Testimonials

Through this marathon I learn a lot about mixed signal and first time familiar with SKY130 PDK.

Being a part of Northeast India, here we get lesser exposure in semiconductor industry than another region of India. This marathon provided us some exposure. Additionally, its support to think and do by ourselves.

It has given me exposure to circuit designing and gave me introduction to the field of VLSI. It played a very crucial role of me going for MTech. in Microelectronics and VLSI and VLSI jobs.

eSim Marathon Participant

This was my first internship in college, after the end of sophomore year. I had done a few college projects before but did not have any real-life experience of working on the development of a software which is being used by thousands of other people, this internship is that experience for me. Despite being a CSE student having no such prior experience in circuit designing and simulation. eSim EDA tool proved to be easy to understand software, which helped me to quickly understand it and begin with my internship tasks. My task included mainly solving bugs in software, increasing pins for subcircuit designing, handling of unknown components in simulation and most importantly a standalone eSim installer. The exposure to free and open-source software development helped me a lot in understanding the basic flow of software development which proved an advantage for me in later internships. The little bit of circuit designing and simulation I learned in limited time also developed an ability in me to learn new things fast and in limited time. The mentors were also very helpful and understanding, they listened to our problems and provided us with solutions in every possible way. Overall this internship is like a start for me in the world of software development from which I gathered a lot of good memories and learnings which I applied in my later internship and received good offers from companies.

- Mudit Joshi

FOSSEE Fellow 2018

My name is Akshay NH . During my third year of engineering at PES University , I entered a competition hosted by FOSSEE , IIT Bombay to work on an open source EDA software eSim . As a result of this I was selected for a fellowship opportunity at FOSSEE , IIT Bombay . This was an enriching experience as I gained a lot of technical knowledge in the field of EDA software . My project report was published in the official website of FOSSEE as well as on the official Github page which helped me validate and boost my resume . My experience helped me secure an internship through campus placements at Cadence Design Systems , which is one of the leading EDA companies in the world . Currently I have been admitted to North Carolina State University to complete my master's in the field of computer engineering . I would like to thank the eSim and FOSSEE team for providing the opportunity to help boost my career.

-Akshay N H

FOSSEE Fellow 2018