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Development centre for chip design technology celebrates 10 years of graduations
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation’s Kentucky, U.S.A. development centre has recently celebrated its 10th anniversary.
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation’s Kentucky, U.S.A. development centre has recently celebrated its 10th anniversary.
The development centre has become a pivotal location for advancing Cypress’s chip design technology. It’s also the place where many of the company’s internal web-based project management and productivity tools are developed.
One key reason for the development centre’s success has been its close relationship with local colleges and universities.
Alan Hawse, a principle technology development engineer at Cypress, has been responsible for teaching a course at the University of Kentucky on VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip design and each semester for the past several years Cypress has hired 12 of the graduating students. Another senior manager, Scott Savage, from the development centre’s Transistor and Interconnect modelling group is also responsible for teaching an undergraduate class in electromagnetics at the university.
“The local university system has played an important role in the success of Cypress’s Kentucky development centre,” said Hawse. “This partnership gives students hands-on experience solving real-world design challenges, while producing engineers that have helped us to flourish over the past 10 years. It’s a real win-win situation.”
