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Chip correction made cheap

It is difficult to determine exactly when Reapan Tikoo decided to try and change the way people test microchips. By his own admission, he wasn't exactly setting the Powai Lake on fire while studying at IIT Mumbai.” In 2001, I met Professor Desai. That changed my life,” says Tikoo, CEO,…
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Profs show the way

Prof. Madhav Desai from the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay tied up with his student Reapan Tikoo and co-founded Powai Labs. Desai had been contemplating the idea of working out an FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) based accelerator for proto-typing a chip.
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Reapan Tikoo, Powai Labs founders

A chip of the old block

Prof Desai and Tikoo's relationship began at IIT when the latter guided Tikoo in his final-year project based on EDA. Tikoo's project at his next academic institution - London School Economics and Political Science - was also based on EDA. The company started out within the campus of IIT Bombay…
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