Sun Microsystems India and RV-VLSI today announced an alliance where as part of its commitment to support advanced higher education in India, Sun Microsystems has collaborated with RV-VLSI to establish a first of its kind center of excellence in the country and support its initiative to promote advanced VLSI education in India and thus add to the workforce a steady stream of industry ready qualified engineers. 

RV-VLSI Design Center is an innovative centre of excellence focused upon advanced VLSI training in India and is located in the SSMRV College and RV Institute Of Management Complex at 4th T Block, Jayanagar. This center of excellence spans approximately 8000 sqft and has a well equipped Sun grid data center with the latest in computing and storage technology, to cater to the design and simulation of advanced ASIC engineering activities of the center.

Engineers nationwide from Electrical and Electronics, Telecommunications, Information Science and Computer Science background can now pursue VLSI semiconductor design and research jobs through this center.

“We are delighted to support RV in the opening of a world-class VLSI lab facility in Bangalore," said Anil Valluri, Corporate Director, Services Practice, Sun Microsystems. " Sun Microsystems has had long standing relationships with the academic community, as facilitators of one-to-many dissemination of knowledge and through this initiative we hope to contribute to the research development at RV.”

With India making significant strides in the semiconductor industry albeit with the overriding challenge of supply-and-demand gap for competent professionals, there is a need to synergise the initiatives of industry and academia so as to create a pool of VLSI proficient professionals who will further the success of India in the semiconductor industry. This initiative is a step in that direction,” he further added.

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