A leading market research forecasts the Indian VLSI design service market to grow at an estimated CAGR of 16.25 percent to worth $3.02 billion by 2017. Despite such encouraging figures and VLSI being a key contributor to the semi-conductor industry,industry leaders state that the country is facing a shortage of employable VLSI design engineers. With India producing a large number of engineers per year, the key challenge is their employment, career path and technical excellence. The issue lies not with the quantity but rather the quality of these engineers.

Uniquely positioned in the market to bridge the gap between the demand and supply of quality engineers is 13+ year sold VLSI training institute, CVC. Ledby IIT alumni Ajeetha Kumari, CEO and Srinivasan Venkataramanan, CTO; CVCis global leader, delivering their training across Europe, USA and Asia as well as multiple locations across India. CVC has trained over ten thousand(10,000)engineers and also created over thousands of jobs as a result of their training services.

The Inception Story

Narrating her inspiration to dive into the VLSI training domain, Ajeetha Kumari says, “We are not just engineers, but are passionate engineers and love what wedo. All that we have learnt through out our time in IIT and the experience that we have gathered working in this field, we want to return the same to the engineers of today.

”CVC initially started as a VLSI service company and over the years turned into focussing only on training. Products and Services arm of CVC is recently spun-off in to another venture (Verif Works). Of this transition, Ajeetha Kumari says, “When Istarted, I had a lot of expectations in the capability and quality of engineers for my projects. But ended with lowering the expectation son the candidates. Huge invest menton training these engineers and attrition were the key factors to focus heavilyon the training division of CVC.”

A Wide array of Specialized Training

With 50+ training courses in the cart, CVC aims to equip the workforce for the highly dynamic and specialized nature of VLSI industry.

CVC offer straining sessions in languages (Verilog, VHDL, E, System Verilog), Methodologies (UVM, OVM, VMM, RVM, eRM,AVM), domain specific (Networking, Processor, Image Processing etc.), protocol specific (I2C, I2S, AMBA, PCI, WLAN, CAN etc.), Know Your Tooland productivity oriented topics. Many of CVC’s training courses are on IEEE current and upcoming standards. It is the only institute that focuses on ASIC Front end design verification. CVC’s solutions also cover the popular technologies that are practiced in the industry like Assertion Based Verification, Coverage Driven Verification, Constraint Random Verification and Graph based Verification (ABV, CDV, CRV, GBV).

With the high tech and professional back ground of the management team and their enthusiastic leadership team, CVC is a well-known name in the VLSI training domain

Apart from the highly dynamic and specialized nature of their training, CVC provides innovative solutions that are tailored to meet the various needs of different levels in the industry. Ajeetha Kumari reveals that CVC interacts with a lot of universities and conducts works hops and seminars all over India from time to time. The training institute attracts a lot of students and keeping in view the needs of the student fraternity they offer internship and research programs. CVC also meets the differential needs of the faculty members in educational institutes. They support Train-The-Trainer (TTT) program which aims to improve the quality of the teaching staff including catching upto the current VLSI industry development and standards as well as hands on experience.

A number of advanced training service sat CVC are targeted at mid-level and senior engineers. CVC is also perfectly aligned with the needs of the management teams as well who do not require hands on training. These training services enable the management better lead their teams. Keeping a side the regular full-fledged trainings, CVC offers a very flexible training schedule that can either span through the weekends or the weekdays in accordance to the convenience of the trainees at the institute who are working professionals.

With a world class infrastructure,catering to trainees from different walks of life comes easy to CVC. The training content is dynamic and is updated with the changing industry trends. The teamat CVC follow the experiential learning methodology where trainees are encouraged to gain hands on experience. After the training, trainees are encouraged to conduct self-evaluation through online quizzes and hackathon challenges.

Measure of Success

Ajeetha Kumari believes, “Your (My customer’s) success is CVC’s success.My training attendee achieves his/her goal in terms of learning and career that is what we cherish”. As such, CVC does whatever it takes to achieve this goal. Irrespective of the challenge, CVC delivers.The CEO also proudly remarks that one is bound to find at least one CVC trained working professional in all of the leading semiconductor companies in India. The CVC alumnus stands far a head in sharp contrast to other working professionals in terms of domain specific knowledge and industry-ready skills.

With the high tech and professional background of the management team and their enthusiastic leadership team, CVC is a well-known name in the VLSI training domain. With a reputation for excellence CVC is all set register for ISO standardisation and also launch their training services online.