To start off with, VLSI or Very Large Scale Integration, is the process of creating an
integrated circuit (IC) by combining thousands of transistors into a single chip.
The growth of VLSI technology, and the VLSI ecosystem in India, also requires
thousands of factors converging into one.
"One of the biggest challenges faced by industry today is that entry level VLSI engineers are not readily employable and require to be trained for 6-12 months before becoming billable"
"The Indian VLSI industry requires anywhere between 10,000 and 20,000 highly-trained engineers to increase the quality of work being churned out. But at present, there are only 2,000-3,000 VLSI engineers"
Our experience spans across digital and analog designing, technical leadership, project management and delivery, organic & lateral hiring based team building, operations and customer partnerships. Our technical leaders and project managers have executed multiple complex, multi-site projects and possess an excellent track record.
We are firm believers in the process. There exists a well-defined process for every activity at Proxelera. Our employees are taught the importance and application of processes from the time they join our system. As a partner or a customer, you can witness the adoption of the process at every step in our project execution – right from specification acceptance all the way to delivery. Internally, various departments of Proxelera have defined process metrics to work with each other under a proper SLA, hence running the entire company as an efficient system.
We trust that there is a lot to gain for the industry through university partnerships. Proxelera staff spends time interacting with staff and students of various prominent universities in India.
Our goal is to siphon the learnings from our project work to upcoming VLSI professionals. We work with professors and teachers at universities and train them to teach newer topics and select practical assignments for their students. By way of conducting periodic, free workshops for the students, we bring the culture of knowledge sharing to practice.
Proxelera believes that we owe a lot to society – both as individuals and as an organization. We are continuously working with various strata of the society locally and we strive to do our little part to be of use to the world that we belong to.
Ravi Shankar is a technologist with a proven track record of over 25 years with leadership roles in ASIC design & verification.
Raghavendra Mohan is a semiconductor and high-end electronics system design professional with over 25 years of international experience.
Guruprasad Katte has been working in the VLSI industry for more than 20 years.
Davinder is a distinguished leader with over 22 years of expertise in hardware design and verification, excelling in SoC validation, project management, and strategic leadership.
Our aggressive expansion has been in line with our customers plans and include their needs – both short and long term
We cover all steps of chip design, pre-silicon to post-silicon validation. We partner with EDA vendors and keep updated
Our engineers love our business and the technology we work in. Proxelera’s culture drives productivity in work, hence
We have focused on 2 key areas – CPUs and SOCs. This has helped us to attract leading edge projects for us
Few examples on Verilog assignment If you refer to v2005 LRM, there are 2 interesting definitions, an extract of which is pasted below – 6.1
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Hi Folks In the last write-up, I mentioned threads in simulation. Specifically, I said that the threads of a simulation can interact with each other.
Hi Folks, In the last writing, I used a phrase — ‘procedural block’. Most of you know what it means in Verilog. Actually, there is
Hi folks, As we prepare ourselves to launch our first blog on hardware modeling using Verilog, we think it is better to give this preamble.
Hi Folks, Among the list of articles we have at hand, our team kept wondering what could be a good first article. As such, we
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Ravi Shankar is a technologist with a proven track record of over 25 years with leadership roles in ASIC design & verification, VLSI design methodologies, EDA and software development. Ravi has conceptualized and engineered several IPs and methodologies in software architecture, system design, chip design and verification space.
Ravi has co-founded two start-ups in 20 years’ time – where he has participated in various roles of engineering, business development, customer relationship and product initiatives. As a business leader, he led his teams to win the confidence of several global customers in the VLSI domain and continues to enjoy an excellent recommendation from them. In engineering lead capacities, he has successfully led the verification of several complex chips based on innovative techniques and methodologies. Ravi has published several technical papers in various forums in the space of verification.
At Whizchip, where he served as the CEO, Ravi’s vision propelled the company’s IP, technology and methodology group. Heading the innovation group at WhizChip, he was instrumental in creation of path-breaking products, IPs, methodologies and tools. Earlier, during his stint at Synopsys, he is one of the early proponents of HVL based verification in India and Asia-pac region and has helped several semiconductor design houses adopt it. Later, as an engineering manager at Ample Communications, Ravi has delivered complex multi-site engineering assignments leading to successful chips.
Ravi has a passion for teaching and working with new-college graduates and has mentored many talented engineering graduates through to a successful career. The proof of Ravi’s leadership and people-centric approach is that several engineers have been working with Ravi for over a decade now. As a co-founder and CEO of Proxelera, Ravi is working in overall company direction, business initiatives and fosters the business and technical growth of the organization.
Raghavendra Mohan is a semiconductor and high-end electronics system design professional with over 25 years of international experience. Mohan has worked on various aspects of semiconductor product engineering. In his early days of the career, Mohan worked as a sales engineer in the EDA products space where he garnered fundamental knowledge of complex chip design cycles and semiconductor product engineering.
Mohan then moved on to co-found a startup – Inspiration Technologies. At Inspiration, Mohan worked closely with several key global customers and developed business in VLSI engineering services and system engineering services. Mohan also worked with the internal R&D team and developed multiple products in the space of embedded systems, switch fabric IP and later a network routing algorithm validation platform.
Later, in 2005, Mohan co-founded Whizchip – a very successful VLSI services and CAD tool company which worked in some very exciting projects with global leaders like AMD, Cypress Semiconductors, Nvidia, NXP, Qualcomm, Raza Micro, Synopsys and many other small to midsize customers from US. Mohan also worked on the product definition of Vyuh and SoCCER, Whizchip’s productivity enhancement CAD tools which were adopted in every single turnkey assignment of Whizchip and were greatly responsible for project successes.
Guruprasad Katte has been working in the VLSI industry for more than 20 years. He has moved from engineering to sales and he understands the problems of design engineering teams and VLSI businesses in terms of design complexity and time challenges.
As an engineer, he has worked on high end digital electronic design circuits & power electronic segment in the early days of his career. Later, he worked as a sales engineer in EDA products & VLSI Design services segment, which gave Guru an in-depth exposure to the challenges of chip design cycles and criticalities. Has implemented VLSI consulting business plans & strategic sales. Guru has worked in multinational companies and has constantly engaged with program management, resource management, procurement and vendor management activities.
Working as Director-Business Development at WhizChip, Guru managed resources and has expanded the customer base in India & overseas, meeting the revenue targets & the growth targets of the company, satisfying the requirements of the clients in their complex projects.
Davinder is a distinguished leader with over 22 years of expertise in hardware design and verification, excelling in SoC validation, project management, and strategic leadership. With a Master’s in Information Technologies, a PG Diploma in VLSI Design, and an MBA in Project Management, he combines in-depth technical knowledge with executive acumen.
As VP of Chip Design at Proxelera, Davinder leverages his extensive experience from Intel, where he led SoC pre- and post-silicon validation for Xeon server programs. His role involved managing global teams, coordinating complex projects, and driving innovation across various technologies including NoC, Image Signal Processing, and 5G.
In his previous role at Intel as an Engineering Manager, Davinder excelled in overseeing mobile hardware IPs and subsystems, enhancing operational efficiency, and managing offshore development centers. His leadership ensured high-quality deliverables and adherence to budgetary constraints.
Davinder’s career is marked by his ability to drive successful outcomes through strategic planning and technical excellence. At Proxelera, he is poised to spearhead innovation and operational excellence, reinforcing our commitment to cutting-edge technology and superior product performance.