Message: Design in Philippines Post time: Mar 24, 2008 8:13 AM
Author: null Level: Interns Points: 220		The common perception is that Philippines is the place where large silicon players do the back-end assembly and test. That is, of course, true. But another truth that emerged over the course of last five, six years is that a lot of design pockets have mushroomed around these back-end production hubs. And a number of silicon vendors have established low-key design houses for cost and competitive reasons. It could be worthwhile to dig into the level and scope of these activities and see where does Philippine actually stand in the electronics design value chain. M. A. Kamran

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( 2 )      Reply:Design in Philippines Post time: Apr 16, 2008 3:27 PM
Author: null Level: Interns Points: 105		In Electronics Supply & Manufacturing section Crista Souza and Bolaji Ojo claimed in the "Last Stronghold" article that "North America lost out to lower-cost regions in the battle for electronics manufacturing"; do you know the low-key companies in the Republic of Phillippines that are doing that?

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( 3 )      Reply:Design in Philippines Post time: Apr 16, 2008 10:08 PM
Author: null Level: Interns Points: 105		Have a look at what Lexmark is doing in the Philippines. They have a high tech laboratory facility in Cebu, Philippines that does more than manufacturing. Check out http://www.itmatters.com.ph/news.php?id=041508d

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( 4 )      Reply:Design in Philippines Post time: Apr 17, 2008 11:28 AM
Author: Chk Level: Interns Points: 195		This is true. There is a lot of design works in the Philippines, but not that widely reported. Even Intel has one, but they are not that forthcoming about it. Makes you wonder why. After all, you want to have good, uplifting news coming out from the country, right?

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( 5 )      Reply:Design in Philippines Post time: Apr 22, 2008 5:45 AM
Author: Noel DR Level: Interns Points: 110		What design? The main IC CAD tools provider have no presence in the country. There is no significant tie up between these companies and the local Universities. Local graduates have no skillset with respect to these tools @ graduation day when they walk out of the University Gates. This is the opposite if you look at India, Taiwan, SIngapore, Malaysia, China. Cadence Locations in Asia http://www.cadence.com/company/cadence_worldwide/offices.aspx?region=5 Synopsys Locations in Asia http://asiapac.synopsys.com/locations/locations.html

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( 6 )      Reply:Design in Philippines Post time: Apr 28, 2008 4:19 PM
Author: JDF Level: Interns Points: 182		NoelDR has made a point. True the Cadence and Synopsys of the world have no presence in the country, thus making the Philippine engineer vulnerable in respect to using such tools. However, let's not forget that companies like NI have tie-ups with local universities. Yes, the Philippines is behind its neighbors but at least we are seeing some movements, though how little they seem.

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( 7 )      Reply:Design in Philippines Post time: May 2, 2008 9:22 AM
Author: Noel DR Level: Interns Points: 110		Companies hire design engineers and train them with their proprietary technology to do design work. Engineers are not classified "Design Engineers" unless they have done actual design using these tools in college. An engineer can't do an actual design work without using these tools. Design engineers are proficient with IC design tools after graduation. BSEE students will have direct exposure to this tools for at least 2 years when they graduate. This is not the case in the Philippines. Two years exposure to actual design work can't be replace with none. Company TIE up with the Universities such as NS won't fix this problem. Companies can't hire engineers to be trained for 6 months to a year to be able to do design. The product life cycle for semiconductor is very short. Engineers(new graduates) are expected to hit the road running. The UNIVERSITY CURRICULUM must be updated to incorporate actual design work. You can ask new graduates how many  hours of actual use to they have on the following: Verilog, VHDL, Matlab, SPICE, HSPICE, System-C..Tetramax, SIMULATION tools, Verification TOOLS, ..etc.

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