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Most of those who flaunt smart gadgets may not be aware of technologies that power the chips inside. But they need one who knows about architecture of those chips when their gadgets fall ill.
With India taking to production of such gadgets, the industry ecosystem should have people who are well-versed with such designs.
ARM is one such chip design architecture that power most of smartphones, digital TVs and digital storage devices. With more smart gadgets coming into the market with chips based on ARM platform, the UK-based ARM will expand its college-reach programme to tier-III cities to create ARM-ready engineers.
Over 20 billion ARM-based chips are shipped by different firms so far globally.
“Colleges and institutes in tier-I and tier-II cities have already some content on ARM architectures. Majority of colleges are in tier-III cities. We have decided to equip students in colleges there with ARM knowledge in order to make them industry-ready,” Mr Guru Ganesan, Managing Director, ARM India, told Business Line .
“We as a company may be adding 30-40 people every year but the ecosystem requires thousands of people with ARM architecture knowledge,” he said.
ARM's university programme covers 4,000 colleges. “All the tier-I colleges are already covered under this programme. We have also been working with IIT through research consortium. Our work with IITs helped us to compile training material, course material and lab manuals,” he said.
The faculty at the Centre for Electronics Design and Technology (CEDT) of IISc (Bangalore) are preparing training material for teachers and readying a lab manual. “The first such faculty training out of this partnership with IISc will be held at Coimbatore on March 10 and 11,” Mr Guru Ganesan said.
ARM would hold ‘Concept to System creation experience' workshop at IISc in Bangalore on March 3 and 4, targeting students and faculty from various colleges. Texas Instruments and Freescale, which uses ARM platforms, too are asking colleges to take to ARM curriculum to help students gain knowledge on this architecture.
Industry outlook
Mr Guru Ganesan said the semiconductor industry in India would get a fillip after the introduction of National Electronics Policy.
“At present, there are not many product firms in India. They are focussed on services only. But this will change when Indian players take to product development,” he said.
kurmanath@thehindu.co.in
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