A leading market research fore casts the Indian VLSI design service market to grow to $3.02 billion in2017. This growth can be attributed to the advancement in Internet of Things and lower technology nodes. The advent of IoT has opened numerous opportunities for semi-conductor industries. With IoT’s expansion,semi-conductor industries would require more manpower to run. With ever rising growth rates for the smartphone market,the IoT could serve as an important new source of revenue for the semi-conductor industry. This in turn increases requirement for skilled VLSI engineers who are ready to be employed in the industry.

Established in 2009, by a few industry professionals with the passion to contribute to the sector of education and bridging the gap between industry and academia is

Vivartan. The project-based approach followed by Vivartan equips the students with industry ready skills. The students are taught to be self-sufficient. E.g. A student is given a problem and asked to solve it with out any external help. He has to integrate and come up with additional issues as a part of solving it and is again made to solve it him self. This helps him acquire a solution mindset and makes him solution oriented.

Project based learning has given Vivartan better results as compared to theory and practical oriented approaches. Every module has a small project and students are assisted in making that small project into a bigger project.

Currently, Vivartan offers a full time training program in Custom Physical Design or Custom Layout for people who have completed engineering. They aim to start more programs in the future. Vivartan believes in long term training programs rather than short term programs as they don’t want to compromise on the quality

of training and delivery Vivartan stitches the whole program from model to model.E.g. If they start with RC circuits, they start giving the students application of RC circuit in the next step then move to another module. Project based learning has given Vivartan better results as compared to theory and practical oriented approaches. Every module has a small project and students are assisted in making that small project into a bigger project.

One of the challenges they encounter rin enrolling students is convincing them that training takes time until they ramp up or get a hold of the subject. Even academic institutions face the challenge of persuading students to take up additional training programs so that they can mount them selves into a better career as the faculty in colleges isn’t equipped with the skills to make the students industry-ready.

Vivartan aims to tie up with engineering colleges and institutes and then deliver courses to bridge the gap between industry and the academia. Vivartan’s university program is where they will tie up with colleges to run a certificate program for under graduate students for a period of 2 years. They are looking forward to tie up with at least 20-25 colleges in the next 5 years.They might enter into digital design and verification in the next year.