Indian IT Industry

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 23 Dec 2010 08:27

Jan 6-9 is consumer electronic show in las vegas where lot of new announcements are expected. hopefully they would appear there and give a full hands-on demo, but I am not counting on it. they did go to CES last yr.

meantime other android tablets with tegra2 processors and 1-2GB of RAM are proliferating. the HW and Screen is being commoditized both in tablets and smartphones - 1-2GB of RAM, 1Ghz "snapdragon" / tegra2 processor, a 4"+ amoled screen, very few buttons since the entire front is the screen itself, a generic 5-8MP camera in back, black plastic and thats about it. android is freeware. and lots of apps are available free or for a small fee.

so I dunno how Moto/Samsung/LG/HTC hope to differentiate their smartphone products - slapping on another layer of UI like touchwiz or sense or motoblur just isnt much of a value add imo. remove the logo and they all look same - big, flat and black. of the lot, Moto and HTC phones seem to use matt finish rugged looking plastic, samsung & LG seem to believe in glossy thinnish plastic. I looked at a 5000/- moto starling qwerty phone and its plastic and build quality looked rock solid. beside it the Micromaxes looked cheap and tinny.

shynee · Post by **shynee** » 28 Dec 2010 10:22

India builds big advertisements for itself

Raja Bose · Post by **Raja Bose** » 28 Dec 2010 10:54

Notion Ink better do their full scale launch fast - PixelQi by itself is not a huge differentiator or a compelling enough reason to buy. From some of their videos, the UI speed needs to be tweaked further but I guess the videos may be showing old stuff. I got shafted from initial list of selected to the backup list who get their device in round #2

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ArmenT · Post by **ArmenT** » 28 Dec 2010 12:17

Singha wrote:Jan 6-9 is consumer electronic show in las vegas where lot of new announcements are expected. hopefully they would appear there and give a full hands-on demo, but I am not counting on it. they did go to CES last yr.

My brother goes there every year. I'll ask him to keep a look out for it and get photos if possible.

vipins · Post by **vipins** » 28 Dec 2010 23:00

Gurus, Please suggest some good material(books etc) on Virtualization , only some basic things.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 29 Dec 2010 08:08

sun microsystems has a free downloadable ebook "virtualization for dummies" which should get you started.
http://www.techmixer.com/free-virtualiz ... -download/

virtualization.info is also a good portal

Raja Bose · Post by **Raja Bose** » 29 Dec 2010 09:26

vipins wrote:Gurus, Please suggest some good material(books etc) on Virtualization , only some basic things.

If you still need references apart from what Singha provided, I can ask one of the fellas in my lab after he returns from vacation - he is a virtualization ustaad and if you used any VMWare product, you have used dozens of his innovations.

vipins · Post by **vipins** » 29 Dec 2010 21:01

Thanks Singha Saar , I downloaded that book and will go through that portal.

RB Saar , I am using VMWare products onlee.Working on ESX , VC etc. Also anything(pdfs,tips etc.) related to VCP certification would be most welcome.

Skanda · Post by **Skanda** » 30 Dec 2010 17:49

Raja Sir, please post the research group in the university where the virtualization ustaad is doing peeeehhdeee. would be interesting to see the recent work.

Raja Bose · Post by **Raja Bose** » 30 Dec 2010 21:02

uh...he is not doing a pee-chaddi and I don't work in a university

When I meant ustaad, I mean a real ustaad industry wale.

vipins, I will ask him once he returns back.

krisna · Post by **krisna** » 31 Dec 2010 06:27

Digital revolution: India comes of age

The telecom sector, in particular, saw an explosive growth in its mobile subscriber base, cheaper mobile services and the introduction of mobile number portability and 3G services. The entertainment sector also took to the trend with more and more Indians logging onto the the world wide web. However, the broadband subscriber base is still low.

Skanda · Post by **Skanda** » 31 Dec 2010 09:56

So, does anyone know about the research work happening on virtualization and related areas in any universities?

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 31 Dec 2010 17:06

it is a dry hardcore OS + comp_arch topic and not many univs will do it - when 'hotter' stuff like analytics, wireless, mobility, web, security, search, e-commerce attract so many eyeballs, startups, pretty femme art students looking for a geek pet and talented foreign grad students.

Xen is open source but its worked on and marketed by Citrix now, citrix is the king of virtual desktops, where your entire OS+apps runs in a VM somewhere in the cloud and citrix thin client device makes it seem running locally. WYSE is another strong player in thin client(hw side).
Kvm was developed by Qumranet a israeli co but now owned by Red Hat (it works with Qemu which is the container and provides the virtual resources - fabrice bellard its inventor is a frenchman) - kvm + qemu work well together, in my personal experience.
you will find informative pages on all the three.

vmware has lots of free tutorials and guru type websites .. being the most widely used ... there is a annual jamboree called vmworld with many tech sessions
microsoft is working to make its Hyper-V @ par with ESX but maybe lagging a few yrs behind , but due to huge installed base of exchange server, Win7/WinNT they will be a strong player
there is also OVM from oracle which might come preinstalled in some Sun rack servers maybe
IBM has been doing virtualization stuff for decades but vmware put it on x86 and made it a daily use term
SUNW had another acquistion named virtualbox which you could download on a regular winXP machine and run different OSes within it like linux - had a neat UI and worked fairly well...not sure if its still there after SUNW got bought out.

sinha · Post by **sinha** » 31 Dec 2010 17:34

There is some work on in pockets with a Govt agency + universities + Private players for taking OSS Private cloud offerings to usable level - things like Ubuntu Private cloud, OpenNebula and Open Eucalyptus. This work is more directed at establishing use of Cloud within Indian Govt
PS: Most work I have seen is in proposal stages with DIT for clearance for funding

KrishnaK · Post by **KrishnaK** » 03 Jan 2011 03:34

http://www.virtualbox.org/ is free, as against VMWare. Works well too.

Saral · Post by **Saral** » 06 Jan 2011 00:55

Here's the Notion Ink Promo Video http://youtu.be/mj-TfF3ge8Y

CES starts tomorrow: Some early looks at http://www.slashgear.com/notion-ink-ada ... -05123431/

Jayram · Post by **Jayram** » 06 Jan 2011 02:04

Vipul wrote:Texas Instruments: Work centers around low cost innovation.

Twenty five years ago, when Dallas headquartered chip maker Texas Instruments (TI) bet on Bangalore as a back office destination it had to transfer equipment — from satellite dish to servers — on bullock carts.
A quarter century later those images are part of Texas Instruments' archives, history and folklore. Those were the days when eyebrows were raised over the decision to move to India and few would venture to set up even a call centre, let alone a high-tech chip design facility.Today, a visitor to Bangalore will find all global majors from GE to Samsung getting some part of their global R&D done out of the city.
Check the Photo in the article. For some reason i am not able to upload it.

I remeber back in the 80's seeing a full page ad in TOI or some such paper with a young TI engineer talking about uploading a code set to US via a satelite link and getting paged while on a plane and thinking about how cool it was.. Anyone else remember that ad.. This was way before any IT vity revolution.. Wonder if it was one of the engineers mentioned in the article. TI India seem to have very low turnover and happy employees another rarity in todays overstressed workforce...

Raja Bose · Post by **Raja Bose** » 06 Jan 2011 04:27

nsriram wrote:Here's the Notion Ink Promo Video http://youtu.be/mj-TfF3ge8Y

CES starts tomorrow: Some early looks at http://www.slashgear.com/notion-ink-ada ... -05123431/

Here's the Engadget preview on Notion Ink Adam:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/05/noti ... iew-video/

HW looks great though colors are not as vibrant as IPS. SW side still needs some work. Glad to see the Adam get some really great reviews.

Raja Bose · Post by **Raja Bose** » 06 Jan 2011 06:40

Engadget Interview with Notion Ink Founder, Rohan Shravan

Funny how Nilay (the reporter) tries to pry out the initial sales numbers from Rohan first by asking a direct question and trying again by asking how many displays he had to order. Ofcourse Rohan didn't go to Eye Eye Tea for nothing

RamaY · Post by **RamaY** » 06 Jan 2011 06:58

Raja Bose wrote: Here's the Engadget preview on Notion Ink Adam:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/05/noti ... iew-video/

COOOOL!!!

I am getting this as soon as it is available

astal · Post by **astal** » 06 Jan 2011 07:19

^^^^

Interesting use of Biblical nomenclature by Notion Ink.

Adam - The first one
Eden - Paradise on Earth
Genesis - Creation

I wish they did not have their own app store. But otherwise they provide a useful set of functionality and technology. As an Bania SRDE, I will do some research and wait on reports before buying.

Raja Bose · Post by **Raja Bose** » 16 Jan 2011 01:25

Notion Ink Adam clears FCCs, ready to ship 'around Wednesday'

pgbhat · Post by **pgbhat** » 16 Jan 2011 02:01

May be it is just me .....Rohan Shravan looks like the dude from that Vampire chick flick.

Raja Bose · Post by **Raja Bose** » 16 Jan 2011 02:19

^^Which means you are attracted to him?

pgbhat · Post by **pgbhat** » 16 Jan 2011 02:31

^ no

....anyhow I never thought I would say this..... but I am in love with Adam.

Raja Bose · Post by **Raja Bose** » 17 Jan 2011 01:28

Education and Industry are key partners in India's IT Success

Interestingly, grampa merits a mention in the article (one of the few times his contributions have ever been even obliquely acknowledged - his own PhD student once piously claimed that he didn't recall what his advisor's contributions were, if any).

merlin · Post by **merlin** » 20 Jan 2011 19:21

From an Indian village to designing chips for the world

Vipul · Post by **Vipul** » 20 Jan 2011 21:17

Incentives to export of IT, other services withdrawn.

In a move that will adversely impact the country's services sector, the government has withdrawn incentives to exporters of IT and ITeS, telecommunication and airlines services.

The list of services eligible for duty credits under the 'Served From India Scheme (SFIS) has been pruned by removing important areas such as computer consultancy services, software implementation, data processing and database services.

Under the SFIS, exporters of services were given duty credit equivalent to 10 per cent of foreign exchange earned during the current
financial year.

Apex body of exporters FIEO said "it is certainly a big setback for the services exporters, especially at a time when they were grappling with fragile global recovery".

Of about $60 billion IT and ITeS (Information technology enabled services) services, exports contribute about $50 billion and with the removal of the SFIS benefit, the bottomline of the software exporters is bound to get a hit, industry sources said.

Other services affected would include telecommunications, real estate, financial and fuel transport by pipelines.

The changes have been notified by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), which has come out with a new exhaustive list of services eligible for SFIS.

Further, the eligibility criteria has been tightened.

Vipul · Post by **Vipul** » 16 Feb 2011 22:45

RIL's reason for investing in Notion Ink?

Call it an Infocomm redux, with a twist. On the back of its proposed telecom re-entry strategy, Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is now going after the tablet PC market, presently dominated by Apple and Samsung at the premium end.

Reliance Industries’ subsidiary, Infotel Broadband, is expected to launch broadband wireless access (BWA) services with low-cost tablet PCs and affordable data plans in the next five months, said industry officials aware of the developments. They say Infotel has zeroed on seven-inch and 10–inch Android-based media tablets (touchscreen PCs), with prices starting at Rs 8,000 and data plans expected to start at as low as Rs 1,000 for three to six months, which should help in fast proliferation of these tablet PCs.

“Reliance Infotel is the only company with a pan-India licence to launch BWA services and the company has indicated its intentions to use long-term evolution (LTE) technology that offers data speeds from 50 mbps to 100 mbps to customers. This makes way for data-bundled media tablets that are meant for browsing and emails,” said sources.

In the past, Infocomm had tried such “bundling” of services when it floated its plans to set up manufacturing set-ups in India for handsets that were to be sold with its telecom services.

Infotel has signed two-year supply contracts with four Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) based in China and Taiwan, said to include names like Huawei, Samsung and Alcatel. Samsung is also a player in the tablet PC market, while doubling as an OEM.

Vendors that Business Standard spoke to confirmed RIL was looking to source around 4,000-5,000 units per month, which could begin as early as next month.

“Reliance Infotel’s tablets, expected to run on Android and Java-based operating systems for entry-level models, will be rich in custom-made applications that will enable tier-2, tier-3 city youth to experience the Internet,” said an analyst following the development. Sources said Reliance Infotel would also launch handsets using LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology for data and voice services.

An announcement about Reliance Infotel’s foray into tablet launch is expected to be made after the Mobile World Congress, the biggest telecom exhibition in Barcelona that began yesterday. An email to the Reliance Infotel spokesperson elicited this response: “As a policy, we do not comment on speculation.”

Price & apps
The tablet PC market is at a very nascent stage in India, pegged at less than a million units annually, but analysts believe a low-cost tablet PC bundled with cheap data plans can turn this equation around. Analysts noted that while India remains a price-conscious market, it is lack of content that obstructs tablet PC penetration.

“Since Reliance is said to be working on the Android platform, it already has thousands of apps ready to be consumed on its tablets and customised application for Indian users can be easily developed, too,” said the analyst.

RIL had paid Rs 4,800 crore for acquiring a 95 per cent stake in Infotel, a company floated by the HFCL group under Mahendra Nahata.

Infotel has also paid Rs 12,848 crore to the government towards spectrum fees, when it won pan-India spectrum in the auction of broadband wireless access (BWA) last year.

Last year, RIL and Ericsson conducted LTE trials at Reliance Corporate Park in Navi Mumbai, clocking downlink rates of 80 mbps & 20 mbps in uplink, along with applications such as HD multimedia streaming, live TV and on-the-move speeds of 50 and 70 kmph.

pradeepe · Post by **pradeepe** » 21 Feb 2011 00:14

Folks, please let me know what options a fresh EE grad with a Masters in DSP has in India. Trying to help a friend out.

thanks in advance for any pointers.

Saral · Post by **Saral** » 24 Feb 2011 10:13

Posting from my adam pixel qi
Hardware seems solid; video is smooth
adobe reader and flash work well
awaiting honeycomb update in the coming weeks

Raja Bose · Post by **Raja Bose** » 24 Feb 2011 10:15

AoA! Pics please.

Raja Bose · Post by **Raja Bose** » 24 Feb 2011 10:18

pradeepe wrote:Folks, please let me know what options a fresh EE grad with a Masters in DSP has in India. Trying to help a friend out.

thanks in advance for any pointers.

Does he have any hands-on EE skills or sw/algorithms-wala onlee?

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 24 Feb 2011 10:30

if he wants to work then in pvt sector TI , broadcom, ARM, AMD, Intel , samsung could be looked into @ blr.

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 24 Feb 2011 15:22

Transcript of Commencement Speech at Stanford given by Steve Jobs

Thank you. I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.
Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for another eighteen months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife, except that when I popped out, they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, "We've got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?" They said, "Of course." My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.
This was the start in my life. And seventeen years later, I did go to college, but I naïvely chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out, I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms. I returned Coke bottles for the five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example.
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully hand-calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans-serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me, and we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.
If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personals computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.
Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later. Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever--because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.
My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was twenty. We worked hard and in ten years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We'd just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I'd just turned thirty, and then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so, things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge, and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our board of directors sided with him, and so at thirty, I was out, and very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the Valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I'd been rejected but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life. During the next five years I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world's first computer-animated feature film, "Toy Story," and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.
In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful-tasting medicine but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don't settle.
My third story is about death. When I was 17 I read a quote that went something like "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "no" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important thing I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life, because almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago, I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctors' code for "prepare to die." It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next ten years to tell them, in just a few months. It means to make sure that everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope, the doctor started crying, because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and, thankfully, I am fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept. No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don't want to die to get there, and yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it's quite true. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stuart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late Sixties, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. it was sort of like Google in paperback form thirty-five years before Google came along. I was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Stuart and his team put out several issues of the The Whole Earth Catalogue, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-Seventies and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath were the words, "Stay hungry, stay foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. "Stay hungry, stay foolish." And I have always wished that for myself, and now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay hungry, stay foolish.
Thank you all, very much.

pradeepe · Post by **pradeepe** » 26 Feb 2011 13:01

Raja Bose wrote:
pradeepe wrote:Folks, please let me know what options a fresh EE grad with a Masters in DSP has in India. Trying to help a friend out.

thanks in advance for any pointers.
Does he have any hands-on EE skills or sw/algorithms-wala onlee?

Bachelors (Electronics and Instr.) and Masters (EE-DSP).
A decent mix of HW and SW, as much as possible for a fresh grad. HDL and FGPA prototype implementation of frequency synthesizers and lab experience bringing up his validation kits.
Standard algo exposure with a decent mix of those helping biometric image manipulation for his projects.
Programming exposure - C, VHDL, MATLAB, LABVIEW ...

Final year topper of his eng col. also seems to be a non-geek with more than average proficiency in kriket. Rep his college. Claims to have taken Roshan Mahanama's wicket in some friendly ?

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Singha, didnt know Intel and the likes doing that kind of work in India. Will pass word around and see if helps.

Will keep looking. Thanks folks.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 26 Feb 2011 17:49

if he knows C and VHDL why not EDA cos like cadence, mentor graphics and synopsys ?

sum · Post by **sum** » 26 Feb 2011 21:37

Honestly don't see too much of "cutting edge" DSP work being done in Desh other than the DRDO type sarkari labs for a DSP based MS person to apply his DSP knowledge on. Maybe Ittiam is one difference but even they have gone done. As Singha-sir says, maybe EDA types cos are good for the VHDL/C knowledge.

Our co gets all its DSP related stuff done at Israel where the masters seem to sit.

Saral · Post by **Saral** » 01 Mar 2011 19:02

A giant in the electronics industry passes away. http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/O ... shi_Kihara

Sony's ability to develop new products is often seen from the outside as very strong. I personally feel that that is based on a very traditional engineers' way of thinking. This has always been my way, ever since the development of the tape recorder. In my role in Sony's development activities, I was able to train all the engineers that came to the company in that way of thinking. During that process of training or education, aside from training for their day-to-day jobs, there were a number of different principles that I wanted to instill in the engineers that worked for me. One of them is that anyone can find out the common sense things, and my role is not to teach common sense. My message has always been to break through what is common sense and common knowledge, and make the impossible possible. That is the key element. But, of course, just saying that alone is not going to help anyone. In terms of how they go about achieving that, my advice has always been to develop your own devices, assemble your own prototype, and operate it yourself. Do it all yourself, rather than looking at what somebody else has made and trying to come up with ideas based on that. That's the way that people learn to break through problems and to overcome them. Thereby you build up a store of knowledge about how problems were overcome, and building up that storehouse of knowledge, is what enables you then to take on new challenges and solve new problems which no-one else has solved before. It's that accumulation of experience that is important.

RamaY · Post by **RamaY** » 16 Mar 2011 18:42

Andhra: 500 engg colleges log off IT stream

HYDERABAD: After almost a decade of bull run, the much sought-after IT stream is being dropped by several colleges for want of takers. With the number of students opting for IT in the past two years nose-diving, about 500 colleges from the state have decided to close down their IT classrooms for good. This would mean that just about 200 engineering colleges in the state will be offering IT education in the academic year 2011-12.