INDIA ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION MARKET

INTRODUCTION

Nanotechnology of electronics used in important medical surgeries is possible because to compact and high-performance printed circuit boards (PCBs) and multi-chip modules. All computerised medical equipment is built around them.

Wearable gadgets are incorporating sophisticated equipment to acquire accurate data such as heartbeat and pulse failure. To ensure exact disease diagnosis, doctors are replacing traditional healthcare monitoring approaches with modern technology.

This will increase demand for EDA tools, which are required to design high-quality PCBs, which are at the heart of modern medical devices.

INDIA ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION MARKET DEVELOPMENTS AND INNOVATIONS

The rising trend of EDA toolsets with machine learning capabilities, as well as new technology like as cloud and AI, are all contributing to the market's growth. Significant expenditures made in the previous several years to enable designers to reduce the number of errors and hence save time are likely to yield rewards in the future.

The increased need for small electronic devices, as well as the increasing usage of SoC technology across numerous industries, such as automotive, IoT, and AI, are driving the market's expansion.

Furthermore, AI is offering EDA a new dimension for dealing with the increasing complexity of silicon technologies, speeding up product deadlines, and allowing engineering teams to scale.

Furthermore, the growing demand for sophisticated electronic devices with complicated designs, as well as the requirement to shrink ICs while increasing their productivity, forces IC producers to invest more in R&D and use EDA tools. As a result, compared to other industries, EDA tools are likely to be in growing market.

INDIA ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION MARKET DYNAMICS

In the next five years, the Electronics and IT Ministry wants to teach over 85,000 engineers in chip design by making the technical infrastructure available to 120 academic institutions nationwide.

Over 50,000 engineering students at 60 academic institutions were given remote access to the state-run C-centralized DAC's design facility as part of a pilot project by the electronics and IT ministry's special manpower development programme for Chips to System Design (SMDP-C2SD).

By making a quantum leap, Meity now plans to make a centralised chip design infrastructure available at the India Chip Centre established at C-DAC, to train over 85000 B Tech, M Tech, and PhD students at 120 academic institutions across the nation in the chip design field for the next five years.

Leading industry suppliers from EDA (Electronic Design Automation), Electronic Computer-Aided Design (ECAD), IP Core, and Design solutions Industry are being associated with for the provision of the chip design infrastructure at India Chip Centre of C-DAC.

With Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, Siemens EDA, Silvaco, and other top tool vendors, IP & design solution providers, and Fab aggregators, specific cooperation arrangements are being made available.

As SemiconIndia 2022 came to a successful conclusion, the majority of the world's leading manufacturers of semiconductors, including Intel, Micron, Qualcomm, LAM Research, and others, not only emphasised the contribution of their Indian research and development centres, which are now their largest centres outside of their headquarters, but also acknowledged the nation's strength in semiconductor design, which now accounts for 20% of all engineers in the world.

As part of a Rs. 76,000 crore programme to develop the country's electronic chip ecosystem, the government will review the rules governing the design linked incentive (DLI) programme, which supports 100 companies involved in product design in the semiconductor industry. The programme will continue to be in place to support all product design projects and start-ups, among other things.

To usher in an era of creative enablement where anyone with innate skills, anywhere in the country, can get semiconductor chips designed, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is overhauling the semiconductor design approach at 120 premier academic institutions across the country with a series of graded and proactive steps.

Chip design will become more democratic as a result, in keeping with the prime minister's belief that Design in India is just as significant as Make in India. Leading industry vendors from EDA (Electronic Design Automation), Electronic Computer-Aided Design (ECAD), IP Core, and Design solutions Industry are being associated with the provision of the chip design infrastructure at India Chip Center (C-DAC).

With prominent tool suppliers, IP and design solution providers, and Fab aggregators like Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, Siemens EDA, Silvaco, and others, specific cooperation arrangements are being made available.

COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE

Over the forthcoming years, each new design initiative by semiconductor manufacturers is projected to offer opportunities for EDA vendors.

Nonetheless, the epidemic has had a significant influence on the EDA industry recently. This was mostly owing to the pandemic-induced shutdown that halted production activities at the start of 2020.

Because of the factory closures, semiconductor engineering and construction activities were delayed, affecting the growth of the electronic design software market in the short term.

Autodesk Inc. is a leading mobiliser of the automation modules in the market. The latest integration has been EAGLE is electrical design automating (EDA) software that allows PCB designers to combine schematic diagrams, component placement, PCB layout, and standard material in a seamless manner.

It uses a comprehensive collection of alignment tools to properly organize and organise PCB design elements. Symbol, footprint, 3D model, as well as parametric are all included in the out-of-the-box element packages.

Cadence Design Systems Inc.  is part of the component manufacture trending companies in the current industry. The Pneumatically drawn as well as plotted elements and traces. EDA has evolved over the last decade to become more than just software that helps PCB designers to convert a schematic into a working board.

By including advanced management and simulation functions, modern EDA capabilities allow PCB designers to improve the PCB's precision machining, ease of maintenance, and dependability. Allegro Sigrity, for example, provides insight into the potential voltage and signal integrity issues.

COMPANIES PROFILED

• Aldec Inc
• Altair Engineering Inc.
• Altium Llc.
• Ansys Inc.
• Autodesk Inc.
• Cadence Design Systems, Inc
• Keysight Technologies.
• Silvaco Inc.
• Synopsys Inc.
• Saint-Gobain
• Entegris
• AGSCO Corp.
• ESD-SIC BV
• CUMI EMD
• Renesas Electronics Corporation
• ABB Group
• STMicroelectronics N.V.