Upcoming Events

General Verification

Schedule:

• 10:30-11am - Coffee/Snacks
• 10:45-11:00am - Introduction to DVClub followed by Speaker introduction
• 11-11:30am - Setting up VLSI organizations in India with a focus on specific challenges faced - Sunil Nanda, Senior Director, nVidia, Bangalore
• 11:30-12noon - Design verification to Application Validation for a multiprocessor SoC - Ish Dham, Design Verification Manager, Texas Instruments, Bangalore
• 12:15-1pm - Lunch/interaction

Sunil Nanda - Senior Director, nVidia

Starting a VLSI Design Center in India - pdf  

Sunil Nanda did his B.E. in Electronics from BITS, Pilani, 1980 and followed it with a Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Iowa, 1982. In his 25 years of industry experience, Sunil Nanda has worked for companies like Intel, Sun, Cadence, and S3. Projects he has worked on is similar to "who is who" - his contributions include graphics processor for P6 project, FP processor for SPARC, architect and lead designer for Integer and MMU for SuperSPARC (first superscalar), architected multiple innovative and ground breaking concepts for fast simulation, architected a dataflow scheduler, simulator and code generation system for DSP systems. Sunil established a design center for S3 in Bangalore from Ground Zero which worked on new design methodologies for multi-million gate designs for S3. Then he co-founded Thinkit Technologies Inc., built a crack engineering team in Bangalore, and team executed a number of projects in Ethernet switching domain for Level 1 and Acclaim. Thinkit got acquired by Intel in Feb 2000 - the first company acquired by Intel in South Asia!! After acquisition, Sunil continued as Co-General Manager for the Ethernet switching group at Intel for 2 years before he moved on to setup an ASIC design center in Bangalore for nVidia from scratch!! Within 3 years, Bangalore center has grown to 220 engineers with the capacity to engage in 3 simultaneous designs and one of the few handful design houses in India who cover the entire spectrum of ASIC design from architecture, RTL, verification, synthesis, timing, emulation, and silicon bring-up & characterization. nForce680i chipset which won about 100 awards worldwide was designed completely out of Bangalore!! Along the way, Sunil also filed patents and currently owns 7.

Ish Dham - Design Verification Manager, Texas Instruments

Design Verification to Application Validation of a Multiprocessor SoC - pdf

Ish Dham did his B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT, Chennai in 1996 and has been with Texas Instruments since. Ish Dham has worked on simulation models for instruction set simulation, Architecture exploration and as reference models for design verification. He currently leads the design verification activities in the DSP System Design Group in TI India where he has been using formal and simulation based methods to verify complex DSP IPs and SoCs.