BhavCore3D Semicon Technologies
Semiconductor Consulting & VLSI Training

Designing tomorrow, layer by layer.

We help fabless and product companies design next-generation chips, and we turn fresh graduates into job-ready VLSI professionals.

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16+ yearsof semiconductor industry experience
44 coursesjob-oriented and corporate
87 projectsfrom beginner to advanced
RTL to GDSIIthe complete chip design flow
01About

A semiconductor consulting & VLSI training platform.

Founded by engineers with 16+ years of semiconductor industry experience, we operate on two fronts.

Advanced chip package mounted on a circuit board
Consulting

Next-generation chips for fabless and product companies

We bring advanced 3D IC design and packaging expertise to your silicon, from architecture to integration.

  • 3D IC
  • Chiplets
  • Advanced packaging
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Training

From fresh graduate to job-ready VLSI engineer

Industry-standard EDA tools, real industry projects and mentorship from engineers who design chips every day.

  • EDA tools
  • Real projects
  • Mentorship
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We've worked on real chips, real tapeouts and real deadlines, and watched the industry move from planar 2D designs to today's chiplet-era architectures.

  1. 2DPlanar SoCOne monolithic die
  2. 2.5DInterposerDies side by side
  3. 3DStacked ICDies stacked with TSVs
  4. NowChipletsModular dies, one package
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02Why BhavCore

Colleges teach theory.
The industry demands skills.
BhavCore bridges the gap.

Every year, thousands of electronics graduates dream of a chip design career. We make them job-ready.

01

Industry-standard EDA tools

Simulate, synthesise and sign off with the tools real design teams use.

02

Real industry projects

Build what the industry builds, from a UART to a pipelined RISC-V core.

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03

Mentorship from chip designers

Learn from engineers who have real tapeouts behind them.

03Semiconductor Ecosystem

How a chip goes from idea to silicon.

Five kinds of companies bring every chip to life. Our consulting and training focus on design and advanced packaging.

  1. Colourful circuit board with components
    01System companiesDefine the product
  2. Chip surrounded by circuit traces and code
    02EDA & IP vendorsTools and building blocks
  3. Processor package on a circuit board
    03Fabless designSpecification to GDSIIOur focus
  4. Stack of silicon wafers
    04FoundriesWafers at advanced nodes
  5. Diagram of 2.5D packaging with a silicon interposer
    05Packaging & test2.5D, 3D and chipletsOur focus
04VLSI Career Roadmap

Your roadmap from graduate to chip designer.

Five stops and six specialisation lines. Every line ends at a job-ready VLSI engineer.

Front-end / RTL designRTL Design EngineerDesign verificationDV EngineerPhysical designPD & STA EngineerAnalog & mixed-signalAnalog Design EngineerFPGAFPGA EngineerPackaging & 3D ICPackaging EngineerGraduate01FundamentalsLogic, CMOS02HDL codingVerilog, VHDL03Pick a track6 tracks04Real projectsRISC-V, UVM05Tools & prepLinux, TCLJob-ready
  1. Graduate
  2. 01FundamentalsLogic, CMOS
  3. 02HDL codingVerilog, VHDL
  4. 03Pick a track6 tracks
    • Front-end / RTL designRTL Design Engineer
    • Design verificationDV Engineer
    • Physical designPD & STA Engineer
    • Analog & mixed-signalAnalog Design Engineer
    • FPGAFPGA Engineer
    • Packaging & 3D ICPackaging Engineer
  5. 04Real projectsRISC-V, UVM
  6. 05Tools & prepLinux, TCL
  7. Job-ready

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05Training Courses

44 courses across every stage of the chip.

Job-oriented programmes for graduates, and advanced corporate programmes for working engineers and teams.

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Flagship programme

Full-Stack Digital VLSI Design

The complete RTL-to-GDSII flow on open-source PDKs. One design, taken through every stage of a real chip.

  1. Spec
  2. RTL
  3. Simulation
  4. Synthesis
  5. Floorplan
  6. Placement
  7. CTS
  8. Routing
  9. STA
  10. GDSII
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06VLSI Workshops

Workshops that bring the industry into the classroom.

Hands-on sessions for engineering colleges, students and faculty, led by engineers who design real chips.

  • On campusAt your college, in your labs
  • OnlineLive and instructor-led
  • At our centreVanasthalipuram, Hyderabad
  • Faculty programmesModern flows for educators
  • VLSI careers
  • Verilog & RTL
  • RTL-to-GDSII
  • SystemVerilog & UVM
  • STA essentials
  • 3D IC & chiplets
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07VLSI Projects

Learn by building. 87 projects.

From your first logic gate to a pipelined RISC-V processor. Every project is designed, simulated and verified.

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Beginner

5 starter systems

  1. 014/8-bit ALU
  2. 02Traffic light controller
  3. 03Digital stopwatch
  4. 04UART transmitter & receiver
  5. 05Synchronous FIFO
#01 Logic Gates Using Universal Gates#02 Half Adder, Half Subtractor, Full Adder & Full Subtractor#03 Full Adder & Full Subtractor Using Half Adder & Half Subtractor#04 4-Bit Ripple Carry Adder#05 2's Complement Adder–Subtractor#06 4-Bit Carry Look-Ahead Adder#07 4-Bit Carry Select Adder#08 4-Bit Carry Save Adder#09 2-Bit Binary Multiplier#10 3-Bit Binary Multiplier#11 4-Bit Binary Multiplier#12 4×3-Bit Binary Multiplier#13 Magnitude Comparator#14 2-Bit & 4-Bit Comparator Using 1-Bit Comparator#15 N-Bit Comparator#16 Logic Gates Using 2×1 MUX#17 Multiplexers#18 Full Adder & Full Subtractor Using 4×1 MUX#19 K×1 MUX#20 4-Bit Carry Skip Adder#21 BCD Adder#22 1-Bit Comparator Using 4×1 MUX#23 Demultiplexers#24 Half Adder, Half Subtractor, Full Adder & Full Subtractor Using DEMUX#25 Encoders#26 Priority Encoders#27 Decoders#28 Binary to Gray Code Converter#29 Gray to Binary Code Converter#30 Full Adder Using 3:8 Decoder#31 Flip-Flops#32 Flip-Flop Conversions#33 Buffer Register & Controlled Buffer Register#34 Shift Registers#35 Bi-Directional Shift Register#36 Universal Shift Register#37 Digital Counters#38 4-Bit Ripple Counters#39 Synchronous Counters#40 4-Bit Ring Counter#41 4-Bit Johnson (Twisted Ring) Counter#42 ALU#43 Code Converters#44 SISO Using JK Flip-Flop#45 Edge Detectors#46 RAM#47 FIFO#48 Sequence Generators#49 Pulse Generators Using Shift Register#50 Logic Gates Using DEMUX#51 10×1 MUX Using 4×1 MUX#52 5×1 MUX Using 2×1 MUX#53 Designing Mealy and Moore Models#54 8×1 MUX Using 3:8 Decoder and Tri-State Buffers#55 Barrel Shifter#56 1101 Sequence Detector, Mealy (Non-Overlapping)#57 0110 Sequence Detector, Mealy (1-Bit Overlapping)#58 10010 Sequence Detector, Mealy (2-Bit Overlapping)#59 1101 Sequence Detector, Moore (Non-Overlapping)#60 1001 Sequence Detector, Moore (1-Bit Overlapping)#61 11011 Sequence Detector, Moore (2-Bit Overlapping)#62 Fibonacci Generator#63 LIFO#64 Fixed Priority Arbiters#65 Gray Code Counter#66 Digital Clock#67 Excess-3 Adder#68 Elevator Controller#69 Vending Machine 1#70 Vending Machine 2#71 Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR)#72 Clock Dividers#73 Booth Multiplier#74 Wallace Tree Multiplier#75 Dadda Multiplier#76 Carry Save Multiplier
Design library

76 hands-on RTL projects

Adders, multipliers, FSMs, counters, memories and controllers. One die on this wafer for every project.

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Advanced

6 industry-grade designs

  1. 015-stage pipelined RISC-V
  2. 02AI/ML hardware accelerator
  3. 03AMBA AXI4 interconnect
  4. 04UVM verification for AXI/AHB
  5. 05PLL / DLL
  6. 06High-speed data converters
08Blog

Notes from inside the chip industry.

Short, practical articles on chip design, advanced packaging and VLSI careers.

09Contact

Talk to us about training, workshops or consulting.

Tell us what you're looking for and we'll get back to you.

Job-oriented programmes

Foundations

  1. 01VHDL Programming Foundation
  2. 02Verilog Programming Foundation
  3. 03SystemVerilog Programming Foundation
  4. 04Digital Design Foundation
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Job-oriented programmes

RTL & SoC Design

  1. 01Full-Stack Digital VLSI DesignRTL-to-GDSII Flow with Open-Source PDKs
  2. 02Basics to Advanced SoC Design & Verification
  3. 03RTL Design and SimulationVerilog
  4. 04ASIC Synthesis
  5. 05CDC & RDCClock Domain Crossing & Reset Domain Crossing
  6. 06Digital Design IP Cores
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Job-oriented programmes

Verification

  1. 01UVMUniversal Verification Methodology Foundation
  2. 02VLSI Design Verification Course (Verilog)
  3. 03Protocol Verification
  4. 04Formal Verification
  5. 05Functional Verification
  6. 06Coverage-Driven Verification
  7. 07Verification Using SystemVerilogBasics
  8. 08Verification Using UVMBasics
  9. 09Verification IP Cores
  10. 10Assertion-Based Verification with SystemVerilogBasics
  11. 11Low-Power Verification Using UPFBasics
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Job-oriented programmes

Physical Design & Timing

  1. 01Physical Design Using Open-Source EDA Tools
  2. 02STAStatic Timing Analysis
  3. 03CTSClock Tree Synthesis & Power Management
  4. 04Timing and Power Analysis
  5. 05SI & PI AnalysisSignal Integrity & Power Integrity
  6. 06Place & Route, Physical Verification
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Job-oriented programmes

Analog & Mixed-Signal

  1. 01Analog Design Foundation
  2. 02Mixed-Signal Design Foundation
  3. 03Analog Design IP Cores
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Job-oriented programmes

FPGA

  1. 01FPGA Synthesis
  2. 02FPGA Design (VHDL and Verilog)
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Job-oriented programmes

Packaging & Device

  1. 01TCAD Simulation
  2. 02Semiconductor Packaging
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For working engineers & teams

Corporate programmes

  1. 01Advanced System-on-Chip Design Using IP Cores
  2. 02Full-Stack VLSI DesignMixed-Signal VLSI (Spec to GDSII)
  3. 03Full-Stack VLSI DesignAnalog VLSI
  4. 04Verification Using SystemVerilogAdvanced
  5. 05Verification Using UVMAdvanced
  6. 06Low-Power Verification Using UPFAdvanced
  7. 07Assertion-Based Verification with SystemVerilogAdvanced
  8. 08SoC Verification
  9. 09High Bandwidth Memory Design
  10. 10Advanced Semiconductor Packaging
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Digital design project library

76 hands-on RTL projects

Logic Gates 3

  1. 01Logic Gates Using Universal Gates
  2. 16Logic Gates Using 2×1 MUX
  3. 50Logic Gates Using DEMUX

Adders & Arithmetic 12

  1. 02Half Adder, Half Subtractor, Full Adder & Full Subtractor
  2. 03Full Adder & Full Subtractor Using Half Adder & Half Subtractor
  3. 044-Bit Ripple Carry Adder
  4. 052's Complement Adder–Subtractor
  5. 064-Bit Carry Look-Ahead Adder
  6. 074-Bit Carry Select Adder
  7. 084-Bit Carry Save Adder
  8. 204-Bit Carry Skip Adder
  9. 21BCD Adder
  10. 42ALU
  11. 55Barrel Shifter
  12. 67Excess-3 Adder

Multipliers 8

  1. 092-Bit Binary Multiplier
  2. 103-Bit Binary Multiplier
  3. 114-Bit Binary Multiplier
  4. 124×3-Bit Binary Multiplier
  5. 73Booth Multiplier
  6. 74Wallace Tree Multiplier
  7. 75Dadda Multiplier
  8. 76Carry Save Multiplier

Comparators 4

  1. 13Magnitude Comparator
  2. 142-Bit & 4-Bit Comparator Using 1-Bit Comparator
  3. 15N-Bit Comparator
  4. 221-Bit Comparator Using 4×1 MUX

Multiplexers & Demultiplexers 8

  1. 17Multiplexers
  2. 18Full Adder & Full Subtractor Using 4×1 MUX
  3. 19K×1 MUX
  4. 23Demultiplexers
  5. 24Half Adder, Half Subtractor, Full Adder & Full Subtractor Using DEMUX
  6. 5110×1 MUX Using 4×1 MUX
  7. 525×1 MUX Using 2×1 MUX
  8. 548×1 MUX Using 3:8 Decoder and Tri-State Buffers

Encoders, Decoders & Converters 7

  1. 25Encoders
  2. 26Priority Encoders
  3. 27Decoders
  4. 28Binary to Gray Code Converter
  5. 29Gray to Binary Code Converter
  6. 30Full Adder Using 3:8 Decoder
  7. 43Code Converters

Flip-Flops & Registers 8

  1. 31Flip-Flops
  2. 32Flip-Flop Conversions
  3. 33Buffer Register & Controlled Buffer Register
  4. 34Shift Registers
  5. 35Bi-Directional Shift Register
  6. 36Universal Shift Register
  7. 44SISO Using JK Flip-Flop
  8. 45Edge Detectors

Counters & Generators 11

  1. 37Digital Counters
  2. 384-Bit Ripple Counters
  3. 39Synchronous Counters
  4. 404-Bit Ring Counter
  5. 414-Bit Johnson (Twisted Ring) Counter
  6. 48Sequence Generators
  7. 49Pulse Generators Using Shift Register
  8. 62Fibonacci Generator
  9. 65Gray Code Counter
  10. 71Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR)
  11. 72Clock Dividers

FSMs & Sequence Detectors 7

  1. 53Designing Mealy and Moore Models
  2. 561101 Sequence Detector (Mealy, Non-Overlapping)
  3. 570110 Sequence Detector (Mealy, 1-Bit Overlapping)
  4. 5810010 Sequence Detector (Mealy, 2-Bit Overlapping)
  5. 591101 Sequence Detector (Moore, Non-Overlapping)
  6. 601001 Sequence Detector (Moore, 1-Bit Overlapping)
  7. 6111011 Sequence Detector (Moore, 2-Bit Overlapping)

Memories 3

  1. 46RAM
  2. 47FIFO
  3. 63LIFO

Systems & Controllers 5

  1. 64Fixed Priority Arbiters
  2. 66Digital Clock
  3. 68Elevator Controller
  4. 69Vending Machine 1
  5. 70Vending Machine 2
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