PRAGNIX Technologies
India's first AI-in-EDA training curriculum

Building India's next generation of chip designers.

Industry-grade semiconductor training — designed and delivered by practising ASIC engineers, for the students stepping into the global VLSI workforce.

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The Opportunity
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institutions in India currently teach AI-assisted physical design.

That gap is the opening. Pragnix pairs a complete RTL-to-GDSII curriculum with an AI-EDA module no competing program offers — a genuine first-mover position, ready to take to colleges and corporates today.

What We Deliver

Two tiers.
One pipeline to industry.

Fast-start revenue from standalone workshops, and a flagship program that takes a student from MOSFET physics all the way to a tapeout-ready GDSII.

Part 1 — Fast Start

Paid Workshop Series

Five self-contained, campus-deliverable workshops — each ready to run in four to six weeks.

5 workshops 18–60h each 20–30 per batch
  • In-person, campus-delivered format
  • Live OpenROAD walk-through on a real RISC-V ASIC
  • Targets the sharpest hiring skill-gaps in VLSI
Part 2 — Flagship

Physical Design Mastery Program

A six-month hybrid program — 22 modules and a full-tapeout capstone, evaluated by a panel of industry VLSI engineers.

6 months 350h instruction Max 25 students
  • End-to-end PD competence — synthesis through tapeout
  • 24×7 VPN access to a commercial EDA suite
  • A GDSII deliverable for every student's portfolio
  • AI-EDA context no competitor program offers
Part 1 · Paid Workshops

Deployable in 4–6 weeks.

Each workshop stands alone and is priced per student. Recommended delivery order below.

W 013 days · 18h

VLSI Physical Design Foundations

MOSFET to GDSII, taught live on a completed RISC-V ASIC — floorplan, placement, routing, signoff.

W 022 days · 12h

Static Timing Analysis Intensive

The single most in-demand skill gap in VLSI hiring today — setup/hold, SDC, PVT, OCV, MCMM.

W 032 days · 12h

DFT Essentials for PD Engineers

Where DFT theory meets physical-design reality — scan chains, ATPG, MBIST, scan-aware placement.

W 042 days · 12h

Linux, TCL & Python for VLSI

Automation fluency that cuts manual effort in every EDA flow — practical from Day 1.

FIRST IN INDIA
W 051 day · 6h

AI in Physical Design

The differentiation workshop. DSO.ai, Cerebrus, Calibre AI, RL placement — saleable as a standalone corporate session.

Build a custom track →

Reshape scope around the specific colleges or companies in your network.

Part 2 · The Flagship Journey

From physics
to tapeout.

The capstone runs the complete industry flow end-to-end — the same path a real SoC takes to silicon. Pass bar: 0 DRC violations, timing closed in at least two corners.

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Synthesis
RTL elaboration & mapping, SDC, QoR
02
DFT
Scan insertion, ATPG, MBIST
03
Floorplan
Die size, macros, power domains
04
Placement
Congestion, VT swap, scan reorder
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CTS
Useful skew, multi-source clock tree
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Routing
NDR, antenna, SI-aware routing
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Timing Closure
MCMM across multiple corners
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IR / EM
Power & signal integrity signoff
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Signoff
DRC, LVS, physical verification
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GDSII
Stream-out — portfolio deliverable
22 Modules · 350 Hours

A structured spine — foundations, automation, front-end, then the physical-design core.

M0–2
Physics, CMOS & Digital Design
FinFET · GAA · FSMs
M3–5
Linux, TCL & Python for EDA
Flow automation
M6–7
ASIC Flow & Verilog HDL
Synthesis-aware coding
M8
Logic Synthesis
Area / timing / power
M9
Design for Testability
Scan · ATPG · JTAG
M10–11
Static Timing Analysis
MCMM · OCV · ECO
M12
Clock & Reset Domain Crossing
Metastability · CDC
M13–17
Physical Design Core
Floorplan → Routing
M18–19
Signal & Power Integrity
Crosstalk · IR · EM
M20
Physical Verification
DRC · LVS · Calibre
M21
AI in Physical Design
First in India
M22 + Capstone
Signoff, Tapeout & GDSII
40h capstone
The Differentiator

AI-EDA, taught
the way industry uses it.

No institution in India currently teaches AI-assisted physical design. Pragnix frames it through a "Two Waves" model — so students understand both the tools of today and the role of tomorrow.

Wave One · Now

AI as accelerator

DSO.ai (Synopsys), Cerebrus (Cadence), Calibre AI (Siemens), Google RL placement — steering AI-driven PD decisions in live flows.

Wave Two · By 2030

AI changes the role

How the engineer's job itself shifts — and how to position a career for the AI era before the market catches up.

Infrastructure

Real tools.
Real silicon.

Students train on the commercial suite the industry actually ships with — plus open-source for practice — all against a reference RISC-V ASIC clocking 152 MHz with zero DRC violations.

Synthesis
Synopsys Design Compiler
Physical Design
Synopsys IC Compiler II
STA Signoff
Synopsys PrimeTime
Extraction
Synopsys StarRC
Physical Verification
Siemens Calibre
Open Source
OpenROAD · Yosys · OpenSTA
Scripting
TCL · Python 3
Reference Design
RISC-V ASIC · 152 MHz
The Credential

A certificate that means something.

Issued by Pragnix Technologies

Certified Physical Design Engineer

Semiconductor Mastery Academy
FormatDigital & LinkedIn-verifiable + printed certificate
EligibilityAll 22 modules + capstone meeting the minimum bar
Evaluated byA panel of practising industry VLSI engineers

Every graduate leaves with proof of real capability — not attendance. The capstone is judged on the same bar the industry uses at tapeout.

0 DRC violations to pass 2+ timing corners closed GDSII portfolio deliverable
Who Builds It

Taught by people who
tape out chips.

Curriculum and instruction come from practising ASIC engineers — not lecturers reading from textbooks. Every concept is anchored to what happens on live silicon.

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Dr. Vrinda Karuvanchery

Curriculum Architect · Pragnix Technologies

RFIC passive modelling & ASIC physical design engineer. Designs the full curriculum and leads capstone evaluation.

Practising ASIC Engineers

Instruction & Mentorship

Live instruction by working physical-design engineers, with ongoing mentorship throughout every program.

Industry Guest Series

60–90 min Practitioner Sessions

Structured access to semiconductor engineers working on live tapeouts — a component no competing program offers.

Let's build the pipeline.

The first workshop can be ready within two to three weeks of alignment. Tell us about your colleges or network and we'll take it from there.

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