Semiconductor firm to operate from college

Semiconductor firm to operate from college
The Hindu.com
Staff Correspondent

It hopes to recruit as many engineers as possible in north Karnataka
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# The company has set up VLSI design centre on the campus
# 20 engineers of the company would work at the centre
# In one year, 100 more engineers would be recruited
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HUBLI: For the first time in the State, a semiconductor company will operate from the campus of an engineering college, training students in the specialised subject of semiconductors and recruiting them.

Vivek Pawar, Chief Executive Officer of Sankalp Semiconductor Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, and Ashok Shettar, Principal of BV Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology, Hubli, told presspersons here on Friday that this would make Hubli-Dharwad, the next information technology destination.

Mr. Pawar said his company had set up very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuits design centre on the campus from where it would be starting the high technology deep sub micron IC layout work for its worldwide customers.

The company had 25 engineers in Bangalore. Of these, would work in Hubli. It had plans to employ 120 engineers by 2007. The plan was to recruit as many candidates as possible from north Karnataka for the Hubli centre, he said. About the future plans, Mr. Pawar said steps would be taken in a phased manner to make Hubli the hub for creating many such centres across India.

Mr. Pawar said initially the company would be focussing more on human resource development through training B.E., and M.Tech., students.

Dr. Shettar said the college would be providing the required infrastructure for developing an offshore development centre and provide part-time learning opportunities for engineers working in the company.

The company would be helping the college in making its M. Tech and B.E. courses focussed towards VLSI and highly industry oriented to make them unique courses in India.

Already, the Visvesvaraya Technological University had approved setting up of an extension cell on the campus.

Inauguration

Revenue Minister Jagadish Shettar would be inaugurating the VLSI Design Centre on Saturday and Arun Bellary, Managing Director of PMC-Sierra, India, would be the guest of honour, he said.

Vanamala Patil of Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA) spoke.