Magma Design Automation looking for FAE’s in San Jose.

Posted on February 4, 2010 by kiran

Normally, I dont post job ads , so this  is one time exception (hopefully!!)

My current company Magma Design Automation is hiring and looking for a person to fill in the Field Applications Engineer role..Qualifications would include : BS/MS in EE or related disciplines, Anyone with 3-5yrs experience in VLSI/ASIC Backend (physical synthesis/low power/ Multi-Mode & Multi Corner/ECO flows) , Strong with TCL scripting;Experience with Magma Tools in the past would be a plus. BTW, the location would be San Jose, California,US.  You might be asked to come for in person interview at your own expense.

If you are interested, please send me your resume your kbulusu at gmail dot com

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Questions to ask before you consider “yet another synthesis tool”..

Posted on September 18, 2009 by kiran

You need to know the exact criteria why you are considering other tools else its waste of time for you/your team and for vendor as well. Some common pain points are
A.QOR (Quality of Results)
B.Turn Around Time (TAT ) and Stability of the tool
C.Reactive mode type of Support from Vendor/Poor Support/Long resolution to issues
D.Interoperability with other tools
E.Cost of licenses itself.

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Semiconductor value chain…Its in the system stupid…

Posted on September 18, 2009 by kiran

Single chips have become a commodity and some chips just cost less than a dollar or some
consumer electronics centric chips like wireless/3g/ etc might cost less than 10$ depending
on the volume…a can of coke seems to be more expensive than some components today,
so in what form can the semi vendor can add value and get profits? where is the value chain now?

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OpenSparc-T2 Synthesis-Part 4 (Block Level Impl till GDSII)

Posted on June 8, 2009 by kiran

This is final and last part of the Open Sparc T2 processor synthesis series. Actually, I wont be posting anything new here, but just for completeness sake of the series, I’m creating a new post.  Sorry about this, but I dont see any point in reposting the same thing twice.

The P&R script for block level implementation can be picked from my earlier post Nova H.264 decoder core P&R script

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OpenSparc-T2 Synthesis -Part 2 ( Top level Synthesis )

Posted on June 8, 2009 by kiran

OK as promised earlier, here are the part2 top level synthesis -cpu module I’m assuming that the block level synthesis using bottom-up flow is done using part-1 and all Glassboxes (Magma’s Terminology for abstracts which are BTW efficient that ILM’s etc and are very suitable for implementing multi-million instances designs) are generated.

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