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HCL Technologies to acquire Sankalp Semiconductor to enhance leadership in the semiconductors and industrial IoT spaces

HCL Technologies to acquire Sankalp Semiconductor to enhance leadership in the semiconductors and industrial IoT spaces

PUBLISHED DATE: Sep 09, 2019

NOIDA, India – September 09, 2019 – HCL Technologies Limited (HCL), a leading global technology company, today announced the acquisition of Sankalp Semiconductor (Sankalp), an advanced technology design services provider offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions from concept to prototype, in the semiconductor space.  

Sankalp, with 5000+ man-years of experience in the semiconductor design space, brings strong capabilities in analog, digital and mixed signal chip design. It provides end-to-end solutions in the Automotive, Consumer, IoT, Medical Electronics, Networking and Wireless domains.

Sankalp’s capabilities, combined with HCL’s existing strengths, will help HCL sustain its leadership position in the semiconductor space within the Engineering and R&D Services industry. This strategic acquisition would enable HCL to further expand into newer market-domains, especially in analog and mixed signal design.

“Sankalp will complement our strong semiconductor offerings and help offer a wider range of services to our customers in the Analog & Mixed signal space” said GH Rao, President – Engineering and R&D Services, HCL Technologies. “Sankalp will operate as a 100% subsidiary of HCL’’ he added.

“The strategic acquisition will enable synergies between engineering teams allowing us to offer a broader semiconductor know-how, to a wider variety of customers. The joined forces will enable deeper engagements with customers in the end-to-end digital and mixed signal design space.” said Samir Patel, CEO Sankalp Semiconductor.

About Sankalp Semiconductor 

Sankalp is an advanced technology services provider offering comprehensive solutions from concept to prototype, in the semiconductor space, that offers an integrated portfolio of services to its clients in key domains including digital, analog, high speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler, EDA and modelling. Sankalp is the preferred semiconductor design service partners to several Fortune 500 companies in Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Industrial IoT and Medical electronics space. Sankalp helps its customers achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first pass silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor has centres in US, India, Canada and Germany.

About HCL Technologies

HCL Technologies (HCL) empowers global enterprises with technology for the next decade today. HCL’s Mode 1-2-3 strategy through its deep-domain industry expertise, customer-centricity and entrepreneurial culture of ideapreneurship™ enables businesses transform into next-gen enterprises.

HCL offers its services and products through three business units: IT and Business Services (ITBS), Engineering and R&D Services (ERS) and Products & Platforms (P&P). ITBS enables global enterprises to transform their businesses through offerings in areas of Applications, Infrastructure, Digital Process Operations and next generational digital transformation solutions. ERS offers engineering services and solutions in all aspects of product development and platform engineering while under P&P, HCL provides modernized software products to global clients for their technology and industry specific requirements. Through its cutting-edge co-innovation labs, global delivery capabilities and broad global network, HCL delivers holistic services in various industry verticals, categorized under Financial Services, Manufacturing, Technology & Services, Telecom & Media, Retail & CPG, Life Sciences & Healthcare and Public Services.

As a leading global technology company, HCL takes pride in its diversity, social responsibility, sustainability and education initiatives. As of 12 months ended June 30, 2019, HCL has a consolidated revenue of US$ 8.9 billion and its 143,900 ideapreneurs operate out of 44 countries. For more information, visit www.hcltech.com

Forward–looking Statements

Certain statements in this release are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. All statements, other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including but not limited to the statements containing the words 'planned', 'expects', 'believes’,’ strategy', 'opportunity', 'anticipates', 'hopes' or other similar words. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding impact of pending regulatory proceedings, fluctuations in earnings, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services, business process outsourcing and consulting services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, customer acceptances of our services, products and fee structures, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, our ability to integrate acquired assets in a cost-effective and timely manner, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-timeframe contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, the success of our brand development efforts, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies /entities in which we have made strategic investments, withdrawal of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use of our intellectual property, other risks, uncertainties and general economic conditions affecting our industry. There can be no assurance that the forward-looking statements made herein will prove to be accurate, and issuance of such forward-looking statements should not be regarded as a representation by the Company, or any other person, that the objective and plans of the Company will be achieved. All forward-looking statements made herein are based on information presently available to the Management of the Company and the Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company.

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HCL Technologies 

Anne Coyle

Anne.coyle@hcl.com

Elka Ghudial, Europe

Elka.ghudial@hcl.com

Devneeta Pahuja, India and APAC

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Sankalp Semiconductor Expands International Operations in Japan Appoints Hisaya Keida as Japan Head

Sankalp Semiconductor Expands International Operations in Japan Appoints Hisaya Keida as Japan Head

Palo Alto, California – March 28, 2019 - Sankalp Semiconductor, a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions, today announced that it has appointed industry veteran Hisaya Keida in the key position as the Head of Japan. In this capacity, Hisaya Keida will manage sales operations and enable Sankalp’s presence in the key semiconductor and system markets.

Hisaya Keida has over 36 years of experience in the semiconductor space and a pioneer of fables ASIC business in Japan. Hisaya Keida was the CTO of Kawasaki Microelectronics, and responsible for all oversea (USA, Taiwan, India) operations and engineering before it was acquired by Megachips. His expertise lies in developing libraries, IOs, memories, analog mixed signal IPs in networking domains, process and manufacturing. Hisaya Keida holds Bachelor of Engineering degree from Waseda University in Tokyo Japan.

“Hisaya brings in rich semiconductor experience to Sankalp team. His induction will further enable our footprint in Japan,” said Samir Patel, CEO, Sankalp Semiconductor. “His proven leadership and track record will be instrumental in providing high quality semiconductor services and solutions needed from the Japan market.”

“I look forward to closely working with customers in Japan to provide Sankalp services and solutions. Sankalp is a unique company with comprehensive SoC and mixed signal design solutions & services capabilities,” said Hisaya Keida, Japan Head, Sankalp Semiconductor. “My focus will be to work closely with customers and engineering teams to delivery high quality solutions and services meeting customer schedules and expectations.”

Sankalp Semiconductor has executed multitude of complex digital and mixed signal SoC (System-on-Chip) projects for variety of its customers in Automotive, Consumer, Networking, Wireless, IoT, Medical, Foundry verticals. Sankalp Semiconductor was founded in 2005 with a focus to serve the semiconductor companies primarily offering analog & mixed signal design services. Today, Sankalp with a team of 950+ engineering professionals has design centers in Hubli, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Ahmedabad in India and Ottawa, Canada. The company provides unique advantage to its semiconductor customers by enabling them to engage at any point of semiconductor services life cycle with the ability to provide end-to-end solutions.

About Sankalp Semiconductor

Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including analog & mixed signal, digital, high-speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler, IOs and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partners to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer, Networking, Wireless, IoT, Medical electronics and Foundry space. The company enables its customers to achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first time right silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Palo Alto, California & Hubli, India with offices in USA, India, Canada, Germany, Malaysia and Japan. www.sankalpsemi.com

Contact Information:

Eklovya Sharma

marcom@sankalpsemi.com

+91 9879048571 (Cell)

Sankalp Semiconductor Appoints Abhijit Dutta as Head of Mixed Signal Solutions

Sankalp Semiconductor Appoints Abhijit Dutta as Head of Mixed Signal Solutions

Bangalore, India – Jan 30th 2019 - Sankalp Semiconductor, a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions, has appointed semiconductor industry veteran Abhijit Dutta in the key position of the head of Mixed Signal Solutions. In this capacity, Abhijit will be responsible for mixed signal design services and head the Sankalp Kolkata Centre.

Abhijit has 32+ years of experience in the semiconductor industry with expertise in the design of automotive qualified ICs. Abhijit has worked with various organizations and has led various high performance teams in Cisco, Intel & NXP Semiconductor. Prior to joining Sankalp, he was heading the NXP Bangalore Design Center. Abhijit has Bachelor in Electronics (Radio Physics & Electronics) from Calcutta University.

“Abhijit’s brings extensive leadership and a deep understanding of engineering required for complex mixed signal design SoC” said Nagaraj Azhakesan, COO Sankalp Semiconductor. “His proven leadership track record of delivery will be instrumental in building and addressing the growing needs of customers for mixed signal design solutions and services.”

"I am delighted to be a part of team, Sankalp has been a proven leader for mixed signal solutions and services" said Abhijit Dutta, Head Mixed Signal Solutions, Sankalp Semiconductor. "My focus will be to work closely with customers and engineering teams to delivery high quality mixed signal solutions and services meeting customer schedules."

Sankalp Semiconductor has executed multitude of complex digital and mixed signal SoC (System-on-Chip) projects for variety of its customers in Automotive, Consumer, Networking, Wireless, IoT, Medical, Foundry verticals. Sankalp Semiconductor was founded in 2005 with a focus to serve the semiconductor companies primarily offering analog & mixed signal design services. Today, Sankalp with a team of 950+ engineering professionals has design centers in Hubli, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Ahmedabad in India and Ottawa, Canada. The company provides unique advantage to its semiconductor customers by enabling them to engage at any point of semiconductor services life cycle with the ability to provide end-to-end solutions.

About Sankalp Semiconductor

Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including analog & mixed signal, digital, high-speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler, IOs and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partners to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer, Networking, Wireless, IoT, Medical electronics and Foundry space. The company enables its customers to achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first time right silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Palo Alto, California & Hubli, India with offices in USA, India, Canada, Germany, Malaysia and Japan. www.sankalpsemi.com

Contact Information:

Eklovya Sharma

marcom@sankalpsemi.com

+91 9879048571

Sankalp wins STPI Highest Exporter Award - ITES

Sankalp wins STPI Highest Exporter Award - ITES

Bangalore, India – Nov 30, 2018 - Sankalp Semiconductor, a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions, received the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) award for being the Highest Exporter – ITES in the Hubli Region. Sankalp Semiconductor has consecutively fourth time won the award. According to STPI, the state of Karnataka has touched Rs 1,52,280Cr worth of exports from STPI member units during 2017-18. The award was presented to Sankalp Semiconductor at the Bengaluru Tech Summit on Nov 29th, 2018

“We are very honoured to win the prestigious award from STPI. We are committed to invest and grow teams specialized in chip design,” said Nagaraj Azhakesan, COO, Sankalp Semiconductor. “The award is a confirmation of our efforts in providing our global customers with high quality solution & services in the chip design domain.”

Sankalp Semiconductor incepted in 2005 with a focus to serve the semiconductor companies by primarily offering analog & mixed signal design services. Today, Sankalp with a team of 850+ engineering professionals has design centres in Hubli, Bangalore, Kolkata and Ahmedabad in India and Ottawa, Canada. The company provides unique advantage to its semiconductor customers by enabling them at any point of semiconductor services life cycle with the ability to provide end-to-end solutions.

About Sankalp Semiconductor

Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including digital, analog, high-speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partner to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Industrial IoT and Medical electronics space. The company enables its customers achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first time right silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in USA, India, Canada, Germany and Malaysia. www.sankalpsemi.com

Contact Information:

Eklovya Sharma

marcom@sankalpsemi.com

+91 9879048571

Efabless Launches the Chiplicity Design Partner Program Featuring Chipus Microelectronics, Sankalp Semiconductor and Symmid Corporation

Efabless Launches the Chiplicity Design Partner Program Featuring Chipus Microelectronics, Sankalp Semiconductor and Symmid Corporation

The Efabless Chiplicity Design Partner Program provides multiple platform services for design firms developing custom ICs for product OEM and IC companies.

Nov. 27, 2018
SAN JOSE, CA -- Efabless, a crowd-sourcing design platform for custom silicon, today announced the launch of the Chiplicity Design Partner Program. The program supports ASIC and IP design partners across multiple services provided by the Efabless platform in responding to requests and developing custom ICs for product OEM or IC semiconductor customers.

The Efabless Design Platform offers a complete development solution for design partners that streamlines the time and cost associated with creating custom silicon solutions for the market. The platform includes a complete EDA design flow based on open-source tools, access to foundry process technologies and IP, as well as prototyping and production fabrication services.

The Design Platform is also powered by a global community of design professionals and firms that support design requests made by end-customers. In addition to design services, the community fuels the platform through creation, innovation and listing of designs and IP via the Efabless Design Marketplace. These designs and IP can then be leveraged by design partners for custom ASIC designs for end-customers enabling a broader range of solutions and a faster time-to-market.

At launch, the Chiplicity Design Partner Program includes the following companies, each of which will list IP and provide design services through the Efabless Design Platform:

Chipus Microelectronics -- a semiconductor company with proven expertise in the development of ultra-lowpower, low-voltage, analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit (ICs) and systems on chip (SoCs). Headquartered in Florianópolis, Brazil, Chipus has a U.S. subsidiary in Silicon Valley and sales teams in both the United States and Europe.

Sankalp Semiconductor -- an end-to-end chip design services provider for analog, digital, high-speed physical interface IP, Memory Compiler & Technology foundation. With over 14 years of operations and large design services teams Sankalp has collaborated with multitude of customers to offer innovative chip realization services.

Symmid Corporation -- the largest fab-independent Malaysian design group with world-class expertise in analog, digital, mixed-signal and high-voltage IC design. Branded as the "One stop center for IC Design Solution" in Malaysia, the company provides end-to-end IC design service support to fabless design houses, electronics and semiconductor system companies, equipment manufacturers and service providers.

The combination of leading design services partners along with the Efabless Platform provides a unique and powerful offering for developing custom ASICs. By enabling design partners with tools, processes, and the ability to leverage and collaborate across a global community, Efabless streamlines the effort, process and costs of development, making custom silicon a viable option to a broader and diverse range of emerging IoT and intelligent products.

“We are excited to welcome Chipus, Sankalp and Symmid as our first design partners on the platform,” said Mike Wishart, CEO of Efabless. “They are all leaders in the industry with well-earned reputations for design quality and reliability. Importantly, they share our vision that the emerging world of massively connected devices will be accelerated by making customized mixed signal ASIC solutions broadly available and costeffective. This requires new approaches that use community business models and cloud-based collaborative development platforms. Efabless was founded to do exactly that and Chipus, Sankalp and Symmid are fellow travelers in making this vision a reality."

"Chipus is very excited to participate in the Chiplicity Design Partner Program,” said Murilo Pessatti, CEO of Chipus Microelectronics. “We believe and recognize custom silicon design is passing to a transformation and we are proud to support initiatives driven by companies like Efabless that are visionary players. We have built a great relationship with Efabless in the last years exchanging experiences and insights, and being part of this program is really a remarkable milestone in pushing together to turn easy to make custom silicon for the huge amount of new opportunities and customizations AI and IoT requires."

“The next wave of chip design is being enabled through reliable platforms that combine chip design domain knowledge, IPs, EDA tools and services,” said Samir Patel, CEO, Sankalp Semiconductor. “Chiplicity Design Partner Program will not only serve as the platform for traditional chip companies but will also ease the barrier for system companies with limited chip design expertise to implement their ASIC designs.”

“Being selected by Efabless to be part of Chiplicity Design Partner Program is a great milestone for Symmid. This is a recognition for Symmid's IC design capability on global stage. We are confident that this platform will greatly benefit the fabless IC Design community in terms of cost, efficiency, maximizing shared resources and time-to-market for their design and products. Let us join hands and make this a success story for all,” said Ahmed Saad, CEO of Symmid Corporation.

Contact Efabless to find out more about Efabless or participating in the Chiplicity Design Partner Program.

About Efabless
Efabless.com is the world’s first crowd-sourcing platform for semiconductors. Efabless’ customers connect with a community of design firms and professionals and receive formal quotes for custom mixed signal IC and IP solutions. Efabless then provides its IC design community with a cloud-based platform offering everything needed to execute the designs. This includes a design flow based on open source tools; a marketplace featuring IP and full reference designs; access to foundry processes and MPW services to get to prototypes. The entire offering is designed to eliminate the cost and administrative barriers that have inhibited IC design in general and custom IC design in particular.

Efabless is headquartered in San Jose, CA
For more information, visit www.efabless.com

About Chipus Microsemiconductor
Chipus Microelectronics is a semiconductor company with proven expertise in the development of ultra-lowpower, low-voltage, analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) and systems on chip (SoCs). Relying on a strong experience in power management and data converters, the company has more than 200 IP mixed-signal blocks in process nodes from 40nm to 0.35um of various foundries. Since its foundation in 2008, Chipus has provided IC design services in leading edge technologies also, including down to 28nm and 10nm, with firm commitment and flexible client support to customers worldwide (USA and Americas, Europe, and Asia).
Headquartered in Florianópolis, Brazil, Chipus has a US subsidiary in Silicon Valley and sales team in Europe. Assuring quality standards, Chipus is ISO 9001:2015 certified.
For additional information on Chipus or its services, please visit: www.chipus-ip.com/ic-design

About Sankalp Semiconductor
Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including digital, analog, high-speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partner to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Industrial IoT and Medical electronics space. The company enables its customers achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first time right silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in USA, India, Canada, Germany and Malaysia. www.sankalpsemi.com

About Symmid Corporation
SYMMID is Malaysia's premier IC design company that deliver the most comprehensive ASIC/ASSP/FPGA/Analog mixed signal design/RF/High Voltage design services to meet customers’ needs (cost, time, quality). The company develops and supplies customer exclusive ASIC solutions for the automotive, industrial and consumer market. Symmid offerings range from a complete SOC implementation, custom circuit design, IP blocks, layout services and sign-off audits. It's commitment to provide its customers the most comprehensive mixed signal design services using its local design team, and its extensive network of design partners, Symmid specialises in handling any special needs ranging from specialised IP blocks, filters, PLLs, power supplies, complete transceiver solutions, data converters, I/O blocks, PDK development and more. Symmid is ISO9001 and ISO27001 certified.

Contact Information
Jeff DiCorpo
Efabless Corporation
http://www.efabless.com
(408) 896-2078

Sankalp Semiconductor announces ARM Empowered Design Suite

Sankalp Semiconductor announces ARM Empowered Design Suite

ARM Empowered Design to enable accelerated ARM based innovations

Bangalore – November 20, 2018 - Sankalp Semiconductor, a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions, today announced ARM Empowered Design, a suite for ARM based concept to product realization services with special emphasis on IoT and intelligent edge solutions. ARM Empowered Design offers customized engagement models that complement customer requirements that enables reduced cost and faster time-to-market of ARM based solutions.

“IoT & intelligent edge devices are fueling the growth of the connected world and we are witnessing increased interest for SoC & System designs.” said Madhav Rao, Vice President Engineering. “ARM Empowered Design combines Sankalp’s ARM based expertise, mixed signal expertise and portfolio of IPs to get accelerated designs to market.”

The ARM Empowered Design suite covers entire gamut of services that include starting from ARM processor selection, architecture analysis & optimization, ARM based SoC Design, Analog & Digital IP integration, ARM processor hardening, and prototyping & application board development.

Sankalp Semiconductor has executed multitude of complex digital and mixed signal SoC (System-On-Chip) projects for variety of its customers in Automotive, Consumer, Networking, Wireless, IoT, Medical, Foundry verticals.

Sankalp Semiconductor was founded in 2005 with a focus to serve the semiconductor companies by primarily offering analog & mixed signal design services. Today, Sankalp with a team of 850+ engineering professionals has design centers in Hubli, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Ahmedabad in India and Ottawa, Canada. The company provides unique advantage to its semiconductor customers by enabling them at any point of semiconductor services life cycle with the ability to provide end-to-end solutions.

About Sankalp Semiconductor

Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including digital, analog, high-speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partner to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Industrial IoT and Medical electronics space. The company enables its customers achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first time right silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in USA, India, Canada, Germany and Malaysia. www.sankalpsemi.com

Contact Information:

Eklovya Sharma

marcom@sankalpsemi.com

+91 9879048571

Sankalp Semiconductor Expands its Design Centre in Hubli

Sankalp Semiconductor Expands its Design Centre in Hubli

To grow to 500 chip design engineers in Hubli

Bangalore, India – Oct 22nd, 2018 - Sankalp Semiconductor, a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions, on 17th Oct inaugurated its design centre in Hubli. Shri Shivendra Gupta, Joint Commissioner of Income Tax, Shri Manish Kasodekar, Assistant Commissioner, Income Tax, and Shri Vivek G Pawar, CEO of Deshpande Foundation inaugurated the new Hubli design center. The company already has four design centres in India (Hubli, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Bangalore). Sankalp’s new design centre is an extension of its center in Aryabhatta Tech Park, Navanagar.

“With the additional design centre space we plan to grow our team to 500 employees. Our Hubli centre, for more than a decade has been a centre of excellence for training and building specialized teams for chip design services. We are excited to support the growing needs of our global chip design customers.” said Nagaraj Azhakesan, COO, Sankalp Semiconductor.

Sankalp Semiconductor has executed multitude of complex digital and mixed signal SoC (System-On-Chip) projects for variety of its customers in Automotive, Consumer, Networking, Wireless, IoT, Medical, Foundry verticals.

Sankalp Semiconductor founded in 2005 with a focus to serve the semiconductor companies by primarily offering analog & mixed signal design services. Today, Sankalp with a team of 850+ engineering professionals has design centres in Hubli, Bangalore, Kolkata and Ahmedabad in India and Ottawa, Canada. The company provides unique advantage to its semiconductor customers by enabling them at any point of semiconductor services life cycle with the ability to provide end-to-end solutions.

About Sankalp Semiconductor

Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including digital, analog, high-speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partner to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Industrial IoT and Medical electronics space. The company enables its customers achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first time right silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in USA, India, Canada, Germany and Malaysia. www.sankalpsemi.com

Contact Information:

Eklovya Sharma

marcom@sankalpsemi.com

+91 9879048571

Sankalp Semiconductor Opens Second Design Centre in Bangalore

Sankalp Semiconductor Opens Second Design Centre in Bangalore

Bangalore, India – Oct 10th, 2018 - Sankalp Semiconductor, a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions, today announced opening of its second new design centre in Bangalore. The company already has four design centres in India (Hubli, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Bangalore). Sankalp’s second design center is located in the Global Technology Park and will be a center of excellence for global chip design projects in the Analog design & Physical Design space.

“Bangalore is a strategic location to multiple of our customers. Our offices in Bangalore will allow us to maintain a close proximity to India customers and scale our existing Offshore Design Center (ODC) for global customers,” said Nagaraj Azhakesan, COO, Sankalp Semiconductor. “We plan to scale the second design center to a team of 100 people by end of this current financial year”

Sankalp Semiconductor has executed multitude of complex digital and mixed signal SoC (System-On-Chip) projects for variety of its customers in Automotive, Consumer, Networking, Wireless, IoT, Medical, Foundry verticals.

Sankalp Semiconductor founded in 2005 with a focus to serve the semiconductor companies by primarily offering analog & mixed signal design services. Today, Sankalp with a team of 850+ engineering professionals has design centres in Hubli, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Ahmedabad in India and Ottawa, Canada. The company provides unique advantage to its semiconductor customers by enabling them at any point of semiconductor services life cycle with the ability to provide end-to-end solutions.

About Sankalp Semiconductor
Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including digital, analog, high-speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler and EDA modelling. Sankalp
Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partner to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Industrial IoT and Medical electronics space. The company enables its customers achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first time right silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in USA, India, Canada, Germany and Malaysia. www.sankalpsemi.com

Contact Information:

Eklovya Sharma
Sankalp Semiconductor
marcom@sankalpsemi.com
98790 48571 (Cell)

Sankalp Semiconductor Appoints Sathish Kumar Ganesan as Vice President Engineering

Sankalp Semiconductor Appoints Sathish Kumar Ganesan as Vice President Engineering

Bangalore, India – July 27th 2018 - Sankalp Semiconductor, a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions, has appointed Sathish Kumar Ganesan in the key position of Vice President Engineering for IP Business. In this capacity, Sathish will be responsible for IP development and related engineering services. He has 16+ years of experience in the semiconductor industry with expertise on AMS IP, MAC & SoC designs. Sathish has worked with various organizations like Cadence, Cosmic Circuits, Cypress Semiconductor and Samsung Electronics. Sathish has Masters in VLSI CAD from Manipal University. He holds 3 patents and has published multiple international papers/journals. 

“Sathish’s induction to the team will enable accelerated growth of IP and related services for Sankalp.” said Samir Patel, CEO Sankalp Semiconductor. “His experience and energy make him an ideal choice for this important position.”

"Sankalp Semiconductor has an excellent team of talented engineers that will continue to drive Sankalp forward as the leader in design services & custom IP solutions," said Mr. Ganesan. "My focus will be to work closely with customers to deliver high quality IP solutions & services."

Sankalp Semiconductor has executed multitude of complex digital and mixed signal SoC (System-on-Chip) projects for variety of its customers in Automotive, Consumer, Networking, Wireless, IoT, Medical, Foundry verticals. Sankalp Semiconductor was founded in 2005 with a focus to serve the semiconductor companies primarily offering analog & mixed signal design services. Today, Sankalp with a team of 800+ engineering professionals has design centers in Hubli, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Ahmedabad in India and Ottawa, Canada. The company provides unique advantage to its semiconductor customers by enabling them to engage at any point of semiconductor services life cycle with the ability to provide end-to-end solutions.

 

About Sankalp Semiconductor

Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including analog & mixed signal, digital, high-speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler, IOs and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partners to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer, Networking, Wireless, IoT, Medical electronics and Foundry space. The company enables its customers achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first time right silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in USA, India, Canada, Germany and Malaysia. www.sankalpsemi.com

Contact Information: 
Eklovya Sharma

Sankalp Semiconductor 
marcom@sankalpsemi.com
+91 98790 48571 (Cell)

Sankalp Semiconductor Announces Availability of Automated Analog Validation Services Environment - SAVE
SAVE to enable comprehensive, remote & automated post-silicon validation of Analog designs

San Francisco, CA – 26th June, 2018 - Sankalp Semiconductor, a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions, today at 55th DAC 2018 announced the availability of Sankalp Automated Validation Environment (SAVE). Sankalp will be demonstrating a video demo of the solution at its booth #2457. SAVE allows post-silicon validation of Analog designs. It combines both software and Analog design services that enables comprehensive post-silicon validation. SAVE provides huge savings on the test time & validation cost. With an intuitive GUI, SAVE provides automated testing, monitoring and reporting.

“SAVE is another step towards enabling our customers through the entire chip design life cycle. Our customer using SAVE have benefited from incredible savings of time & cost.” said Samir Patel, CEO, Sankalp Semiconductor. “The configurability options within the GUI and Analog services provide customers the ability & flexibility to robustly validate Analog designs.

To know more about SAVE, please send us an email at marcom@sankalpsemi.com

Sankalp offers services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including Digital, Analog, mixed signal, custom layout, standard cell development, IO, memory, IP migration services and PDK development. Sankalp Semiconductor provides services and solutions to develop Application Specific SoC (ASoCs) for variety of applications.

Sankalp Semiconductor founded in 2005 with a focus to serve the semiconductor companies primarily offering Analog & mixed signal design services. Today, Sankalp with a team of 800+ engineering professionals has design Centers in Hubli, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Ahmedabad in India and Ottawa, Canada. The company provides unique advantage to its semiconductor customers by enabling them at any point of semiconductor services life cycle with the ability to provide end-to-end solutions.

About Sankalp Semiconductor

Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including digital, analog, high-speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partner to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Industrial IoT and Medical electronics space. The company enables its customers achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first time right silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in USA, India, Canada, Germany and Malaysia. www.sankalpsemi.com
Contact Information:
Eklovya Sharma
Sankalp Semiconductor
marcom@sankalpsemi.com
+1 408 682 0201 (Cell)

Sankalp Semiconductor announces release of its eDP receiver IP for Chip on Glass Applications

San Francisco, CA – June 25, 2018 - Sankalp Semiconductor a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC solutions today at 55th DAC 2018 announced release of its Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) receiver IP. DisplayPort offers high bandwidth, lower pin count and low power solutions for high-resolution displays. The Chip on Glass (COG) technology enables area efficient PCB design leading to significant reduction in system cost for notebooks, tablets and other mobile devices.

“We are excited to provide a customized eDP IP solution in the desired technology node tailored to our customer’s requirements,” said Dr. Vijay Pathak, CTO, Sankalp Semiconductor. “Our IP strategy involves design and porting IPs between technology and/or foundry nodes and providing support through custom IP services to ensure smooth IP integration in Display system designs.

Sankalp’s eDP receiver IP is compliant to eDP 1.4b receiver specification by Video Electronics Standard Association (VESA) and is developed in 80nm CMOS technology supporting configurable data rates of 1.6, 2.16, 2.43, 2.7 Gb/s. This mixed signal IP is equipped with at speed BIST and several diagnostic features for in-situ performance enhancements. The IP comes with a complete set of deliverables that include GDSII, LEF, PHY Verilog/ AMS models, channel modeling support and simulation, associated scripts and comprehensive documentation including IP datasheet and SoC integration guidelines.

Sankalp offers services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including Digital, Analog, mixed signal, custom layout, standard cell development, IO, memory, IP migration services and PDK development. Sankalp Semiconductor provides services and solutions to develop Application Specific SoC (ASoCs) for variety of applications.

Sankalp Semiconductor founded in 2005 with a focus to serve the semiconductor companies primarily offering Analog & mixed signal design services. Today, Sankalp with a team of 800+ engineering professionals has design Centers in Hubli, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Ahmedabad in India and Ottawa, Canada. The company provides unique advantage to its semiconductor customers by enabling them at any point of semiconductor services life cycle with the ability to provide end-to-end solutions.

About Sankalp Semiconductor
Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including digital, analog, high-speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partner to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Industrial IoT and Medical electronics space. The company enables its customers achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first time right silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in USA, India, Canada, Germany and Malaysia.
www.sankalpsemi.com
Contact Information:
Eklovya Sharma
Sankalp Semiconductor
marcom@sankalpsemi.com
+1 408 682 0201 (Cell)

Sankalp Semiconductor to Exhibit at Design Automation Conference – 2018

To Demonstrate Automated Analog Validation Services Platform - SAVE

Sunnyvale, CA –5th June, 2018 - Sankalp Semiconductor, a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions, will be exhibiting at DAC from 25-27th June in Moscone, San Francisco. Sankalp offers services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including digital, analog, mixed signal, custom layout, standard cell development, IO, memory, IP migration services and PDK development. Sankalp Semiconductor provides services and solutions to develop Application Specific SoC (ASoCs) for variety of applications.

Sankalp Semiconductor at the booth will also be showcasing Sankalp Automatic Validation Environment (SAVE). Sankalp Automatic Validation Environment allows in testing and validating various Analog Design. SAVE is an automated validation platform for comprehensive testing allowing huge savings on the testing time.

When: 25-27th June from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Location: Moscone, San Francisco, CA
Booth#: 2457

To set-up a Meeting, please send us an email at marcom@sankalpsemi.com
For more information on conference, please visit https://dac.com/

About Sankalp Semiconductor

Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including digital, analog, high-speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partners to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Industrial IoT and Medical electronics space. The company enables its customers achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first pass silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in USA, India, Canada, Germany and Malaysia.

www.sankalpsemi.com
Contact Information: Eklovya Sharma
Sankalp Semiconductor marcom@sankalpsemi.com

Sankalp Semiconductor Strengthens Management Team

Appoints Ashish Dixit as Director of Engineering for its USA Operations

Sunnyvale, USA – May 10th, 2018 - Sankalp Semiconductor, a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions, today announced strengthening of its management team by appointing Ashish Dixit in the key position of Director of Engineering Operations for Sankalp USA.

Ashish has over 30 years of experience in microprocessor design, semiconductor IP and SoCs. His expertise lies in building and managing worldwide high performance engineering teams. Ashish in the past has held senior management positions with MoSyS, Tensilica, SGI, MIPS and Intel wherein he developed and supported multiple end-to-end customer solutions.

“I am thrilled to join the Sankalp team, and look forward to working closely with customers and partners to provide complete end-to-end ASIC solutions & services.” said Ashish Dixit, Director of Engineering, Sankalp Semiconductor. “Sankalp provides multiple advantages to its customers including comprehensive SoC services allowing customers to engage in end-to-end solutions or anywhere within the entire chip design cycle.”

“We are very proud to be able to add such well-seasoned executive like Ashish in to our management team.” said Samir Patel, CEO, Sankalp Semiconductor. “Ashish will be instrumental in providing the impetus to our growing North America design services business and executing projects with high quality.”

Sankalp Semiconductor has executed multitude of complex digital and mixed signal SoC (System-On-Chip) projects for variety of its customers in Automotive, Consumer, Networking, Wireless, IoT, Medical, Foundry verticals. Sankalp Semiconductor was founded in 2005 with a focus to serve the semiconductor companies primarily offering analog & mixed signal design services. Today, Sankalp with a team of 800+ engineering professionals has design centers in Hubli, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Ahmedabad in India and Ottawa, Canada. The company provides unique advantage to its semiconductor customers by enabling them to engage at any point of semiconductor services life cycle with the ability to provide end-to-end solutions.

About Sankalp Semiconductor
Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including analog & mixed signal, digital, highspeed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler, IOs and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partners to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer, Networking, Wireless, IoT, Medical electronics and Foundry space. The company enables its customers to achieve their timeto-market window by delivering first pass silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System on Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in USA, India, Canada, Germany and Malaysia. www.sankalpsemi.com
Contact Information:
Eklovya Sharma
Sankalp Semiconductor
marcom@sankalpsemi.com

Sankalp Semiconductor opens a New Design Center in Ahmedabad

Bangalore, India – Feb 5th, 2018 - Sankalp Semiconductor, a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions, today announced opening of a new design center in Ahmedabad. The company already has three design centers in India (Hubli, Kolkata and Bangalore). Sankalp Semiconductor has executed multitude of complex digital and mixed signal SoC (System-On-Chip) projects for variety of its customers in Automotive, Consumer, Networking, Wireless, IoT, Medical, Foundry verticals.

“Semiconductor companies prefer outsourcing to services providers with ability to provide end-toend services, Sankalp Ahmedabad Center will reinforce its ability to build teams and provide endto- end ASIC solution & services. We are also excited to have Samir Shroff join the team to head the Ahmedabad Design Center, he brings in wide experience of establishing and scaling ASIC teams.” said Samir Patel, CEO Sankalp Semiconductor.

“I am delighted to join the engineering team at Sankalp Semiconductor, and look forward to closely working with customers and partners to provide high quality ASIC solutions and services offerings. Sankalp Ahmedabad center will be a center for excellence for SoC design, verification and physical design services enabling customers with complex chip design.” Said Samir Shroff, Head Sankalp Semiconductor, Ahmedabad.

Samir Shroff has more than 24 years of experience in US & India in building strong teams for ASIC Design, Verification & Physical Design, Embedded systems and in executing numerous projects for worldwide technology companies.

Sankalp Semiconductor was founded in 2005 with a focus to serve the semiconductor companies primarily offering analog & mixed signal design services. Today, Sankalp with a team of 700+ engineering professionals has design centers in Hubli, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Ahmedabad in India and Ottawa, Canada. The company provides unique advantage to its semiconductor customers by enabling them at any point of semiconductor services life cycle with the ability to provide end-to-end solutions.

About Sankalp Semiconductor
Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including analog & mixed signal, digital, high-speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler, IOs and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partners to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer, Networking, Wireless, IoT, Medical electronics and Foundry space. The company enables its customers to achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first pass silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design Systemon- Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in USA, India, Canada, Germany and Malaysia. www.sankalpsemi.com

Contact Information:
Eklovya Sharma
Sankalp Semiconductor
marcom@sankalpsemi.com
+91 98790 48571 (Cell)

Sankalp Semiconductor expands internationally with its operations in Malaysia

Sankalp Malaysia to act as a gateway for business expansion in Southeast Asia

Sunnyvale, California– Jan 8th, 2018 - Sankalp Semiconductor, a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions, today announced establishing a fully owned subsidiary in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. The company has a strong presence in India, USA and Europe markets. The Malaysia office will enable the company address the growing need of semiconductor design services from large semiconductor and system design companies. The growth of the Hi-Tech Southeast Asia market is attributed to the rapid expansion and robust growth in mobile, automotive, medical and IoT sectors.

“Malaysia is a strategic location to multiple of our customers. Our office in Malaysia will allow us to maintain close proximity with our existing local customers and offer ease of operation for the new customers in the hi-tech semiconductor digital and analog semiconductor space.” said Uday Ramachandran Vice President - Business Development (India & APAC), Sankalp Semiconductor.

Sankalp Semiconductor was founded in 2005 with a focus to serve the semiconductor companies primarily offering analog & mixed signal design services. Today, Sankalp with a team of 700+ engineering professionals has design centers in Hubli, Bengaluru, Kolkata in India and Ottawa, Canada. The company provides unique advantage to its semiconductor customers by enabling them at any point of semiconductor services life cycle with the ability to provide end-to-end solutions.

About Sankalp Semiconductor
Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including analog, digital, high-speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partners to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Industrial IoT  and Medical electronics space. The company enables its customers to achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first pass silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in USA, India, Canada and Germany. www.sankalpsemi.com

Contact Information:
Eklovya Sharma
Sankalp Semiconductor
marcom@sankalpsemi.com
+91 98790 48571 (Cell)

Sankalp Semiconductor receives STPI Highest Exporter award

Sankalp wins the award third time in a row as the Highest Exporter in ITES – Hubbali Region

Bengaluru, India – Nov 16, 2017 - Sankalp Semiconductor, a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions, today received an award from Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) for being the Highest Exporter – ITES in the Hubballi Region award. Sankalp Semiconductor has consecutively third time won the award. According to STPI, the state of Karnataka has touched Rs 1,41,846 Cr worth of exports from STPI member units during 2016-17. Karnataka contributes 40{6840d83bd39e1f667912dd82873565e355733b93d0f9fc0850650a5f8436df67} of the total software export from the country. “The award is validation of our contribution to the worldwide customers in the technology semiconductor domain. We thank STPI for recognizing our contribution and achievements for more than 12 years. We very excited since Sankalp Hubbali is a great success story for creating and scaling excellent semiconductor talent from tier-II cities. Our model has been successful due to our ability to build teams grounds up by leveraging well-planned technical and soft skill in-house training.” said Nagaraj Azhakesan, COO, Sankalp Semiconductor.

Sankalp Semiconductor was founded from Hubbali in 2005, with a focus to serve the semiconductor companies primarily offering analog & mixed signal design services. Today, Sankalp with a team of 650+ engineering professionals has design centers in Hubli, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Ottawa, Canada. The company provides unique advantage to its semiconductor customers by enabling them at any point of semiconductor services life cycle with the ability to provide end-to-end solutions.

About Sankalp Semiconductor
Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including analog, digital, high-speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partners to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Industrial IoT  and Medical electronics space. The company enables its customers to achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first pass silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in USA, India, Canada and Germany. www.sankalpsemi.com

Contact Information:
Eklovya Sharma
Sankalp Semiconductor
marcom@sankalpsemi.com
+91 98790 48571 (Cell)

Sankalp Semiconductor receives investment from Stakeboat Capital Fund

Strategic investment to enable Sankalp Semiconductor with accelerated growth in semiconductor design services space

Bengaluru, India – Oct 11, 2017 - Sankalp Semiconductor, a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions today announced that it has received investment from Stakeboat Capital Fund, a value oriented, alternative investment fund. The strategic investment from Stakeboat Capital will enable Sankalp Semiconductor to grow at an accelerated pace in North America, Asia and European markets.

“The investment further strengthens our position as the largest semiconductor services provider singularly focused in semiconductor domain. The round of investment is a validation of longevity and commitment to our customers.” said Samir Patel, CEO of Sankalp Semiconductor. “The investment also helps customers to more clearly distinguish between institutionalized companies such as Sankalp Semiconductor that are focused on a long-term engagement with its customers compared to companies that are driven by individuals with short term objectives.”

“Sankalp Semiconductor is a perfect fit from our investment philosophy point of view. We are excited to be associated with a company that has a positive brand value, high customer stickiness, and has been profitable from inception. We see this association to further strengthen Sankalp’s established processes for providing value to its customers through domain knowledge, automation, and scaling teams in the semiconductor services space.” said Chandrasekar Kandasamy, Managing Partner, Stakeboat Capital.

Sankalp Semiconductor was founded in 2005 with a focus to serve the semiconductor companies primarily offering analog & mixed signal design services. Today, Sankalp with a team of 650+ engineering professionals has design centers in Hubli, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Ottawa, Canada. The company provides unique advantage to its semiconductor customers by enabling them at any point of semiconductor services life cycle with the ability to provide end-to-end solutions.

About Sankalp Semiconductor

Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including analog, digital, high-speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partners to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Industrial IoT and Medical electronics space. The company enables its achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first pass silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in USA, India, Canada and Germany. www.sankalpsemi.com

About Stakeboat

Stakeboat Capital LLP is a value oriented, alternative investment firm, focused on small and medium companies in India. Stakeboat Capital is founded and managed by members who have strong experience in building and/or investing in large multi-million dollar businesses through organic growth and inorganic acquisitions, both in India and abroad. The members have been associated with the Indian venture capital and private equity industry over the last 28 years. They have invested in or founded companies whose current market capitalization is in excess of USD 8 Billion. www.stakeboat.com

Contact Information: 
Eklovya Sharma
Sankalp Semiconductor
marcom@sankalpsemi.com
+91 98790 48571 (Cell)

Sankalp Semiconductor to Present & Exhibit at Design & Reuse IPSoC China 2017

Sankalp Semiconductor CEO to deliver a featured talk on the changing dynamics in the semiconductor

Sunnyvale, CA – September 6, 2017 - Sankalp Semiconductor, a comprehensive solutions and services provider in the semiconductor space, will be exhibiting at Design & Reuse IPSoC China 2017 on 14th September in Shanghai. Sankalp Semiconductor’s booth will be displaying expertise related to the digital, analog and mixed signal, custom layout, standard cell development, IO solutions, memory solutions, IP migration services and PDK development domains. Sankalp Semiconductor acts as a One-Stop Semiconductor Services store for various customer requirements. The event also will feature an industry talk by Samir Patel, CEO, Sankalp Semiconductor.

Featured Talk at IPSoC China:

When: From 9:45 am to 10:30 am on 14 September 2017

Topic:  “Changing Dynamics in the Semiconductor Industry” Samir Patel, CEO, Sankalp Semiconductor

Location: Evergreen Laurel Hotel, Pudong New District, Pudong, 201203 Shanghai, China

To set-up a Meeting at the event, please send us an email at marcom@sankalpsemi.com

For More information on Design & Reuse IPSoC, Shanghai please visit

http://www.design-reuse-embedded.com/ipsocdays/shanghai2017.jsp

About Sankalp Semiconductor

Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including digital, analog, high-speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partners to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Industrial IoT and Medical electronics space. The company enables its customers achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first pass silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Sunnyvale, California, with multiple development and services centers in India, Canada and Germany.www.sankalpsemi.com

Contact Information: 
Eklovya Sharma
Sankalp Semiconductor 
marcom@sankalpsemi.com

+91 98790 48571 (Cell)

Sankalp Semiconductor awarded with ISO 9001: 2015 certification

Reinforces its Just-in-Time chip design services methodology

Sunnyvale, California – August 16, 2017 - Sankalp Semiconductor a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC solutions,
today announced its upgradation to ISO 9001:2015 certification. By meeting the extensive criteria for the ISO 9001: 2015 standards, the company reinforces its ability to deliver IC design services with continuous improvements in its offerings and customer delivery processes. The certification will enable the company to move to towards the highest level of quality and efficiency.

“Most of our customers see a lot of value in our just-in-time chip design services capabilities. ISO 9001: 2015 best practices will further enable us to provide
customers with high quality services while meeting their time to market needs.” said Samir Patel, CEO, Sankalp Semiconductor. “The certification will provide
confidence to our new customers looking to leverage our design center for their chip design.”

ISO 9001:2015 provides extra focus on risk-based thinking and accountability in all organizational processes that helps improve communications, efficiency, and implementation of continuous improvement. Sankalp has been awarded a certificate of registration for 'Development, Verification and Delivery of Integrated Circuit (IC) Designs and Associated Services' effective April 25, 2017 for its design facility in Aryabhatta Tech Park, Hubli.

About Sankalp Semiconductor
Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including digital, analog, high-speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partners to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Industrial IoT and Medical electronics space. The company enables its customers achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first pass silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Sunnyvale, California, with multiple development and services centers in India, Canada and Germany.www.sankalpsemi.com

Contact Information:
Eklovya Sharma
Sankalp Semiconductor
marcom@sankalpsemi.com
(408) 682-0201

Sankalp Semiconductor to hire 300 engineers

Doubles capacity of Kolkata Design Center

Bangalore, India– July 26, 2017 - Sankalp Semiconductor a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC solutions, today announced its plan to hire 300 engineers in the next 12 months. Sankalp plans to hire engineers for its India design centers in Bangalore, Hubli and Kolkata. The hiring plans will enable Sankalp to meet demands from its existing and new customers in North America, Europe and Asia. Sankalp provides services in the digital, analog & mixed signal, custom layout and technology foundation space. These services have enabled customer to build semiconductor solutions for automotive, consumer, IoT, networking markets.

“We have doubled the capacity of our Kolkata design center, and have aggressively started recruitment for all our design centers.” Said Nagaraj Azhakesan, COO, Sankalp Semiconductor. “We are witnessing excellent growth in digital and mixed signal design services space and will be hiring a health mix of experienced and fresh engineering talent.”

The new Kolkata facility will have an additional seating capacity for 100 engineers. The Kolkata center will continue to execute and focus on complex mixed signal design projects. Sankalp’s multisite design center model has enabled the company to attract talented engineers from various cities. All the fresh engineering graduates go through a structured 6 months on the job training program that enables them to come up to speed with Sankalp’s customer delivery and quality standards.

About Sankalp Semiconductor
Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including digital, analog, high-speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partners to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Industrial IoT and Medical electronics space. The company enables its customers achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first pass silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Sunnyvale, California, with multiple development and services centers in India, Canada and Germany.www.sankalpsemi.com

Contact Information:
Eklovya Sharma
Sankalp Semiconductor
marcom@sankalpsemi.com
+91-9879048571 (Mobile)

Sankalp Semiconductor announces availability of 16nm IO Libraries

Austin, TX– June 19, 2017 - Sankalp Semiconductor a design service company offering comprehensive mixed signal and SoC solutions today announced the availability of its 16nm IO library. Sankalp will highlight the16nm IO library solution at its booth (#1915) during the Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 19-21 in Austin, Texas. The company provides one-stop solution for chip designer for a variety of IO and custom mixed signal IP needs. The 16nm IO library is an addition to Sankalp’s portfolio of IOs that include solutions for process nodes spanning from 16nm to 130nm technologies.

“The IO solution offerings complements our analog and mixed signal expertise. Our customers derive value by getting their entire semiconductor needs fulfilled from a single technology services provider,” said Vijay Pathak, CTO Mixed Signal, Sankalp Semiconductor. “Sankalp supports customers with analog IP building blocks, digital design, verification and SoC design services. We are committed to investment in building the GPIOs for new technologies across the foundries so that these could be leveraged to build application specific high bandwidth interface solutions by our customers.”

Sankalp’s 16nm IO is compliant with ANSI/TIA/EIA-644- A-2001 and IEEE 1596.3-1996 Standard for LVDS Scalable Coherent Interface architecture. The IO's offers superior design performance with high immunity to ESD and latchup. The IOs are power supply sequence independent. The LVCMOS IO is compatible with JEDEC LVCMOS18 specification. It supports Fail-safe feature for the OD variant along with Over-Voltage tolerance. All the IO's are tested for reliability robustness. Each IO supports ease of test-ability with Test Bus Pad.

Sankalp’s high performance IO architecture comes with a complete set of deliverables that include Verilog, .lib, CDL netlist, LEF, ibis, GDSII and detailed documentation. The design includes signal, power and specialty pads. The specialty pads include Test Bus Pad, spacers; corners and other IO ring create cells. The I/O module, in addition to signal and power pads also includes custom pads for test bus, spacers, corners and other IO ring create cells.

About Sankalp Semiconductor
Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including digital, analog, high-speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partners to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Industrial IoT and Medical electronics space. The company enables its customers achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first pass silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Sunnyvale, California, with multiple development and services centers in India, Canada and Germany.www.sankalpsemi.com

Contact Information:
Pallavi Singh
Sankalp Semiconductor
marcom@sankalpsemi.com

Sankalp Semiconductor to Exhibit at DAC 2017

To provide free consultation on best practices for technology porting, design automation and mixed signal verification

Sunnyvale, CA – May 29, 2017 - Sankalp Semiconductor a comprehensive solutions and services provider in the semiconductor space, will be exhibiting at Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2017 from 19th - 22nd June in Austin, Texas. Sankalp Semiconductor’s booth #1915 will be displaying selected success stories related to the digital, analog and mixed signal, custom layout, standard cell development, IO solutions, memory solutions, IP migration services and PDK development domains. Sankalp Semiconductor acts as a One-Stop Semiconductor Services store for various customer requirements.

4 Hours Free Onsite/Online Technical Consultation

The Onsite/Online Technical Consultation focuses on areas that Sankalp’s team has performed repeatedly with variety of customers while ensuring first time right silicon. These services have enabled customers to reduce their time to market, meet time schedules within cost budgets. The consultation will provide best practices in the area of mixed signal verification, Technology porting, Design automation, PDK development and more.

To learn more sign-up here https://sankalpsemi.com/dac-2017-sign-up/

Set-up a meeting at DAC 2017

Team Sankalp will be demonstrating selected end-to-end projects executed for a variety of customers in the automotive, imaging and IoT domains.

When: At DAC 2017 Exhibits, open from June 19-21

Where: Booth #1915 at the Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas

To set-up, a meeting at Sankalp Suite click here https://sankalpsemi.com/dac-2017-sign-up/.

About Sankalp Semiconductor

Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including digital, analog, high-speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partners to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Industrial IoT and Medical electronics space. The company enables its customers achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first pass silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Sunnyvale, California, with multiple development and services centers in India, Canada and Germany. www.sankalpsemi.com

Contact Information:

Pallavi Singh 
Sankalp Semiconductor 
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SANKALP SEMICONDUCTOR STRENGTHENS MANAGEMENT TEAM

Appoints Prakash Easwaran as Vice President of Engineering for Analog & Mixed Signal Group

Sunnyvale, CA – May 4, 2017 – Sankalp Semiconductor a comprehensive solutions and services provider in the semiconductor space, today announced strengthening of its management team by appointing Prakash Easwaran in the key position of Vice President of Engineering for Analog & Mixed Signal group. He will be managing the Analog & Mixed Systems teams focused on Power Management, Data Converters and high speed Interfaces. .  

Prakash is a semiconductor veteran with more than 24 years of experience in various semiconductor and systems companies like Texas Instruments, Cosmic Circuits and InnoRel Systems. His expertise lies in building high performance teams executing analog mixed projects in automotive, consumer and networking domains.  Prakash was the CTO of Cosmic Circuits before its successful acquisition by Cadence. Prakash has 5 papers and 29 patents attributed to his name.

“I am thrilled to join the engineering team at Sankalp Semiconductor, and look forward to closely working with customers and partners to provide a robust Analog & Mixed signal solutions and services offerings.” said Prakash Easwaran, Vice President Engineering, Sankalp Semiconductor. “Sankalp Semiconductor offers comprehensive capabilities in low power design, keen understanding of various semiconductor process technologies, high performance analog design, mixed signal modeling and verification allowing customers to engage anywhere through the entire chip design cycle.”

“Sankalp team has successfully executed more than 500+ projects in digital, analog & mixed signal, high speed IP, memory space for variety of customers.” said Samir Patel, CEO Sankalp Semiconductor. “Addition of Prakash to the team will enable us to reinforce our technology leadership in the Analog & Mixed signal space and provide the firepower to our aggressive team building plans.”

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About Sankalp Semiconductor

Sankalp Semiconductor offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions to its customers in key semiconductor domains including digital, analog, high speed physical interface IP, Embedded Memory Compiler and EDA modelling. Sankalp Semiconductor is a preferred semiconductor design service partners to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Industrial IoT and Medical electronics space. The company enables its customers achieve their time-to-market window by delivering first pass silicon designs and engage with product engineering teams across the globe to design System-on-Chip. Sankalp Semiconductor is based in Sunnyvale, California, with multiple development and services centers in India, Canada and Germany.www.sankalpsemi.com

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SANKALP SEMICONDUCTOR COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF INTERRA SYSTEMS DESIGN SERVICE BUSINESS UNIT

BANGALORE, INDIA. February 1st 2016

Sankalp Semiconductor, a leading semiconductor System on Chip service provider, today announced that they have completed the acquisition of privately-held Interra System's Design Service business which includes their Memory Design, SOC Verification & ASIC/EDA Automation service businesses. This acquisition creates a unique technology portfolio and delivers a powerful value proposition to customers as they gain access to a broad array of leading design service and technology that fuels the next-generation SoC (system on chip) designs.

Memory design services represents an essential component of our growth strategy. Embedded memory design has become a key differentiator in customer designs today," said Samir Patel, CEO of Sankalp Semiconductor. Interra is a leader in Memory IP services with a broad technology base and an impressive array of customers worldwide. The synergy of Sankalp Semiconductor and Interras’ Memory Design team is compelling for our customers' SoC design initiatives. Sankalp will continue to service and grow all of Interra’s existing design service customer accounts.

With Interra’s penetration across a broad range of embedded markets, and Sankalps’ relationships with a large array of customers, we expect to reap significant sales growth from the new partnership. We can offer a more comprehensive, integrated design solution, better serve existing markets, and strategically enter high-growth segments where memory is critical." "Sankalps' commitment to the Analog / Mixed Signal market remains unwavering," added Samir Patel. "We are committed to extending our leadership roadmap as we integrate the Interra’s VLSI design services family into Sankalp Semiconductor."

“This is a strategic merger of Memory design and Verification services. They are receiving incredible talent”, said Sunil Jain, CEO of Interra Systems. Clearly, greater success at Memory design will strengthen the overall opportunity for Sankalp to deliver on their strategy to create a family of services including SOC design & verification.

STPI, DELOITTE AND FROST & SULLIVAN AWARDS FOR SANKALP SEMICONDUCTOR

Hubli, India, October 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/

Sankalp Semiconductor, a VLSI design services company based out of India has been garnering attention from the industry since its inception. Over the last 6 months it has been awarded with three prestigious awards.

The most recent award is by STPI, Karnataka which has selected Sankalp Semiconductor as the winner of "Highest growth in Exports - IT/ITES" and "Highest Exporter - IT Services (Hubli Region)". The STPI award for IT Exports is recognition of Sankalp's business excellence in delivering Semiconductor design and development services for customers across the world in the automotive, consumer electronics and communication sectors. The second is by Deloitte Technology which has recognized us as amongst the winners of Deloitte Technology Fast50 India 2013 program for the third time in a row. Deloitte Technology Fast50 ranking identifies the top 50 fastest growing companies in India based on percentage revenue growth over three years.

Winning this award for three times in a row is a testament that the company has kept its financials intact even during the industry downturns. The third is by Frost and Sullivan for 'Competitive Strategy Leadership in the Semiconductor Design Market'. Sankalp is the honorary recipient of this award as its innovative competitive strategy has resulted in a significant competitive advantage during the research period. The award also recognizes that Sankalp has taken advantage of recent market changes that facilitate the introduction of never-before seen methods of capturing and solidifying market presence.

"We are delighted to be bestowed with the honor of these awards. These are exciting times for us and awards like these not only help us gain the requisite customer confidence but also motivate us to keep on pushing the limits further to achieve business excellence every year," said Mr. Samir Patel, CEO, Sankalp Semiconductor.

SANKALP ESTABLISHES IC DESIGN CENTRE IN BHUBANESWAR

HUBLI, India, May 14, 2013 – Sankalp, the 2012 Red Herring Top 100 Global Winner, on an Expansion Mode

Sankalp Semiconductor today announced a fully functional mixed-signal IC Design centre in Bhubaneswar. With already an established design centre in Kolkata focused around analog solutions, this is its second such design centre in the eastern part of India. This state-of-the-art facility is located at Infocity, heart of all IT activities at Bhubaneswar.

This design centre is the home for 30+ top of the line engineers who are working on leading edge technologies and solutions that go into several consumer and industrial systems applications. Sankalp would work very closely with select institutions in the region and establish an industry-academia research and development base for the region. “The twin sites of Sankalp Semiconductor at Bhubaneswar and Kolkata form a very unique and formidable centre of excellence in analog mixed-signal designs,” said Mrinal Das, Vice President of Engineering at Sankalp Semiconductor.
The capacity in the twin sites can collectively cater to the end-to-end needs of complex mixed-signal chips. Mrinal Das is a part of the Sankalp Semiconductor leadership team and has relocated to Bhubaneswar to run this operations and develop the regional Eco System. This demonstrates the importance of design centre in eastern part of India for Sankalp Semiconductor.

“High technology job creation in Tier-II cities of India is our stated goal and we live to it. With our head quarters in Hubli and centres in Kolkata, Indore and now in Bhubaneswar, we are making good progress on our stated goal,” said Vivek Pawar, Chief Executive Officer of Sankalp Semiconductor. “With good number of key engineering institutes, there have been a rich legacy in creating analog mixed-signal talent and engineers from the eastern part of India are spread across globally in the semiconductor industry. These design centres in Tier-II cities have proved that they can deliver technology intensive work very effectively and also can scale with good economic sense,” added Mr. Pawar.

The centre at Bhubaneswar would scale its operations and would hire talented engineers from the region and returning technologists from global locations. Analog mixed-signal is a very niche skill and there are very few companies globally that have mastered this art.

SANKALP SEMICONDUCTOR ANNOUNCES NEW MEMBERS ON ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Hubli, Karnataka, INDIA – April 8th 2013

Sankalp Semiconductor Private Limited, a leading Analog Mixed-Signal services and solutions company from India today announced the appointment of Mr. Kishore Patil and Mr. Mahesh Jadhav as its new Board members.

Kishore Patil is the co-founder, Managing Director & CEO of KPIT Cummins (BSE: 532400; NSE: KPIT) a leading product engineering and IT consulting partner to global manufacturing, automotive and energy & utilities corporations. Under Kishore’s leadership, KPIT Cummins has grown from being a small start up to one of the world’s largest and most recognized engineering services provider.

“We are glad that Kishore accepted our invitation to join our Board of Directors. His experience in nurturing an engineering services organization with a Vertical focus is very unique and his presence on our board would be of immense help as we scale our operations.” said Vivek Pawar, Executive Chairman of Sankalp Semiconductor Private Limited.

Mahesh Jadhav is a seasoned Strategy Executive with deep expertise across Hi-tech and Telecom verticals. He is based in the US and is currently the Global P&L Head – Communication, Information, Media& Entertainment for Cognizant Business Services. Prior to this, he has served as a Strategy, Scale-Up, and M&A advisor to VC firms and Fortune 1000 companies in North America and Asia. He has had a very successful stint at large consulting firms such as Accenture and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mahesh served as the COO of Panex Consulting, a US-based boutique technology startup which was acquired by KPIT Cummins. Mahesh holds a Masters from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

“Mahesh has been our advisor for several years and has guided us through several important stages of Sankalp Semiconductor. He has now accepted to be formally on our board. As we strive to move to high value services & consulting model, his guidance to us would be very critical.” said Vivek Pawar, Executive Chairman of Sankalp Semiconductor Private Limited.

SANKALP SEMICONDUCTOR APPOINTS SAMIR PATEL AS CEO

HUBLI, India, April 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

Sankalp Semiconductor today announced the elevation of Samir Patel as its Chief Executive Officer. Sankalp Semiconductor, which started in year 2005, has established itself as a leading analog mixed-signal technology solutions company from India. Its unique approach of building technology centers across various cities of India has helped it to profitably scale its delivery model and acquire good customer base. The recent successful merger of Semiconductor Solutions Group of KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd. has strengthened its digital offering complimenting to its flagship analog mixed-signal services.
Samir Patel, who is a technology leader with over 25 years of executive leadership in global semiconductor industry, will assume the role with immediate effect. Samir has been with Sankalp for 5 years as President and set up its operations in North America. Previously, he has worked at Rambus where he managed their engineering. He was instrumental in setting up Rambus India operations and also championed the acquisitions of several IP businesses. Prior to Rambus, Samir worked at companies like: SUN Microsystems, Catalyst Semiconductor and National Semiconductor. Samir has a B.S. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and MS from University of Santa Barbara. He also has to his credit several executive courses from Stanford University.

Vivek Pawar, who founded Sankalp Semiconductor and the current CEO, will step into the role of Executive Chairman of Sankalp Semiconductor Private Limited. "Samir Patel is an astute leader and his business acumen would help us to scale globally. Connecting with our customers and their global footprint is an important need to keep our customer delight quotient high. Samir's past professional experience would help Sankalp during this growth phase and to establish itself as a leading global player," said Mr. Pawar.

Vivek Pawar in his new role of Executive Chairman would chair the Board of Directors and work on leadership and technical talent development programs. Vivek would continue to drive his passion by managing Mixed-Signal Solutions Business Unit of the company and would continue to be the executive sponsor for some of their key customers. Under Vivek's leadership since inception, Sankalp Semiconductor has evolved itself into a leading mixed-signal services and solutions company with over 450 engineers and more than 20 global customers. The company has grown multiple folds on its revenue in last seven years and has made its mark in the semiconductor industry.

SANKALP SEMICONDUCTOR APPOINTS DAN CLEIN INTO ITS MANAGEMENT TEAM

HUBLI, India, December 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/

Sankalp Semiconductor Private Limited, a leading Analog Mixed-Signal services and solutions company from India, announced today the appointment of Mr. Dan Clein into its management team. Dan will be based out of the North America region.

Dan Clein is a seasoned industry professional with over 30 years of active involvement in the layout of Memory (DRAM, SRAM, etc.), Full Custom, Analog and Mixed-Signal designs. Until recently, Dan worked as Director-Mixed Signal Layout at PMC Sierra and was managing a team of 30+ people spread across 5 locations and 4 countries. He is very well versed in building and mentoring global engineering teams. Dan is well known for his popular book "CMOS IC Layout - Concepts, Methodologies & Tools", which is a comprehensive treatise of all concepts of mixed-signal layout. Dan is a big preacher of methodologies and has advised on several new products from EDA companies like Mentor Graphics, Cadence, Synopsys, etc. Dan is a vivid teacher and has taught several student courses at Carleton University. Prior to PMC Sierra, Dan worked at MOSAID Technologies Canada and Motorola Semiconductor Israel.

"Dan's addition to the management team is an exciting feeling for all of us at Sankalp" said Samir Patel, CEO of Sankalp Semiconductor Private Limited. "His decades of experience in building global engineering teams would help Sankalp globalize and brings in a near shore experience for our customers out of the North America region" said Mr. Patel.

"Dan's unique expertise in methodology and automation would help us drive new focused innovations towards highly differentiated solutions to our customers as they migrate to lower technology nodes." said Mrinal Das, VP Engineering at Sankalp Semiconductor Private Limited.

SAMIR PATEL’S TECHNICAL INTERVIEW FOR EFY TIMES

Tuesday, September 04, 2012: Samir Patel, president, Sankalp SemiConductor Pvt Ltd, spoke to Ashwin Gopinath of EFY about the comparisons between IT Firms and Electronics companies with respect to hiring.

Sankalp Semiconductor deals with Analog Mixed Signal services and solutions specialising in end-to-end solutions for IOs, analog and mixed signal chip design/layout. Samir Patel, president, Sankalp SemiConductor Pvt. Ltd., spoke to Ashwin Gopinath of EFY about the comparisons between IT Firms and Electronics companies with respect to hiring.

What are the emerging technology trends for which you are seeking engineers?
I would say that the trends which are emerging in the field of technology are Power Management, Performance SOCs along with Hi-Speed IOs and 28nm, 90nm and130nm technology. The engineers we seek to work with are along the same lines of technology.

What’s Sankalp’s policy vis-a-vis Internet access (including Social Networking sites) for its engineers?
We don’t have any restrictions on the usage of Internet as long as it’s on our network. Though, when we work on client networks for ODCs, we have to adhere to their rules and regulations regarding the same.

Do your employees have anything like stock options or its equivalent at Sankalp?
Stock options do exist at Sankalp, which itself was founded with a part aim of increasing the net worth of all of its employees. We have a very distributive equity model here which also ensures that no one person winds up with a large share of the equity.

Do you support the idea that IT firms take more care of their employees when compared to pure electronics firms like Sankalp?
I don’t want to comment on what IT firms do because I’m not personally aware of the situation but I will say this- From what I’ve heard about from other electronics firm’s HR personnel, the employees in electronics firms are very excited to be working on and with the latest that technology has to offer. Also,
as far as work conditions and amenities go, I can strongly say that we are at par (if not better) with the IT companies.

Does Sankalp have an internship program?
If yes, how do interested people get in contact with you? We do have an internship program. It’s more of an association with the campuses that we go to campus recruitment. It aims to familiarise them to the technologies that they will have to work on.
What measures have you introduced to reduce absenteeism/substance abuse? One reason we strive to hire freshers is because we can mould them to become professional employees. We make them undergo a rigorous training in which we integrate them to an ethical and fulfilling work culture.

What kind of training do you provide freshers?
Sankalp is actually pretty big on training. Every fresh engineer goes through a training period of 3 months, which includes a refresher course on the General Engineering Trends. We believe you cannot be a good engineer here if you don’t understand the overall SemiConductor Industry including the design flow processes. After the general induction, we look at their desires and skills and according to that, we provide specialised skills for the domain of their choice. A 4-6 week course is also assigned to them to focus on design, verification or layout based primarily on which project they will be working on.

Are there specific skill sets you look for while recruiting?
We look broadly at 3 areas:

Attitude: We believe that at a certain level (education and skills remaining the same), attitude is the key differentiator of the aspirants.
Technical Skill: Needless to say, this is the second most important skill that we look at.
Adaptability: Once they come face-to-face with a problem, how will they react to it and find a way around is something that is a highly prized quality.
What are the key considerations you keep in mind while communicating HR policies to the company?
All of our HR policies are enabled only after a collaborative decision making meeting with the respective personnel. Be it advertisement placement or canteen policies, all the decisions are taken up with the employees’ knowledge and consent.

What are the major challenges facing HR Management today?
I would say that finding the right personnel who are fresh, talented and willing to learn is quite the challenge today when IT companies and Electronics companies are competing for the same brains.

What challenges do you face during recruitment drives?
While recruiting laterally, the main concern is judging the applicant's abilities. They all have impressive resumes but more than a few words on a paper, we have to use our judgement to make an informed decision. While recruiting engineering graduates, there are no huge challenges. We conduct placement drives across the country and it’s as smooth as it can get.

What does Sankalp do to deal with Stress Management issues?
I don’t think if you are familiar with your colleagues, then stress is a major issue. We have a very open office policy, which encourages everyone to interact with everyone else.

KPIT CUMMINS CARVES OUT ITS SEMICONDUCTOR HARDWARE SOLUTIONS BUSINESS

Hubli, Pune, India, July 10, 2012

KPIT Cummins carves out its semiconductor hardware solutions business in partnership with Sankalp Semiconductor Pvt. Ltd., to create Sankalp & KPIT Semiconductor Pvt. Ltd. This new entity will be one of the world’s largest semiconductor hardware design practices with best-in-class capabilities in Analog & Mixed Signal (AMS) design services

KPIT Cummins (NSE: KPIT, BSE: 532400) a leading product engineering and IT consulting partner to global automotive & transportation, manufacturing and energy & utilities corporations has announced that it has carved out its semiconductor hardware solutions business in partnership with Sankalp Semiconductor Pvt. Ltd., a leading analog & mixed-signal and RF semiconductor service provider, which has hereby formed a wholly owned subsidiary named Sankalp & KPIT Semiconductor Pvt. Limited. KPIT Cummins will take a strategic minority stake in the parent Sankalp Semiconductor Pvt. Ltd.
KPIT Cummins brings in strong knowhow of services business scalability, experience in driving global operations, robust process management and market relationships to the new entity, while Sankalp Semiconductor will add its leadership position as preferred AMS service provider, and its strength in developing talent to execute projects through an Offshore Development Centre (ODC) model. The new entity will be one of the world’s largest Analog & Mixed Signal (AMS) design services provider, with best-in-class end-to-end SoC (Systems on Chip) design capabilities, catering to top North American, European and Japanese semiconductor companies and their captive centers in India, with primary focus on Automotive, Consumer Electronics, and Computing & Communications industries.

“This is an important milestone for Sankalp Semiconductor and we believe that this addition of semiconductor hardware strength from KPIT Cummins will
allow us to deliver more value to our joint customers. With this strategic transaction Sankalp Semiconductor now has a large design capacity and a strong base of qualified semiconductor design specialists. This along with the extensively experienced combined leadership team will enable us to offer our customers highly scalable and best-in-class semiconductor design services”, said Vivek Pawar, CEO, Sankalp Semiconductor.
“Semiconductor design competency is key to KPIT Cummins’ product engineering services portfolio and we are happy to find a complementary partner. Sankalp Semiconductor is a leader in semiconductor design for our focus industries including automotive, and also has strong capabilities in the consumer electronics space. With this our joint customers will get access to one of the largest semiconductor hardware design practices and superior Analog & Mixed Signal design (AMS) expertise”, said Pankaj Sathe, Senior Vice President and Head Semiconductor Solutions Group, KPIT Cummins.