Cosmic Circuits launches "Nebula 12" - Electronic Circuit Design Contest

Bangalore, INDIA and Campbell, California, 12th September, 2012 -- Cosmic Circuits, a leading provider of differentiated Analog, Mixed-Signal and Connectivity IP cores, today announced the launch of the 5th edition of the electronic circuit design contest “Nebula”. The contest is intended to promote interest in electronic circuit design among undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students, and is open to all Indian universities.

With over 2000 registrations in the past couple of editions, Nebula is quite popular with the future stars of the semiconductor industry. Spread over three rounds and three months, Nebula provides every student with a unique opportunity to explore each of these phases while competing with fellow electronic hobbyists from all over the country. The participant begins the journey at the fundamentals, and concludes it by designing an analog system to address a complex, real-world challenge.

C. Srinivasan, Vice-President of Engineering, Cosmic Circuits explains the structure of the contest, “There are three stages to the contest that gets progressively tough and filters participants at each stage, the contest kicks off with the ‘Planetary Stage’, a challenging one-hour online quiz on the fundamentals of analog design. This is followed by the ‘Emission Stage’ where the contestant’s ability to use the fundamental principles to solve real-world problems will be tested. The contest culminates in the ‘Stellar Nursery’, a one-day event that will be held at the Cosmic Circuits headquarters in Bangalore where the contestants will present their design ideas. We believe that the experience of designing a real-world system from scratch will stay with the finalists for a long time, and to enrich it further, we also provide the finalists with an opportunity to interact with the founding members of Cosmic“.

The dates for the events are as follows

• Planetary stage: September 14th - October 7th
• Emission stage: October 19th - November 11th
• Stellar Nursery: December 15th

More details of the contest can be accessed here (http://cosmiccircuits.com/university/nebula/)

 About Cosmic Circuits

Cosmic Circuits is a leading provider of differentiated Analog, Mixed-Signal silicon IP cores and Analog ASICs. Cosmic offers a strong portfolio of 500+ cores in nanometer process nodes of leading foundries. By leveraging its silicon-proven cores spanning data-converters, wireless analog, audio, MIPI, power-management, Clocking, LVDS and Auxiliary functions, Cosmic provides single-stop access to customized IP solutions for mixed-signal SOCs and custom Analog ASIC solutions and brings certainty in time-to-market. Cosmic also has enhanced its IP portfolio by offering connectivity IPs such as USB3, USB2, PCI Express and HDMI. A typical engagement with customer starts with a top level requirement document from customer based on which Cosmic Engineers define all the needed Analog IP and ASICs which will leads to an optimally partitioned analog sub-system. Cosmic Circuits has shipped many million units of ICs in production which are used in end equipment of leading brands. A large team of expert designers continually keep pace with technology nodes, standards and applications, bringing certainty to customer product continuity and differentiation. Adherence to Design-For-Manufacturing, Design-For-Test, a customer-centric approach to support that includes silicon-validation of cosmic solutions, backed by the experience of successfully catering to 75+ world-wide customers, brings certainty to volume production.