| The International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), a foremost global forum for presentation of advances in solid-state circuits and systems-on-chip, to be held in San Fransisco in February 2006, will not see any Indian presentations. |
| The conference offers opportunity for engineers working at the cutting-edge of IC designs to present papers and also network with leading experts in this area. |
| The key criteria for presentations to be made in this conference is that it should be proven technologies. |
| "When one makes the presentations of cutting edge chips, one must bring with him the chip, not just concepts or ideas," said Navakanta Bhat, associate professor, department of electrical communication engineering and member Far East technical programme committee, ISSCC. |
| "Even if one comes with a new design of a chip, it has to be physically produced and that needs a fab," said Bhat. The absence of a fabrication facility in India is a serious gap in the semiconductor ecosystem. |
| Last year, three papers from India were selected for presentation but this year there is none. In 2002, all the presentations were accepted but in 2003, all papers were rejected. In 2004, again a few papers were selected. The number of papers presented every year from India, since 2002, is on the rise but more papers are also getting rejected. |
| Bhat said that more and more companies should encourage their engineers in R&D. "This is a time consuming work and require greater focus." |
| He said that as more and more R&D centres are established in India , the conference will see more papers. Intel's US R&D centre has one of the largest representations in terms of number of papers presented, but nothing from their Indian centre. |
| He added that the main aim of the ISSCC chapter in India is to get more and more companies to encourage their engineers on working in cutting-edge technologies and present papers in such conferences. |
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