QualCore Logic's plans

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, MAY 8. QualCore Logic, an STPH registered subsidiary of QualCore Inc, which is into VLSI designing, has taken up development of its own products to join the league of product development companies.

It is already working on designing two products (chips) in the communications and networking areas, and the first of these will be ready (design part) by July, which will have to be followed by testing, according to Mr. M. L. N. Acharyulu, Managing Director.

Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, he announced the setting up of the `Physical Design Group (PDG)' to offer not only its expertise in logic design but also to provide place and route services.

This will make it a one-stop shop for all semiconductor solutions- from `SPEC to Chip' (Specifications to actual physical layout aspects of design of highly complex integrated circuits). This enables QualCore to take up a concept from the idea stage and develop and test it in a span of 8 months to one year.

Mr. Acharyulu said the company entered strategic alliance partnerships through its U.S. parent, with leading semiconductor foundries like TSMC (Taiwan) and Amkor (Korea) for ``MPW (multi project wafer) programmes. This will help QualCore to bring out test chips and improve the time-to-market (TTM).

The company, with core competencies in reusable core designs and system-on-chip solutions (SOC), is also making reconfigurable and reusable chips, he said. On future plans, he said it will be investing upto Rs.3 crores for hardware and another Rs.4.5 crores for tools in the next one year, and the manpower (engineers) from 120 to 200.

It has also set up offshore design centres (ODCs) for C-Cube Microsystems and Believe Inc, both of USA, and ISSC a Taiwanese company. It is currently working on configurable IP cores and started work on configurable, platform based SOC solutions, he said. For year ended March 2001, it reported income of Rs.12.72 crores and net profit of Rs.6.45 crores, against Rs.7.45 crores and Rs.4.26 crores respectively in the previous year.

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