Named Individual: Nidhish Gaur
Nidhish Gaur, an electronics and telecommunications engineer with over two decades of experience in the semiconductor industry, is currently the ASIC-Design group manager at the Design & System R&D (DSRD) expertise centre in imec, Belgium.
Gaur's educational background includes a bachelor's degree in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering and a master's degree in electronic design & technology, both obtained from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.
Throughout his career, Gaur has worked with notable companies such as imec, GF, NXP, Philips, and STMicroelectronics. However, the specific details of his roles and contributions at these organizations are not extensively documented.
At imec, Gaur is part of the DSRD expertise centre, but there is no evidence in the available search results that he is a key figure or manager within imec's ASIC-design groups, particularly IC-Link. While IC-Link is well-known for its services and leadership roles, the search results do not list individual managers or team leaders by name.
IC-Link by imec is renowned for managing the entire ASIC development process, from design (including radiation-hardened designs) to packaging, testing, and qualification. They specialise in CMOS, GaN-on-SOI, and silicon (Si) photonics technologies, achieving over 600 successful tape-outs annually across all supported technologies. They offer tailored services for academia, startups, SMEs, and established industry players, and manage and develop advanced photonics platforms, aligning with industry trends and upgrading the portfolio as needed.
In addition, IC-Link designs ultra-low-power digital signal processing and radio ICs for IoT, medical, and environmental applications, a focus in imec’s Netherlands offices, not directly mentioned for Belgium. One of their unique offerings is the radiation-hardened library platform called DARE.
Despite Gaur not being explicitly mentioned as a key figure in imec's ASIC-design groups, his extensive experience and leadership role at the DSRD expertise centre in Belgium make him a valuable asset to the organisation. The ASIC-design group at imec, under Gaur's management, is responsible for digital (front-end and back-end) implementation, digital functional design, system/solution architecture for spec-In projects, and provides custom layout services. They are also involved in library (re)characterization.
Technology plays a significant role in Gaur's responsibilities at the DSRD expertise centre, where he manages the ASIC-design group at imec, Belgium. This group specializes in CMOS, GaN-on-SOI, and silicon (Si) photonics technologies, achieving over 600 successful tape-outs annually across all supported technologies.
