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September - 2006 - issue > Career
Give Us Specs, Take the Chip
Sanjeev Jain and Sohini Bagchi
Analog all the way
Analog is one of the exciting segments in semiconductors. The expertise required for analog designing is scarce while the demand is escalating, and companies are scrambling to hire every available engineer.
Research shows that India has just about 10,000 chip designers and analog designers are even fewer at around 1000. This number is throwing up greater challenges to analog companies. In fact, out of 1500 Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) engineers India produces every year, less than one percent have analog design skills, and hence there is a huge opportunity for Indian engineers to focus on analog. Demand is further accelerated
with the fact that there is a dearth of analog talent in both China and Taiwan.
The presence of Texas Instruments and ST Microelectronics in India for more than a decade has dramatically increased the sophistication of work. Today cutting edge designs and products in analog are being developed in the country. Some companies are working on 65nm analog designs and these complex designs are now done in 1V supply. They are also faced with challenges to create designs with more cost effective technologies.
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