Hyderabad, Feb 10, 2000

C-DAC has established a VLSI Technology Lab at its Hyderabad Centre which was inaugurated by Shri. P.V. Jayakrishnan, Secretary, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Govt. of India here today.

The VLSI Lab is expected to cater to the development of manpower in the region for this niche segment of Information Technology. The Centre will shortly launch a Postgraduate Diploma in VLSI Design, for Graduates and Postgraduates in Electronics Engineering. Further, it is also planning to provide turnkey solutions to the IT Industry and various Government organizations.

C-DAC, with its headquarters in Pune and offices in Bangalore, Delhi, and Hyderabad is well known for its indigenous development of the PARAM series of Supercomputers, Multilingual Technologies based on GIST and Advanced Computing Training. It is highly respected among Government organizations and is recognized as the organization responsible for making India one of the few nations in the world capable of manufacturing supercomputers. It has played a key role in development of indigenous technologies for Advanced Computing and proliferation of Information Technology in India through multilingual technology solutions, turnkey projects and manpower development at various levels.

C-DAC became operational in Hyderabad a year ago with an objective to participate in the development of IT in Andhra Pradesh. It started its Advanced Computing Training School (ACTS), and is currently recognised as the Virtual Centre for the prestigious Army Institute of Information Technology being setup in Hyderabad shortly. It is also offering short-term training courses in Database Management, Internet and Intranet Technologies.