Small Business Awards 2020

Headquartered in Bangalore, India, Terminus Circuits is one of the leading semiconductor IP companies in India, showcasing a diverse portfolio of complex and niche Interface IP, as well as clocking solutions. Today, the firm’s interface products leverage its unique architecture that is modular and scalable to deliver high performance, power and area optimized solutions. With a plethora of innovative solutions and years of success boasting their excellence, we took a closer look at Terminus Circuits to discover more about their reputation for offering the best high speed communication solutions in India today. Founded by technocrats who have a combined century worth of experience in semiconductor industry, Terminus Circuits delivers low power, small form factor, low latency, high throughput interconnect IPs with integrated clocking. In addition to this, the company’s interface IPs are designed to comply with standards such as USB, PCI Express, MIPI, Ethernet and other emerging standards. Since their inception in 2010, the nature of development work at Terminus Circuits has been in the design and development in off-the- shelf from the specifications through to the final silicon validation. The area of the firm’s development work is with very high entry barriers, featuring demands for long gestation period of development with continuous updates happening, before finalizing the IP specifications. With every project undertaken, the firm is keen to involve standard bodies such PCI-SIG and USB within the discussion of the work groups. This is to help the team in gearing up their development work in alignment with the standards that are constantly evolving. As per the firm’s involvement with customer engagement, it is so that the team has a solid understanding of the targeted applications, specific customization requirements needed, be it for exa-scale computing, be it for low latency IT infra for FinTech, be it an use-case application for mm-wave 5G communication, or be it for in-memory storage device for AI/ML applications, before they make a commitment to the customer. The team is judicious before committing to the customer to truly fulfil the requirements set, as their goal is to exceed the expectations of their clients. Like their motto states, “Customer success, is our success”. Enabling the firm to deliver these exceptional services, is the passionate, experienced and hardworking team which forms the foundation of Terminus Circuits. Leading the company to great heights includes one of Terminus Circuits founders, Sankar Reddy, PhD (IISc) who brings to the business over three decades worth of experience in Microelectronics and has built, nurtured and developed world class delivery teams in analogue and interface circuits domain. Before venturing into Terminus Circuits in 2010, he gained experience working with companies like Spike Technologies (acquired by Qualcomm), Sasken and IBM for more than 10 years and prior to that served as a faculty member at IISc for a little over 15 years. It is clear to see how Terminus Circuits has had a meteoric rise to success since being founded, when it is being led by pioneering individuals such as Dr. Reddy. As 2020 draws to a close, the team at Terminus Circuits are putting their plans for the future in motion by focusing their efforts in licensing the off-the-shelf IPs, alongside growing as an IP vendor of choice across the globe for high speed serial link IPs. However, their plans do not end here. The firm is also stepping into system development by utilizing the decades of experience the team possesses in developing the test chips, ASIC’s, prototypes and their involvement in the associated software, User Interface development. In the process of licensing their products, the team have interacted with countless customers and helped them in customizing their IPs for their application specific requirements. With this hindsight, the firm is transferring this into building systems for future application on their own, with hopes to one day be the OEM (original Equipment Manufacturer) for worldwide market. It is evident to see that the future for Terminus Circuits will be extraordinary as the team continue to go above and beyond for their clients, as well as further cementing their reputation in the industry for providing one of the best high speed communication solutions in India. Contact: Dr. Sankar Reddy Company: Terminus Circuits Web Address: www.terminuscircuits.com Sep20745 Small Business Awards 2020 73 Best High Speed Communication Solutions 2020 - India