An overview of Research Guidance in PhD

Silicon Mentor is one of the best research entities in India. To make an environment of research we are providing our services in research and development of some of the world most recent burning topics in engineering and technology. Silicon Mentor has expertise in various research domain including Computer Vision, Machine Learning, VLSI, Biomedical Signal Processing and Digital Signal Processing. In the process of research and development we have a unit which provides research guidance to the PhD students. Our research process for PhD projects starts from the specific domain topic selection.

1)    The topic selection is based on either on the student requirement or we suggest them appropriate topic.
2)    After the selection of appropriate topic and research domain we assign our expert team for the support PhD student. This team works with the students on some of the previous work published in SCI indexed journals.
3)    During the review period of the previous work our team starts to generate new idea to modify the previous work.
4)    After the completion of previous work verification we turn our direction of research towards the modification in the previous design or to generate a new idea.
5)    For the implementation of new idea or modification we continuously contact the students and make him understand the new work.
6)    For the required tool training Silicon Mentor runs special class to train the students.
7)    After the modification of the design we do compare the result of the modified design and previous work.
8)    After the verification of complete verification of the result we forward this to next step.
9)    We do also compare analytical and simulative results for the preparation of the proposed method.
10)    After the completion of the all above steps we provide our expert team in the domain of research paper publication.
11)    Our expert team of Research paper publication provides updates about the new conference and journal publication.
12)    We usually suggest our clients to publish their work in IEEE, Springer like publications.
13)    We also help them to publish their work in any of the SCI index journals.

Thus we try to provide best research guidance for PhD thesis and PhD projects. We are in the process of continuous improvement to make our services more convenient in the area of Research and Development. For more information you can contact us.

Is It The Right Path To Pursue PhD Research?

PhD research is the highest level of academic research conducted in universities and institutes throughout the World. The methods used to conduct Ph.D. research are sound and the data that results from the research must be unique. There are many techniques has been created such as scientific methodologies have been created to ensure the soundness and uniqueness of doctoral research and to secure continuity in research results. The most often employed methodologies are quantitative methods, qualitative methods, comparative methods and clinical trials.

The world is producing a large number of PhD holders and their number is increasing every year. Therefore in this era how can a normal PhD holder can survive? World’s most population countries India and China producing more than 40,000 PhD every year. Most of the PhD has completed their research in a short duration which results in the quality of the graduates is not consistent. And Most of the PhD remains unemployed.

In our research whenever we think of doing the research we always think of  doing something innovative  which can change the world but when we come for real implementation of the idea we found only few things have done in our PhD research. The few things which done usually during PhD seems to be unique. What should we do? And, how to do? It depends on one’s circumstances but the research should contribute something new in the specific domain. 

Silicon Mentor is a place where many new researchers are working together to make something innovative and unique. These young researchers help the research students to pursue their research with some of the unique methodologies. Silicon Mentor have Expertise in different Domain such as Computer vision , Biomedical Research, Digital Signal Processing, Machine Learning , Low Power VLSI , Mixed Signal VLSI , FPGA implementation.

Importance of Research Paper Publication in Your PhD Research

On internet you can find a million of research papers on different topics of the world. The topics can be related to different research areas such as Engineering, Science, arts or any other topic which can contribute in the advancement of the world in respective areas. Whenever a student enters in Second year or third year of their bachelor education, their mentors start to suggest them to publish their work. In the same scenario Master and PhD level students also publish research papers. Therefore the question arise why should we publish our research? This article is focused on importance of research paper publication in PhD and concludes pint wise the importance of research paper publication in PhD. PhD students usually begin their course to earn title ‘Dr’ in front of their name but after some time they realize that to earn a PhD degree they all need to publish more and more high quality research papers at national as well as international level.

This Research publication during PhD helps them in following ways:

•          Research paper publication is important if somebody wants to remain in academia after completion of the PhD.

•          Every university has their unique procedure to award PhD to their students. The usual process is to submit thesis but in some of the universities PhD students can submit few good quality published research papers instead of PhD thesis.

•          The high quality research papers during PhD helps recruiters to select the best PhD scholars for future academic or researcher position.

•          A high quality research paper helps PhD scholars to stand out from the group of ordinary researchers.

The importance of research paper publication can also be understood using an example. Let us suppose an academic or industrial organization want to test or measure the researcher reputation in national as well as international level for hiring or funding purpose. 

In that case the organization may pursue the following procedure.

•          The number of research papers and the quality.

•          The impact of research in terms of number of citations.

•          National and international level research papers.

•          National and international level research funding received.

There are many more factors for which a PhD scholar should publish a research paper anybody can explore it at Silicon Mentor.

Some Crucial Steps to Pick a PhD Project

This article is focused on conventional as well as modern ways to choose a PhD project. There are several PhD projects that will make you confuse such as VLSI, Digital Signal Processing, and Digital Image Processing when you start researching what is out there, though having an idea in advance about the most significant areas of research and development will help to choose a better research area. Silicon Mentor understands the need of current researchers and students and provides them full support in terms of best real time research area selection and complete guidance up to the project completion. Silicon Mentor believes in the theory of knowledge sharing, to accomplish this it provides a new category of professors and mentors.

Silicon Mentors usually recommends to make a list of topics and general areas within your area of interest. There is another way to find some of the unique PhD projects to search online. There are many numbers of websites which provides a list of standard and unique topics of PhD research areas in all over the world. However, you will find a number of PhDs in the general research area, specific subject areas such as VLSI, DSP and DIP will not mentioned on these-websites.

Therefore one should use general search as well some specific search techniques. The search should contain the university’s prospective supervisors search or general research direction of particular university. Some Times it is worthwhile to contact prospective supervisors directly and ask him for their ability to offer you a sufficient environment for your PhD.

Semiconductor IP Market (Integrated Circuit IP, SOC IP): Does India Stand Anywhere?

Semiconductor IP: The semiconductor IP has emerged as a business model for the various semiconductor industries where these companies permits the customers to use their technology as intellectual property. Generally, the IP cores are developed by the third parties and then licensed to the semiconductor manufacturers.

The semiconductor IP market is completely different from the semiconductor manufacturing industries and it is growing twice faster than the overall semiconductor industry. This is due to the outsourcing of the core IP designs to the vendors by the semiconductor industries.

U.S. is the highest IP developer nation in the world and is currently leading the semiconductor IP in terms of vendors and semiconductor IPs. The idea of developing the IP from the vendors was also originated from USA only. Apart from USA, there are some other nations where the IP vendors are increasing rapidly i.e. China, Taiwan, Germany, France, Netherlands and many more.

MNCs like Synopsys and ARM (the semiconductor giants) dominates over the semiconductor market with a hold of 43.2% and 13.9% shares of their design IP revenue, respectively.

Nations with the least population growth are involved in the growing semiconductor market whereas, the largest democracy of the world i.e. India contributes only 2.4% to the global semiconductor market. What could be the reason behind it?

Though Indians acquire most critical and innovative ideas to develop and invent an extraordinary technology, still I was unable to find the name of any promising Indian semiconductor industry on Google.

Is the largest democracy in the world democratic by thought? Or they are compelled to think what the existing semiconductor players want them to think?

There is no doubt that the amount paid by the semiconductor companies to the designers and developers is more than their expectations and this is why the most innovative minds of the India are consolidated by the Europeans and Americans.

Earning is not a rocket science if you are an IP developer, but to give a name is really a thing that would matter for you as well as your nation. 

Tags : Semiconductor Industry     IP Market    VLSI Company     VLSI Industry        VLSI

Author-Aman Jangra

(Manager at Silicon Mentor)

Writing Ph.D Thesis/Dissertation - The first phase

Idea of writing PhD thesis brings a lot of confusions, misconceptions and unanswered questions in the mind of PhD aspirants. Some of the difficulties they come across are related to the selection of the topic, starting the study, or time allocation for different phases of the thesis. One can handle these easily if one is determined and familiar with the current and recent topics and trends being followed in his field of interest. In this article the first step of thesis writing has been discussed with do’s and don’ts which one should follow in this phase.

Topic selection

 Topics should be selected after gaining a brief idea of recent work being carried out in the concerned domain and where it overlaps to your academic interests. There are many sources and ways which help in this.

-  Attending conferencing and referring to topic specific journals proves to be helpful in choosing a current and recent topic of interest.

-  Talking to colleagues and fellow students about their research and attending their presentations.

-  Interacting with your guide is a good idea as he has got more experience; it helps in at least Rough Idea of the Process.                       

Even in the study phase keep in mind that that you have to do research in an area not on an area. So, only reading papers and doing nothing effectively is researching on area and it leads to depression as every area seems to have been thought of already.

The other thing one should do is to take non-realistic topic as research takes time. Even if you have a lot of time to spare, never choose a topic without doing a deep study of feasibility and the problem your research will solve in the area.

At last the final suggestion is that, never look for the right topic or the hot topic as there is no right topic and your appropriate topic should be blend of your interest and current problems in the area and what’s hot today may be ice cold tomorrow and your research is going to take time.

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Author - Krishan Verma

(Research Associate at Silicon Mentor)