Hero Electronix, a part of the Hero Group, has now opened its dedicated Semiconductor Chip Design Center in Bengaluru. The center has been set up by Tessolve, a Hero Electronix venture and a leading engineering solutions company.





Tessolve, on its parts, is a leading end-to-end engineering solutions partner- from chip design, test and PCB engineering through embedded systems development. It has 1700+ employees worldwide and operations in the US, Europe, India, and South East Asia.





The center will focus on the needs of Tessolve’s clients, which include major global semiconductor companies.The company recently inaugurated another center in Visakhapatnam, which primarily focuses on software and test program development. The goal is to scale the design team by 100% over the next 2 years to support the growing demand for chip design projects from Tessolve’s customers.





Since the acquisition by Hero Electronix in 2016, Tessolve has strategically focussed on the expansion of its services portfolio by enhancement of its capabilities. It has successfully transitioned from a semiconductor test engineering services player to becoming one of the leading end-to-end engineering solutions partner for top semiconductor companies – from pre-silicon to post-silicon services. Expertise areas now cover chip design (VLSI), test development, and hardware design through Embedded Systems development.





The new design center will provide a strong impetus to Tessolve’s chip design offering. As more and more clients seek capability and depth in a critical area like chip design, the new facility has been set up as the center of excellence for all chip design projects. It will work in close association with Tessolve’s other design centers to develop innovative chip solutions across verticals – automotive, server, graphics and mobile platforms, to name a few. Training will be a key focus area. Tessolve already runs training programs for engineering talent aimed at long-term growth and development of the workforce.





P Raja Manickam, Founder & CEO, Tessolve, said that their vision is to be the leader in semiconductor and systems engineering from concept to delivering chips and systems. They believe in being a technology services company where they help our customers with in-depth expertise, enable time to market advantage and economic benefits. It is an important milestone for the Tessolve team in their journey to become a chip design leader and is followed by the acquisition of Analog Semiconductors a year back to strengthen our analog design capabilities. It will further help in strengthening their capabilities as an end to end solutions partner and semiconductor engineering services leader, he said.





Nikhil Rajpal, CEO, Hero Electronix said that they are proud of Tessolve’s growth and achievement since their partnership as today it is amongst the leaders in the semiconductor engineering space. They have not been shy of making investments in assets and infrastructure to add strategic capabilities as Tessolve made acquisitions in key areas - embedded systems, analog design, PCB fabrication and test lab. The new design centre will help accelerate Tessolve’s growth and replicate its test engineering leadership in chip design, he said.

The new center is located at Global Technology Park, Block C, Bellandur, Outer Ring Road. The new office will be catering to chip design projects across all domains - Design Verification, Design for Test and Debug, Physical Design, FPGA Emulation, Post SI Validation, Analog & Mixed Signal (AMS) Design.