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What's Exciting About Being An Application Engineer? Watch This Video!

By Madhavi Rao | 12 Apr 2018

Many of you may not be familiar with what a Field Application Engineer (most often shortened to FAE or AE) does. AEs at Cadence are critical in making our customers successful by helping them with not just tool adoption, but with methodology developm...

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Field Application Engineer | Cadence India | lovemyjob
A Long Way From The 80's: New Kids On The Technology Block

By Madhavi Rao | 29 Mar 2018

I was cruising through Facebook today and saw a video posted by George Takei Presents about 11 things that younger generations will never understand - basically, things that existed in the 1980’s that today's kids wouldn't get, like the f...

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Government of India | Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham | RayBaby | Indian elections | prosthetic | electronic voting machine
Shopping in Reality: How VR and AR Are Changing The Way We Shop

By Madhavi Rao | 14 Mar 2018

Like millions of Indians, I shop a lot online, whether for groceries, shoes or even electronics. I buy most of my clothes online, but here I have hit a snag, and that is in sizing. I seem to be in a constant cycle of ordering clothes online and retur...

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Lakme | online shopping | Kingfisher beer | SBI Life | Tata Motors | virtual reality | augmented reality
Incubators, Accelerators and Fabless Chip Design at IESA Vision Summit 2018

By Madhavi Rao | 1 Mar 2018

This week we had one of the Indian semiconductor industry’s biggest and most well-attended conferences, the Indian Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) Vision Summit, in Bangalore. This event is now in its 13th year and attracts the...

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Vision Summit | Government of Karnataka | fabless chip | IESA | India Electronics and Semiconductor Association | Priyank Kharge | semiconductor incubator
Rural India: Technology to the Rescue?

By Madhavi Rao | 13 Feb 2018

Last week I wrote about how mobile internet is expected to bring millions of Indians into the digital fold. Not surprisingly, there has been a spurt of tech startups focusing on the huge rural market of some 270 million, of whom about 200 million dep...

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3nethra | Forus Health | SBI Youth For India Fellowship | Rural India | Microsoft Mouse Mischief
The Promise Of Digital India

By Madhavi Rao | 28 Jan 2018

By 2019, it is estimated that there will be five billion mobile phone users in the world, with around 67% of the world’s population owning a mobile phone, according to the website Statista. In India, Statista says that by 2019 there will ...

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Narendra Modi | digital india | National Digital Literacy Mission | Aadhar | Ravi Shanker Prasad
A Hackathon to Remember

By Madhavi Rao | 18 Jan 2018

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog about face recognition . Coincidentally, face recognition was front page news earlier this week, with the announcement that it would serve as another authentication option to validate Aadhar cards (a unique ID number iss...

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Vishwakarma Institute of Technology | VLSI & Embedded Systems Design Conference | Tensilica | Tensilica Xtensa
Exciting Trends in 2018: An Interview with Jaswinder Ahuja

By Madhavi Rao | 9 Jan 2018

Jaswinder Ahuja is well-known to everyone in the semiconductor and electronics industry in India. He has been Cadence India’s Managing Director since 1996, and is one of the handful of employees WW who will be completing 30 years with Cadence. ...

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mahindra & mahindra | Electronic System Design and Manufacturing | startups | Tata Motors | Maruti | electric vehicle | 2018 | ESDM
Face Recognition and Hackathon: An Unlikely and Innovative Combination

By Madhavi Rao | 3 Jan 2018

Happy New Year! While most other folks are just easing back to work, those of us in the Indian semiconductor ecosystem are gearing up for one of our biggest events of the year. The first week of January is when the VLSI and Embedded Systems Conf...

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VLSI & Embedded Systems Design Conference | Tensilica | Tensilica Xtensa | neural networks | CNN | face recognition
Four Exciting Examples of Modern AI from NVIDIA

By Madhavi Rao | 11 Dec 2017

A few months ago, we had the honor of having Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director of NVIDIA India, speak at an executive forum that we had in Bangalore. NVIDIA's GPU technology is used to power what they call "modern AI", so the audien...

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artificial intelligence | deep learning | NVIDIA | machine learning | AI
Hello, My Name Is Anna. Can I Help You?

By Madhavi Rao | 29 Nov 2017

Chatbots are annoyingly familiar to anyone who has shopped online. The distracting little box on the bottom right of your screen saying chirpily, “Hello! My name is Anna. Can I help you?”. What I find most irritating is the fact that they...

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chatbot | artificial intelligence | Wysa | AI
Will Artificial Intelligence Take Over Art Forms?

By Madhavi Rao | 21 Nov 2017

In February last year, San Francisco’s art lovers were treated to a new kind of exhibition. Titled, “DeepDream: The Art of Neural Networks” and held in the trendy Mission District, the art on display was otherworldly, strange, and p...

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DeepDream | artificial intelligence | project magenta | AI | Nsynth
Would You Let Your Child Ride in an Autonomous Car?

By Madhavi Rao | 16 Nov 2017

DVCon is one of the premier conferences WW for design and verification. The DVCon India show has grown significantly over the last 4 years of its existence and this year’s edition was as vibrant as previous years. Cadence’s Apurva Kalia g...

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DVCon India | DVcon | ADAS | autonomous vehicles
The Exciting New Product Launched at CDNLive India 2017

By Madhavi Rao | 8 Nov 2017

One of the highlights at CDNLive India 2017 that was held in September was the launch of the new memory characterization solution from Cadence called the Legato Memory Solution. I had a chance to speak to Dr. Vinod Kariat, Corporate VP of R&D at Cadence...

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memory characterization | CDNLive India | cadence | Vinod Kariat | Cadence Legato | Invecas
Opportunities in India for IoT

By Madhavi Rao | 25 Oct 2017

This week we return to the Internet of Things (IoT). My previous blogs on the subject – here and here – reviewed a presentation that Somshubhro Pal Choudhury, Partner of Bharat Innovation Ventures, gave at Cadence’s annual user conference, CDNLive...

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Government of India | CDNLive India | digital india | smart cities | IoT | IT services | Internet of Things
Have an e-Cracker of a Diwali!

By Madhavi Rao | 17 Oct 2017

Diwali is finally here! One of India’s most favorite festivals, it is celebrated across the world not just by Hindus but by many faiths as the Festival of Light, a time to meet friends and family, buy new clothes, and indulge in rich and deliciously artery...

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e-cracker | firecrackers | Cadence India | Diwali | e-pataka
IoT In Smart Factories, Healthcare, Agriculture and More

By Madhavi Rao | 3 Oct 2017

Last week’s blog ended with some of the IOT trends that Somshubhro Pal Choudhury, who was a guest speaker at CDNLive India 2017, spoke about during his talk. This blog post will look at some of the vertical markets where, according to Som, there...

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automotive | IoT | smart factories | vertical markets | Internet of Things | robotics | ADAS | drones | healthcare | Smart Home
IOT: Are We There Yet?

By Madhavi Rao | 27 Sep 2017

One of the invited talks that we had at CDNLive was by Somshubhro Pal Choudhury, partner at Bharat Innovations, a startup venture fund aimed at innovative, IP-related startups out of India. Som is actively involved in the IESA’s Internet of Things (IOT...

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hype cycle | CDNLive India | IoT | IOT stack | IOT trends | Internet of Things
CDNLive India 2017: ThinCi on AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning

By Madhavi Rao | 20 Sep 2017

Last week’s blog was about Venu Puvvada’s keynote at CDNLive India. Today’s blog is about the second keynote we had (on Day 2 of CDNLive India) by Dinakar Munagala, CEO of ThinCi Inc (pronounced Think-Eye). ThinCi is a semiconductor startup ...

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artificial intelligence | CDNLive India | deep learning | CDNLive | ThinCi | machine learning
CDNLive India Keynote: Qualcomm On 5G And More

By Madhavi Rao | 13 Sep 2017

CDNLive India concluded last Friday and what an event it was! With 87 paper presentations, six keynotes, an exhibition area, photo booth, Cadence technology pods and more, CDNLive once again proved to be one of the premier industry conferences. Both...

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5G | artificial intelligence | CDNLive India | CDNLive | IoT | machine learning | Qualcomm | mobile | 7nm
CDNLive India 2017 Is Around the Corner!

By Madhavi Rao | 29 Aug 2017

It’s almost time for CDNLive India! For those of you who don’t know, CDNLive is Cadence’s annual user conference that is held in nine cities around the world. In India it is always held in Bangalore, India’s tech hub. CDNLive brings together Cadence technology...

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CDNLive India | CDNLive | cadence | Cadence India | user conference
Driverless Trucks and Trains: Dream or Possibility?

By Madhavi Rao | 22 Aug 2017

In October 2016, an 18-wheeler truck traveled 120 miles in the US and delivered 50,000 cans of beer. Nothing remarkable in that, except that the truck drove itself while a driver on board relaxed. Such tests are happening in Europe as well. Keeping in...

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driverless vehicles | self-aware trains | Indian Railways | Tata Motors | autonomous vehicles | Mahindra Group
Fabs in India: The Debate Continues

By Madhavi Rao | 15 Aug 2017

There has been a lot of news lately about manufacturing under the “Make In India” banner. In the last ten days alone, the Kalyani Group has announced the country’s first-ever private missile subsystems manufacturing facility in partnership...

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ATMP | Ravi Shanker Prasad | make in india | semiconductor fabrication
Welcome to The India Circuit!

By Madhavi Rao | 8 Aug 2017

Welcome to this, the first blog on The India Circuit (which, as someone cleverly pointed out, can be shortened to “The IC”)! The India Circuit will be about the Indian Electronics System Design & Manufacturing (ESDM) ecosystem. Are you...

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digital india | smart cities mission | mobile | make in india | Modi
Beyond Robots and Jetpacks at the Society of Women Engineers Conference in Pune

By Madhavi Rao | 7 Aug 2017

This event happened a while ago, but I thought it was still topical enough to blog about since there aren’t many events that focus on women engineers. The Grace Hopper Conference is one, and the Society of Women Engineers’ annual conference, called WE...

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pune | bengaluru | we local | society of women engineers | grace hopper conference | bangalore | India

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