Utmost Satisfaction & Motivation Being a mid-sized company with close to 300 employees, Open-Silicon\'s engineers relish the fact that their \'scope-of-influence\' reaches beyond that of larger corporations. It\'s extremely rewarding for them to directly observe how their actions benefit customers and the company\'s business successes. The global company has a world-wide presence with offices in the U.S., India, Taiwan, Japan, and Israel; Open-Silicon considers India as a pivotal hub supporting customers in APAC and EMEA markets. \"Our excellent benefit and retention programs are often reviewed and rectified. During appraisal cycles, managers identify each employee\'s training needs and meticulously discuss his/her career development opportunities,\" states Sanjini Menon, HR Head, Open-silicon. Open, Relevant, Safe & Fun Culture The company takes pride in having an open, transparent and dynamic culture relevant to changing industry practices. Apart from having a table tennis table and gymnasium for recreation, Open-Silicon\'s dedicated fun team, SWAT (Stop Working All the Time), comes up with several fun recipes including hiking field trips and anniversary parties. The equal opportunity employer provides a safe working environment to everyone and has a women\'s safety committee to advise on safety programs. \"Open-Silicon provides the right platform to engineers to explore and work on cutting edge technologies from specification to fabrication of an ASIC. Engineers get the opportunity to work on challenging SOC\'s across various applications like networking, mobile communications, consumer electronics and many more, designed for advanced process nodes across different fabs,\" comments P.V. Venugopal, Senior Functional Manager, Open-Silicon.I Developing Technical & Non-Technical Skills The company augments employee\'s customer interfacing skills and encourages growth through innovation. Every year, the company recruits 10 percent of freshers.The company\'s comprehensive Recent College Graduates(RCG) training programs facilitate graduates to jumpstart their careers. Open-Silicon has various training modules for multifarious job grades. While freshers undergo three months classroom training followed by three months on-job training with a buddy/mentor, lateral entries go through designated training modules to familiarize with the flow details specific to Open-Silicon. Apart from the Open-Silicon University that arranges biweekly seminars on specific technical topics, the company also conducts numerous non-technical trainings on communication skills, leadership skills, interviewing skills, and time management. \"Open-Silicon encourages its employees to participate in national as well as international technical seminars and conferences. Last year, Open-Silicon employees from India presented over 18 papers in various conferences held in U.S., Israel, Europe,Japan,and India, out of which 3 papers received best paper awards,\" claims Radhakrishnan Pasirajan, VP of Silicon Engineering. Cutting-edge Technologies & Comprehensive Services Open-Silicon\'s open business model enables it to uniquely choose process technologies, EDA tools, and IP best-in-industry. The company enhances the value of customers\' products by innovating at every stage of design including architecture and then continuing to partner to deliver fully-tested silicon and platforms for various end applications like computing, networking, consumer,and IoT. The globally influential company with close to 300 employees has partnered with over 150 companies ranging from large semiconductor and systems manufacturers to high-profile start-ups, successfully completing nearly 300 designs and shipping over hundred million ASICs thus far. \"Apart from helping engineers on their professional front with the opportunity to work on latest EDA tools and semiconductor process technologies, the company\'s comprehensive offering also enables customers to focus on their core differentiators,\" asserts Hans Bouwmeester, VP-Engineering Operations.